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How to Refill A Butane Torch Lighter

When it comes to lighting cigars with precision and reliability, torch lighters stand as the ultimate tool. Torch lighters offer a concentrated flame that gets the job done efficiently and ensure you set every cigar up with the best chance of smoking evenly and smoothly.

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How You Cut and Light a Cigar Matters

Torch lighters and specialized cigar cutters are the two most important accessories you own.  Different torch lighters serve different purposes, but all should help foster an even burn.  Cutters vary in versatility and specialization — it's not bad to own several.   Too often, good cigars get ruined at the...

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Why Does Placement Matter for Your Humidor Hygrometer?

An accurate hygrometer reading is essential to storing your cigars effectively. Different locations in your humidor will have different humidity levels.  If your hygrometer seal is bad, outside air will compromise its accuracy. Hygrometer readings can be affected by outside air and their placement inside the humidor. Analog hygrometers are...

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Humidor Feature: Introducing the KOBI Glass Top Humidor

Professional baseball players can attest to a universal, unmistakable feeling they get when their bat connects to a fastball in a certain way and they know, with great likelihood, it’s clearing the outfield fences. That’s kind of how it feels when you see the Klaro KOBI humidor for the first...

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Why Spanish Cedar Thickness Matters in Your Humidor

You save up for an attractive but still affordable humidor, searching online until you find one that’s a hundred bucks but looks like it’s worth twice that. Once it arrives, the seal seems good, and the hinges are made of brass. You season it as instructed, store your stogies, and...

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What Makes a Humidor? Behind-the-Scenes with Klaro Humidors

We talk a lot about the importance of owning a quality humidor, best practices for maintaining your humidor’s performance, and how the components of your humidor ought to function. And there’s good reason for that: Each Klaro humidor was created to remedy the problems cigar owners face when it comes...

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Are Humidors From Amazon Any Good?

  Ordering from Amazon can feel like the ideal online experience, especially when it comes to products like cigar and humidor accessories. Convenience, affordability, fast and reliable shipping, pages of options to choose from. And there are options: find everything from accessory standards like torch lighters and cigar cutters to...

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Humidors in Summer - What You Need to Know

  Aggressive seasonal humidity fluctuations can dizzy your hygrometer and push your humidor’s wood components to their moisture limits. When humidity shifts wildly, make sure you understand what’s happening to your humidor and its environment so you can still keep your cigars healthy and protected.  With a quality humidor, you...

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Father’s Day 2022: Humidor Gift Ideas

  We love buying our fathers cigars throughout the year. A gift that’s quick, affordable, and easy to give on a whim and without occasion. But when it comes to Christmas, birthdays, Father’s Day, and life events, we go with something more substantial, more meaningful, and that we know he’ll...

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