Shredding whole leaf tobacco

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This is a pound of flue-cured Virginia scraps after cleaning. I bought a sampling of the bags of scraps just to see if they would be useful for making pipe tobacco. When I took them out of the shipping box, I immediately regretted having bought them in spite of the low price. However, after working this batch up, they were not as bad as I thought they would be. Lots of stems and a few discolored pieces, but in the end, I am pleased with the yield.



Update: The bag of American Virginia flue-cured scraps were completely unusable; I'll use them in the garden somehow. However, the Assorted Virginia flue-cured scraps were about 80% usable for pipe tobacco and the Fronto scraps were about 90% usable. Even so, I won't buy anymore of the scraps.