Quote Originally Posted by jaewing
As I mentioend before mine fell apart but I was able to put it all back together. Then the plastic on one of the pop-out sides fell off! WTF! Remember this was only a month or so old.

So I contacted Xikar customer service. They immediately returned my email and not only were they going to replace the cutter . . . they offered to send me the better all metal version Xi instead of the Xi2 plastic one I had before.

Xikar ROCKS!

So, what do you all think about this: is the plastic model (the Xi2) a sufficiently good cutter? Or if you're going to get a Xikar, should you pony up the extra $$$ to get the metal Xi1 model?