Sharpening a Xikar Cutter

[Oscar300]

Merry Christmas/Happy New Year Folks,

All my cutters are boringly blunt, how do you guys sharpen them?  I think they used to be a 'send it back' life time sharpening service but this has all changed?

[SCgarman]

Send an email to Xikar and ask them. They fixed a torch lighter for me last year. BTW, I have been using the same Davidoff double edge guillotine cutter since about 1996. Never been sharpened, and has cut thousands of cigars. It owes me nothing! Awesome product.

[Oscar300]

Thanks having a google now, never looked at the Davidoff double edge guillotine before. Looks like the one that every man and his dog has cloned over the years. I'm guessing it was the first one looking at the prices.

[SCgarman]

It was about $40 in 1996. Not cheap, but you get what you pay for, IMO.

[Ford2112]

I buy crappers. 

[joeypots]

I got one with a box of cigars I bought on line  from Florida. Ten years later a screw came loose and I asked Xikar for a screw. They asked me to send the cutter to them and they sent me a new one a few weeks later. It was the basic model but I'd try that if I were you. 

[Lt4-396]

This is one of many reasons why I switched to primarily punches and then continued down the rabbit hole and made my own.

Unless you free hand sharpen knives/tools I wouldn't recommend trying to free hand a cutter and buying/making equipment isn't worth the hassle for just one cutter. Essentially, send it in to get sharpened and either buy a back up or a budget cutter to use when you don't have your good one.

If you want to sharpen yourself I would get a budget 400/1000 rectangle whetstone and a few round stones. McMaster has some nice semi-flexible stones that work very well. Obviously cutter geometry will dictate which stone is optimal.

[Kaips1]

Just get on Xikar's website and go through the steps and just send it in. It's a 4 wk turn around. I just did sent mine in. Can't wait to get it back.