The Cigar Accessories I Use

[JohnS]

This thread is inspired by the team at Halfwheel posting up the accessories they use regularly when smoking a cigar a few months ago. Brooks Whittington, Patrick Lagreid and Charlie Minato all had different accessories, but on the whole, there were some run-of-the-mill stuff there, especially when it came to storage.

For further reference, in regard to what members have used in the past on our forum, you can access the threads below...

So what do you use on a regular basis when you smoke a cigar? Is it a run-of-the-mill solution, or do you use high-end gear? Post up your pics, or if you don't have them, your replies will suffice!

[JohnS]

I'll get the ball rolling...

Cutter: Habanos S.A gift cutter

Yes, even though I cherish my Xikar XO cutter and my Colibri V-Cutter (as well as my Credo 3-in-1 Punch Cutter), this is the cigar cutter I regularly use. It was gifted to me by @Fuzz AI after a trip to Cuban in 2016. It's cheap, but the reason I think it's still going is because the blades were crafted by Solingen Knives from Germany.

Lighter: Firebird Single Flame Torch Lighter

Another economical product here. I've used this for so long that the plastic on the bottom has fallen off. I have other better lighters of course, and I used to have a FoH jet lighter (or two) in the past, but this does the job, especially on touch-ups.

Humidor: Plastic EzyStorage 160 L Container + Bovedas

Trust me, this is all I need for my boxes. I have a cool, dark place downstairs and so the temperature and relative humidity is quite stable year round.

Ashtray: 1960s/70s Vintage Retro Glass Ashtray

Again, I have better ashtrays (including a FoH one, of course), but this does the job on a regular basis. I broke one of these ages ago, and my wife asked me to replace it, so I did via eBay. It reminded her of all the Europeans that migrated to Australia in the 1960s and 70s who had similar items in their homes when she was a kid.

Bonus Accesory: FoH Cigar Stand

Where would I be without this? The patina that has developed over the years is now priceless. My son borrowed it for a week recently and I had to use my backup FoH Cigar Stand. It felt weird as it was so clean and shiny!

[dicko]

Really enjoying the Sisuman gear for cutter & lighter at the moment. Been through many, many lighters and cutters as I know a lot have. My other favourite is a St dupont mini flat flame lighter - perfect for touch ups! A gift from my very good friend Miner.

I prefer a simple single cigar procelain stand as pictured. I also have a stinky for company. I don't go too crazy with accessories as pretty hard on my stuff (i.e. clumsily drop things) and don't see the ROI as opposed to say wine glassware which I think makes a huge difference.

Humidor wise I have a couple of unplugged vintec wine fridges with 320g boveda packs (love Boveda!). A few carry cases I use as dryboxes or for herfs.

Recently picked up a grey-blue Sotelo which looks amazing but haven't used it yet.

Bonus accessory would have to be perfec draw and vegetable glue.

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[LordAnubis]

I had a terrible time with lifters at airports. Even the dog “travel lighters” without the cartridge in them were take.  

I got some 4 dollar lighters off Ali and they get through fine. Flint ignition with a gas nozzle you turn on and off. Work great and haven’t been taken yet. 

[Ford2112]

Foh cigar stand. Eagle torch. Perfect draw. Style and panache.

[TheFez]

Favorite accessories - Office Edition. Where I smoke nearly every day.

Colibri tabletop cutter (V, Straight, 3x punches)

Various lighters depending on cigar size, how windy it is outside, and if anyone is joining me that day. Le Grande is my favorite

DTT straight cutter, my absolute favorite for a straight cut

Perfecdraw and repair, cigar essentials no explanation needed

Single stick ashtray, have a couple other multiple stick ashtrays I break out for when I have company but usually its just me here

Lighter adjustment/bleeding tool.

[Chibearsv]

My kit

[ryre]

On 1/13/2026 at 2:21 PM, JohnS said:

I'll get the ball rolling...

Cutter: Habanos S.A gift cutter

Yes, even though I cherish my Xikar XO cutter and my Colibri V-Cutter (as well as my Credo 3-in-1 Punch Cutter), this is the cigar cutter I regularly use. It was gifted to me by @Fuzz AI after a trip to Cuban in 2016. It's cheap, but the reason I think it's still going is because the blades were crafted by Solingen Knives from Germany.

Lighter: Firebird Single Flame Torch Lighter

Another economical product here. I've used this for so long that the plastic on the bottom has fallen off. I have other better lighters of course, and I used to have a FoH jet lighter (or two) in the past, but this does the job, especially on touch-ups.

Humidor: Plastic EzyStorage 160 L Container + Bovedas

Trust me, this is all I need for my boxes. I have a cool, dark place downstairs and so the temperature and relative humidity is quite stable year round.

Ashtray: 1960s/70s Vintage Retro Glass Ashtray

Again, I have better ashtrays (including a FoH one, of course), but this does the job on a regular basis. I broke one of these ages ago, and my wife asked me to replace it, so I did via eBay. It reminded her of all the Europeans that migrated to Australia in the 1960s and 70s who had similar items in their homes when she was a kid.

Bonus Accesory: FoH Cigar Stand

Where would I be without this? The patina that has developed over the years is now priceless. My son borrowed it for a week recently and I had to use my backup FoH Cigar Stand. It felt weird as it was so clean and shiny!

I'm so jealous of the cigar stand!

[Goldeneye]

My accessories are very minimalistic.  At home I have a desk top humidor that still works great and then plastic containers lined with Spanish cedar and Boveda's, with a simple cutter and lighter.  At work for lunch time cigars a Habanos cutter and simple lighter.   

[NYGuido]

I've been using a Palio straight cut and Colibri V lately and loving them both. For soft flame, I use a DuPont Line 2, and for torch I use either my Colibri Slide in black/Lambo Green or, when with clients, my DuPont Maxi Jet. Perfect draw and CiGlue are essentials, and I carry my daily sticks in the purple Sotelo case my wife got me for Christmas. I cycle through a few ashtrays based on where I'm smoking: Home office is a La Aroma de Cuba tray I've had for 15 years, the occasional downstairs smoke is my FOH 2025 Christmas ashtray, and outside are some rubberized ones that I just leave on my patio table and in my garage.

I really want to get some of the Sisuman scissors, but I can't find them for sale in the US right now, and I have a 3 finger leather Ashton case for when the Sotelo is too big. 

[Cigar Surgeon]

Oh yes, I forgot to post. 

HumidiMeter Pro for measuring the humidity. A CigarMedics draw machine to determine the draw resistance. Colibri SV cutter, fountain pen and journal with leather cover. Xikar tactical single torch.

Edit: oh and I forgot my stand...Two Saints Tactical bronze art deco stand.

[LordAnubis]

On 1/15/2026 at 6:57 AM, Cigar Surgeon said:

Oh yes, I forgot to post. 

HumidiMeter Pro for measuring the humidity. A CigarMedics draw machine to determine the draw resistance. Colibri SV cutter, fountain pen and journal with leather cover. Xikar tactical single torch.

Edit: oh and I forgot my stand...Two Saints Tactical bronze art deco stand.

Now I’m curious. What in the hell you do with a draw machine? Just for measurement sake so you have a scale other than “it was loose”? Like just suck on it man 😁

[Cigar Surgeon]

41 minutes ago, LordAnubis said:

Now I’m curious. What in the hell you do with a draw machine? Just for measurement sake so you have a scale other than “it was loose”? Like just suck on it man 😁

That's exactly right.

There's been increasing amounts of dismissal around construction assessment. So now with a proper measurement system when I say a cigar was snug and 70 inches of water it reinforces my subjective take. 

Same mentality behind why we post our review score data including sponsor vs non-sponsor averages. 

[KRunch61]

I’ve been “recharging” Boveda packs for at least a couple of years; anybody have any comments pro or con about this? Seems to work well enough.

[JohnS]

1 hour ago, KRunch61 said:

I’ve been “recharging” Boveda packs for at least a couple of years; anybody have any comments pro or con about this? Seems to work well enough.

There's a number of FoH members who have attested to recharging Boveda packs without issue. For myself, I've been fortunate, as I've never had to recharge any. Mine have lasted years.

[NYGuido]

1 hour ago, KRunch61 said:

I’ve been “recharging” Boveda packs for at least a couple of years; anybody have any comments pro or con about this? Seems to work well enough.

My brother has a PhD in materials chemistry from Cambridge in the UK, and he tells me NOT to do this because of the overfill/underfill risk, which risks changing the internal chemistry and providing a less-than-predictable RH. He says the only way to do this is with a scale calibrated to hundredths of a gram, to measure the pack when it comes out of the original Boveda packaging, and to recharge that specific pack only to that exact weight. I do not have the patience for this, so I just buy new ones.

[cnov]

The Xikar is probably due a replacement, I've tried taking it apart to give it a good clean but it feels like it been dulled over the years. 

There's also a Dupont Ligne 1 and Ligne 2 but they're ornamental these days, they don't hold gas as well as you'd like and not knowing how much gas is or isn't left is a risk I can't have ruining a good opportunity for a cigar. The jet came in a two pack and the pair of them have never skipped a beat! 

[yuppie]

I really need to get one of those wooden FOH cigar stands... 

Tommy Bahama ash tray.

ST. Dupont Extreme Defi Windproof

IMCorona Old Boy

PerfecPunch

Xikar cutter, which I want to replace with some kind of Fox Cutter

[zacca]

On 1/14/2026 at 10:15 AM, Chibearsv said:

My kit

Did you make that band wall receptacle or buy it somewhere? 

[zacca]

8 hours ago, NYGuido said:

My brother has a PhD in materials chemistry from Cambridge in the UK, and he tells me NOT to do this because of the overfill/underfill risk, which risks changing the internal chemistry and providing a less-than-predictable RH. He says the only way to do this is with a scale calibrated to hundredths of a gram, to measure the pack when it comes out of the original Boveda packaging, and to recharge that specific pack only to that exact weight. I do not have the patience for this, so I just buy new ones.

I was going to say the same - sure you can get them feeling “wet” inside again, but you have no idea what humidity it’s going to be at unless you spend more money (and time) than just buying more Bovedas. 

[Chibearsv]

6 hours ago, zacca said:

Did you make that band wall receptacle or buy it somewhere? 

Got it as a gift a couple years ago. Has a label on the back that says, 'Kara’s Creations.'

[Fugu]

8 hours ago, NYGuido said:

My brother has a PhD in materials chemistry from Cambridge in the UK, and he tells me NOT to do this because of the overfill/underfill risk, which risks changing the internal chemistry and providing a less-than-predictable RH. He says the only way to do this is with a scale calibrated to hundredths of a gram, to measure the pack when it comes out of the original Boveda packaging, and to recharge that specific pack only to that exact weight. I do not have the patience for this, so I just buy new ones.

That’s great for your brother, Guido, but nonetheless he errs in this regard (man, even Cambridge seems to have lost its lustre 😂). As a graduated chemist, once he gets into the details of the thermodynamics of the equilibrium of water in the atmosphere above a supersaturated aqueous salt solution (closed system) he’ll sure be able to see where he didn’t fully grasp the concept yet. Humidifier pack systems, such as Boveda, work two-ways (!), meaning bidirectional. This fully reversible, instantaneous decharging and recharging (with water molecules) is the very concept behind their stabilising effect and their long-term ability to do so. If they’d just be capable of keeping that ability only within a very narrow range of water loss or gain, they’d be useless for the job. The internal solution is highly oversaturated, therefore vastly tolerant to water uptake. So, of course can you deliberately “recharge“ them up to a certain extent without altering the basic properties. Important to not let them dry out too far, as crystals will grow too big to redissolve easily back into the solution at room temperature (perhaps this is what he has in mind there). It’ll take its time but on principle, diluting a supersaturated salt solution back to a point still within the original range - that is, roughly up to the pack’s original weight, will still be keeping it within the necessary supersaturated range. That’s the whole trick behind their functionality and why those packs come in so handy and set-and-forget-easy to use.

[NYGuido]

3 hours ago, Fugu said:

That’s great for your brother, Guido, but nonetheless he errs in this regard (man, even Cambridge seems to have lost its lustre 😂). As a graduated chemist, once he gets into the details of the thermodynamics of the equilibrium of water in the atmosphere above a supersaturated aqueous salt solution (closed system) he’ll sure be able to see where he didn’t fully grasp the concept yet. Humidifier pack systems, such as Boveda, work two-ways (!), meaning bidirectional. This fully reversible, instantaneous decharging and recharging (with water molecules) is the very concept behind their stabilising effect and their long-term ability to do so. If they’d just be capable of keeping that ability only within a very narrow range of water loss or gain, they’d be useless for the job. The internal solution is highly oversaturated, therefore vastly tolerant to water uptake. So, of course can you deliberately “recharge“ them up to a certain extent without altering the basic properties. Important to not let them dry out too far, as crystals will grow too big to redissolve easily back into the solution at room temperature (perhaps this is what he has in mind there). It’ll take its time but on principle, diluting a supersaturated salt solution back to a point still within the original range - that is, roughly up to the pack’s original weight, will still be keeping it within the necessary supersaturated range. That’s the whole trick behind their functionality and why those packs come in so handy and set-and-forget-easy to use.

Yeah I think that’s why he mentioned the weight—that’s the point at which it’ll work the same as a truly fresh pack. He’s a lab chemist, so he expects measurements to be hyper precise, but in any event, recharging them and weighing them is more annoying to me than buying another one 😆 

* Edited to add I’m just a lawyer, so this ALL is over my head! 😛