cigar tubes

[wrath186]

I've NEVER heard of or experienced that before. Are you sure this is just not another urban legend? (kind of like the "you should rotate your cigars in your humidor" one )

There's a product on the market called a "Cigar Saver" or a "Cigar Savor" or something like that which was a plastic tube with a screw top cap and a spring loaded metal part inside. This device allowed you to store a cigar that you could not finish in one sitting. You could actually place the lit cigar in the tube and close it and it would extinghish itself in a very short period of time. I had very little call for one of these, and I seem to have lost the one that was given to me as a gift years ago.

These were made out of plastic and never imparted any nasty flavor to the cigar.

I do have a Cigar Savor and haven't had a problem with the plastic smell, but the acridness of relighting an already extinguished cigar caused me to stop using it. I was referring to the convenience store cigars. The ones that sit out for years on end in their little plastic tubes. Many times these are flavored, but sometimes you can find them "plain" and it always seems to me that the plastic seems to foul the cigar. Not that it's much of a cigar anyways. Of course it might just be me.

As to the tubes. How a bout a hardwood outer tube with an inner slip of cedar? Kind of like a mini humidor, but with personalized flavor. I'll admit I know absolutely nothing about wood working, so I don't even know it that can be done.