About Xikar

These cutters, made in Solingen, Germany have blades hardened to a Rockwell C rating of 57, the result i s the hardestm sharpest blade you can buy. The body retains the classic XIKAR shape and features a lightweight nylon fiberglass. Xi cutters are the same ring gauge: they will cut a 54 ring guage cigar in half. Depending on how much cap you cut, they will cut up to a 58 ring guage cigar.

History Of Xikar

Xikar is known for it's cigar cutters, but is rapidly becoming a force in the knife industry as well. The way to use this knife as a cigar cutter is to insert the cigar in the cut-hole, close the blade against the cigar "cap" and turn the cigar shile applying pressure to the blade. Xikar is the Mayan word for the large, dark cicada, from which cigars - supposedly resembling - first derived thier name.

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