Cut Preference

[TheCigarKid]

Carbon FIber Palio strait cut, best cutter I ever owned. I love it and will never turn back!

 

[Veritas]

My Xikar Xi makes over 98% of my cigar cuts. I will occasionally use a V-cut, but not very often.

 

[bwhyte]

I like the double blade guillotine! open to trying new things though.

 

[Braveheart]

I've used every type of cutter ( except Palio). I still use a punch for large gauges and still use a Xikar double blade pretty often. A few months ago I bought a V-cutter for $ 3 and I love it. However, I usually use whichever I can find first.

 

[Speedbump]

i prefer a punch but i have a xikar as well

 

[kenaiking]

double blade xikar cause that is all this newbie has, works well too.

Yup me too.

 

[ThatGuy3510]

I usually go with a double blade, though if its handy I grab the punch.

 

[Gummi Bear]

I punch my cigars 95% of the time. I bought a good Xikar punch. When I need/want to, I cut them with a pair of Xikar scissors. I also own a v-cutter that I'll use from time to time, I think of it as being kind of a novelty.

I'm saving up for a nice Palio cutter though, the local shop has one in Realtree camo that fully kicks ass!

 

[debo0775]

I prefer using my Xikar Xi (and use it probably 95% of the time), but a crisp punch on a petit corona/corona is always really nice.

I'd like to get a Palio in the future, but I'm poor...lol

 

[Pooh Bore]

I prefer the punch (depending on the cigar of course) and occasionally a double blade cutter.

 

[birdperk]

Double blade xikar here too. But I have used a punch a few times.

 

[dpmrpa]

I use a Xikar scissor most of the time. Recently purchased. I like the bigger surface area for smoking

 

[t_ron99]

I like using my "V" cutter. I have a tabletop that makes really clean cuts. Sometimes I do get the little pieces of tobacco...but that's part of the deal.

 

[ChazHollywood]

Most of the time I use my Xikar Wolf V Cutter, otherwise it's a Double Blade Guillotine (Xikar, of course!)

You ever try using that on a cigar with a tapered head?

When I don't use a double blade I usually make a V cut with a pocket knife. It ends in disaster maybe just slightly less often than you'd expect.

-Charles

 

[ctaylor]

With the majority on this one Double Blade Guillotine.

 

[Señor Maduro]

V cutter and punch here.

 

[Gonesledn]

Palio for the double blade cutter. like to V cut torps and belis, but have yet to find a nice one though.

 

[Aplsmoker]

I use my Xikar Double Blade. Mostly because I paid an exuberant amount for it.

Plus I like it.

 

[CheapHumidors]

I like the punch because my cigar always seems to unravel when I cut it.

I feel like sometimes I get a better quality of smoke from a V Cut, although I have to real rationale for liking it I do lol.

 

[Moro]

I like the punch because my cigar always seems to unravel when I cut it...

Try and get the Tatuaje cutter. It makes sure ye don't cut much off so it doesn't unravel. Or, if using a "flat and thin" cutter (unlike Palio or XiKar), stand the cigar upright so the table serves as a limit to how much ye cut.