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Private parties

A cigar roller at your party, and a story every guest takes home.

Franklin Pichardo, master cigar roller and one of the few trusted with the Fuente Opus X, sets up in your backyard and rolls until the light goes. Every guest goes home with a cigar made in front of them.

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Franklin lighting a cigar for a guest at his table on a lawn, with other guests around him
Trusted with the Fuente Opus X—At the Fuente table since 1995—Formula 1 Miami’s official roller—Featured in Cigar Journal—Chosen by Hublot, Tudor and Bell & Ross—

Any setting

Wherever your party is, the table comes to it.

A tailgate, a racetrack, a red carpet or your own backyard. If your guests can stand around it, he can set up there — and it will look like it belongs.

How the evening goes

A party has no run of show. His table becomes the place everyone ends up.

A party for fifty people has no running order — no speeches to sit through, no dancing anybody organized, nothing on a schedule. There are people standing around with a drink and nowhere in particular to go. The table gives them somewhere to be, and something to talk about.

A Derby party
Halloween
A patio, heaters on

The band

Everything else at the party is for everybody. This has one name on it.

A green and gold cigar band with a crest and a monogram, printed for one of his events
A band printed for one of his events
One of his cigars with the blue Hublot band, in front of the watches on display
A band printed for a brand

He rolls the cigar in front of your guest, so the band you add is the only one it will ever have — a name, a number, and a date. Seventy. Thirty years on the force. The last day of a career that nobody wanted to end with a plaque.

At a wedding it is the guest who keeps the band. Here it is the person the whole party was for, because it is the only thing in the room that had their name printed on it.

See what a custom band can say

If you have a date in mind, that is the only thing he needs to know today.

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Your evening

From the first arrival to the last toast, he fits your night.

He arrives before your first guest, sets up without fuss, and works around your evening — not the other way around.

  1. 01

    While people are arriving

    Half the guests do not know the other half yet. The table gives the early ones something to do that is not their phone.

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    After the cake, or the toast

    The only fixed point of the evening has just happened and the room needs somewhere to move to.

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    At the end

    Whoever is still there at midnight is family. They stay longer with something to stand around.

Franklin laughing with a small child beside his rolling table
A backyard in July

What you provide

All you need is a table and a little outdoor space.

Six feet of table

Everything that goes on it travels with him. He has worked in tighter.

Somewhere with air

A backyard, a deck or a driveway — wherever your guests already want to be.

Cover, if it looks like rain

He has worked a whole afternoon under a pop-up gazebo from a hardware store.

Real parties

No two were alike. Yours won’t be either.

200+ reviews

They all reach for the same word.

Family. Guests who had known him for an hour keep reaching for it — at a party in your home, that is the man you want.

Franklin sat down with my wife and I and enjoyed a cigar with us. He treated us like family and gave us hugs on our way out. Papo is the real deal with a heart of gold and a sense of humor that can make anyone laugh.

Robert Kinnane

This year

The latest celebrations that ended at his table.

Each one opens with the photographs from that night. Picture your own guests in them.

A Roaring Twenties night in CincinnatiA Roaring Twenties night in CincinnatiCincinnati, OH · Aug 2026A garden party in Saratoga SpringsA garden party in Saratoga SpringsSaratoga Springs, NY · Aug 2026A birthday at home, for a police officerA birthday at home, for a police officerJul 2026A Kentucky Derby party at a private clubA Kentucky Derby party at a private clubLehigh Valley, PA · May 2026A Halloween party at a private clubA Halloween party at a private clubBethlehem, PA · Oct 2025A farewell party for an Air Force pilotA farewell party for an Air Force pilotAug 2025A Sunday birthday celebrationA Sunday birthday celebrationAug 2025A family birthday, in a Bethlehem gardenA family birthday, in a Bethlehem gardenBethlehem, PA · Jul 2025A birthday at the horse trackA birthday at the horse trackJul 2025

Before they book

What hosts ask.

One cigar per guest is how he sizes an evening, and fifty is a good one — everybody gets to the table without a long line.
Most of these are private houses. A garden, a deck or a driveway all work.
Six feet of table is all he sets up, and he has worked in tighter.
They stand at the table anyway, and most take one home for somebody. Watching it made is the part people describe afterwards.
As long as you book him for. He arrives before your first guest and packs up after the last cigar.
Yes. Custom bands are an add-on you choose when you book, and the artwork goes in with the booking.

Tell him the date, and you will know today if it is still open.

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