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Homemade Travel Humidor
Posted by: | CommentsNeed to make a homemade travel humidor?
Here is one of the easiest and cheapest to make that will really work.
First, head off to your favorite store and get a “Lock n Lock” type container. These are tupperware like containers, but they have the bonus of having a neoprene gasket, and clamps on the lid that will give you a very airtight seal. Mine cost $4, and holds 10 cigars.
Next up, you will need 1 foam cigar travel humidor tray and 1 – 69% Humidipak. You can get both form www.cigarsolutions.com.
Next step is cutting the foam travel humidor tray to fit your homemade travel humidor. Use a scissor or Exacto knife. I just needed 1 foam cigar tray to make my homemade humidor. Obviously, if you have a larger container, you might need more trays. My travel humidor has 2 foam cigar trays, and each humidor tray holds 5 cigar.
There was a scrap piece of foam leftover, so I used it as a retention bar on the inside of the lid. It worked real well for keeping the cigars from moving around in the travel humidor.
Last step is too put the 69% Humidipak in your new homemade humidor.
If you want to go real high tech, find one of those real this sheets of spanish cedar that you find in some cigar boxes. You can put this sheet under your bottom foam cigar tray. It will give your travel humidor a nice spanish cedar aroma.
as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are some pics.
Ultimate Coolidor
Posted by: | CommentsI might as well start off the coolidor blog with a BANG and show off the most “over the top” igloodor that I have ever looked at.
This Homemade humidor was made by Arlin Liss. If you don’t know Arlin, he is one of the internets finest custom humidor makers
This Coolidor was made from a 150 quart Igloo. If you notice from the pictures, the Igloo has slots that are built into the sides of the coolidor. These slots are for plastic food dividers, but we use these slots as a handy way to create shelves for our coolidor. Just stand your igloodor up, and these slots are perfect for creating a shelf system in your homemade humidor.
Speaking of shelves, you can use spanish cedar planks, or wire storage shelves. The slots will work with either.
Arlin completely lined the igloodor with spanish cedar. Arlin has a complete woodworking shop, so it was easy for him to do.
In this homemade humidor, Arlin used very high end, electronic humidification to provice humidification for the cigars. This is the same humidification that he uses for his beautiful cigar cabinet humidors. You can see the custom humidity canister, and the humidity sensor that he custom made for this BIG coolidor.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post in the comments section.
