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Cathcam13 Offline
#1 Posted:
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I purchased a cheap guillotine cigar cutter with my first order from CBid. Let me say it was definitely made from inferior steel. Today I received my new guillotine cutter I believe I paid $12 for it but it was one of the higher end ones, It’s by Zederkoff. The cheapo Dulled within three cuts. This new one should last me a very long time.
LetsRock Offline
#2 Posted:
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Cathcam13 wrote:
I purchased a cheap guillotine cigar cutter with my first order from CBid. Let me say it was definitely made from inferior steel. Today I received my new guillotine cutter I believe I paid $12 for it but it was one of the higher end ones, It’s by Zederkoff. The cheapo Dulled within three cuts. This new one should last me a very long time.


This is the dumbest post I have ever read. You are an idiot for buying a cheap cutter. Why would you do that if you don't even want to smoke in your own house? STFU!!

DMV
Cathcam13 Offline
#3 Posted:
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Sarcasm Because I can! So, in my favorite loud voice I say, BITE ME BIATCH!!!!!!
Cathcam13 Offline
#4 Posted:
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Also on a more serious note, I spent 5 years filing saws for a saw mill, so I know the difference in the steel just by looking at it.
Cathcam13 Offline
#5 Posted:
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And never again will I purchase cheap Chinese crud. 🤣
edin508 Offline
#6 Posted:
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Get one of these and throw that other crap away. https://www.cigarbid.com...cutter-granite/2828295/
gummy jones Offline
#7 Posted:
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All cutters dull at some point

I actually use my cheap black plastic ones most and have been impressed by how well they've held up

rfenst Offline
#8 Posted:
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LetsRock wrote:
This is the dumbest post I have ever read. You are an idiot for buying a cheap cutter. Why would you do that if you don't even want to smoke in your own house? STFU!!

DMV



LOL!
bgz Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 07-29-2014
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edin508 wrote:
Get one of these and throw that other crap away. https://www.cigarbid.com...cutter-granite/2828295/


I had one of those exact ones. I lost it somewhere between the 11th and 14th hole :(

Lesson learned... don't take Xikar golfing... you'll never lose the cheap plastic ones... but if you take an Xikar, you'll definitely lose it.

Lost a torch a few weeks ago too :/
frankj1 Offline
#10 Posted:
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edin508 wrote:
Get one of these and throw that other crap away. https://www.cigarbid.com...cutter-granite/2828295/

where the heck you been?
You married?
frankj1 Offline
#11 Posted:
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rfenst wrote:
LOL!

+1
edin508 Offline
#12 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
where the heck you been?
You married?

Not married, but my vasectomy should have happened a couple months earlier than it did. And it's snowmobile season! Been going North almost every weekend.
frankj1 Offline
#13 Posted:
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edin508 wrote:
Not married, but my vasectomy should have happened a couple months earlier than it did. And it's snowmobile season! Been going North almost every weekend.

wait, I couldn't hear you over the snowmobile!
WHAT?
edin508 Offline
#14 Posted:
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The GF is carrying a girl that is due June 9th. #3 on the way! Yup, the old man is having another one.
frankj1 Offline
#15 Posted:
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congrats?
wanna celebrate wif me and Joe soon at a cigar bar in Pawtucket?
edin508 Offline
#16 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
congrats?
wanna celebrate wif me and Joe soon at a cigar bar in Pawtucket?

Haha, sure thing.
tamapatom Offline
#17 Posted:
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gummy jones wrote:
All cutters dull at some point

I actually use my cheap black plastic ones most and have been impressed by how well they've held up


+1
At least use the cheapos with two blades. Decent for a while. I loose them before they dull. No tears.
Cathcam13 Offline
#18 Posted:
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You know, if you purchase a more expensive one that you can pull the blades from, you can put a new edge on them with a half moon file.
tamapatom Offline
#19 Posted:
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Still doesn't solve loosing them.
dstieger Offline
#20 Posted:
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gummy jones wrote:
All cutters dull at some point




That may be true. However, I've got a Palio that's close to a decade old .....and a Xikar nearly as old that show no apparent loss of edge. I don't know if recent production of either are as good, but even with slight drop off, they'd be worth the investment....unless you really just lose a lot of them
Buckwheat Offline
#21 Posted:
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Frugal is good cheap will get you killed. fog

Never had any problems with either a Zino/Davidoff or Palio cutters. Herfing

RMAN4443 Offline
#22 Posted:
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+2 on the Palio.......nice, solid, heavy in the hand.......we're talking cutters right Anxious
Cathcam13 Offline
#23 Posted:
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As I said, you can re sharpen dull blades, if you know what you are doing.
Mrs. dpnewell Offline
#24 Posted:
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RMAN4443 wrote:
+2 on the Palio.......nice, solid, heavy in the hand.......we're talking cutters right Anxious


Hubby likes Palio, but he dulled his in about 6 months. He says that he prefers the Xikar Xi-8 (Palio clone). Blades stay sharper a lot longer.
Ewok126 Offline
#25 Posted:
Joined: 06-25-2017
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I am too blind to sharpen my own so I keep 2 xikar's at the house as well. If one should dull I send it in and they sharpen or send a new one for free. That lifetime warranty just can't be beat. I love my Palio cutter as well and would not trade it for the world. just my .02
edin508 Offline
#26 Posted:
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Cathcam13 wrote:
You know, if you purchase a more expensive one that you can pull the blades from, you can put a new edge on them with a half moon file.

OMG! NEVER use a file to sharpen a good cutter! These are fine edges like a knife blade and only a stone should be used.
RMAN4443 Offline
#27 Posted:
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Ewok126 wrote:
I am too blind to sharpen my own so I keep 2 xikar's at the house as well. If one should dull I send it in and they sharpen or send a new one for free. That lifetime warranty just can't be beat. I love my Palio cutter as well and would not trade it for the world. just my .02

My Palio has a lifetime warranty, I haven't need it yet though, but it's only a year or so oldAnxious
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