last weekend i dropped by the briar shoppe in rice village. they’d called me because a new shipment of the lighters i’d been interested in had arrived. instead of waiting a couple of weeks before going in like last time, i headed right over and checked them out. i ended up getting the gun metal version. here’s a link to a site online selling the same lighter: elighters.com – lotus. the picture on there makes it look more bronze than it really is, but you can get a general idea.
since i seem to have gunked up my zippo butane stick lighter using cheap butane, i also went ahead and got some lotus butane (“filtered five times” they said). hopefully that and a bit of care and upkeep will help the lighter to last a long time.