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10toes54
10toes54 Posts: 85 ✭✭
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got these 2 things in the mail today:) 
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  • Darktower007
    Darktower007 Posts: 2,580 ✭✭✭✭
    Nice!
  • Rolanddeschain
    Rolanddeschain Posts: 916 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I got one of these today.:) I'm curious as to how well it will work.
    Long days and pleasant nights,

    Roland
  • 10toes54
    10toes54 Posts: 85 ✭✭
    Rolanddeschain said:
    I got one of these today.:) I'm curious as to how well it will work.

  • 10toes54
    10toes54 Posts: 85 ✭✭
    Looks like a punch to me some people like 'em some don't I myself like cutters like mine above 
  • Rolanddeschain
    Rolanddeschain Posts: 916 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Shuriken makes 6 slits in the cap. Supposedly it makes for a nice draw without wrecking the cap.
    Long days and pleasant nights,

    Roland
  • avengethis
    avengethis Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rolanddeschain said:
    The Shuriken makes 6 slits in the cap. Supposedly it makes for a nice draw without wrecking the cap.
    Supposedly but from what I have seen that's not true
    Team O'Donnell FTW!

    "I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,180 ✭✭✭✭✭
    avengethis said:
    Rolanddeschain said:
    The Shuriken makes 6 slits in the cap. Supposedly it makes for a nice draw without wrecking the cap.
    Supposedly but from what I have seen that's not true
    Pretty much the consensus on the Colibri guillotine cutters too.
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think the Shuriken must've been promoted by the same agent who 'discovered' Willie Nelson. 

    Wait for it..... 
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've purchased (and sometimes recieved as freebies) quite a few of the colibri cutters like the one in your photo. That was before I tried a Xicar xi2. The Xicar teardrop cutters are excellent. I used to prefer a punch because cheap cutters were frustrating. 
  • Rolanddeschain
    Rolanddeschain Posts: 916 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Shuriken was a gift from my wife(I think she likes the idea of not having to snip or punch when she wants the occasional cigar) so I'm going to give it a try. Either way my cigar clutter is beginning:)

    Long days and pleasant nights,

    Roland
  • Rolanddeschain
    Rolanddeschain Posts: 916 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As a follow up to the shuriken, it actually works pretty well. The key is to gently squeeze your teeth on the cap for the first few minutes of smoking to open the slits. It made for a nice draw and no big deal......that being said, my punch works just as well without the biting.:)
    Long days and pleasant nights,

    Roland
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    I'll stick with my xikars.
    I've tried dozens of different ones, including the "gimmick" ones and always seem to return to the xikars.
    Even my dull xikars cut better than most. 

    Although, I used to have a cheapy cutter I picked up years ago, that worked so great, it was my go to cutter. Then, one fateful day, it committed suicide and jumped out of my shirt pocket over a bridge, where I was working on a crane.
    The bad thing was, there was no brand or anything to get another one.

    Personally, the Xi1 is my preference and only because the release switch is more comfortable to me. 
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • avengethis
    avengethis Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love my Xikar xi2 and xi3 as well as the colibri vcut
    Team O'Donnell FTW!

    "I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,487 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am using a xi4 currently. I like the way both sides close together, but the xi3 still feels nicer when it cuts.
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • Ryan1990
    Ryan1990 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭✭
    @90+_Irishman just sent me a Shuriken. I'm an inch into smoking an Undercrown Shade that I cute with it and I love it already. Absolutely stellar draw and cool smoke that feels great on this hot southern July night.

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