Wedding · New Jersey
A New Jersey reception, a room of strangers
The station set up at the reception, and a room of people he had never met.

1 of ~28rollers cleared for the Opus XCigar Journal, 2016
6 minone cigar, in front of youHis own words
150+events workedFranklin’s own count
Last nite 10/28/2023 was a tremendous time working at the wedding in New Jersey…thank you to all the new good people I meet last night. Looking forward to seeing you soon again!
1 of ~28 Opus X rollers—Arturo Fuente since 1995—Official roller · F1 Miami—Published in Cigar Journal—A quarter century at the table—Rolled for Hublot—
The man at that table
Franklin Pichardo has been rolling since 1995, the year Arturo Fuente released the first Opus X — and he is one of the few in the world the family cleared to roll it.
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