Humidor questions

[Joe Shinall]

The ones you see are mostly retail which shows the cigars to potential customers. The light comming through the glass will play havoc with both the humidity and temp. inside the humidor. If you ever stood in front of a window when the sun was shinning in you would notice the extra heat. It also effects the tobacco.

Bob

Makes total sense. The room that it is going in has no windows and only CFL can lights. It's a movie room they have on the back of their house so they have low lighting to give that theater feel. Very much a man cave. Do you think that would be ok in that environment?

[Richard Coers]

It was about $1500 for the large cabinet and $900 for the smaller. Not a lot to some people but I know he's not wealthy. He didn't realize how much materials themselves cost. We don't have a good lumber mill around here so I have to drive 4 hours away to find some good lumber at good price so that's $150 in gas and a hotel stay for a night included in that. But just today I found a local business owner that also owns a saw mill that can get what I need delivered at no extra charge. So we saved a bunch today by going smaller, smaller humidor, and local lumber supplier. Looking at the $600 range now, mostly materials. I'm not charging much for labor to help him out. I don't mind helping good friends and gets more pieces of mine out there to be seen.

Yup, too cheap. I charge $300 for a small box humidor. Must be a great friend. I did make one once for a swap for a 3600 series Caterpillar engine piston. Those things weigh about 80 pounds, and are as big as a waste basket. I sat across from the remanufacturing engineer, and I knew my son would go nuts over the piston. He took it to college, and it's in his living room in LA. It will soon be back in Chicago, so worth the humidor.

[Joe Shinall]

Yup, too cheap. I charge $300 for a small box humidor. Must be a great friend. I did make one once for a swap for a 3600 series Caterpillar engine piston. Those things weigh about 80 pounds, and are as big as a waste basket. I sat across from the remanufacturing engineer, and I knew my son would go nuts over the piston. He took it to college, and it's in his living room in LA. It will soon be back in Chicago, so worth the humidor.

Been a best friend for 14 years now. He owns a small car dealership and helped me get my truck when I really couldn't afford one. He makes enough off the cars he sells to make ends meet so I know he doesn't have a ton of money. And I'm doing it just to have something to do. Don't care much if I make much, just keep me busy without costing me money.

[Jacob Muldowney]

I hear ya Joe. Sometimes its nice to just make beautiful things and not pay for it.

[Joe Shinall]

I hear ya Joe. Sometimes its nice to just make beautiful things and not pay for it.

Whatever gets me out the house and gets me some practice. Plus if it helps show me off to others I could make more down the road possibly.

[Chris Fournier]

I have built humidors for customers and myself and I smoke cigars regularly. I can tell you this; a humidor is not a microwave that you turn on as you need it. Instead you need to be very active and stay on top of its performance. Just because you're not smoking much doesn't mean that the humidor will take care of itself. The smartest play for a cigar smoker is to build a humidor that will hold a reasonable number of cigars given their smoking habit. You'd have to be Winston Churchill to require the humidors that you have suggested for your friend.

Your budget is simply unrealistic if you are hoping to build a truly fine humidor unless your time is worth nothing to you. Be good to a friend but be realistic about a project's worth.

Spanish cedar is essential for the lining because it is industry standard and if you want cigars to taste like cigars should taste then you need to use this wood.

[Joe Shinall]

You'd have to be Winston Churchill to require the humidors that you have suggested for your friend.

Your budget is simply unrealistic if you are hoping to build a truly fine humidor unless your time is worth nothing to you. Be good to a friend but be realistic about a project's worth.

Personally, I don't mind if he stacks it full of Black and Milds or Havatampas just for looks and never smokes a single one. He asked if I can build it because he likes the way they look as I stated. He has smoked 2 cigars in 4 years. It's more of a display piece than anything.

Sorry Chris, but I did not suggest anything for him except to go smaller when he said 4 feet wide. He asked me if I can build it. I told him I can build anything. If it doesn't work right, it will be a nice display cabinet for his wife in his dining room.

Sorry but my time and friends are worth alot. Not worth money, but worth memories. I do not do this for a living. I do this in my spare time and I enjoy it as a hobby, not as a way of making money. It's a challenge to me and I have accepted it if it doesn't work out right then I know for the next one. I have never built anything for money. And personally do not want to. I enjoy my "hobby". It's a way to get away from work and money. I do not want to mix the two.