Every cigar smoker knows that there are a number of ways you can light your cigar, some traditional and recommended, such as butane lighters, wood matches and cedar spills, and a number that aren’t, such as Zippo lighters, candles, barbecues and so on. One of the generally accepted ways is the traditional soft-flame lighter you’d find at a convenience store, most often made by BIC or to a lesser degree Scripto. While those units are certainly functional in a pinch, they don’t offer the most stable flame or the strongest flame, and they do tend to get fairly hot when run for the extended periods of time it takes to get a cigar lit, as opposed to what they are generally designed for: cigarettes and things like candles or more quickly flammable items. But given their ready availability and low cost, there is something fairly appealing about those disposable lighters, which is one of the reasons that SOTO Outdoors uses them as the core of its PT-14SB Pocket Torch. The device is a take on the idea of turning a common disposable lighter into a high-powered single flame torch by routing the fuel through a jet torch. Simply put in one of the disposable lighter styles that ...
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