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Hi everyone,
I am an expat living in Dubai in the middle east. I was introduced to cigars a few months ago during a business trip to Saudi Arabia where we visited a prominent cigar lounge and I've been hooked. I smoked a romeo y julieta wide churchill on that occasion.
On the trip home, picked up a few tubos at the duty free and now starting to slowly get myself tooled up.
Current stash waiting to be smoked:
RYJ Wide Churchill
MC no2
MC Eagle
Davidoff Robusto Millenium
Partagas Series P No2
They're all in orignal tubes except the RYJ which I took out of the box and keeping in the humidified sealed bags that the duty free were selling.
Kit wise, I have:
Humidor (wooden with glass top + its own humidifer)
Analogue hygrometer
Bottle of humidor solution
Bottle of Savinelli surface active liquid
Distlled water + new sponge
Spare humidifer (little larger)
windproof torch (xikar executive ii)
guillotine cutter
To do list:
- calibrate hygrometer
- season humidor
Now I have been reading a lot about the above two tasks (outside of the forum) and thought I had it figured i.e wipe the inside of the humidor with a new sponge damp with distlled water but now having to think twice after browsing some threads on here! I am reading warnings baout warping etc...I noticed there wasn't a sticky to guide this process so if anyone can point me in the exact threads that would be nice but in the meanwhile, I'll continue to read up
I am an expat living in Dubai in the middle east. I was introduced to cigars a few months ago during a business trip to Saudi Arabia where we visited a prominent cigar lounge and I've been hooked. I smoked a romeo y julieta wide churchill on that occasion.
On the trip home, picked up a few tubos at the duty free and now starting to slowly get myself tooled up.
Current stash waiting to be smoked:
RYJ Wide Churchill
MC no2
MC Eagle
Davidoff Robusto Millenium
Partagas Series P No2
They're all in orignal tubes except the RYJ which I took out of the box and keeping in the humidified sealed bags that the duty free were selling.
Kit wise, I have:
Humidor (wooden with glass top + its own humidifer)
Analogue hygrometer
Bottle of humidor solution
Bottle of Savinelli surface active liquid
Distlled water + new sponge
Spare humidifer (little larger)
windproof torch (xikar executive ii)
guillotine cutter
To do list:
- calibrate hygrometer
- season humidor
Now I have been reading a lot about the above two tasks (outside of the forum) and thought I had it figured i.e wipe the inside of the humidor with a new sponge damp with distlled water but now having to think twice after browsing some threads on here! I am reading warnings baout warping etc...I noticed there wasn't a sticky to guide this process so if anyone can point me in the exact threads that would be nice but in the meanwhile, I'll continue to read up
Well sir, I've had the occasion to season a few humidors in my time and never had a problem wiping down the sides of the box with distilled water. The trick is to lightly dampen/moisten the wood; not to saturate it. A slight darkening of the wood is sufficient. Using this method gives the process a "jump start," if your will, and cuts down the time needed to get your box up and running.
don TJ and the 
Coros
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