Hey if you need to find some Spanish cedar you can always hit up a local B&M and ask if they have any empty boxes. They are usually pretty cool about stuff like that if you buy a smoke or two. All you really need is enough to line the drawers.
Nice job! The enjoyment you get out of building it and being able to say you did it yourself is worth more than any larger humidor you could've bought, in my opinion. I might see what I can find on Craigslist now!
I just bought pretty much the same unit this evening..
then tonight i ordered 65% heartfelt beads one pound.......with your unit do you find that the humidity stays at your setpoint with 1lb of beads?
I keep 65% beads in my coolerdor and it stays around 70% consistently.
I'm the other way around I had 65% beads and my humidity was to low, so I just bought 70% and now its around 65-67%.
THis all depends on the method you use for charging and what percentage of beads you are charging. Heartfelt tells you around 2/3 of the beads should be charged. I've found in the winter I have to charge damn near all of them to maintain 67-70%RH and decharge all of them in the summer.
I keep 65% beads in my coolerdor and it stays around 70% consistently.
I'm the other way around I had 65% beads and my humidity was to low, so I just bought 70% and now its around 65-67%.
THis all depends on the method you use for charging and what percentage of beads you are charging. Heartfelt tells you around 2/3 of the beads should be charged. I've found in the winter I have to charge damn near all of them to maintain 67-70%RH and decharge all of them in the summer.
Good point...I didn't go to heartfelt beads till last fall so my experience is very limited, but this is what I've seen through the winter up until now. Eh, as long as i'm between 65 and 70 humidity, I'm happy. I don't stress about it too much.
I keep 65% beads in my coolerdor and it stays around 70% consistently.
I'm the other way around I had 65% beads and my humidity was to low, so I just bought 70% and now its around 65-67%.
THis all depends on the method you use for charging and what percentage of beads you are charging. Heartfelt tells you around 2/3 of the beads should be charged. I've found in the winter I have to charge damn near all of them to maintain 67-70%RH and decharge all of them in the summer.
Good point...I didn't go to heartfelt beads till last fall so my experience is very limited, but this is what I've seen through the winter up until now. Eh, as long as i'm between 65 and 70 humidity, I'm happy. I don't stress about it too much.
Thats my philosophy too. After not paying any where near enough attention to my humidors the past couple of months they've shot up to over 75%, one is hovering at 79%. I've completely dried out all my beads and stuck them back in the humidor decharged and that didn't help much. I've ordered a couple of the heartfelt sheets and just this morning I opened up the one thats been hovering at 79 and I'm letting it sit partially open all day to try to get it back down to within reason. Pisses me off that I let them get like that. I was checking the hygros at least once a week but I was not looking at my beads. You really need to check the beads from time to time and see how many of them are charged, almost all of mine where.
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