I’ve been wanting to review this cutter for quite some time. Having gone through what seems like hundreds of cutters since I discovered cigars, I often wondered who was designing these things. I’d dish out for a new cutter and then would be irked at the fact that the blades seemed to wiggle prior to a cut. So why did they make them like that? Obviously these people hadn’t cut hundreds of cigars like I had, or so I thought every once and again.

When I got the Palió cutter two weeks ago, it sure put smirk on my face. When I drew the blades and felt them slide tightly past each other I couldn’t help but think, ahhh… these guys know what I’m talking about. The cigar cutter is the result of a lot of thinking by cigar aficionados, not just marketing people. I was impressed with their result.

First, in order to make the blades as sharp as possible, they necessarily must be razor thin. That in itself presents another problem: if they are so thin, they’ll have no structural integrity. The solution is to reinforce the blades with polymer and only leave the razor sharp edge exposed. The smooth sliding action is then achieved by wide tracks in the polymer material; all in all, pretty impressive.

But enough of the technical specs… I’ve used the cutter for two weeks now, and it’s become my cutter of choice. The thing’s like my right hand now. It’s light weight, sharp, precise, and feels great in hand. What else can I say? I love it. To be perfect, it will have to stay sharp, but with surgical steel blades in place, I don’t think I have to worry about that for a long while.

Check out the Palió Cutter at Lighters Direct LLC, they have a few other cool toys too; I’m not going to tell you how much time I spend in there, but suffice it to say that it’s pretty addicting.