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 cracks on both sides of the fronts of both of the bottom accessories drawers and a missing knob on the right drawer.
I found the knob eventually inside the right drawer and was able to get it back into place with a bit of craftiness on my part. So now the front of the humidors looks perfectly fine.
I think I'll probably end up wood gluing the large cracks closed on the fronts of the accessory drawers. Other than that, I suppose this is an imperfect. I did get the humidor for cheaper. It seems to be in good functional order. The lid has a light whoosh when I drop it down, and the cedar within looks good.
This humidor was a bit more beat up than I had expected, but I did buy a imperfect and it is within the limits set forth by CheapHumidors. This will work fine, though, and I did manage to get this humidor at just barely under $100, shipped. Overall, this wasn't a bad purchase.
Next step is for me to season it. I'm going to use the bottom of a Listerine bottle I cut up so that more water is touching the air at one time than would be with a shot glass. I'm also going to try to convert my humidifiers that came with the humidor from foam to beads. I'll post more with that later.
I'd like to thank Dave from Southside for helping me with choosing a humidor, even though I didn't purchase from him. And I'd like to thank everybody else who gave me advice. I ended up going for a larger rather than small one, hah!
The obvious imperfections are the dent on the edge of the top and banged up corners in the back.
The other imperfections are cracks on both sides of the fronts of both of the bottom accessories drawers and a missing knob on the right drawer.
I found the knob eventually inside the right drawer and was able to get it back into place with a bit of craftiness on my part. So now the front of the humidors looks perfectly fine.
I think I'll probably end up wood gluing the large cracks closed on the fronts of the accessory drawers. Other than that, I suppose this is an imperfect. I did get the humidor for cheaper. It seems to be in good functional order. The lid has a light whoosh when I drop it down, and the cedar within looks good.
This humidor was a bit more beat up than I had expected, but I did buy a imperfect and it is within the limits set forth by CheapHumidors. This will work fine, though, and I did manage to get this humidor at just barely under $100, shipped. Overall, this wasn't a bad purchase.
Next step is for me to season it. I'm going to use the bottom of a Listerine bottle I cut up so that more water is touching the air at one time than would be with a shot glass. I'm also going to try to convert my humidifiers that came with the humidor from foam to beads. I'll post more with that later.
I'd like to thank Dave from Southside for helping me with choosing a humidor, even though I didn't purchase from him. And I'd like to thank everybody else who gave me advice.
I ended up going for a larger rather than small one, hah!
