As I understand, a faux Cigar is a pen made to look like a cigar which has been partially smoked. . The blank material is usually a nice wood, sometimes with an actual recycled paper cigar band around it. . One end of the pen is rounded or shaped to look like the mouth end of a real cigar. .
The other end of the pen is made to look like the ashes on the burning end of the cigar. . Various techniques are used to make the ashes appear more or less realistic. . Usually, the pen is a bit on the fat side and is a two piece pen with cap and body that unscrew from each other to expose the writing tip. . I would say that it is the cap end that usually is made to look like ashes but it could be the other way around. . You cannot buy a kit called a "faux Cigar". . This design would be classified as a custom or semi-custom, depending on how many parts from a basic kit (such as Jr Gent II) went into the manufacture of the "faux Cigar". . It is possible, and this may in fact be the trend, to make the "faux Cigar" as a so-called kitless pen, but the term "kitless" does not actually have an unambiguous meaning or usage amongst penturners. . Hope this helps. . If you wanted to do a search on IAP for such pens, I cannot suggest the search terms you should use. . I think it would be a trial and error procedure that would result in more misses than hits.
Hello all,
Please forgive my ignorance, but what is meant by "faux cigar". Is that a cigar as in pen style or a real cigar?
My curiosity is piqued.
Thank you
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