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My unique "new" humidor

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Dan66

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I've been meaning to move up to a larger humidor for some time, but just don't care for the look of a lot of them. Too much like caskets for Barbie and Ken. Next thing I know, I'm in an antique store buying what looks like the perfect candidate for a homemade one. It's a running board trunk from a 1928 Packard. (At least that's what the tag said.) It looks like a 1/4 scale steamer trunk. Working latch/lock too. Small for a trunk; huge for a humidor!

So like many posts have said before this one, spanish cedar is hard to find! I of course planned to line the whole inside with it and even fabricate a tray. I know I can order the stuff online, but what would happen if I just stuck with the plywood interior that's already there? I've sanded it down, and it's not holding any type of odor at all. If I seasoned it well enough would it hold a constant humidity (like the cedar does)?
 
Plywood should not hurt your stogies, it will not hold humiity like the cedar will. Keep a close eye on yer hygometer. The next best wood for cigars is mahogony. You can order both from any Woodcraft store goto Woodcraft.com
 
You can buy spanish cedar in huge quantities on e-bay for a pretty decent price. I've got some there before and it's been very nice wood.

Wade
 
Sounds like a really cool humi when you get done with it. But be careful. The main reason for spanish cedar is not necessarily for it's ability to hold humidity. It's its ability to DEAL with humidity that makes it so important. Plywood and many other woods can't handle humidity swings very well. If you ever had trouble closing a door in your house in the summertime then you know what i mean.

In the case of a humidor a swing in humidity with hardwoods can cause the wood to swell and bust the joints holding the box together. Granted this is an extreme, but this is also where spanish cedar shines. Spanish cedar is adept at handling the swings of humidity in your humi. Next to the smell it imparts on your cigars this is its most important function. Line the interior of the trunk with the stuff and it won't matter too much what the humidity is outside v. inside your humi. The cedar will compensate. With something that old I'd be careful with exposing that wood to too much humidity.
 
Thanks for the advice. Makes a lot of sense.

Lemme ask this though: is there a big difference between Spanish cedar and the planks my backyard fence is made from (other than the obvious roughness)? Will smoothed cedar from Home Depot just fail miserably? (I doubt I'd really try using it. I'm simply looking to educate myself!)
 
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