Recent content by dark_fire

I've already learned the hard way once. Even with a clip and purge, and being out for 15 minutes tops, not only did it burn like ass for the first inch, it wasn't that great tasting anymore for that inch.

If you stick them in your humidor for a week or so to recover, they should be just about as good as new. Granted, they won't be exactly the same as before but that small change is below the threshold detectable to us "newbs"

Once you season you humidor and keep it properly humid, you shouldn't have to re-season it again unless you stop using it or let the humidity slip. When I mean slip, I mean like completely forget about it for a while to the point where it is almost bone dry inside. Since the problems sprung up...

Third on the heartfelt beads. Just got my Humi set up, seasoned and somewhat filled with stogies. The 65% beads hold dead nuts around 65%-67% according to my calibrated digital hydro.

Primarily Zippo for me. I always keep a disposable bic handy though, just in case the Zippo spits a flint and I don't have another handy. As far as the lighting the cigar, I just roll the foot just above the tip of the Zippo flame until the end starts going decently, take a drag and check. I...

Every standard wood glue I have ever used has never smelled nor caused anything else to smell differently than the wood I was gluing after it was completely dry.