Zippo users!

Ziltoid · #1 03-12-2010, 06:50 PM

Show off your zippo

Placed an order for mine few minutes ago.

Here's the model:

TortillaChip520 · #2 03-12-2010, 07:06 PM

I'm thinking of getting a zippo soon, but i heard it affects the flavor of cigars and pipe tobacco. Is that true?

Ziltoid · #3 03-12-2010, 07:12 PM

Couldn't tell you, this will be my first zippo and I don't even smoke regularly, I'm more like the one cigar & drink per month or two type of guy.

Dave · #4 03-12-2010, 07:13 PM

I only use mine for lighting cigarettes and hookah coals, but I do love mine. Id post a pic, but i cant find it...

Its just a standard brushed aluminum one I got off Amazon.

your idol · #5 03-12-2010, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TortillaChip520

I'm thinking of getting a zippo soon, but i heard it affects the flavor of cigars and pipe tobacco. Is that true?

yeah it does. to me it always jacks up the normal taste of a ciggerette

FL Knifemaker · #6 03-12-2010, 07:36 PM

I have a few but I only smoke cigars and prefer a hotter, HIGHER flame. They also make a cigar taste like charcoal starter

SMASH · #7 03-12-2010, 08:07 PM

Not suitable for pipes ... or even workable.

For cigars they're fine if you're not sucking the butane into the cigar or re-lighting it over and over. That's how the taste would be affected.

If you light properly, by heat away from the flame without sucking to light the cigar, then these are fine though not ideal in the purist/snob sense. I light lots of Cubans with my Zippo, no problem.

I have these, which my wife bought me. I'm very partial to 'Winter'.

Ziltoid · #8 03-12-2010, 08:13 PM

Nice box set !

sloasdaylight · #9 03-12-2010, 08:22 PM

I had a USMC zippo for a while, then it wound up "disappearing" off my amp while I was going to the bathroom between sets.

That really hacked me off.

Gopherbassist · #10 03-12-2010, 08:35 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9Ismh1elM

Ziltoid · #11 03-13-2010, 08:06 AM

I thought there would me way more zippo users then that! haha

Asa Samuel · #12 03-13-2010, 08:27 AM

I like the flames off of zippos and they are pretty tough but I just can't get around the fact that they allow the lighter fluid to evaporate so even if you hardly use it you have to fill it up constantly. It just puts me off getting another one.

Ziltoid · #13 03-13-2010, 08:37 AM

Well zippo has there new Blu line, which is pretty cool

Jeff K · #14 03-13-2010, 08:42 AM

Here's an old classic from the early '70s. I was a dog handler in Vietnam from April '70 - April '71. Before I left, my K-9 brothers gave me this lighter. "Nicky" on the front of the lighter was the name of my dog. The pic on the back isn't very good, but it's a map of 'Nam.

flipper_gv · #15 03-13-2010, 09:05 AM

I got a zippo and do some tricks with it and I don't even smoke.

TallLankyBastyd · #16 03-13-2010, 09:11 AM

I've had assorted Zippos... and as mentioned before... they ALWAYS go trotting off into the world on their own somehow. I'm down to one slimline brushed chrome version. I'd like to have more again but... am trying to quit smoking (successful since last valentine's day) and too much mental focus on Zippos could help me find my way to a pack of Lucky Strikes.

Okay... I've got to stop this and go find something heavy to smash on my smoking fingers... yeah... it helps.

Auzzie-Phoenix · #17 03-13-2010, 10:11 AM

Just like TallLankyBastyd, I've had 3 of them myself and every single one has been stolen. Fortunately they were all given to me, so I didn't lose any money on them. If they come out with re-issues of the Bettie Page ones, I might buy one but until then I don't see myself owning another.

**bassybill** · #18 03-13-2010, 10:22 AM

I've had a few Zippos, several with a bit of a story behind them. The one that I remember most fondly I bought in NYC and it had a pic of the Manhattan skyline, complete with WTC. It got stolen. I replaced it last year with one with the same pic, only the WTC ain't there anymore.

I'll say no more just now.

warwick.hoy · #19 03-13-2010, 10:55 AM

This is my Zippo that I carried around when I smoked.

I got it in 06 so having it for 4 years without loosing it speaks volumes.

I like them over disposables because you aren't throwing away/loosing lighters all the time. People think twice before pocketing a Zippo when you oblige their "gotta light". They work in the cold and wind better than a disposable. I love the sensuality of the Zippo,...the smell of naptha,...the oily patina from lighter fluid overfills and best of all the metal clicking of the hinge and the zing of the lid opening up.

When I was quitting I was going back and forth with not having a reason to use my Zippo anymore. My health won out. (It will be a year in April)

Ziltoid · #20 03-13-2010, 11:06 AM

I like the stories behind them, it's nice to hear, especially the 'nam one.

And congrats warwick.hoy