The box is Red Alder with a Cherry base and lined with Spanish Cedar. I splurged and bought Smart Hinges from Andrew Crawford and finished the Alder with 5 coats of Tried and True Varnish Oil...and wax. The dimensions are approx. 13 x 10 x 4 and should hold around 15 to 20 cigars depending. First time working with Adler and it was a pleasure to use. This particular board has been in my shop for awhile and had caught my eye at the lumber store.
I could never understand the reason for the presence of a hygrometer in a humidor! What do you do if you get an adverse reading... what is an adverse reading. Do you send it back to Cuba or ask for a refund?
Nevertheless, nice box.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
Thanks Duck. I seasoned the humidor for fourteen days with 2 - 84% Boveda packs, then put the hygrometer in to check the humidity level. I was pretty sure the box was tight but wanted confirmation before I loaded it up. Now it's purpose is just to tell me when it's time to replace the 72% pack...they usually last 3-6 months.
Lighting (trying to) soggy cigars is better than cold turkey... used to love cigars but doctor warned me against the draw back... which defeated the purpose of buggering up the lungs.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
Tom Regnier Thanks Duck. I seasoned the humidor for fourteen days with 2 - 84% Boveda packs....
Sorry TR, I only asked as no one that makes humidors seem to advertise what they do to control humour humidity. Had no idea that people stuff those other contrabands in the boxes to reduce moisture... like a dry whiskey perhaps.
That 84% answers my question... with all these packs I now understand why c-gars r so expensive... my bad, nothing to do with Fidel.
Are the green tips menthol and the red chilli laced?
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
For the humidors I sell, I advise wading up a damp paper towel for breaking in for a week or so. Fun thing about the Bovedas is you can have a tupperware container with some water in the bottom and recharge a pack or two by leaving it suspended inside, above the water of course. Around here, one will dry out and before it develops "chunks", I can fatten it back up and reuse for many cycles.
Thanks Ryan, I debated a brass knob and brass feet but in the end I didn't want to break up the view of alder so I kept it simple with the thumb pull. Splinter, the boveda packs are almost too good to be true. Inexpensive and take all the guesswork out of humidifying. I did the dollar bill test and knew it was pretty airtight and decided to go with the packs being a smaller sized humidor. Thanks for all the comments!
Beautiful box and now I know they are all cigars. Obviously I'm not a cigar smoker. When I first saw the picture, it looked like a box with a couple of cigars and a few shotgun shells. lol
