Best draw tool?

Puff_Dougie
Puff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Where do you find them? Online? B&M? Make them yourself? I really hate a tight draw. Anybody use draw tools? What do you recommend?
"When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Look up Havana Saver. They have some really cool ones.
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  • FireRob
    FireRob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭
    I will be watching this thread with interest. Right now ever since I got my nubber from Stubble I have been using it
  • rsherman24
    rsherman24 Posts: 7,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    small phillips screwdriver

    My favorite cigar list here

  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I make my own from the thinnest guage coat hanger wire I can find and I cut the end square, not pointed. Pointed ones tend to split what they're being pushed through but a square end cuts a clean hole.... That's an old-time carpenter's trick....
  • allsmokedup
    allsmokedup Posts: 751 ✭✭
    A large straightened paperclip works well also. It costs significantly less than any fancy purchased draw tool.
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    allsmokedup:
    A large straightened paperclip works well also. It costs significantly less than any fancy purchased draw tool.

    And it has a square-cut end. Good choice....
  • twistedstem
    twistedstem Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I occasionally smoke a pipe,I use the thing on my pipe tool to poke one if its putting up too much of a fight.
    no matter where you go, there you are.

  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 8,971 ✭✭✭✭✭
    eBay is where I got mine. Around $12 if I remember right. There were several in the Buy It Now section if you don't want to mess around with an auction.

    Edit: It was from Havana Saver as 0patience mentioned.
  • The3Stogies
    The3Stogies Posts: 2,652 ✭✭✭✭
    I've used a toothpick, usually just tight around the head.
  • Gray4lines
    Gray4lines Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭✭✭
    0patience:
    Look up Havana Saver. They have some really cool ones.
    Havana saver. I have used paper clips, pipe tools... this thing is great. Worth every penny. I need to order another.
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  • Chemnitz
    Chemnitz Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭
    I've been using my Stubble nubber, but I went to the website and these look good. Might have to get one - it really is annoying to get a tight draw - can ruin a great cigar. Thanks for the suggestion.
  • lonewolf2011
    lonewolf2011 Posts: 503 ✭
    allsmokedup:
    A large straightened paperclip works well also. It costs significantly less than any fancy purchased draw tool.
    This is what I use ^^
  • dr_frankenstein56
    dr_frankenstein56 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭
    welding rod or an ice pick

    Aj
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    dr_frankenstein56:
    welding rod or an ice pick

    Aj

    Oooohh, a big no-no on the ice pick. Those things have points. Pointed draw tools are a split cigar waiting to happen..... Just sayin....
  • Patrickbrick
    Patrickbrick Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I use a sqewer.
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  • J.S.
    J.S. Posts: 754 ✭
    jlmarta:
    I make my own from the thinnest guage coat hanger wire I can find and I cut the end square, not pointed. Pointed ones tend to split what they're being pushed through but a square end cuts a clean hole.... That's an old-time carpenter's trick....
    This. I guess I am just cheap but why buy when this works.
  • Rain
    Rain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    The fang pulled from a level 40 Red Dragon's mouth, but only after a Half Elf Cleric of Tyr has blessed it with the blood of a unicorn.
  • hotrocks
    hotrocks Posts: 1
    I will have to try this!
  • dr_frankenstein56
    dr_frankenstein56 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭
    Thanks! I never knew that! I guess I have been real lucky to not have to use it on much!

    Aj
  • Lee.mcglynn
    Lee.mcglynn Posts: 5,960 ✭✭✭✭
    I use a small pocket knife blade...if it doesn't work I just chuck
    Money can't buy taste
  • Ken_Light
    Ken_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    Rain:
    The fang pulled from a level 40 Red Dragon's mouth, but only after a Half Elf Cleric of Tyr has blessed it with the blood of a unicorn.
    Yup, that seals it. My I nominate Rain for best draw tool.
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  • Cigary
    Cigary Posts: 630 ✭
    A good friend of mine makes them and I have several that tend to cater to the size of the cigar....the nice thing about his is that they are "fluted" which makes it easy to get to the offending piece of tobacco and grab it while backing it out. It opens even the most stubborn plugs and has saved me a ton of money over the years. Here is a photo of them ( they are called wine tools but he makes them fluted and they are the best cigar tools out there...I have about a dozen different tools but his are the best ) http://www.wineadors.com/cigar-tools.html
  • Puff_Dougie
    Puff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cigary:
    A good friend of mine makes them and I have several that tend to cater to the size of the cigar....the nice thing about his is that they are "fluted" which makes it easy to get to the offending piece of tobacco and grab it while backing it out. It opens even the most stubborn plugs and has saved me a ton of money over the years. Here is a photo of them ( they are called wine tools but he makes them fluted and they are the best cigar tools out there...I have about a dozen different tools but his are the best ) http://www.wineadors.com/cigar-tools.html
    Dude! That's awesome! Thanks for the link! Gonna have to order one of those!

    Here's the hyper-link
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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