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Hand-polishing vs Spray Lacquer Humidors

Nearly all cigar humidors out there are mass produced. Most of them have a glossy piano-top style finishing to them, that can sometimes look overly plasticy.

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Ain’t nothin like the real thing, baby.

How often do you see synthetic materials, or plasics trying to look like nature’s best…

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Humidity and Climate Change

If you live in a climate like myself (I live in Canada), and my winters are cold (usually an average temperature in January would be something like -5 to -10 degrees C, or 14 to 25 F. But in the summer, it is not uncommon to get temperatures around 25-30 C or 80-95 F. The [...]

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Do you have to use Spanish Cedar in humidors?

Spanish Cedar is widely known as the material of choice in humidor construction.  But is Spanish Cedar the best material, or absolutely necessary? Well, let’s discuss it a bit. Spanish Cedar is actually not cedar at all.  It comes from the Mahogany family.  It is a very nice, salmony red tight-grained wood with a very [...]

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