They already did 
Iāve payed 10.50 in euroās for 10ml of extract and 4.50 for a single cigar, Iām sure Iāll get more than 10ml of extract off of that cigar. Itās a bit more work but the money saved is no cat-piss and it is fun!
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True words! This is exactly why Iāve been creating my own NET concentrates. For those individual who love a tobacco based vape, itās mainline, awesome and true tobacco flavor on the cheap. For now, the tobacco options are abundant and available; if they werenāt, one could grow ones own.
Iām actually considering growing a variety or two next year just for kicks. Iāve been following a ātobacco home growersā FB group as of late, just to watch the process in real time. It doesnāt look that hard. Youāre basically planting a weed! Heheā¦but you know about that already! 
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Well, not one of my favorite things to doā¦ wash, boil and dry bottles and jars. : ( But, what else to do when Iām waiting for my Bengal Slices to hurry up and finish filtering? Pretty excited to get this one mixed up and on a dripper. Reviews of this tobacco are very favorable; have a feeling my 15ml test batch wonāt last a day. ; )
@d_fabesā¦ this one kinda looks like your 20,000 mile motor oil NET! 
Iāll be saying the same thing that Red Skelton said in his āGuzzlers Ginā commercial spot ā¦ āSaaaMoooooooth!ā
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Here is a good thread to check out @tarnishedhalo .
@Kinnikinnick has been a wealth of knowledge on NETās. Tarnishedhalo has been enjoying some of the purchased NETās from Diane and is looking into starting the maceration process now that the well is dry.
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I remember seeing Easy Rider & Aliceās Restaurant (they were showing together), 3 times in one day, when they came out. We knew one of the ushersā¦lol.
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Maybe I should have tried a Fram filter on that 20,000 mile motor oil NET. Maybe that would have cleaned it up!
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I got to thinking todayā¦ if Black Note can do itā¦ so can we! And at roughly $10 for a 250g brick, thatāll make a bunch of extract (1200ml) on the cheap. Or you can buy the Black Note finished version for $1 per ml. 
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I like this plan! I was browsing SouthSmoke.comās site. Very interesting.
Have you ever smoked the Isfahani Tombac tobacco?
On the Black Note page, I found this:
āItās sweetness is not overpowering in any way though, and it has a pretty
strong tobacco flavour but it has just enough hints of flowery honey in
there to make it a quite smooth tobacco juice.ā
I wonder about the flowery honey note. Floral is not my cup of tea.
Have you tried the Black Note? If so, what would be your description?
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No, I never got a chance to smoke isfahani; hell, I didnāt know it existed until the other day. Oh, the things we learn when a little research is done. 
I havenāt tried the Black Note Isfahani or any other pre-made juice in a long time. I did watch the one review I could find on the BN juice. The reviewer said that the tobacco wasnāt floral, which is a good thing for you and me; I canāt abide floral in my tobacco either. 
The thing that peaked my interest was that it is a bold, slightly honey flavored, Turkish type vape; this is a good thing. I can see this being a wonderful tobacco to mix with a bit of Perique. Iām a fan of the Oriental funk type tobaccos. 
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Thatās good news, about the no floral. I like a honey note in the background of some of my tobacco mixes. I am a fan of FA Black Honey Tobacco for that. Itās pretty potent, so I donāt use much in a mix.
Bold, slightly honey flavored, and Turkish. Three thumbs up in my book. It sounds like it would make a good backbone to add a few complimentary flavors to. Maybe a bit of Arabic!
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Yup! One of the handful of ready to go tobaccos to be kept in my stash; nothing else like it out there! 
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I spent a long time looking around for this today. I can find it and buy it for around $9 to $12, but everyone who sells it has to ship it via express type couriers. Guess they canāt ship tobacco like this USPS. 
Shipping this tobacco to me, with just about every company, starts at about $12. 
I did drop into my local Iranian deli/grocery today and asked the owner if he could get his hands on some; he was hopeful that he could talk his tobacco dude into bringing him some with his next stock order. 
We shall see.
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Off from work today, so, thought Iād throw a couple more in the cooker.
Vendor notes~
C&D Bob Bushman:
Burley
Cavendish
Virginia
(Aromatic)
A gentle-smoking blend of quality tobaccos that are finished with a smooth and sweet mixture of tropical fruits and a splash of coconut essence. Others will love the aroma, but youāll be the only one enjoying the rich and tangy flavor.
(My take ~ This one smells terrific! I just hope the coconut makes it through to the final mix.)
C&D Exclusive:
Cavendish
Perique
Virginia
(Non-Aromatic)
This is a special treat if youāre a real Perique fan; made with 50% of the dark Louisiana tobacco, balanced by toasty red Virginia, and an especially mild Cavendish. The result is bold and spicy, while being remarkably cool. Definitely not for the faint of heart.
(My take ~ Donāt let the ānot for the faint of heartā stuff fool ya. Perique, I have found, is super enjoyable in a vape form. The combustion factor in a pipe must really change the quality of the tobacco to something in which to fear. Vape wise, straight up Perique is awesome and it only gets better when you add a Virginia into the mix.)
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Bengal Slices ~
Vendor notes:
Black Cavendish
Latakia
Oriental
Virginia
(English)
Back in the seventies, a singular blend came to market. It was a bright, Latakia-based crumble cake made with superior Orientals, sweet yellow Virginias and a bit of black Cavendish. It became a brand with a cult following - it was called Bengal Slices.
A bit of history ~
Bengal Slices was, originally, the flake version of Balkan Sobranie. When Gallaher took over the Sobranie mixtures from the Redman family the original blenders finding the composition too complex and costly, they simplified it.
After Gallaher stopped making the simplified Bengal Slices, Mr James B Russell arranged for a composition similar to the Gallaher revision to be made exclusively for them by A & C Petersen, Horsens, Denmark.
A & C Petersen has recently been sold to Orlik A/S, of Assens, Denmark, which promptly discontinued the manufacture of Bengal Slices. A replacement, under the James B Russell Ʀgis, has been released, approximating the A & C Petersen blend. For the new production of Bengal Slices see listing under The Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania.
My take ~
This tobacco is a wonderfully Latakia forward blend; the more I vape it, the more I am falling for the sweet, yet pungent, smokey nature of what is referred to as āEnglishā tobacco.
(Interesting article on this topic: http://pipesmagazine.com/python/pipe-news/english-blends-and-latakia-blends-one-in-the-same/)
This being my third extraction of a Latakia blend pipe tobacco, I can put this bug in your ear: If you donāt think youād enjoy a robust, campfire, smokey quality to your vape, be cautious of the tobaccos which say they contain a high Latakia element or ones which are labeled as an English, Balkan, Cyprian or Syrian blends.
(Another nice article on this topic: http://www.talkingtobacco.com/2012/09/whats-the-deal-with-latakia/)
Besides the nice smokey nature of this tobacco, the Black Cavendish (slight hint of vanilla there) and Virginia bring the sweet into the picture quite nicely, while the Oriental brings in the bright spice quality. Iāve vaped the Bengal Slices for a couple of days now; finding it rather hard to go back to a tame mix now, due to how much Iām enjoying this Latakia ladened blend; a pleasingly stout vape.
This was a PG maceration; heated for 8 hours at +/- 140 degrees and cool steeped for 1 month. Final mix was a 40P/60V at 10% extract.
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Ok, vapeaway Noon, supposedly a whiskey cigar but I get a bit of a citrus taste, maybe the oak chips were citrus infused or I donāt know what whiskey tastes like. 
Or maybe my tastebuds are off. It is quite a pleasant vape though, itās got a sweetness to it on the inhale that is lovely and a bit of a bite on the tail end.
Bliss is more smokey, they describe it as English style Macedonian Oriental composed of Latakia, with a moderate honey note and some genuine Guatemalan rum.
It is good but I was expecting more of it. Thatās the downside of high expectations I suppose. 
To be quite honest, I like my own N.E.T better. The American Spirit by itself is too mild for my taste but the mix I made with some La Paz cigars is pretty good. I was going to leave it for another two months but I got impatient and thought four months is enough.
It came out pretty clean. I only put it in some hot tapwater after adding PG to get it started and stuck it in a cupboard. Before filtering I put it in hot tapwater again to thin it a little. I just filtered it once in a coffee filter and there was hardly any crud in the filter. Put it in the freezer for about 36 hours and filtered it again. I couldāve left that out, there was no crud on the bottom of the jar or in the filter. Iāve filled my Goblin Mini at least 7 times before I had to clean the coil.
I also have some N.E.T from Balmoral cigars that I did the same way. That one is very spicy but a nice addition to the mildness of the American Spirit.
Now Balmoral and La Paz are not the best cigars on the market and still the result is remarkable. I have a Nub Espresso cigar steeping at the moment and when I unwrapped that and smelled it I wanted to take a bite out of it. A lovely coffee, chocolate aroma, I took the lid of the jar yesterday to have a quick sniff and the smell is gorgeous.
If this turns out as good as Iām hoping it will, Iāll never buy another N.E.T in my life.
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That all sounds wonderful! 
Isnāt it a great feeling of accomplishment and pride when you come to the realization that your own NETs kick the shit out of store bought NETs.
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It certainly is, I usually doubt myself doing stuff like this and always think I probably do it wrong. But my stuff is better and much cheaper too. 
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