Matches vs lighter

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Originally Posted by Cool Breeze

Yeah, me too.

I've never bought a pipe lighter, but the torches I've bought have been terrible.
I'll fill them with butane and they'll work great for one or two cigars, then they'll spit and sputter and not stay lit.

I've purged them and I use the good Xikar triple filtered fuel and they still do the same thing.

Hell, I even light cigars with Bics half the time. I'd like to find a good one that would work, but for that much money, I'd rather just spend it on more cigars, pipes and pipe tobacco. :pipe:

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Amen.....

Vertigo Governor, $17 from Famous Smoke

https://www.famous-smoke.com/vertigo...ack/item+46727

Well this got me to thinking so when I was at Fred's this evening I picked up four boxes of kitchen matches. :pipe:

I picked up a couple of Djeep disposable lighters at a local tobacco store on Saturday for $2 each. They are supposed to last a long time.

If I'm out and about I use my Zippo pipe lighter...usually. I have a bad habit of forgetting to refill the stupid thing and half the time wind up having to buy a cheap bic! LOL But if I'm at home it's matches all the way. I find I can get a better char and I don't get the occasional lighter fluid taste. Been smoking at home lately because of my location (it is rather frowned upon for students to smoke anything here) so I've been using a LOT of matches. Which reminds me...need to get some more.

I'm primarily a Zippo man (with pipe chimney), but I always keep a couple Bics lying around for when I need to refill. Sitting at home on the porch I prefer wooden matches.

Seeing as I'm usually working outside on the hobby farm when it's time for the pipe, I usually use a Bic. The wind play hell with the matches.