Xikar Disassembly / Reassembly

[FunkyCold5]

Awesome post, Will.

Enjoyed the pictures and the descriptions.

[WOXOF]

Great thread man. Thanks!

[EPI]

I have seen these before bit I have never tried one. I always thought they were over priced. If I were to buy one would it be the last cutter in my life time? Would like to hear more about this cutter. I be giveing the search engine a lot of hits here

[CAJUNBLAZE]

Thanks for the pictures, i will have to clean mine soon!

Rich

[BenjiM]

This thread and your other one with the internals was so awesome. Because of it and all the nice things people said about their cutters and Xikar, I bought one. IT IS AWESOME. I can't believe how much better it is than the normal $5 guillotines. I can't believe I waited this long. Thanks for putting in the hard work.

[nhcigarfan]

Yep, good one.

[kaelaria]

Too funny - I just had to figure this out on my own last week. I picked one up and it was sticky, so I took it apart and cleaned off some internal flash, which helped. Then the hard parts came ;) Luckily a soft jaw vice holds it nicely when you need that third hand!

[badwhale]

I had to refer to this today.

[CptnBlues63]

I had to refer to this today.

I never saw this before but I'm glad you revisited it! My main one needs a cleaning and while I have it open, I think I might touch the edge gently with my diamond steel that I got from a slaughterhouse I worked in some 30 years ago. It's a thin steel rod (about 1/8" dia) with diamond dust in it and it puts the loveliest 'final' edge on a blade.

Anyhow, rather than send it in to Xikar for that, I'll do it myself with your guide in hand!