My Humidor warped !

[whopper]

vinman,

This is the humidor I purchased right after I joined CP. Just an option for you. I love mine. I took out the foam modules and now use 65% Heartfelt beads and a digital hygrometer, works great!

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[vinman]

whopper looks great definitely something I am looking for. What is with the wine coolers can this be use because I am actually looking to purchase one?

 

[Brazilla]

Always remember. Plywood is not an option for humidor building material.

 

[handyman dave]

Always remember. Plywood is not an option for humidor building material.

As someone who builds furniture for a living, I beg to differ with your opinion. Even quarter-sawn solid lumber that has been properly kiln dried, (which is the most stable solid wood), still moves, expanding and contracting with changes in external humidity. Depending on the wood used it may move more or less but it will ALWAYS still move. When a craftsman builds something of solid wood there are centuries-old techniques we use to keep this inevitable movement from tearing the piece apart.

Quality hardwood plywood, with moisture-resistant glues used in construction, is vastly more stable than any solid hardwood. Quality hardwood plywood is very suitable, in fact preferable to solid wood, especially for the large flat top, sides and backs for an enclosure exposed to differing levels of internal and external humidity. It can be veneered or covered in solid wood, but plywood provides great dimensional stability under varying humidities both inside and outside the humidor.

Without seeing this box I cannot be sure, but it appears to me that it is veneered MDF. Medium Density Fiberboard is essentially, sawdust mixed with glue under compression to made a very cheap substitute for real wood plywood or solid wood. This material is very inexpensive but the MDF expands radically and turns into sawdust when exposed to water and the glue holding the sawdust particles dissolves and breaks-down and the wood particles expand. I believe that somehow the bottom of the box became wet on either the inside or outside. (From the looks of the damage it seems likely that water soaked-in from the outside. Perhaps rain running across the surface it sat on, a spilled drink, condensation from the outside of a glass filled with ice... anything like that could cause this type of damage in MDF.)

Hope this adds some information to help solve the puzzle and some things to keep in mind as you contemplate a possible wooden solution to your cigar storage problems.

 

[CeeMmm]

Quit wasting money on small humidors. Buy yourself a cooler some BEads from cigarmony.com and call it a day.
Coolers are efficient reasonably priced and can take a beating.

THEN once you out grow it, you can fill it with ice and beer!

So I'm supposed to take the ice and beer out before putting the cigars in? D'oh! That explains why I can't keep the damn things lit, :laugh:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

That made me laugh out loud...Good thing I wasn't drinking anything, or you'd owe me a new keyboard.
And laptop keyboards aren't cheap!!!

 

[vinman]

Always remember. Plywood is not an option for humidor building material.

As someone who builds furniture for a living, I beg to differ with your opinion. Even quarter-sawn solid lumber that has been properly kiln dried, (which is the most stable solid wood), still moves, expanding and contracting with changes in external humidity. Depending on the wood used it may move more or less but it will ALWAYS still move. When a craftsman builds something of solid wood there are centuries-old techniques we use to keep this inevitable movement from tearing the piece apart.

Quality hardwood plywood, with moisture-resistant glues used in construction, is vastly more stable than any solid hardwood. Quality hardwood plywood is very suitable, in fact preferable to solid wood, especially for the large flat top, sides and backs for an enclosure exposed to differing levels of internal and external humidity. It can be veneered or covered in solid wood, but plywood provides great dimensional stability under varying humidities both inside and outside the humidor.

Without seeing this box I cannot be sure, but it appears to me that it is veneered MDF. Medium Density Fiberboard is essentially, sawdust mixed with glue under compression to made a very cheap substitute for real wood plywood or solid wood. This material is very inexpensive but the MDF expands radically and turns into sawdust when exposed to water and the glue holding the sawdust particles dissolves and breaks-down and the wood particles expand. I believe that somehow the bottom of the box became wet on either the inside or outside. (From the looks of the damage it seems likely that water soaked-in from the outside. Perhaps rain running across the surface it sat on, a spilled drink, condensation from the outside of a glass filled with ice... anything like that could cause this type of damage in MDF.)

Hope this adds some information to help solve the puzzle and some things to keep in mind as you contemplate a possible wooden solution to your cigar storage problems.

Interesting post. Definitely wasn't any water from the outside. I did spill some distilled water on the inside but not much. Possibly a teaspoon or two. At the moment still using Tupperware... "working fine"