I use my tools.
I have put this torch through its paces and then some, and still this thing blasts like a space shuttle on the first click every time. Yes The first button press lights the flame every time with out fail. If you have ever used a butain lighter before you know that a torch that gets used extensively, daily, and still fires first click is something special.
This is truely a masterpiece in the relm of hand held torches and I am so very glad I found it. I would put this torch up against any other torch and be confident that it will out last and out perform it.
I have collected lighters for 20 years of my life and I think this is as close to perfection you can get when it comes to a fat blue cone hand torch.
Just so you are aware this is adjustable in terms of power but it does lack the air adjustment to create a sooty or candle flame. However the flame it has is tuned to perfection and in my opinion any other flame would just be pointless compared to it.
4 years later...
I ordered this in December 2014, it is now September 2018. The piezo ignition finally went out on this torch. That's over 4 years of using this torch for all kinds of jobs, hobbies, and stupid stuff that I don't want to talk about.
4 nearly 5 years and the spark died, the rest of the torch is still functioning perfectly.
I can light it with the spark from one of my many dead lighters that I have had for less than a month and the sucker works perfectly. Same great flame it sported on day one. So I need to either mcguiver up a new ignition by canabalizing one of the dead lighters or buy a new one. but over 4 years and the flame still functions with no stutter, clog, or drop in performance this torch should get a standing ovation.
I am now standing and clapping.
March 2020
I bought another one of these and it is still just as well made and just a delight to use.
I am no way affiliated with this brand or compensated whatsoever for what I am writing.
I am just a torch aficionado or pyrophile (pyromaniac would imply mania, yes maybe pyrophile is not the best either) speaking from my many years using flame producing contraptions.
I am offering you all the years of my experience with more torches than you could fathom.
This is the highest quality torch of this type on the market today, as it was the highest quality torch on the market 6 years ago.
You can get a torch for 15.00 sure, u will need to replace it in a week though.
My last one of these lasted years, I have no doubt this one will do the same.
Buy this torch and be happy and frustration free, when it comes to burning things anyway.
Update: 12/21
Lost the torch when a friend was using it and somehow became forgetful...
A few months laterI found it in the mud after a storm.
1st click from a torch out of the rain and mud and that 1 click started it up.
It's like the Glock of torches.
YOU WILL NOT FIND A TORCH MORE RELIABLE THAN THIS.
I giving a new standing ovation from atop the table, whilst throwing roses upon the rösle!
Update 10/1/22
I have been absolutely brutal to this torch.
I have over the course of the last year I havetossed this torch in my work trucks uncovered bed and used it when needed. It has been under water in the rain and baked in the sun.
IT STILL LIGHTS 1ST TRY, EVERYTIME!