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Ljutic · 11-19-2023, 08:43 AM

I'm considering adding a Xikar Meridian lighter to my tool kit. I've always liked a dual burner soft flame over lighting up with a torch unless I'm outside on a windy day. I have to believe a 3 burner would provide a 50% larger flame than my dual burners. Curious if anyone has one of these lighters and any feedback you may have on them. Thanks!

SLR · 11-19-2023, 09:16 AM

I have not used one. Looks like a very cool cigar lighter. Check out this YouTube vid from Halfwheel. I like their reviews.

https://youtu.be/Hi-8Ag5NJlI?si=3igICLFASCwsevJ6

Ljutic · 11-19-2023, 09:31 AM

Thank you. I watched that yesterday. It reeled me in enough to come over and ask here too.

BigO · 11-19-2023, 04:26 PM

Just my opinion and experience. I've owned hundred dollar lighters and five dollar lighters. Seems like the more they cost the less reliable they are. I'll stick with the five dollar lighters. And I do occasionally use the thin cedar and cut it up into strips, light it with my Bic and light the cigar from the burning cedar. Try it sometime. Not only is it effective, but it looks cool.

KatDad · 11-20-2023, 07:44 AM

Nice lighter, but at that price I'll stick with my Vertigo torches and spend the money on cigars.

Ljutic · 11-20-2023, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by BigO

And I do occasionally use the thin cedar and cut it up into strips, light it with my Bic and light the cigar from the burning cedar. Try it sometime. Not only is it effective, but it looks cool.

I do like using two wooden matches and have done the cedar spill trick a time or two. Some local shop would keep a cup of cedar spills at the register for their customers that mostly bought assorted singles as a courtesy.

Probably my favorite way to light up was with the perpetual gas flame Punch statue at the register of a UK shop I would patronize. It took me back to the old days when customers would stop in at lunch for a cigar and light it up for the walk back to the office.

MaytagMan · 11-22-2023, 03:08 PM

I have been looking at this one too. The only reason I has been considering it is that it would be less finicky than a torch. Plus at least I could send it in if I had an issue.

I have a couple of friends who have ST DuPont lighters, and that I can't wrap my head around... (Of course this is coming from a guy who has an ST DuPont fountain pen...)

11-19-2023, 08:43 AM	#1
Ljutic Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: AR, USA Posts: 203	Xikar Meridian Feedback Sought I'm considering adding a Xikar Meridian lighter to my tool kit. I've always liked a dual burner soft flame over lighting up with a torch unless I'm outside on a windy day. I have to believe a 3 burner would provide a 50% larger flame than my dual burners. Curious if anyone has one of these lighters and any feedback you may have on them. Thanks!

11-19-2023, 04:26 PM	#4
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 56,458	Just my opinion and experience. I've owned hundred dollar lighters and five dollar lighters. Seems like the more they cost the less reliable they are. I'll stick with the five dollar lighters. And I do occasionally use the thin cedar and cut it up into strips, light it with my Bic and light the cigar from the burning cedar. Try it sometime. Not only is it effective, but it looks cool. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

11-20-2023, 07:44 AM	#5
KatDad Herf God Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Overland Park, Kansas Posts: 30,830	Nice lighter, but at that price I'll stick with my Vertigo torches and spend the money on cigars. __________________ The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it George Bernard Shaw The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it H. L. Mencken The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants Albert Camus The Land of the Free Because of the Brave

11-22-2023, 03:08 PM	#7
MaytagMan Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Modesto, CA Posts: 102	I have been looking at this one too. The only reason I has been considering it is that it would be less finicky than a torch. Plus at least I could send it in if I had an issue. I have a couple of friends who have ST DuPont lighters, and that I can't wrap my head around... (Of course this is coming from a guy who has an ST DuPont fountain pen...) __________________ "I use big words that I don't understand so I sound more photosynthesis."

11-19-2023, 09:16 AM	#2
SLR Charter Member Moderator Herf God Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: OC/LA Area, CA USA Posts: 16,670	I have not used one. Looks like a very cool cigar lighter. Check out this YouTube vid from Halfwheel. I like their reviews. https://youtu.be/Hi-8Ag5NJlI?si=3igICLFASCwsevJ6

11-19-2023, 09:31 AM	#3
Ljutic Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: AR, USA Posts: 203	Thank you. I watched that yesterday. It reeled me in enough to come over and ask here too.