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Quality Importers 5000 Cabinet Cigar Humidor Review

Rod

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The Commercial 5000 Humidor is an excellent cabinet style humidor for anyone needing extra storage. The number of cigars in my “collection” continues to grow, and after having filled a 3,000 count tower and 5 coolers, I decided it was time to rid myself of the bulky (yet very reliable) coolidors.

I purchased the QI Antique Tower several years ago, and have been extremely happy with the overal design, build quality, durability and craftsmanship. It has proven to be a solid cigar cabinet, so the decision to go with a larger cabinet by QI was an easy one for me. I opted for their largest model; the Commercial 5,000. This is a decorative commercial humidor cabinet which can be used in either a commercial setting or home.

Commercial 5000 Facts

  • Built from walnut, featuring an antique distressed finish.
  • Two swinging tempered glass doors on top, and also two swinging raised wood panel doors at the base.
  • Humidor features many accents throughout exterior.
  • Holds up to 5,000 cigars or 250 boxes.
  • Glass doors are tempered.
  • Adjustable European hinges on all doors.
  • Crown and dental molding on top.
  • Fluted molding on sides.
  • Interior rope lighting – looks great at night.
  • 4 adjustable Spanish cedar shelves (easy to move up or down).
  • 1 Spanish Cedar bundle bin; holds your individual cigars. Bin is also height adjustable.
  • Comes with corner caster-type wheels. I did not install these, and will explain why later.
  • Shelves and bins are slotted, allowing for air and humidity to circulate.
  • Interior completely lined with Kiln Dried Spanish Cedar.
  • Gold plated lock and key sets.
  • Brass pull knobs on all doors.
  • 2 interior A/C outlets (used for plugging in your humidification unit).
Width: 4 feet wide
Length: 20 inches
Height: 6 feet, 4 inches
Weight: 300 lbs
Manufacturer: Quality Importers (Purchase the Commercial 5000 from GRP)

The Commercial 5000 came securely packaged in a large box, attached to a palate. FedEX dropped the palate/humidor off on my front porch, where I unpackaged it. The unit is wrapped in molded-foam, and came from FL to CA in excellent condition. After unpacking the unit, I had a friend help me lift it off of the palate and onto the floor. I was dreading this part, as I thought it would be more difficult. Luckily, I have hardwood floors, so moving it around the house was much easier than I imagined! I was quite pleased to see the packaging job; very well done. After initial inspection, the humidor was in perfect condition; no scratches, dents, damage, etc. I moved the humidor into place, and began installing the shelves.

Having used the Avallo Accumonitor in my Quality Importers Antique Tower, I couldn’t be more pleased with its performance over the years. Naturally, the choice was easy; I went with the Avallo Accumonitor for this cabinet as well. After installing the Accumumonitor, I let the humidor sit empty for about 3 weeks. Even thought RH was stable after 3 days, I wanted to be absolutely sure that the humidor was fully seasoned. The last thing you want to do is introduce cigars into an un-seasoned humidor. That will cause nothing but long-term problems. I probably seasoned it longer than need-be, however better safe than sorry…

The Commercial 5000 came with castor wheels which I have not installed for two reasons… One: I don’t plan on wheeling the cabinet around my house. Two: I live in Southern California, which is earthquake country. The last thing I need are my cigars roaming around the house during a trembler. The humidor is in place, and I don’t plan on moving it often.

After a few weeks I began emptying my coolidors and filling up the humidor. There is so much room in this cabinet, it makes organizing the cigars a pleasure. The bottom 1/3 of the humidor features a cabinet, where I have placed all of my unopened boxes as well as cigars I plan on aging. The rest of the humidor is filled with opened boxes, and cigars that are ready to be smoked. The cigar bin has been extremely useful… There are 9 sections, which I have placed bundles, singles, etc…

I have been using this humidor for about 3 months now, and I couldn’t be more happy with it. Quality Importers has yet again designed and built one of the best cabinet humidors around. While this isn’t a custom piece, it certainly does the job better than expected, and is a decorative piece of furniture which looks great in my family room. The humidor seals and holds humidity very well. No matter which humidification device you decide to go with, you’ll have plenty of room to set it up correctly. The humidor looks very good at night with the interior light turned on. Definitely adds that extra touch of class.

The craftsmanship of this cabinet is amazing, and I highly recommend it. At around $2200.00, you really can’t beat all that you get. An equivalent custom humidor of this size and detail will easily run you around $4,000 or more. At $2200.00, this is a steal!

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That is awesome! I'm gonna have to start saving up for one of these.
 
Well, Wow! Love it and coming for walnut tweaks my refinishing button. Rod, is
that solid walnut or veneer? The details are wonderful to see specially by the cornice.

I won't have the problem of getting one, I'm too old for Divorce.
 
It's solid walnut with cedar interior, and is really heavy.
 
By the way, I got this humidor several years ago, I just moved over the review from the homepage to here. The only modification I've done to this humidor is installed an LED light strip around in interior, so it looks pretty cool at night. I bought the LED strip from Costco.
 
Mine is almost exactly the same. I’ve been using the bottom part a mini bar till now but gonna move my bottle stash to my main bar and start putting the sealed boxes underneath cause I’m running out of space. Just bought another oasis magna just for the bottom cabinet. I put magnetic motion detector led lights in mine instead so they turn on when it’s opened. Purchased it second hand, it’s a beast to move but nice to have extra room to expand the collection.
 

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Mine is almost exactly the same. I’ve been using the bottom part a mini bar till now but gonna move my bottle stash to my main bar and start putting the sealed boxes underneath cause I’m running out of space. Just bought another oasis magna just for the bottom cabinet. I put magnetic motion detector led lights in mine instead so they turn on when it’s opened. Purchased it second hand, it’s a beast to move but nice to have extra room to expand the collection.
You and I define running out of space differently. Your entire collection can fit on one shelf... Leaving you at least 2 shelves empty. That's not talking about the bottom at all...
 
Im buying boxes regularly, and I like to have m the regular smokes accessible so I don’t have to dig through boxes to get to them. That bein Gn said I have a spare shelf I can add, but no point for aging boxes and jars to get in the way of started boxes or loose sticks.
 
Im buying boxes regularly, and I like to have m the regular smokes accessible so I don’t have to dig through boxes to get to them. That bein Gn said I have a spare shelf I can add, but no point for aging boxes and jars to get in the way of started boxes or loose sticks.
Yeah... your humidor is 8% full... You are good.
 
Mine is almost exactly the same. I’ve been using the bottom part a mini bar till now but gonna move my bottle stash to my main bar and start putting the sealed boxes underneath cause I’m running out of space. Just bought another oasis magna just for the bottom cabinet. I put magnetic motion detector led lights in mine instead so they turn on when it’s opened. Purchased it second hand, it’s a beast to move but nice to have extra room to expand the collection.
😁 Chad is right., You don't run out of space until you have played tetris at least five times and there is not room for another fiver no matter what you do.

You will soon find out that having cigars perfectly displayed comes in a distant second behind digging around through your stuff someday and finding an awesome box of cigars you hadn't seen in 10 years.😁
 
These fuckers require space 🤦‍♂️
Put it back into the box and stuff it way up top. Also others here might know better but I don't think you should have your Oasis up that high... Humidity rises and there isn't anywhere for it to go. You should have fans and it should be in the middle or lower. For that size of a cabinet you should have a whole different unit. I don't see hydrometers on every shelf but I'd bet the top is WAY higher than the bottom.
 
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