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The one thing that Mr. @VegasFrank is assuming, is that it's a quality wooden humidor. We don't know who makes it. It could be some dog **** Amazon special with a dog **** of a seal. We don't even know if it's real cedar. Could be some pine box that was purchased off of some shady website. A lot of assumption up there.... no?

We always feel like this needs to be complicated, but it's really not. Eliminate air leaks to the best of our ability. Two way humidification, no matter who you choose, is always the best solution. Spanish cedar is not the only type of wood used in making humidors… But red cedar should never be used, ever, even if you think you've sealed it. If you start with quality, you'll end with quality not all humidors are made the same. Fit and finish will be better on a name brand humidor, then some cheapie off of Amazon. Cheap and simple is owning a goldfish, but owning a humidor isn't as easy when you throw in tons of variables that we do not know...... unless you can read minds

@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Half a candy ass is just an ass. Yes I'm a real man and an ass. You know this.

To @MichaelK, I will say that for me the 6 ft tall wooden humidor in my house, here in Las Vegas at 6% RH today, is just as easy as the two wine fridges that I have. They both require 5 minutes of maintenance a month.

I came over to the 101 thread because I smelled something funny, and I finally discovered it. There's a whole lot of bullshít going on in this thread. For instance, wood is indeed a two-way humidity device. When you have RH spikes in your wooden box, the wood does soak some of it up, though not as effectively as you would hope. Likewise, if the box is really dry and the wood is really wet, it will release a certain percentage of moisture into the box, again, not in the way that would make you sleep well at night.

Plastic will not do that, but then again, there are only two ways you can have a humidity emergency in your cooler, and one of them involves you being a dumbass or a klutz.

I love the reinventing the wheel comment. We have literally reinvented the wheel in this hobby and industry every 2 years going back 150 years.

100 years ago, humidors were lined with copper. They only ended the practice when the price of copper became cost prohibitive. Copper, by the way, is not porous. Of course after that they went back to wood. Why? Because it's fine.

The major changes that I can remember off of the top of my head are green floral foam, which drips out moisture at about 70% RH at about 70° f, which was coincidentally considered gospel for 20 or 30 years. It was the gold standard because of the floral foam, not the other way around.

Then we had that cigar juice bull crap, which was some sort of glycerin gel that you put in your humidors.

Then we had kitty litter. Then we had beads, which were just spherical clear kitty litter.

Then we had boveda. Now we have boost, which claims to be better than boveda, and which I am starting to believe.

We went from no storage to copper lined storage to mahogany storage and now to plastic storage. One day I'm sure we'll have titanium storage or unicorn leather storage or leprechaun skin storage or some other bullshit.

We went no cellophane, cellophane, no cellophane, then back to a compromise of "whatever the cigar comes in."

Anyone who cannot manage a wooden humidor shouldn't have a fishing license, let alone a driver's license, let alone a cigar collection. It's not brain science and it's not rocket surgery. The general rule that I have found is that the smaller your wooden humidor, the more of a pain in the ass it is to keep it maintained.

Rusty hit it right on the head. cigars are more resilient than their neurotic owners who fret about 1% RH in one direction or the other.

Finally, there's no wrong way to do it unless you're inhaling cigars or unless your forum handle is @vision.

Welcome Michael! Glad to have you brother.

My agree... but I'll try anything once.