Cutter?

[darkleeroy]

Originally Posted by dwoodward

I dunno, I guess I really don't care about my cuts... tbh, I have smoked 5 or 6 cigars that I cut while camping where I forgot my cutter, I just cut them with a knife. The ends were mangled to all hell, but they smoked just fine and tasted consistent to a cigar with a clean cut.

To each their own tho.

The problem with mangled cuts is that sometimes the wrapper will start to unravel mighty fierce. Tends to happen to the cigars with thinner wrappers.

Honestly, if the cigar isn't triple capped I bust out the Palio, if it's got the third cap, I use whatever I have handy at the moment. Most of the time that handy object is a cheap $1 single blade guillotine that I can trace the cap off.

[dwoodward]

Originally Posted by darkleeroy

The problem with mangled cuts is that sometimes the wrapper will start to unravel mighty fierce. Tends to happen to the cigars with thinner wrappers.

Honestly, if the cigar isn't triple capped I bust out the Palio, if it's got the third cap, I use whatever I have handy at the moment. Most of the time that handy object is a cheap $1 single blade guillotine that I can trace the cap off.

I suppose, but the guy at the local B&M uses a Xikar cutter, and swears by them, yet I have seen his cuts, and my dollar bin special cutter makes cleaner cuts every time.

[darkleeroy]

And that could definitely happen, some of these inmates still have a Havana cutter (considering one person bought 100 of them) from a long, long time ago that wasn't expensive but still cut razor sharp.

Eventually, it yielded to the Palio, which was developed by the cigar community for it. Which is why we hold it dear. That and it can cut your finger off if you're not careful.