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Looking for Cigar cutter ideas. Open to all types but especially impressed with two blade cutters or scissor cutter.
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Been smoking cigars for 50 years. Moved to hand rolled, long fillers in the early 80s and now if I can't smoke a good stick I don't smoke. (Same with drinking bourbon, BTW!)
You need to understand that a good stick is a piece of craftsmanship. To get a good cap cut and fitted to a cigar correctly, it is estimated that it takes about three years to completely master the cap. Since a good roller can roll and cap about 125 cigars a day, think how much effort it takes to master the cap! That is why so many have bunchers, rollers, selectors of wrapper, then rollers. After rolling the stick to to a specialist, or to a roller with the experience to put on a cap. I am disgusted by those that hack then end off a stick with one of those guillotine monstrosities. And scissors wear out quickly, especially if you buy cheaper cigars on occasion as the stems on some can be quite thick and they dull the scissors and split the blades apart. You wind up tearing the end off your cigar with those things in pretty short order.
Somewhere in the late 70s to early 80s I read premium cigars were opened up to smoke with a "V" cut, slicing through the cap and making a cut that held in profile looks like PacMan. It serves a couple of purposes to do that. First, in heavy duty cigars tars and nicotine deposits can build on the end of the cigar; with a "V" cut it sits in the cut and doesn't get on your tongue. Second, the cap is engineered to stay in place and to keep the end of the cigar from unrolling. And for me, a little tip of the cap to the artisan that rolled the stick.
I always kept a small, very thin, slicey bladed knife in my pocket for my cigars and cut them myself. Did that for decades. Now there are a few brands that cut a perfect "V" for you. I bought a Colibri brand many years ago and it has cut a ton of smokes and shows no signs of slowing down. It has an over sized aperture which is good for me ( I like 52 - 64 ring gauge) and the blades stay amazingly sharp. Only on occasion do I cut my V with a pocket knife, but I have a Barlow with the secondary blade's edge laid waaaay back so it does it just fine.
Enjoy the smoke!
You need to understand that a good stick is a piece of craftsmanship. To get a good cap cut and fitted to a cigar correctly, it is estimated that it takes about three years to completely master the cap. Since a good roller can roll and cap about 125 cigars a day, think how much effort it takes to master the cap! That is why so many have bunchers, rollers, selectors of wrapper, then rollers. After rolling the stick to to a specialist, or to a roller with the experience to put on a cap. I am disgusted by those that hack then end off a stick with one of those guillotine monstrosities. And scissors wear out quickly, especially if you buy cheaper cigars on occasion as the stems on some can be quite thick and they dull the scissors and split the blades apart. You wind up tearing the end off your cigar with those things in pretty short order.
Somewhere in the late 70s to early 80s I read premium cigars were opened up to smoke with a "V" cut, slicing through the cap and making a cut that held in profile looks like PacMan. It serves a couple of purposes to do that. First, in heavy duty cigars tars and nicotine deposits can build on the end of the cigar; with a "V" cut it sits in the cut and doesn't get on your tongue. Second, the cap is engineered to stay in place and to keep the end of the cigar from unrolling. And for me, a little tip of the cap to the artisan that rolled the stick.
I always kept a small, very thin, slicey bladed knife in my pocket for my cigars and cut them myself. Did that for decades. Now there are a few brands that cut a perfect "V" for you. I bought a Colibri brand many years ago and it has cut a ton of smokes and shows no signs of slowing down. It has an over sized aperture which is good for me ( I like 52 - 64 ring gauge) and the blades stay amazingly sharp. Only on occasion do I cut my V with a pocket knife, but I have a Barlow with the secondary blade's edge laid waaaay back so it does it just fine.
Enjoy the smoke!
I think XIKAR offers good value for money.
I have several cutters, many are the cheap black ones, but the classic XIKAR is still my favourite.
They all cut but the cheaper ones will not cut as well or for so many years. Go for a twin blade cutter, as they do not squish the cigar.
You may also consider a Vicrorinox/Wenger cigar cutter model for more flexibility.
As mentioned, a sharp thin blade also works, if needed.
I have several cutters, many are the cheap black ones, but the classic XIKAR is still my favourite.
They all cut but the cheaper ones will not cut as well or for so many years. Go for a twin blade cutter, as they do not squish the cigar.
You may also consider a Vicrorinox/Wenger cigar cutter model for more flexibility.
As mentioned, a sharp thin blade also works, if needed.
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I think Tops knives makes a cigar cutter. I’ve never handled it but it looks overbuilt as hell in the Tops fashion.
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Probably have 50+ cutters and the xikars are the only ones that get used anymore...use them all from a double gulliotine, a v cutter, once in a while I'll punch a box pressed, chisel or a large gauge. can't go wrong with a xikar cutter, have had mixed results with their torches
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I smoke a lot of cigars a day...I prefer hole punch myself, unless too small for the hole punch or a torpedo cigar. v cuts work well too, but i rarely use them.. no real reason. last a guillotine style for smaller cigars. ive use xikar just cause theyre easy to find and do good enough for my needs.
2 i carry on me everyday and use......they arent fancy or pricey, but work fine.....easy enough to keep sharp.......
I also have one of these but never carry it as I carry a different vic.....it works okay as well....
image from internet borrowed, not of mine obviously.....
2 i carry on me everyday and use......they arent fancy or pricey, but work fine.....easy enough to keep sharp.......
I also have one of these but never carry it as I carry a different vic.....it works okay as well....
image from internet borrowed, not of mine obviously.....
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I only smoke cigars occasionally and only used cheap quillotine style cutters until an ex-GF gave me a sampler of NUB cigars that came w/a punch cutter that cuts a nice clean hole in the end of all of the cigars that I smoke w/o disrupting the cap.
The hole in the NUB punch cutter is a little wide (at 9/16" because it's designed for those fat little NUBs but it fits all of the Robustos/Toros that I smoke now. I forget the ring size but they are all around 3/4" in diameter.
I've never used anything else since anymore. Mine was free but most punch cutters are very inexpensive -- far cheaper than other types of cutters -- and usually come w/a key ring attachment wc makes them difficult to misplace or lose.
The only thing you can't use a punch cutter with are torpedo shaped cigars - in which case you'd need as standard cutter - but I don't smoke that type of cigar anymore.
The hole in the NUB punch cutter is a little wide (at 9/16" because it's designed for those fat little NUBs but it fits all of the Robustos/Toros that I smoke now. I forget the ring size but they are all around 3/4" in diameter.
I've never used anything else since anymore. Mine was free but most punch cutters are very inexpensive -- far cheaper than other types of cutters -- and usually come w/a key ring attachment wc makes them difficult to misplace or lose.
The only thing you can't use a punch cutter with are torpedo shaped cigars - in which case you'd need as standard cutter - but I don't smoke that type of cigar anymore.
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If your still looking for a good cutter I have a palladium and Black Chinese lacquer Davidoff guillotine cutter(made by ST dupont, I believe) comes with black leather slip pouch. I also have a sterling silver ST Dupont punch(with replaceable) punch blade. Both are 20+ years old and have only been used to cut maybe a couple times each. Just don’t need them anymore, but they’re so nice and quality(with that “solid feel” you were talking about) I thought I’d mention. Zipfreak19@gmail.com