Miami101 Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Great story! Wow this is a nice collection: Remenber to smoke them.....doo not become that 70 year old guy letting all those great cigars go un-smoked....
aavkk Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 That was indeed a great story, thanks for sharing!
waveball Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Man I really wish I had the skill to build something so great. Congrats!
cliff Posted August 24, 2008 Author Posted August 24, 2008 » Great story! » Wow this is a nice collection: Remenber to smoke them.....doo not become » that 70 year old guy letting all those great cigars go un-smoked.... the question is, when to smoke what kind of cigar? I think a true good cigar should be appreciated, when your first cigar ever is a cohiba (for example) it will be just a cigar... but when you've smoked 100's of cigars before and then smoke a cohiba, it will be a lot more then just a cigar, right? so now, I'm smoking and comparing and when the time is right...
El Presidente Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Well done Cliff Great collection and the satisfaction which only comes from building something yourself. It is a sense of satisfaction that I am unlikely to ever experience
sinnyc Posted August 25, 2008 Posted August 25, 2008 Great story and what a fine job you did on that humidor. I can barely hammer a nail into a plank
strayvector Posted August 25, 2008 Posted August 25, 2008 » Well done Cliff » » Great collection and the satisfaction which only comes from building » something yourself. It is a sense of satisfaction that I am unlikely to » ever experience Sure you have...You've built FOH and Czar into something something pretty special. Time to pat yourself on the back...or you can let Ken do it and find a nice handprint on the back of your shirt later.
kjellfrick Posted August 25, 2008 Posted August 25, 2008 Fantastic story, Cliff, and a great job with the cabinet! :-)
cliff Posted August 25, 2008 Author Posted August 25, 2008 » Well done Cliff » » Great collection and the satisfaction which only comes from building » something yourself. It is a sense of satisfaction that I am unlikely to » ever experience I agree, when you've build something yourself, it gives a good feeling to look at it... all the hours of hard work are quickly forgotten. on to the next project! (to pleasure my wife it won't be something with cigars or humidors :-D )
matthew261 Posted August 25, 2008 Posted August 25, 2008 This is my dream come true! Congratulations on the find of a lifetime!
crazypoet Posted August 25, 2008 Posted August 25, 2008 Absolutely stunning, and a great find... I'm a bit more than jealous!
ThreeD Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 Great Story, and Great looking cabinet Humidor. Thanks, for sharing.
cliff Posted November 15, 2008 Author Posted November 15, 2008 Hi all, this is my story; as a cigar smoker, I've bought a small humidor were you can put about 50 cigars in, everybody knows about witch one I'm talking about right? then I've bought a small cabinet with a glass window but when that became to small I decided to make one myself. this worked out pretty well, it even had an active humidification system... then I had a break through, :-D I found a small add on the internet, "cigars for sale, reason: stopped with smoking" so I desided to visit this man. when I arrived, I just couldn't believe my eyes: it was a castle! as it turned out to be, the man was a 87year old count, his castle was from 1615, and it was stuffed with paintings from even Rembrandt, P.P. Rubens etc etc... there was even a photo with him and President Carter. (try to immagion how I felt then!) he stopped with smoking in the 1970's because he had to for his wife.:crying: it was a friend of him that told him to sell the cigars, so someone else could enjoy them. it was either that or the thrash can... so he got out his cigars, all 1300 of them, a lot were russian, cannarian, dutch, belgian etc etc. there were also a lot cubans, and not just regular cubans, no, they were mostly pre-castro. there was even a box henry clays (company that stopped in 1930 in cuba). the more I looked, the more I found, and after a while I even found cuban Davidoffs (No.2), Chateau haut brion and ambassadrices. even a few montechristo dunhill's. even a lot of cigars that don't exist anymore, for example; pronto, la deliciosa, flor de lis, lopez del real... (try to immagion now, how I felt :-D ) so I checked every cigar, yes every cigar, the man didn't mind, he even insisted that I looked. he even enjoyed talking after 30years about cigars... so I bought all the cubans he had, even a few canarians (aguila cedros, perfect box) said goodbye and started to make a bigger humidor. (I will not say anything about the price I've payed otherwise there will be people who will start believing in fairy tales ) I bought a pharmacy cabinet (1910's) and started building up. this device I've bought for 5 euro, it sucks in air, cleans it and blows it back in the air. so I've changed that, I got out the motor and make it suck in air, moistens it, and blows it back.:-P so what do you think? quite nice integrated, not?:-D so now I needed something to place water in, a custum made jar of some kind... so I made it.:-D from this to this when all that was finished, there was just one more thing to be done, the humidification system couldn't just run 24hrs, so I've bought a digital hygrometer, witch turns on the humidification system when it's to dry and stops at about 70-73% I let it work for about a week, to see if it worked, if it could keep its themperature and humidity, and it worked perfectly. after it rained the air humidity here was 85% and in the humidor still 70% and when it was dry 55% it still didn't change. (yes the weather can change fast here in Belgium :-( ) after all this, I've spend quite some time to place all my cigars in it... but now, the time to enjoy has began. here are some photo's so you can enjoy with me. as you can see, I don't own a lot of boxes, I've been smoking cigars for only 5 years (I'm 27) and I'm still looking for my favorite, so I try anything I can buy. I look how it tastes, how the taste changes when you age it... etc etc, so thats why I have all different kindes pre castro punch. pre castro la gloria cubana my first davidoff humidor my second has been sold, this is a photo of my third humidor. (it has no use anymore, it's also sold) et voila, thats all folks... I hope you've enjoyed it? :-D :-D :-D
Tampa1257 Posted November 15, 2008 Posted November 15, 2008 » First, great post. Second, please tell me that you do not have a couple of half smoked cigars in your humidor! That would amount to a crying shame!!!!:crying:
Grasso Posted November 15, 2008 Posted November 15, 2008 » » » » First, great post. » » Second, please tell me that you do not have a couple of half smoked cigars » in your humidor! » » That would amount to a crying shame!!!!:crying: :crying:
cliff Posted November 15, 2008 Author Posted November 15, 2008 » » » » First, great post. » » Second, please tell me that you do not have a couple of half smoked cigars » in your humidor! » » That would amount to a crying shame!!!!:crying: hi Tampa, I knew that this question would come along, and yes its true, I have 4 ambassadrices that have been smoked before (not by me) they have been smoked quite some time ago and they don't smell anymore so I've decided to put them next to the others, with ceder between. I don't have a habit of placing smoked cigars back but I couldn't resist placing them in the humidor.
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