My Humidor(s) [Archive] - Cigar Asylum Cigar Forum

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 10:40 AM

Hello gentlemen, and ladies if there are any here (only second day so I'm not sure yet.) I just replied to a humidor conversion thread and thought I'd post a couple pics of the humidors I've built.

This was my first, made my mistake by making it a "display" humidor and sacrificed to much space doing that. I love the way it came out, but soon outgrew it.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/BirdseyeMahoganyNoDoors.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/BirdseyeMahoganyLtSide.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/Humi.jpg

LOL, OK, the site only allows five pictures per post, so I'm going to have to reply a couple times with the others! :r

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 10:40 AM

I made the following three desktops, one for myself, (the Lacewood version) and one for each of my best friends. The others are Birdseye Maple and Black Walnut.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/LacewoodClosed.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/BirdseyeClosed.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/BlackWalnutClosed.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/AllThreeHumis.jpg

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 10:41 AM

And my last one is the humidor I currently use at home. It's Honduran Mahogany, 3/8" Spanish Cedar lined and solid Spanish Cedar shelves. I use a four canister Accumonitor for humidification and being that it's in my basement, it stays at a steady 65 degrees.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/DoorRailsWithPanels.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/DoorI.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/Avallo.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/MeInHumidor.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/CrownMoulding.jpg

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 10:41 AM

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/CloseUpLightsFan.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/RightWiredSlides.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/InsideWiredSlides.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/ShelvesDone.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/SeedyGlass.jpg

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 10:42 AM

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/FinishedLeftSide.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/1FilledClosed.jpghttp://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/1TopHalfFull.jpghttp://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/1ShelfII.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/1ShelfI.jpg

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 10:43 AM

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/1SinglesTray.jpg

leftover parts
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/Fire.jpg

The End!

Kreth

02-25-2009, 10:43 AM

Those look sweet, especially the black walnut. I used to make training weapons from black walnut, I love the look of it when finished.

md4958

02-25-2009, 10:54 AM

WOW! nice work. Welcome to the Asylum!!

gettysburgfreak

02-25-2009, 11:01 AM

wow, very impressive humis.

Scottw

02-25-2009, 11:02 AM

Beautiful!!

karmaz00

02-25-2009, 11:06 AM

wow great work..some sweet humis there

zmancbr

02-25-2009, 11:06 AM

Wow... you have done some fine work! Very nice humis all the way around! :tu

bobarian

02-25-2009, 11:07 AM

That's some really nice work, you should be proud!:tu

elderboy02

02-25-2009, 11:12 AM

Holy heck! Nice humidors Wade! :tu :salute:

ucla695

02-25-2009, 11:14 AM

Youz gotz skillz. Those are some great looking humis!

AD720

02-25-2009, 11:17 AM

WOW! Very, very nice work!

themoneycollector

02-25-2009, 11:42 AM

Nice work and good taste in smokes

Pat1075

02-25-2009, 12:38 PM

Beautiful work.

Sauer Grapes

02-25-2009, 01:07 PM

beautiful. And the sticks! Nice cigars!

GKitty

02-25-2009, 01:12 PM

Absolutely gorgeous work.

s15driftking

02-25-2009, 01:16 PM

truly amazing artistry!

Excellent work!

neoflex

02-25-2009, 01:16 PM

Nice job. Wish I had enough time and talent to build such nice humidors. Your collection is not too shabby too!:D

pmp

02-25-2009, 01:55 PM

Beautiful humidors. If you ever have a desire to build some custom humidors for sale, shoot me a pm and maybe we can talk partnership.

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 02:17 PM

Beautiful humidors. If you ever have a desire to build some custom humidors for sale, shoot me a pm and maybe we can talk partnership.

I've built several for forum members on other sites I frequent, but honestly, it's a hobby for me. I build yachts for a living in the wood shop. I do interiors and furniture for the boats, so the humidors are not something I can commit the time to, plus out of respect for the actual humidor builders, yourself, Avallo, Arlin, Bob and so forth, I don't want to step on any toes.

Although I'm always open to discussion and idea sharing if you are down with that as well.

Wade

Jay Hemingway

02-25-2009, 02:20 PM

love your humi brother!

good to see you over here as well wade.

Gonesledn

02-25-2009, 02:29 PM

Awesome work! Not too shabby for a big ugly biker b@stard. Lol

How ya been stranger? Been a couple years since I have seen you around anywhere
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BroncoHorvath

02-25-2009, 02:37 PM

Great craftmenship Wade.... Welcome to CA....

Also, you have some really nice sticks in those humidors...:ss

Smokin Gator

02-25-2009, 02:54 PM

Awesome just doesn't seem quite good enough!!!

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 02:58 PM

love your humi brother!

good to see you over here as well wade.

Hey Jay, nice to see you as well.

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 02:58 PM

Awesome work! Not too shabby for a big ugly biker b@stard. Lol

How ya been stranger? Been a couple years since I have seen you around anywhere
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Dude, it's been way to long! How have you been?

Bax

02-25-2009, 03:56 PM

Great job on the humi's and nice collection to boot! :ss

BigAsh

02-25-2009, 04:03 PM

Yep....they don't suck!......Beautiful!:ss

thebiglebowski

02-25-2009, 04:06 PM

holy cow, i think you're my new hero...

tunes

02-25-2009, 04:11 PM

Dude - all I can say is WOW, that's very impressive!!! :ss

Sailchaser

02-25-2009, 04:21 PM

Great Looking work, which boat builder?

SmokinDuck

02-25-2009, 04:23 PM

Where do I know you from? :hm

Nice to see you here and you do some darn fine work.

Mtmouse

02-25-2009, 04:27 PM

Great work as usual, Wade.

BTW, welcome aboard.:tu

dunng

02-25-2009, 04:29 PM

Very nice work! :tu

ChicagoWhiteSox

02-25-2009, 04:39 PM

wow, just wow:tu

King James

02-25-2009, 04:51 PM

nice work on those.....look really great

nozero

02-25-2009, 04:53 PM

Awsome!
:tu

mojo65

02-25-2009, 05:45 PM

Youz gotz skillz. Those are some great looking humis!

:tpd:Nice work bro!

Barteur

02-25-2009, 06:10 PM

Really nice work:dr

troutbreath

02-25-2009, 06:57 PM

Beautiful work! And a GREAT selection of cigars!

(didn't I see where you won a box of Short Story's recently?)

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 08:26 PM

Great Looking work, which boat builder?

Palmer Johnson Yachts in Sturgeon Bay WI.

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 08:27 PM

Where do I know you from? :hm

Nice to see you here and you do some darn fine work.

I'm a member of Cigar Family, BOTL.org, used to go to CigarPass

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 08:27 PM

Great work as usual, Wade.

BTW, welcome aboard.:tu

Thanks Mt!

Volusianator

02-25-2009, 08:28 PM

Beautiful work! And a GREAT selection of cigars!

(didn't I see where you won a box of Short Story's recently?)

LOL, yeah on a CF photo of the month thread.

Teeznutz

02-26-2009, 10:08 AM

Nice Humi's!! Well done!

eber

02-26-2009, 10:33 AM

very impressive, I would love to have a cabinet like that some day

white_s2k

02-26-2009, 10:49 AM

Very nice work, they look awesome!

Volusianator

02-26-2009, 10:51 AM

Very nice work, they look awesome!

Ohhh, and from a Cowboys fan!

Go Packers! :r
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/1.jpg

MrsSledn

02-26-2009, 04:40 PM

Palmer Johnson Yachts in Sturgeon Bay WI.

Great looking humi's Wade. Just awesome work.

I know Palmer Johnson Yachts very well. My mom lived in Sturgeon Bay from 1992 until she passed in 2007. I never could get used to driving over the draw bridge.

mcmoyer

02-26-2009, 05:41 PM

You do wonderful work...thanks for the pictures!!

:cb

RevSmoke

02-26-2009, 05:51 PM

Hey Wade, really nice work!
I am jealous of your abilities.

WildBlueSooner

02-26-2009, 06:22 PM

ok...so I just got my humidor delivered today. I love the labels on the labels on the lid and would like to do this. Mine is a glass top..does anyone have any ideas on the best way for me to do this?

Gonesledn

02-26-2009, 07:53 PM

Dude, it's been way to long! How have you been?

been getting by.... i was just up in wisconsin couple weeks ago herfin with Blacky and Rockmeister. we started tapping maple trees for syrup, going to be a herf end of march when we boil the sap down into syrup. whats your schedule look like end of march? we need to herf bro!

so how is life treating you my friend?

labxracerx

02-26-2009, 08:11 PM

Nice work on the humidor (VERY creative), nice smokes, poor choice in football! :-)

Go Bears!

Volusianator

02-26-2009, 08:37 PM

ok...so I just got my humidor delivered today. I love the labels on the labels on the lid and would like to do this. Mine is a glass top..does anyone have any ideas on the best way for me to do this?

So you want to put cigar bands on top of your glass top humidor? Hmmmm. The down side is that you'd see all the backs of the bands and adhesive when you open your humidor, unless you put some Spanish Cedar under there as well.

Not that it couldn't be done, but to do this you'd need to have a lip that stands proud of the glass, which you should have. I used Mod Podge or whatever it's called to glue the bands down, you do need to act quick and be accurate as it dries pretty quick and makes the bands very moist and they tear easily. Once all the bands are in place, let the adhesive dry over night. The I used a two part epoxy called Mirror Coat made by System Three. (http://www.systemthree.com/p_mirror_coat.asp) It's pretty simple to use, the only caution I'd have is bubbles of air that will release into the epoxy from where the glass top sits in it's dado. The bubbles do pretty much self pop and be sure you have your humidor on a very level surface. You may use some of the Mod Podge glue to seal the area where the glass goes inside the lid, (does that make sense)?

If you want to tackle it, and have questions, just PM me.

I did these for myself as well for my travel humidors:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/OtterBoxLGSide.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Cigars/NewOtterbox.jpg

Wade

Volusianator

02-26-2009, 08:38 PM

been getting by.... i was just up in wisconsin couple weeks ago herfin with Blacky and Rockmeister. we started tapping maple trees for syrup, going to be a herf end of march when we boil the sap down into syrup. whats your schedule look like end of march? we need to herf bro!

so how is life treating you my friend?

You tapped trees already! Where you making syrup? Man, I've not seen Blacky in a couple years, let me know and I'll do my best to make it for the big boil!

Volusianator

02-26-2009, 08:39 PM

Nice work on the humidor (VERY creative), nice smokes, poor choice in football! :-)

Go Bears!

Bears fan living in MI, don't get much worse! :r

troutbreath

02-28-2009, 07:12 AM

So you want to put cigar bands on top of your glass top humidor? Hmmmm. The down side is that you'd see all the backs of the bands and adhesive when you open your humidor, unless you put some Spanish Cedar under there as well.

Not that it couldn't be done, but to do this you'd need to have a lip that stands proud of the glass, which you should have. I used Mod Podge or whatever it's called to glue the bands down, you do need to act quick and be accurate as it dries pretty quick and makes the bands very moist and they tear easily. Once all the bands are in place, let the adhesive dry over night. The I used a two part epoxy called Mirror Coat made by System Three. (http://www.systemthree.com/p_mirror_coat.asp) It's pretty simple to use, the only caution I'd have is bubbles of air that will release into the epoxy from where the glass top sits in it's dado. The bubbles do pretty much self pop and be sure you have your humidor on a very level surface. You may use some of the Mod Podge glue to seal the area where the glass goes inside the lid, (does that make sense)?

If you want to tackle it, and have questions, just PM me.

I did these for myself as well for my travel humidors:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/OtterBoxLGSide.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Cigars/NewOtterbox.jpg

Wade

Those look really cool! I'm not sure I'm ready to cover the tops of my desktops . . . well, maybe one. But I could definitely do that on my travel boxes.

Gonesledn

02-28-2009, 09:26 AM

You tapped trees already! Where you making syrup? Man, I've not seen Blacky in a couple years, let me know and I'll do my best to make it for the big boil!

yep we tapped the trees already. Rockmeister is harvesting and storing the sap, and the boil down will be end of march. i will let you know when the weekend is finalized. hopefully Edbug will be around as well.

you do some beautiful work Wade!

marge796

03-04-2009, 12:55 PM

You have mad skills my friend! Be very proud of this. Thank you for posting your humidors! :tu

TOB9595

03-04-2009, 01:22 PM

VERY FINE!!!

At first I didn't think I'd like the glass..Further pics showed me that I do like that glass.
Tom

marge796

03-08-2009, 04:27 PM

Make me one it's an easy design that I have. :r :r :r :r :r

Footbag

03-08-2009, 04:30 PM

How did I miss this thread? Great humidor! Nice craftsmanship, and I like the seeded glass.

Volusianator

05-13-2010, 12:44 PM

Those look really cool! I'm not sure I'm ready to cover the tops of my desktops . . . well, maybe one. But I could definitely do that on my travel boxes.

My newest one:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Humidors/OtterBoxSide.jpg

Volusianator

05-13-2010, 12:45 PM

VERY FINE!!!

At first I didn't think I'd like the glass..Further pics showed me that I do like that glass.
Tom

The seedy glass really looks different in pics. Seeing it live makes all the difference. Just enough distortion to break up the lines but you can still see what each box is inside.

rgrecco

05-13-2010, 12:48 PM

Wade!!!!!!!!! Whats up!!!!!!!!!! I didn"t know u were here on this site!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't recognise the name... Its me 5-0... ;-)

Volusianator

05-13-2010, 01:21 PM

wade!!!!!!!!! Whats up!!!!!!!!!! I didn"t know u were here on this site!!!!!!!!!!!

fiv_o...fiv_o_po_po?!

rgrecco

05-13-2010, 01:26 PM

fiv_o...fiv_o_po_po?!

THATS ME!!!!!!!!!!! How u doin?????

Volusianator

05-13-2010, 01:41 PM

THATS ME!!!!!!!!!!! How u doin?????LOL, I knew it was you man, how many rgrecco's can there be anyway! I'm doing good, not really, the layoffs are starting to take a toll. But summer's here, been riding a lot, over 1200 miles so far, not bad being as I've not done a rally yet. What about you, did you make the Spring RNR?

rgrecco

05-13-2010, 01:56 PM

Volusianator

05-13-2010, 02:12 PM

Nope... Didn't make the Spring RNR...

Expecting my first kid in July... So I been busy working trying to stash away as much cash as possible... Haven't been riding much either...

Its looking like the ONLY rally I will make this year is MAR III... Hope the turn out is decent... I wanna try to make the FALL RNR but it isn't looking promising because I don't think my wife would be happy being left home alone with a 3 month old...

Only time will tell though...
Never been to MAR and I know this year for me it's not even in the plans, I've got TOTT which is in Des Moines this year...that's WEIRD! Then Sturgis in August and the fall RNR. Hopefully I can pull the trigger on all three, if not, I'm gonna have to pass on the RNR, I hate to miss seeing all that family, but I can't miss TOTT for obvious reasons and Sturgis...well, that's just Sturgis. :tu

Brutus2600

05-13-2010, 02:18 PM

Wow...I absolutely love that first humidor. Well, I love all of them, but that first one is exactly what I'm wanting. I know the "display" layout limits the storage space, but I kind of want it as a display piece :p

Anyway, love the work man! :tu

bigpedunn

05-13-2010, 09:51 PM

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! nice work

issues

05-14-2010, 08:11 AM

Beautiful stuff, you have some serious skills brother! :tu

Volusianator

05-15-2010, 02:54 AM

Thanks folks, it is what I do for a living. I'm a woodworker at Palmer Johnson Yachts in Sturgeon Bay WI. And no...I've not yet got to build a humidor for one of our boats!

OLS

05-25-2010, 11:46 AM

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j20/Volusianator/Armoire%2007/Fire.jpg

You must have been cold cause there is NO WAY I would burn that wood. Unless you just have
no space for scrap.

Volusianator

05-25-2010, 12:23 PM

You must have been cold cause there is NO WAY I would burn that wood. Unless you just have
no space for scrap.

LOL, as you topped this thread, I went back first and looked at the pics I posted. When I came to that exact pic, I thought, "hmmm, I wish I didn't burn all that Spanish Cedar." Thing is, my scrap area is usually overflowing and often I cull pieces out to the fire pit. That cedar I wish I'd have saved.