You’ll never guess the story this humidor tells.
I was walking through a market in Real de Catorce, Mexico when I came across an old miner’s lamp for sale on a merchant’s table. Actually there were about a dozen of them.
An antique miner's lamp.
It appeared that they were made from brass, and to my surprise, the merchant actually lit one up for me.
As I looked at the dents, the scuffs, and the scratches on the lantern itself, I could almost imagine the stories, and I wondered if this lamp would talk, what stories could it tell? What things had it seen? How much silver did it illuminate?
Does your humidor tell a story?
Our new Discovery Birdseye Humidor does.
About 300 years ago, loggers in central Ontario cut down old-growth trees and floated them up the St Lawrence River to ultimately be shipped to Europe for use in construction. Sometimes, along the way a log would get soaked, and sink to the bottom never to be seen again.
300 years ago, this very thing happened to a maple log on it’s journey. For hundreds of years this log sat silent on the bottom of cold Georgian Bay.
Because the water is so cold, these logs are perfectly preserved for centuries.
About 5 years ago a company called Georgian Bay Wetwood (who specializes in finding sunken logs) located this sunken tree and raised it up from the depths of the Bay. They then milled it, and kiln dried it.
Part of the log had remarkable ‘birdseye’ character and greenish tint so unique that it is difficult to find any other birdseye maple quite like it.
We were able to obtain a small piece of this exceptional exotic wood, and use it on a very unique humidor that you can see here.
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The raising of the log was actually featured on Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe” a few years back.
We love to create exceptional, custom and handcrafted humidors from hard to find pieces of wood. We especially love it when the wood holds its own story.
Does your humidor tell a story? Ours do!