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I have a great little desktop humidor that holds about 50 cigars which i keep in the lounge for day to day.
HOWEVER... and here's the crunch... i have a couple of humidors i made myself for storing boxes of cigars in.
Each holds about 6 or 7 boxes and i measure the humidity and temperature with a digital monitor. i've never had a humidor keep cigars in such perfect condition. They cost me about ?30 - ?40 each to make and probably took about 2 hours to do.
I saw the idea on-line and thought i'd give it a bash. Whilst they are certainly not things you'd want out on display they are great for keeping/aging cigars in.
Basically you get a cool box (the sort of thing you take beers to the beach in) for about ?10, line it with 5 mm thick strips of spanish cedar which smells great and keeps the weevils away (probably about ?20). the cedar doesn't need to perfectly line the box, i attached 7 pieces (one for the bottom, one each for the short sides and two each for the long with strong sticky back velcro).
Get two small tupperware type boxes (about the size of a thick paper back) drill loads of small wholes in the lids and cut a piece of oasis (the green stuff they use for flower arranging, very cheap) to fit the boxes.
Soak one piece of oasis in distilled water and the other in propylene glycol (order it in a chemists, its about ?7 for a large bottle which should last years). the humidor mixtures you buy are basically glycol and distilled water (with a little unnecessary fungicide).
Prepare the humidor the way you usually would i.e. place a glass of distilled water in there for a few days. you can rub down the cedar with distilled water if you want as the cigars are going in in boxes although its a little unnecessary.
The two tupperware boxes go in with the cigar boxes.
You may need to experiment with the amounts of water and glycol and you can mix them 50/50 and just use one box if you like. i actually use that mixture in my desktop too.
If you fancy the idea have a go, if not don't. Might not suit everyone, but I wouldn't be without mine.
D
HOWEVER... and here's the crunch... i have a couple of humidors i made myself for storing boxes of cigars in.
Each holds about 6 or 7 boxes and i measure the humidity and temperature with a digital monitor. i've never had a humidor keep cigars in such perfect condition. They cost me about ?30 - ?40 each to make and probably took about 2 hours to do.
I saw the idea on-line and thought i'd give it a bash. Whilst they are certainly not things you'd want out on display they are great for keeping/aging cigars in.
Basically you get a cool box (the sort of thing you take beers to the beach in) for about ?10, line it with 5 mm thick strips of spanish cedar which smells great and keeps the weevils away (probably about ?20). the cedar doesn't need to perfectly line the box, i attached 7 pieces (one for the bottom, one each for the short sides and two each for the long with strong sticky back velcro).
Get two small tupperware type boxes (about the size of a thick paper back) drill loads of small wholes in the lids and cut a piece of oasis (the green stuff they use for flower arranging, very cheap) to fit the boxes.
Soak one piece of oasis in distilled water and the other in propylene glycol (order it in a chemists, its about ?7 for a large bottle which should last years). the humidor mixtures you buy are basically glycol and distilled water (with a little unnecessary fungicide).
Prepare the humidor the way you usually would i.e. place a glass of distilled water in there for a few days. you can rub down the cedar with distilled water if you want as the cigars are going in in boxes although its a little unnecessary.
The two tupperware boxes go in with the cigar boxes.
You may need to experiment with the amounts of water and glycol and you can mix them 50/50 and just use one box if you like. i actually use that mixture in my desktop too.
If you fancy the idea have a go, if not don't. Might not suit everyone, but I wouldn't be without mine.
D
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