Types of Cigar Cutters Not Every Cigar Cutter Looks the Same
Browsing the web, a few years ago, I found this article on some splashy celebrity site about Sienna Miller, the movie star. She's standing against a wall, smiling broadly while smoking a cigar. What struck me about the picture was how cheeky she looked. Like a naughty girl flaunting her wicked ways. I was so struck in fact, that I went out to buy my first cigar. And what was a random chance meeting of me and a picture of a movie star on her break, turned into an interesting and fun hobby. While I never smoked the actual cigar I became fascinated with the product and its accessories and I began collecting cigar cutters. Its an odd hobby for a woman, not quite as odd as smoking cigars, but still odd.
I won't pretend I collected cigar cutters because they served a function. I had a much more immature reason for my collection. Cigar cutters were cute. One even looked like an old floppy disk from the 80's. Much to the dismay of real cigar aficionados, I bought and wore that floppy disk on a key chain. To this day I still get stopped and told that the cigar cutter I use is sloppy and ineffective. I happily reply back that I do not smoke cigars, and manage to offend a few now and then, when I say I bought it because it was cute.
What I've learned, on my daily outings and random informative lectures, could fill a book. For instance a creepy but quirky fact about cigar cutters is that the blades are called guillotines. There are single blade guillotines, double bladed guillotines and V shaped guillotines. Cigar cutters come in different shapes like one that fits in your wallet like a credit card, another which looks like a swiss army knife and yet another, double bladed guillotine cutter, which looks like a wicked toy. Cigar cutters come in rubber, plastic and steel. In the early 20th century they were hung from watch chains and vest pockets and the rich had gold cigar cutters. The search to add to my collection has led me to cutters made out of shells, a cigar cutter shaped and designed like a padlock and even some shaped like kangaroos.
While I search for beauty and quirkiness in my cutters, that may not be useful to someone who wants to smoke an actual cigar. What is useful to know about cutters can be summed up in a few words. Choose what is best for the type of cigar and cigar smoker you are. Double bladed, single bladed, antique or scissor cutters, its your choice. Just try not to use your teeth.