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I couldn't easily find a tutorial for converting foam humidifiers that you get with a humidor into bead humidifiers when I searched CP, so I decided I'd post a little tutorial on how I did it. I know many of your probably don't need this tutorial, but somebody like me might be able to use it...

This is my first humidifier done and set in my humidor.

The bag is now complete.

Pat the bag to spread the beads out evenly. Make sure you don't put too many or too few beads into the bag.

Open up your bag and get ready to pour in your beads.

The bag has now been stapled again.

Take some of the excess on the sides and fold it over.

Adjust your bag so that fits correctly in your humidifier.

Adjust your bag so that the staple line is in the center.

Here's a close-up of the staple line. As you can see, you don't have to be perfect.

Leave a few inches open on each end. Also, only staple a line as long as your humidifier.

So here's how you fold your bag initially. Fold it in half. Then take the two free ends and fold it bag a bit.

Here's the cut bag and part of the plastic humidifier.

Here I'm marking out the rectangle I want to cut out. Make the rectangle about three times as wide and one and one half times as long as the humidifier. Mark lightly so the graphite won't stick to the bag later.

I used a Swiss Army type flat-head screwdriver and ran it along the long side of the humidifier in order to get it between the two pieces of plastic. I then lightly pulled the two pieces apart near the corner between a long and short edge. Yeah, the picture doesn't actually portray what I did.

So here's the box and bag in which the humidifier and the mounting metal/magnet came.

While shopping at Target, I ran across this Tide bag. It has fine holes in it so as to allow water through, but the holes are small enough to keep beads in. I'm sure any wash bag would work so long as the holes aren't big enough to allow beads through.

Yeah, that's what I've read about many people's imperfects. Guess I'm the 1 in 100 that gets one that's actually beat up. :'( I've got some nice smokes that I got from a newbie sample trade and some other ones. Let's see, two Opus X, an Anejo, and some other ones. :D I got 20 Cu-Avano's that...

Yeah, I think in the future I'll just pay the extra 20 dollars. This will be fine, though, especially because I'll be moving around a lot soon, and this humidor's bound to get a bit beat up anyways.

Well, I got my new humidor from CheapHumidors today. It's a Ravello imperfect. It's a bit beat up, but after tinkering with it a bit, I think I can live with it. The obvious imperfections are the dent on the edge of the top and banged up corners in the back. The other imperfections are...