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From Dust to Dust!
Muchachos -From time to time, folks
on this fine forum ask about restoring fine puros from a rather nasty dried out state. Genneraly, the responses range from "no chance" and "bin the bugger" to "no problem."Well, I recently came across an article that I think provides a few reasonable solutions for saving your sticks. The two best solutions from the article are pasted below. You can read the entire article HERE!
Technique #1 - Get a Tupperware container or a plastic bag. Don’t use a cedar box, since wood aerates moisture, both absorbing it and releasing it at the same time. The result is that you won’t be able to build up moisture in a cedar box, which is what you need to be able to do. So use plastic instead. Tupperware containers and plastic bags both can seal, which is critical.
- Get a sponge, or alternately oasis foam, and access to distilled water (propylene glycol works too). Start out by placing the cigars in the box or bag with the hygrometer and sealing them in. Walk away for a few hours then come back and read the humidity on the hygrometer. This will give you an idea where you’re starting from.
- Next, place about a teaspoon of water on your sponge or oasis foam, and place that inside the box or bag with the cigars and the hygrometer.
- Walk away again, but keep coming back to check on the process regularly. You’re waiting for the hygrometer to read 70%. Every 24 hours open up the bag and add another teaspoon of water to your sponge.
- Once the hygrometer reaches 70%, you’ll need to maintain the humidity level in the box or bag at 65%-70% for 2-3 weeks, adding distilled water to your sponge as necessary. Every few days you’ll need to gently turn the cigars over a quarter turn.
- After several weeks the process should be complete and the cigars revitalized.
Technique #2 - Open the box of dried cigars and place the box in a damp location such as a cellar or crawl space where moisture gathers.
- Keep the box of cigars in the damp place for roughly a week. You may need to do it longer if your cigars are extra dry. During that week, rotate the cigars a quarter turn every couple of days.
- After a week or two is up (depending on the severity of the dryness you’re trying to counteract), put the cigars in your humidor at 70% humidity. Continue to rotate the cigars a quarter turn every few days. The process will be complete when every cigar has been turned the full way around at least two times.
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stevietheboy! 
(ok ok stop laughing before you read on) its damaged just from top by the band i had not lit it and want to smoke whats left, is it ok to cut it at the band or will it unravel is there a way around it?
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