Every Dano's Blunt is shaped by hand and by eye. Nothing is measured — only formed. Each piece starts as a single hardwood pen blank and ends as a one-of-one smoking instrument, sealed and polished to last for years.
Production sands every combustion chamber to a clean 320 grit. From there the piece is yours to season: burning your herb grows the resin layer of carbonization, smoke by smoke, until the chamber wears its own natural carbon coat. The result is a hard, glassy chamber that seasons with use instead of souring.
Every blunt ships with a brass bar for cleaning and setting the screen to your preferred depth. These are not chillums or one-hitters — but they can be. The chamber runs about 3 inches deep, so a full chamber smokes like a real blunt, no paper involved. A full chamber of good herb can leave a resinated mess, so plan to clean it regularly. Set the screen at one-hitter depth or chillum depth, whichever suits you. How it smokes will also depend on the herb itself — type, dampness, grind size, and how tightly it is packed all shift the draw. A slow, steady pull gets the smoke barreling.
The exterior is fine-sanded to a 3000-grit glass finish, then carnauba wax is applied in layers, sanded, and buffed clear. Beeswax is used earlier in the sanding process itself. Carnauba is the standard in pipe-making for good reason — it lets each wood's own grain show through, accentuated rather than hidden.
Blunt, Kahuna, Classic, Torpedo, and Cappo cover the range of the cigar world, each with its own minimum ring gauge and shape. Limited runs outside these five appear from time to time. Ring gauge is sized with calipers and length is cut to a tape measure, with the chamber bore adjusted to the chamber wall's actual thickness. Orders placed at a specific ring gauge are measured and checked for accuracy before they ship.
Dano's Blunts started at a workbench, not a factory. Each blank is picked for its grain, turned and carved freehand, burnt or left natural, banded, and finished by the same pair of hands. Because nothing is jigged or duplicated, no two pieces are ever alike — when you order, you are commissioning a carving, not buying a SKU.
Finished pieces on the shelf right now. Stock below is live-linked to the workshop inventory — when it is gone, it is gone until the next carving.
Raw blank stock available for commission. If a species shows blanks on hand, you can order it on the Custom Design tab.
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Bought a piece? Enter the first name you ordered under — that is your buyer code, and it marks your review as a verified purchase. Reviews from buyers go live right away.
Every species carved at Dano's Blunts, and why each one earns its place. Only woods with a clean record for smoking use are on this list — species whose dust or heated resins are documented irritants are deliberately left off, however beautiful they are.
Straight-grain wood, cut from the trunk. Several species below also come in a root or burl form — the same tree, cut from a different part of it, priced and shown separately below.
The root and burl forms of the species above — not different woods, the same trees, cut from where the growth knots into figure that cannot be predicted or repeated. It costs more, yields fewer pieces per block, and every one is unlike the last.
Build your piece: pick a wood, a length, a finish, and a band. The wheel lights up as each choice locks in. Current lead time is 3 weeks from order.
The chamber bore itself is always sanded to 320 grit — that tooth is what lets your resin build a carbon layer.
ONE AND DONE. When a band design's run is finished it is retired for good and never carved again. Within a single lot of wood a few pieces may wear the same artwork — but each is numbered against that lot (3 of 14, 4 of 14), so the image can repeat while the piece never does. The Dano's Blunts logo band is the one design that carries on, and it is serialized the same way.
Strains put through their paces in Dano's own hardwood — terpene profile first, then the five marks that matter: flavor, effect, burn, aroma, and smoke.
A Dano's Blunt is built to outlive a lighter, a grinder, and most friendships — if you treat the wood right.
Firmness controls duration. Pack loose for a quick draw, firm for a long slow burn. The adjustable screen holds either style.
"Puff, puff, drag." Two short puffs prime the airflow through the chamber, then draw. Do not torch it like a pipe bowl.
Extinguish between uses. Letting it smolder unattended is the fastest way to scorch the chamber. Gentle heat in the early smokes lets the carbon layer build gradually and evenly.
If the exterior ever looks dry, warm a little beeswax or carnauba wax into it with a soft cloth. A fresh wax pass restores the satin glow and keeps the grain deep and dark.
Run the chamber with a dry pipe cleaner only. Never soak the piece in water or alcohol — it strips the carbon layer you have built and the wax seal.
Keep it out of direct sun and off the dashboard. Hardwood moves with heat; your band and finish will thank you.
Shop staff only. Enter the workshop code.
Batch print builds the shop order form: up to 8 orders per sheet, each slip carrying the band, ship-to address, and full build spec — printed on sticker paper and cut apart. Print Next 8 takes the oldest orders that have not been batch-printed yet, in the order they were placed.
| # | Customer | Build | Price | Ordered | Due | Days Left | Status | Label | Remove |
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Species, blank counts, and wood lots. A lot sets how many pieces a serial can count up to (n of n) - open one before taking orders on a species.
Replacement blank stock. Anything 1" x 1" x 6" or larger works, so long as a clean 1" square at least 4" long can be cut from it. Watch the sizing: standard pen blanks are only 3/4" x 3/4" x 5" and are too small — search for turning squares or spindle blanks instead.
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A lot is one batch of blanks of a single species. Serials come from the lot, not the band: a piece is stamped 4 of 14 because that lot held 14 blanks. Numbers run straight through the lot regardless of which band each blunt wears. Orders are refused once a species has no wood left, so you can never promise more than you cut.
| Lot | Species | Size | Issued | Remaining | Status | Opened | Remove |
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| Species | Tier | Surcharge | Cost/Blank | Std Qty | Full Qty | Supplier Link | Resupply | Adjust |
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Pick which uploaded photo belongs to each species. This always wins over any guessing based on filename - upload the photo above in Photos first, then assign it here. No naming convention required.
Consumables on the bench. Resupply opens a search at the vendor in a new tab. Exotic blanks: use the per-wood Etsy links in the wood table above, or the vendor strip below.
Blank vendors: Bell Forest · Exotic Blanks · Woodcraft · Rockler · Etsy
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Band artwork and inventory. Add one at a time below, or use "Upload a Whole Folder of Bands" further down for a whole batch at once.
Every upload here goes straight to the server, so it is live for every visitor immediately - no redeploy, no Python script needed. If you would rather work from files on your PC first, build_bands.py --copy still works as an alternative path, but it is not required.
Delete permanently retires a band as you view it — it will never be shown to customers again, even after re-scanning, even if you can't delete the actual image file from disk. Check Reusable only for the Dano's Blunts logo band; every other design is one and done.
For a design that hasn't gone through a folder scan yet — upload the image right here and it's added to inventory immediately, no rescan needed. It's safe from being removed by a later scan of the CIGAR_BAND_SINGLES folder.
Pick a folder and every image inside it uploads and is added to inventory in one pass. Each filename becomes the design name. All of them land in the folder you choose below - to load Artistic Themed, Symbolic and Traditional in one go, run this three times, once per folder, or use SCAN_BANDS.bat for a full bulk load from disk instead.
Artistic Themed and Symbolic each show a roster of 24. Anything you add beyond 24 waits in reserve, hidden from customers, and promotes into the roster automatically the moment a band above it is used — so the grid never has a gap. Traditional is a fixed 24 that never rotates: those designs repeat, and every piece made is stamped with the next serial number.
Finished pieces ready to sell today. Price follows the same ladder as a commission unless you override it.
Finished pieces for the In-Stock tab. The shelf price follows the same ladder as a commission — base plus the species surcharge, plus the root/burl bracket when the blank was root stock. Override any single price to mark a piece down.
| Wood | Length | Finish | Band | Price | List | Status | Photo | Remove |
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Photos and carving videos, both live for every visitor the moment they are added - no deploy needed.
Upload here and the photo is stored on the server — it appears for every visitor straight away, with no deploy. Name it the way the wood reads (Cherry Wood, Claro Walnut Root) or use the product format from PHOTO_NAMING.md. Keep files under about 850 KB.
Pick which uploaded photo shows for each species below - this always wins over any guessing based on filename. Upload the photo above first, then assign it here. A species with nothing assigned falls back to guessing by name, or shows "photo pending" if nothing matches.
Link a video rather than upload it — host on YouTube, Vimeo, or anywhere with a direct link, and paste it here. A database is not built to hold video files, so this keeps a list of links instead.
Anyone on this list can leave a review using their first name as the code, and it goes live immediately — that is how early customers can post before checkout exists. Add a name as each new person buys a piece.
Reviews left by buyers on the In-Stock tab. Nothing appears publicly until you approve it. "Verified" means the P.O. number they gave matches a real order.
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Dominant terpenes run above 0.5%; flower totals usually land between 1% and 4%. Leave rows blank to skip.
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Log every supply purchase here — wood blanks, sandpaper, bits, butane, shipping. Totals feed the cards above.
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What real visitors see is controlled by one line in js/config.js — change it and re-upload the site. The checkbox below only previews the placeholder in your own browser, so you can see how it looks without closing the shop. Either way you are never locked out: the "Workshop Access" link on the placeholder opens the normal admin gate.
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All customer-facing prices start at $0.00. Set the base carving price and a per-wood surcharge here; the Custom Design tab and wheel update live. Cost/blank is what YOU pay per blank — it feeds the margin math in Bookkeeping and never shows to customers.
If you deploy the Cloudflare Pages Function + D1 backend (see DEPLOY.md), paste the ADMIN_CODE you set there. This is separate from the shop code above — it authenticates this browser to pull orders placed on any device, not just this one. Leave blank if you haven't set up the backend yet; everything keeps working locally.
| Species | Tier | Surcharge ($) | Cost/Blank ($) | Customer Price |
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Set the standard surcharge for each tier once here, then click Apply to write it onto every wood's Surcharge field above (per-wood values stay editable after that if any single species needs to be different). Root/Burl form is a separate toggle customers pick on Custom Design — it stacks on top of whatever the wood's own surcharge is, using whichever bracket below fits that wood.
Priced per piece, already accounting for these being run in a batch of 8 rather than one at a time — the hourly labor is divided across the batch.
The house default is free to choose. Any other band a customer picks from the gallery adds a selection fee. Change the default any time - past orders are not affected.
The five core models (Blunt, Kahuna, Classic, Torpedo, Cappo) always stay. Add a limited run alongside them for as long as it lasts, then remove it when the run ends - customers see it marked "Limited Run" on the order form.
Pick one folder as this month's special and set a discount. Customers see a banner on Custom Design when they select a band from that folder. The discount is temporary — the ONE AND DONE rule on every band is not; a discounted band is still retired for good the moment it is used.
This is not the public Monthly Theme above. Pick one folder or one exact band as this month's hidden trigger. Nothing on the site hints it exists — no banner, no message. If a customer happens to choose the mystery band or any band from the mystery folder, their total is silently discounted at checkout, the same way the 5150 order-number win works: they find out from their own receipt, not from you. A specific band always overrides a whole folder if you set both. Default discount is 100% (comped free, "on the house" like a 5150 win) — lower it to run a partial discount raffle instead.
Your shop — prices, woods, lots, bands, the shelf — saves to the server automatically whenever you change something, as long as the Backend Admin Code above is set. That is what every visitor sees. Use Test Server Connection to confirm it is working. The export below is just a local backup file; it is not how the site publishes.
Workshop-only notes and the customer-facing Mission Statement. Nothing on this tab is visible to customers except the mission text itself, which shows on the Home/About page.
Shown on the Home/About page under "Our Mission." A starter draft is filled in below - replace it with your own words.
Private notes for yourself - reminders, a process checklist, whatever is useful to have on hand while running the shop. Never shown to customers.