Aeolus Cigar Spear

A few weeks ago I received an email from our good friend Mark Neff over at Cigarmony. Mark asked if I would be interesting in taking a look at a new product he was carrying and potentially reviewing it. I was more than happy to check it out and a few days later I had my hands on an Aeolus Cigar Spear.

The Aeolus Cigar Spear is a hand made cigar accessory that works just as…

Accessory Review: Travel Humidor (Otterbox and Xikar)

When it comes to the hobby of cigar smoking, we all tend to follow along the same path early on in our hobby. For me, I started off storing my cigars in a small desktop humidor that I purchased from ebay. Within a month or so, I outgrew that humidor and moved to creating a Tupperware container to house my overflow.

Somewhere between that first humidor and the Tupperware, but long before the Coolidor, I picked up a travel…

Ask The Readers: What do you use for humidification?

Over the past years I’ve been a big supporter and user of humidification beads. Whether its in the form of The Puck or contained within a pair of pantyhose. Recently, I’ve come into possession of Cigar Oasis Ultra to try and see how it performs in one of my humidors. I’ll admit that I was bit skeptical about removing my trusty beads and relying solely on the Cigar Oasis Ultra. After a bit of a learning curve…

Prometheus Cutter Y

About two months ago, I received an email from one of our sponsors, Steven from Lighters Direct. Steven and I got to talking about an article on cutting cigars. In the exchange, he told me about a new cutter coming out from Prometheus, the Cutter Y.

Unfortunately, Steven didn’t have the Cutter Y in stock. So in lieu of sending one to me, he got in touch with Keith Park at Prometheus, seeing to it…

Xikar 744 Knife

A little more than two years ago, my wife and I were coming down the home stretch for our wedding. I had purchased a couple of odds and ends as Groomsman’s gifts, but I still wanted to get one more item to finish things off.

Due to my interest in cigars, I wanted to include some sort of cigar related gift. The hitch was that this gift couldn’t be a cigar item first, it had to have some other purpose…

Prince PB-207 Pocket Torch

A few years ago, I was a member of a rather popular cigar forum that has since been bought out. In my hay-day of forum posting, I got in on a couple of group buys for different cigars and accessories. One of those group buys netted me one of the best cigar related purchases I have ever come to own. The item was the Taiwanese version of the Blazer Pocket Torch.

This product was advertised as the same lighter…

Xikar Xi3 Carbon Cutter

With my free time stretched a little thin these last couple of weeks, I wanted to find a way to incorporate the usual write-up with a video. The hitch was finding a way that wouldn’t take the usual amount of time to accomplish such a feat. After giving it some consideration, I thought a product review with a little video might be a nice change of pace. What I have for you is a look at the Xikar Xi3…

Accessory Review: Vector Plug Cutter

A few years ago when I started smoking cigars, I always had trouble opening up the head of my smokes. Regardless of how sharp or how new my cutter was, I always seemed to get a cigar that unraveled on me. Not realizing at the time that I was clipping far too much off of my cigar, I decided to change gears and give a plug cutter a try.

The very next visit to my local cigar shop included a…

Accessory Review: Xikar Axia Lighter

Back in July, Brian, Jerry, and I were fortunate enough to receive Press Passes to the IPCPR Trade Show in Las Vegas. While there, we got to speak with a number of people about a number of new products. One of those people included Andy from Xikar.

Andy and I spoke a little bit about the Defiance review I did a little while back and he asked if I would be interested in doing some product reviews as…

Xikar Trezo Lighter

Back in July, Brian, Jerry, and I were fortunate enough to receive Press Passes to the IPCPR Trade Show in Las Vegas. While there, we got to speak with a number of people about a number of new products. One of those people included Andy from Xikar.

Andy and I spoke a little bit about the Defiance review I did a little while back and he asked if I would be interested in doing some product reviews as…