Waxing Moon Humidor Thread

WaxingMoon · 10-16-2010, 07:55 AM

Today is a heavy sawdust day..... Time for some humidors to meet their makers!!!

Although we still have a little tweeking to do on #52 & #48 and a set of trays..... We should have them done by the close of the weekend....

First up - WMWH53..... Figured Cherry & Walnut. We are going to try to squeeze out a 19x12x8.5, 277 count humidor from what you see below. This cherry is amazing.... Highly figured - should prove to be an interesting piece.

WaxingMoon · 10-16-2010, 02:57 PM

First off, we had to tame the "live edge" of that slab of cocobolo.... Here's a picture of my partner Bruce.... getting a straight edge from that slab....

Here's the straight edge, which allows us to put it up against the table saw fence now...

I'm going to keep that live edge around and use it on a lid for a future humidor.....

And.... here's the progress so far today.... Still daylight to burn...

WaxingMoon · 10-17-2010, 03:32 PM

WMWH59 - Ziricote & Gabon Ebony..... This one is coming along as well... I plan on doing some cool stuff to the base molding and the lid is going to have a completely different style..... This one will be interesting....

WMWH62 - Jataboa or Brazilian Cherry..... this one is coming along as well... Have to get the others caught up before we do much more with this one.... Didn't do much with the lid pieces on this one either...

So far... so good... I think have some nice lookers coming out of this batch!

Thanks for watching everybody!!!

WaxingMoon · 10-17-2010, 03:33 PM

We sure have made a lot of sawdust over the last couple of days.... I think we wore out a blade or two as well... some pretty hard wood getting cut up here.....

Three of lids will be laminated with contrasting stripes.... and four of the humidors will have a lid separator... which, (with any luck), we'll be cutting the lid off at the laminated 1/4" piece.... leaving 1/16th inch on each side of the cut... 1/8" appearance when the lid is closed.... of contrasting wood..

Here we go....

WMWH53 - Cherry & Walnut.... This one will have a glass lid. I put that other humidor in the picture to give you an idea of how cherry darkens up over time.... And... that humi has only been around about a week or two...

WMWH54 - Walnut... We just worked the box portion of this one... as you can see, the lid parts still need to be planed down...

WMWH56 - Walnut & Cocobolo... This is a great combination.... Again, haven't worked too much on the lid parts... except cut all the laminates for the laminated lid detail...

WMWH57 - Quilted Maple & Cocoblo.... This one is going to be HUGE. Big Cocobolo base molding.... and then a cocobolo band separating the book matched top & bottom.... not to mention the lid.... We're going to have fun with this one....

WaxingMoon · 10-19-2010, 03:40 AM

Yesterday was not a very exciting day in the shop..... unless you like to watch glue dry.... There was a whole lot of this going on.....

10-16-2010, 07:55 AM	#1
WaxingMoon Humidor Builder Join Date: Dec 2009 First Name: Ed Location: Albert Lea, MN Posts: 658 Trading: (3)	Re: Waxing Moon Humidor Thread Today is a heavy sawdust day..... Time for some humidors to meet their makers!!! Although we still have a little tweeking to do on #52 & #48 and a set of trays..... We should have them done by the close of the weekend.... First up - WMWH53..... Figured Cherry & Walnut. We are going to try to squeeze out a 19x12x8.5, 277 count humidor from what you see below. This cherry is amazing.... Highly figured - should prove to be an interesting piece. __________________ This correspondence has killed no trees, however, several electrons have been disturbed!

10-16-2010, 02:57 PM	#2
WaxingMoon Humidor Builder Join Date: Dec 2009 First Name: Ed Location: Albert Lea, MN Posts: 658 Trading: (3)	Re: Waxing Moon Humidor Thread First off, we had to tame the "live edge" of that slab of cocobolo.... Here's a picture of my partner Bruce.... getting a straight edge from that slab.... Here's the straight edge, which allows us to put it up against the table saw fence now... I'm going to keep that live edge around and use it on a lid for a future humidor..... And.... here's the progress so far today.... Still daylight to burn... __________________ This correspondence has killed no trees, however, several electrons have been disturbed!

10-17-2010, 03:32 PM	#3
WaxingMoon Humidor Builder Join Date: Dec 2009 First Name: Ed Location: Albert Lea, MN Posts: 658 Trading: (3)	Re: Waxing Moon Humidor Thread WMWH59 - Ziricote & Gabon Ebony..... This one is coming along as well... I plan on doing some cool stuff to the base molding and the lid is going to have a completely different style..... This one will be interesting.... WMWH62 - Jataboa or Brazilian Cherry..... this one is coming along as well... Have to get the others caught up before we do much more with this one.... Didn't do much with the lid pieces on this one either... So far... so good... I think have some nice lookers coming out of this batch! Thanks for watching everybody!!! __________________ This correspondence has killed no trees, however, several electrons have been disturbed!

10-17-2010, 03:33 PM	#4
WaxingMoon Humidor Builder Join Date: Dec 2009 First Name: Ed Location: Albert Lea, MN Posts: 658 Trading: (3)	Re: Waxing Moon Humidor Thread We sure have made a lot of sawdust over the last couple of days.... I think we wore out a blade or two as well... some pretty hard wood getting cut up here..... Three of lids will be laminated with contrasting stripes.... and four of the humidors will have a lid separator... which, (with any luck), we'll be cutting the lid off at the laminated 1/4" piece.... leaving 1/16th inch on each side of the cut... 1/8" appearance when the lid is closed.... of contrasting wood.. Here we go.... WMWH53 - Cherry & Walnut.... This one will have a glass lid. I put that other humidor in the picture to give you an idea of how cherry darkens up over time.... And... that humi has only been around about a week or two... WMWH54 - Walnut... We just worked the box portion of this one... as you can see, the lid parts still need to be planed down... WMWH56 - Walnut & Cocobolo... This is a great combination.... Again, haven't worked too much on the lid parts... except cut all the laminates for the laminated lid detail... WMWH57 - Quilted Maple & Cocoblo.... This one is going to be HUGE. Big Cocobolo base molding.... and then a cocobolo band separating the book matched top & bottom.... not to mention the lid.... We're going to have fun with this one.... __________________ This correspondence has killed no trees, however, several electrons have been disturbed!

10-19-2010, 03:40 AM	#5
WaxingMoon Humidor Builder Join Date: Dec 2009 First Name: Ed Location: Albert Lea, MN Posts: 658 Trading: (3)	Re: Waxing Moon Humidor Thread Yesterday was not a very exciting day in the shop..... unless you like to watch glue dry.... There was a whole lot of this going on..... __________________ This correspondence has killed no trees, however, several electrons have been disturbed!