You nailed it. When I did my cannagar, I cured my leaves using Tangwena’s Malawi cob method on ICMag. I cut the leaves fresh, put them in a vacuum sealed bag and set that on my hot water heater for a few days. After that they got a dark green.
To form the cigar, I wrapped seven grams of cured buds around a bamboo skewer and held them in place with hemp twine. This was sealed and a few days later the hemp twine was removed. At this point I coated the buds in a half gram of warm rosin and rolled it in a gram of kief (think moon rocks). Finally the cured leaves were glued on with another half gram of warm rosin. This was wrapped in hemp twine and vacuum sealed for three months.
For those keeping score, that seven grams if bud, a gram of kief, and a gram of rosin. Smoked it last year for 4/20, took about an hour and a half to burn all the way (took a couple sittings).
Next time I make one, I’ll document the process.