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I'd like your opinion please

Humidor Minister

Humidor Minister

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I've come up with a new way to build trays for my desk top humidors. The advantages I feel are, no holes on the side of the tray for removing it from the humidor. This will prevent cigars from getting caught hanging out the sides. I also felt that the grid pattern will allow much better air flow around the cigars. Another benefit I feel is that the pieces in the grid are all long grain. This will help prevent sagging and wood expansion is minimal. When I compare the strength to my previous trays with the grooves, the rigidity is very superior. It is a lot more work but I think it's going to work very well.
My question to you my friends is, do you see any drawback to this or any other advantages you may think of. I figure you guys are the experts, I'm just experimenting. Thanks for any advice and input you may have.
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I like it. I would have the horizontal strips higher than the vertical strip, allowing air under the cigars.

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MadMonk said:
I like it. I would have the horizontal strips higher than the vertical strip, allowing air under the cigars.

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Actually I think having the vertical strips higher than the horizontal strips would allow more airflow.
 
Great idea! I think I would prefer the strips to be the same height for the cigars to rest on. If the surfaces were uneven I think it might limit you in storing cigars in a certain direction or possibly damaging the feet if they hit caught, wedged or slipped off a higher piece. The airflow is a big benefit here though. Very innovative design.

I assume this takes quite a bit longer than your normal tray, but for the customer the long term benefits would be worth it.
 
I like how it looks, very new fangled idea on an old hobby. I stack my cigars on the trays (usually those I have 1 or 2 left of) in my humidor. Is there a possiblity that one can fall through the holes if it slid off the pile?
 
Looks pretty neat to me. How large are those square holes? Too large and one might have a problem with the really short cigars (short story).
 
Thanks for the input. The holes are 1 inch squares. The over lap of the pieces are notched into each other. This adds a lot of strength. It also allows me to attach them to the sides on a flat plane. I'll have to try a tray with overlapping pieces and see how it holds up. The more air flow, the better. This idea came to me from my Cheap humidor cabinet having humidity issues as you go deeper into it. You know what they say....Necessity is the invention of a mother.....or something like that. :blush:
These are more difficult to build but I think the benifit outweighs the extra effort it takes to make them. I've got another little trick I'm working on. Pics to come soon. Thanks again.
 
It's an interesting idea. Personally, I would want smaller openings.
 
I like the idea but I think the holes may be a little too big. Maybe make the horizontal (or vertical.. ha!) wider. Giving the holes a more of a rectangle look. Air would still be able to flow through very well but it wouldn't provide such a large hole.

Just my 2 cents!
 
Personally, you need to let me try this out for you so you can get accurate feedback. Opinions are just opinions but a field trial, now that's where it's at. And the best thing is I have short & long, thick & thin , fat & skinny; so I can do them all and it will be a one shop stop, no need to go elsewhere.

Make sure you send me a DC# so I can watch for it. :whistling:
 
Unfortunately that was yesterdays special. You just missed it. :laugh:

Here is a BTL to give you a scale of its size.
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scthornton said:
Great idea! I think I would prefer the strips to be the same height for the cigars to rest on. If the surfaces were uneven I think it might limit you in storing cigars in a certain direction or possibly damaging the feet if they hit caught, wedged or slipped off a higher piece. The airflow is a big benefit here though. Very innovative design.

I assume this takes quite a bit longer than your normal tray, but for the customer the long term benefits would be worth it.
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I'll be doing this with your humi as well if you like. For the shelves, I'll make them with thicker material framed with a solid border. For the drawers I'll be making the trays inside removable but very similar to this one :thumbs: .
 
Beautiful, and a great concept, but as your Short Story shot shows . . . cigars could easily fall through. 1" hole = 64 ring gauge. Not many cigars that size!

Take it down to about a 50 ring gauge opening, and even small cigars like the SS shouldn't be a problem, since they'd have to be nearly vertical to pass through the a square.

~Boar
 
I'll give that a try on the next one. Making the holes smaller really isn't that much more difficult. Set up is the time consumer. Thanks for your input.
 
Agreed. I love the idea, but i'd say that the squares need to be a little smaller. Given the shot of the BTL, a short story or similar sized cigar might fall through.
 
The only other thing I can think of not mentioned already would be to chamfer or radius the top edges of the strips. My thought is that as you are trying to pick up or move the cigars around the foot might catch on the edge of the strip and damage it. relieving the edge would minimize the possibility of that happening.
 
I would be worried that wrappers might get damaged. Nice workmanship though.
 
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