Cigar Cutters

A very cigar related subject, and one that is very important if you want your Great Cigar experience to begin at all. There are many cutters out there, cheap 3-5 dollars, medium priced 15-35 dollars, and premium priced being $50 & up. There is no "Wrong" cutter, just a preferred one, or what is ones preference. Let's start with the basic 3, Guillotine cutter, The V-Cutter, and the Punch Cutter, these cutters will work on just about any cigar, unless you have a "Torpedo" which has a pointed end, and then of course only a guillotine cutter would work properly.
The most common cutter is the guillotine cutter which of course has it's name derived from the French made device made to decapitate human heads, in our case just to nip off a small cap of our cigar, it comes in single and double blade. When using this device, only a very small piece should be nipped off, about 1/16th-1/8th of an inch depending in the ring gauge of a cigar.
The next is the V-Cut which has a small V-shaped blade w/a round stop so as you place your cigar inward to the stop, then slice out your V-shaped cut, it always cuts the same every time and you lose very little cigar.
Then the last of the 3 fore-mentioned cutters is the Punch cutter so named as a small hole is punched into the end of your cigar and no end cap is lost at all. You place the device at the end of the cap of your cigar, and w/a clockwise turning motion and only slight pressure you remove a small "Donut Hole" if you will, and your stick is ready to light up.

There are other cutters out there, w/unique designs, most are in the premium price range, but I just try to give the basics for all the folks out there just beginning their cigar adventure, "Baby Steps", if you will, and you can always work your way up from there. Tune in next time when I will go over some basics about Cigar lighters and other ways to Light up you way to enjoy that perfect Cigar.