I am not sure when they started selling them, and googling snuffhouse icetool mini can did not result in any previous mention here in the two pages plus one single result that returned, so I am letting everyone know about their new dry snuff can.
http://www.icetool.com/icetool-mini-can-aluminiumIt looks pretty cool. The solid aluminum construction seems to be the same as the snus cans, and it also has the O-ring that makes it airtight. They come in silver and black.
The Icetool cans for snus always seemed too expensive to justify purchasing one, but for some reason the mini can seems like it could almost be worth it even though it is smaller in size, but the same price as the regular and slim cans when they are sold at places other than the Icetool webstore. However, I did not see them anywhere but the Icetool site, so I guess that is the only price available.
I thought somebody here might like to know these exist. If I decide to take the plunge I will let you all know how it works with snuff.
EDIT: I fixed the link.
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I also thought about a hinge, but the screw top securing the O ring keeping moist snuff fresh would be nice. If they could do that with a hinged lid, it could be even better. I must say it is nice to have another quality option to choose from.
Otherwise, yeah.. It's a very nice design, very sleek and modern. I'm surprised there aren't any members here proficient with metalworking, they could've easily made a killing selling snuffboxes.
I really like that the screw tops keep the moisture in, or at least most of it. I was surprised to find the smash boxes work very well for that, and wish I had ordered more. I found another name for them, La Cons cosmetic sample containers. They are on eBay for cheap from China, so I can order them and wait a couple months, or I will wait until my next Mr. Snuff order.
The ten gran Toque containers are the perfect size to carry a few at a time, but I dent them up quick with all the stuff in my pockets. @Afterglow, were the Amazon tins any more sturdy? I have been looking at them for a while, for both snuff and snus. I got some of the steel models for snus and dipping tobacco, but the inside rusted fairly quickly. I am still looking for a paint or other coating that does not smell even after a few months.
The Ice Tool can is cool, but I do not like the logo engraved on it. Logos are not something I like in general, though, especially on something I will be looking at in my hand quite often. Repeating the logo four times on the lid is a bit obnoxious.
The price is also real high for something that should probably cost ten bucks, twenty at the most. It also prohibits me from having a pile of snuffs stored in them with stick-on labels. That was my thinking with the aluminum and steel screw-top cans, you can have them staying fresh while being able to grab whichever you like to carry in your pocket, then refill from the larger tins when they are empty. Thirty five bucks apiece shoots that idea out of the water.
EDIT (About twenty of them): Man, typing sentences without apostrophes is almost impossible.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXNXM6C/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_AVrIAbFDHNHRM
The large Touque tins seem to hold moisture well, with their screw tops and foam liners. That is, as long as I only open them not too often to decant into smaller containers. The smaller containers are then opened daily, so any question of stabilizing humidity is moot, so to speak.
I am amazed at how complicated the storage and transporting of snuff has turned out to be- it is even more finicky than all of the other forms of tobacco I am surrounded with, and it is just powder! Thank god snuff is so damn satisfying, it makes this all worthwhile.
EDIT: Those darn apostrophes will cause the end of my tenuous hold on sanity, I tell you! Curse them, and all of their special character cousins!
If anybody realizes that I am just doing it wrong, please inform me of such.
I tried it with all input languages I use daily. One of these is English (United States) (keyboard: United States-International), it works fine here.