I'll be on my 4th Xikar cutter. I guess fortunately for me, the cigar shop just replaces them. They say they get a lot of them back. Now the 3rd one is broke and I feel a little guilty taking it back to them. How does a cutter break? These Xikar units have at least 10 parts to them. If you drop it, watch the thing explode into individual pieces with no way to put it back together. I also have the lighter. One year on and one nozzle permanently clogged, plastic flame adjuster fell off. Yeah, it's got the warranty but when you pay that much, I expect better. Great looking just very fragile.