LOL, I noticed that myself--that's a hell of cut. I know a few cigar smokers that cut like that. I punch cut--seems to focus the draw better and give better resistance, you just have to make sure and get through whatever binder may be at the end.
I agree, to each their own. They don't make wedges, straight cut and punch cut tools because it should only be done one way, they make them because everyone likes a different draw on their cigar.
When i was in graduate school, one of my professors smoked cigars as well and he used to actually punch the end, but smoke it from the precut end believe it or not--so yes, he would actually light the end he just punched and smoke it from the other end. He swore that they smoked more evenly doing that because you can always fully light the small area created by a punch, but it's hard to always light the larger precut end all at once, so you would tend to get more runs. I always told him that is was those cheap ass cigars he always smoked and the fact that he never charred the end before lighting it, lol.
Loaded a new Peterson Iora Spigot 127 with some of (my) special reserve McClelland’s “Beacon” for the inaugural bowl. I bought just this one tin of it when I started this journey about ten years ago, so I ration it. Oh how I wish I would have had the money and foresight to load up on a safe full before they closed their doors. I really love this tobacco.
@RockyMountainBriar that's a great looking pipe. I wish Peterson did more sandblasting and less of that meat cleaver rustifacation that they seem to use all the time.
I've done all three depending on the cigar. My go-to is a V-cut but I carry a punch on my key ring just in case I decide I want a cigar. I have also found some cigars that smoke better if I sliced the cap off.
The one thing I don't do is bite the cap off.
@vtgrad2003 I've never seen anyone do what your professor did, but I had this one guy who worked for me that would actually buy a cigar and cut it apart and chew it.
One of my (actual) brothers (a Gunnery Sergeant Recon Marine Scout Sniper-retired) uses one of his issue switchblade pocket knives for v-notching his cigars. My other (actual) brother, also a Marine (Corporal, I think? served his peacetime hitch and got out) just chews the ends off of his cigars before he lights them, he chews tobacco habitually though. My brother, the retired Gunny, has his name on a plaque for “Honor Man” (Top Graduate) at Quantico, VA. Scout Sniper School for both the basic and advance courses (late 80’s-early 90’s?). He was the first reservist to accomplish “Honor Man” in the School’s history. He served two combat tours in Iraq and one combat tour in Afghanistan. He was just under the age limit, which was increased between Iraq and Afghanistan or he would not have been able to go to Afghanistan. He actually transferred from his original Recon unit to another unit in another state in order to be back in the overseas rotation to go to Afghanistan. To say I am proud of my younger brothers, and especially, “The Gunny” is an understatement.
Brother in law now doing poorly. Just packed for a visit. Taking a break with some Ashton Rainy Day in a @Corey562 tomato. Love everything about this pipe: looks, lines, mechanics, etc. If a situation presents itself, don't pass up the opportunity to partake of Rainy Day. It is a light aromatic. That is to say, pleasant but nothing overpowering... More straightforward than most aros...
@RockyMountainBriar I like Marines. The Marines are my second favorite branch of the military and the Marines and the Coast Guard have ties going back to "the Shores of Tripoli." While the junior seagoing service likes to take all the credit, some of the U.S. ships in the first Barbary war were US Revenue Marine cutters (the forerunner of the U.S. Coast Guard.) Those cutters carried the Marines to the shores of Tripoli.
The ties between the Coast Guard and Marines were only strengthen during World War II when landing crafts manned by Coast Guardsmen rescued Chesty Puller and about 300 Marines from the Japanese. USCG Signalman First Class Douglas Munro was the officer-in-charge of the landing craft and he was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously after he placed his craft between the Marines being rescued and the Japanese.
When I did a number of joint military exercises in the late 1980s, I always was invited to hang out with the Marines. One Gunny I knew was particularly crazy. When we were sitting around drinking one night, he grabbed small crawfish out of an aquarium and eat them live.
I always remember, we Marines can't do anything we're supposed to do, unless we get there first. That's where the Coast Guard and Navy came in. Without them, we are just a name and a pretty uniform... @Londy3 check your inbox...
@PappyJoe Funny you mention the crawdads. My brother the Corporal ate the whole dang crawdad, head, legs, eye stalks….it was boiled however. It seems dangerous to me, I’m not sure what nastiness is lurking in a freshwater crustaceans guts, cooked or otherwise? My brother the Gunny snorted raw oysters, on more than one occasion. I don’t know why…crazy marine. He also snorted Everclear soaked gummy bears…why don’t they just eat them? Oh, and something of a similar texture (I don’t recall what it was) coated in hot-sauce, and I mean the 250,000+ Scoville stuff. Sounds crazier than a shithouse rat to me?
Ahh, so you've finally come to the same conclusion I have..."carvers" at Peterson's use meat cleavers (and/or neolithic hand axes) to carve their pipes with 🤣
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Looks great! You do such amazing work.
Nice! What make and model of scotch?
I just got JWB
You should listen to those voices in your head.
Join me 🥃
Man, you don’t pull any punches when cutting a cigar. That’s what I would call an “open draw”.
After reading Russ Oulette’s cigar articles it works for me by evenly drawing and doesn’t create any hot areas. To each his own. Whatever works!
I usually use a punch cut as well. Sometimes a full cut is warranted too.
Good to know. I was afraid that me Irish was the only one that talked to me. Maybe I'm better off than I realized.
I've done all three depending on the cigar. My go-to is a V-cut but I carry a punch on my key ring just in case I decide I want a cigar. I have also found some cigars that smoke better if I sliced the cap off.
The one thing I don't do is bite the cap off.
@vtgrad2003
I've never seen anyone do what your professor did, but I had this one guy who worked for me that would actually buy a cigar and cut it apart and chew it.
Bowl 1: Tinderbox Peach Melba in my Tim West.
Bowl 2: Tinderbox Sunset Rum in my Santambrogio.
My brother, the retired Gunny, has his name on a plaque for “Honor Man” (Top Graduate) at Quantico, VA. Scout Sniper School for both the basic and advance courses (late 80’s-early 90’s?). He was the first reservist to accomplish “Honor Man” in the School’s history.
He served two combat tours in Iraq and one combat tour in Afghanistan. He was just under the age limit, which was increased between Iraq and Afghanistan or he would not have been able to go to Afghanistan. He actually transferred from his original Recon unit to another unit in another state in order to be back in the overseas rotation to go to Afghanistan.
To say I am proud of my younger brothers, and especially, “The Gunny” is an understatement.
And it is proud you should be!
Taking a break with some Ashton Rainy Day in a @Corey562 tomato. Love everything about this pipe: looks, lines, mechanics, etc.
If a situation presents itself, don't pass up the opportunity to partake of Rainy Day.
It is a light aromatic. That is to say, pleasant but nothing overpowering... More straightforward than most aros...
I like Marines. The Marines are my second favorite branch of the military and the Marines and the Coast Guard have ties going back to "the Shores of Tripoli." While the junior seagoing service likes to take all the credit, some of the U.S. ships in the first Barbary war were US Revenue Marine cutters (the forerunner of the U.S. Coast Guard.) Those cutters carried the Marines to the shores of Tripoli.
The ties between the Coast Guard and Marines were only strengthen during World War II when landing crafts manned by Coast Guardsmen rescued Chesty Puller and about 300 Marines from the Japanese. USCG Signalman First Class Douglas Munro was the officer-in-charge of the landing craft and he was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously after he placed his craft between the Marines being rescued and the Japanese.
When I did a number of joint military exercises in the late 1980s, I always was invited to hang out with the Marines. One Gunny I knew was particularly crazy. When we were sitting around drinking one night, he grabbed small crawfish out of an aquarium and eat them live.
@Londy3 check your inbox...
Funny you mention the crawdads. My brother the Corporal ate the whole dang crawdad, head, legs, eye stalks….it was boiled however. It seems dangerous to me, I’m not sure what nastiness is lurking in a freshwater crustaceans guts, cooked or otherwise?
My brother the Gunny snorted raw oysters, on more than one occasion. I don’t know why…crazy marine. He also snorted Everclear soaked gummy bears…why don’t they just eat them? Oh, and something of a similar texture (I don’t recall what it was) coated in hot-sauce, and I mean the 250,000+ Scoville stuff. Sounds crazier than a shithouse rat to me?