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Xikar Verano flat flame - anybody have one? Review?
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Does anybody have the new Xikar Verano flat flame lighter? If so, what do you think, is it worth getting? What is the flat flame like, does it have advantages? How is it for initial lighting, and then for touching up wavy burn lines? Is it enough of an advance over a conventional single, double or triple jet to be worth buying if you already have them, etc.?

Thanks.
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Pudding Mittens wrote:
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Does anybody have the new Xikar Verano flat flame lighter? If so, what do you think, is it worth getting? What is the flat flame like, does it have advantages? How is it for initial lighting, and then for touching up wavy burn lines? Is it enough of an advance over a conventional single, double or triple jet to be worth buying if you already have them, etc.?

Thanks.
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In case you haven’t seen this, here’s a video review:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AzpU83kbMAY

After watching it, think I’ll stick to what I already have. Not having some sort of cover may be an issue at some point. Of course, ymmv.
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Ronson Jet Lite........best $3 you'll ever spend.Hell at that price do what I do,buy them 3-4 at a time.I have maybe a half dozen still in the package,usually get 1-4 years out of them.
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Got three Veranos for $31.50 each, what a deal!

Love them so far. Nicely made, finishes (silver, gunmetal G2 and vintage bronze) are all gorgeous.

Had a cigar going already when I unboxed them, so I can't review how it does main lights yet, but for touchups it's amazingly awesome. That wall of flame is indeed VERY VERY THIN, it's not marketing B.S. You can easily correct a wavy burn line with no unintentional scorching of the wrapper further back. FAR more precise than traditional (cylindrical) single butane jets for touchups.

Imagine a scalpel blade made of blue flame. About a millimeter further back from where you're correcting, the wrapper is unaffected. Very impressive and superior to anything else I've seen.

If it does main initial lights well too, it'll be my new favorite lighter by a wide margin. I'll report back about that.
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UPDATE: Initial lights are great too, I just did one.

The flat flame is shaped like a paintbrush, and you can sweep it up and down and "paint" the foot until it's fully lit.

Reportedly flat flames run at a lower temperature than traditional jets, more like a soft flame, and this seemed true. It takes longer than a traditional jet, but the "painting" motion to achieve full, even coverage is fun, accidental wrapper scorching doesn't happen, and the flavors while smoking seemed better, just as I've often noticed about soft flame-lit cigars versus the same cigar lit by a traditional jet. The lower temperature seems better.

Hope that helps someone out there. I really like the Verano a lot, and I may be a flat flame convert soon!
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GD320 Offline
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Ronson jet lighter....$3.50 at Walmart....refillable, works well. Save your $ for cigars.
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Whistlebritches wrote:
Ronson Jet Lite........best $3 you'll ever spend.Hell at that price do what I do,buy them 3-4 at a time.I have maybe a half dozen still in the package,usually get 1-4 years out of them.

GD320 wrote:
Ronson jet lighter....$3.50 at Walmart....refillable, works well. Save your $ for cigars.

Do you guys go on car forums, find threads with titles like "Review of the new Mercedes SL 450" and post things like, "Used 1988 Honda Civic, $350 on Craigslist, best $350 you'll ever spend! Reliable, works well! Save your $ for gas!" ?

jester Herfing
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Pudding Mittens wrote:
Do you guys go on car forums, find threads with titles like "Review of the new Mercedes SL 450" and post things like, "Used 1988 Honda Civic, $350 on Craigslist, best $350 you'll ever spend! Reliable, works well! Save your $ for gas!" ?

jester Herfing
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No but I own neither a Mercedes or a Honda...........but I highly recommend Toyota,we have a pair of them.Cheaper than a Mercedes,more reliable than Honda and as hard working as a Ronson Jetlite.
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Whistlebritches wrote:
I highly recommend Toyota,we have a pair of them.

Toyotas are indeed awesome.

Lit another stick with the Verano just now. I'm really digging slowly "painting" the foot with the narrow line of heat. Up, down, up, down, then some left, right, left, right sweeps. You can actually see an orange line sweeping the foot. An entirely new experience in lighting, and I like it.

And as I said, it's the best design ever for evening out wavy burn lines. Makes traditional single jets seem way too wide and inaccurate.

Also, as advertised, they're butane sippers. Lower usage than a single jet, and much lower than a double (or worse, triple or quad) jet. Very nice.

Two of them are adjustable to a nice flame height, but the third one didn't get it strong enough, so I simply did the "range adjustment" trick on the wheel, that Xikar shows you how to do on their YouTube channel. The wheel's range is a subset of the total range the lighter's capable of, and the technique lets you "move" the wheel's range around inside the total range, typically toward the higher end. Only takes a couple minutes and a jeweler's screwdriver. I've done it to several of my Xikars that were set a bit low, and it works wonders.

Lovin' the Veranos so far, overall.
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