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Posted: 1/5/2020 11:33:19 PM EDT
I am starting amass enough cigars that I now need a humidor. I smoke anywhere from 6-12 per year and have around 18 or so on hand. Only 4 of my current stick pile is worth preserving but I am going to La Casa del Habano and Pfiefen Huber in Munich in the next 2 months. My shopping list includes exclusively Cuban's due to difficulty legally obtaining real examples in the U.S. / abroad. By nature they are pricey and I want to preserve them well.
My Shopping List: Montecristo Especial No 2 X 2 Partagas Serie D No 4 X 2 Bolivar Royal Corona X 1 Punch 48 X 1 Cohiba $25.57 X 2 Cohiba Behike $50-70 X 2 (Likely won't have these) This will bring my total stock up to 28. While I'd like to store all of them I really only care about storing 20 or so the right way. Can you recommend any 20-40 cigar wooden humidors that I can play around with for a couple months prior to putting quality tobacco in? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Latest Stick: Davidoff Winston Churchill Late Hour 
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Posted: 1/6/2020 EDT
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No help on a humidor as I use a cooler to keep mine in. I would imagine that most any production humidor sold by the cigar retailers online would be sufficient for your use. Make sure you get quality products for humidity like broveda packs. I do see one thing wrong with your list of CC you are planning on getting. Not enough Partagas D4's on there. They are one of my favorite cigars.
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Posted: 1/6/2020 2:18:03 AM EDT
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Diamond Crown is a humidor you will pass down to your grandkids.
https://www.northwoodshumidors.com/diamond-crown/ |
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Posted: 1/6/2020 10:06:37 PM EDT
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Plus a Boveda works. |
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Posted: 1/7/2020 1:05:59 AM EDT
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I've had really good luck with this and boveda packs
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Posted: 1/7/2020 5:12:54 PM EDT
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Best humidor I've used and probably the most consistently well rated, is the acrylic jar type with a Spanish cedar disk
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Posted: 1/8/2020 2:56:58 PM EDT
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Sistema + spanish cedar tray + 69% Boveda packs.
Don’t waste your money on a Chinese wood box with Spanish cedar veneer. They don’t hold humidity and are a complete waste. Build a “Tupperdor” with a Sistema from Amazon. You’ll be happy you did. 
I keep anywhere between 40 and 60 in a Sistema 1870 with two trays and a couple 69% packs. The humidity is rock solid. |
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Posted: 1/9/2020 9:22:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Don’t waste your money on a Chinese wood box with Spanish cedar veneer. They don’t hold humidity and are a complete waste. |
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Posted: 1/11/2020 11:20:45 PM EDT
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$100 wine refrigerator and cedar trays and a good humidifcation system. You’ll always wish for more room. A 20-40 stick box is a waste unless you wa t it for your desk at work, because it’s not enough room for home.
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Posted: 1/13/2020 10:13:11 PM EDT
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I got a flip top acrylic for like $20 (?) off Amazon.
Or a waterproof box from camping section $7 Throw a couple bo-ve-da in there and they should be good for almost a year if you don’t live in a dry climate or open it often. Something like these but sized appropriately  
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Posted: 1/31/2020 1:22:09 PM EDT
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I use a condition 1 pistol case.
And after my last cigar bid order, supplement with large ziploc bag. Bovedas in all. |
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Posted: 3/1/2020 5:26:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Sistema + spanish cedar tray + 69% Boveda packs. Don't waste your money on a Chinese wood box with Spanish cedar veneer. They don't hold humidity and are a complete waste. Build a "Tupperdor" with a Sistema from Amazon. You'll be happy you did.
I keep anywhere between 40 and 60 in a Sistema 1870 with two trays and a couple 69% packs. The humidity is rock solid. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:26:36 PM EDT
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This. cept 65 for me. I had to sand the bottom of my top tray to get the New Zealand plastic wonder box to snap closed, though. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:45:00 PM EDT
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Sistema Tupperware from Amazon.
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Posted: 3/10/2020 11:32:17 AM EDT
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I use plastic. It is cheap and works better than a wooden humidor.
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Posted: 3/21/2020 12:55:33 PM EDT
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Hopping on the Tupperware storage train, I have boveda packs, anything else needed? (Cedar etc)
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Posted: 3/21/2020 7:14:32 PM EDT
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No. I actually don't even use anything. Fresh cigars seem to last 6 months or better by themselves. Every couple weeks I'll open the Tupperware and air them out for a minute..
Eta I have hygrometers? And thermometers just to make sure. |
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Posted: 3/22/2020 12:23:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hopping on the Tupperware storage train, I have boveda packs, anything else needed? (Cedar etc) Don't 'need' the spanish cedar in tupperware, but it does serve as a humidity moderator if you open them often, plus it smells nice. But a boveda by itself works fine. I use that rubbermaid brilliance stuff, cause it looks nice and it doesn't smell, like some similar products can. |
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Posted: 3/24/2020 2:15:01 AM EDT
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Ordered sistema to replace my broken humidor- is it worth the time gutting it to get/make cedar spills ?
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Posted: 3/25/2020 8:31:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ordered sistema to replace my broken humidor- is it worth the time gutting it to get/make cedar spills ? Not for me. |
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Posted: 3/25/2020 9:01:13 PM EDT
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Two quart glass canning jar with a bovoda pack works great and cheap.
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Posted: 6/2/2020 9:46:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I wish someone told me this when I first started out. You give them a little too much credit though, as most of them are MDF and not even wood. I wasted so much money on multiple humidors, different humidification systems, hygrometers, etc. all for sub-par results. Impermeable containers (tupperware, coolers, pelican cases) with Boveda packs are vastly superior. I don't even bother with hygrometers anymore, just chuck a 65% packet in the container and check on it every few months. Now all my "humidors" are used to store lighters, cutters, and other paraphernalia. I do have one small Diamond Crown humidor that I keep a few sticks in as a display piece. It's the one humidor I bought that actually functions as a humidor, all solid wood with beefy 3/4" walls and a perfectly fitting lid, but it's priced accordingly. Stay away from anything with a glass lid, anything that comes in a combo deal with cigars, or anything that costs less than $400, or go for cheap functionality over style and get you some elegant tupperware. x2 I too wasted a ton of money on those $89 "specials" that cigar companies sell. Tupperware or an acrylic jar with a sealed lid along with a Boveda is your cheapest and best option IMO. |
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Posted: 6/3/2020 2:00:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I got a flip top acrylic for like $20 (?) off Amazon. Or a waterproof box from camping section $7 Throw a couple bo-ve-da in there and they should be good for almost a year if you don't live in a dry climate or open it often. Something like these but sized appropriately www.amazon.com/dp/B07H244RDZ www.amazon.com/dp/B01M9B8R3C I have a real humidor but I use a couple of those as well. Handy to just stick a box of cigars in with a boveda pack and leave them for a while. Ones I have will hold 20 robusto with humidor pack. The humidor I expenses on my epense accout when I furnished my office several years ago. Otherwise I wouldn't have one. |
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