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Hello all, hope everyone is well and enjoying their day (and cigars). I have a strange dilemma I'm hoping one or more of you can lend a hand with. Here's the long and short of it. A month ago, my cigars were smoking perfectly. I had them in tupperdors in my home at 70°F and 65% rH give or take-...

Hello! I recently found a humidor in my grandparents house while cleaning it out. I think the last time the humidor was tendered to was well over a year ago. Maybe 2. There has to be over 100 cigars I have that look like the pictures here. 1. Is this mold or plume? I kind of doubt it would be...

So for the last several months I have been throwing hints about "maybe" needing a larger humidor. My 500 count and both 100 count humidors are full. Plus I have 1 large and 2 small coolers that are nearly full. Wasn't I surprised when my wife and kids gave me this humidor for my birthday...

I'm about to start giving the salt treatment to about 7 estate pipes I won off of Ebay. Some of the stems are highly oxidized, and some are not much. I've been pouring over the tutorials and videos on the internet and trying to find the best way to bring these pipes to a nicer look, without...

Got a cheap pipe with varnish on it, varnish bubbled so I sanded it off - wondering what the best wax is to use in order to restore the grain appearance ect.?

I just purchased a meer coloring bowl (thanks keenween!) and am excited to use it on a few basic-shaped estate Meers that I have. These don't have much color to them yet, but they do have some cake and the bowl rims are scorched. I would really like to remove as much of this as possible and...

Hi guys, I noticed some people have tried to revive/restore some old cigars. How successful were you? How did you do it? Reason for asking is that I found 3 cigars in a zip lock bag inside a leather case in an old humidor i got at a garage sale. They seem to be relatively dried out. There seem...

I have a very nice table-top humidor the size of a small chest. It had one of those now-notorious green block humidification units that sadly grew mold like topsy. I was living in a "Michigan basement" type apartment that was overly humid all the time, which I think precipitated the mold...

Title says it all. The short of it is. I got married in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico back in May. As soon as we got back from our wedding we bought a new house and began the moving process. Push come to shove, the humidor got lost in all the boxes. Well, I found the humidor yesterday along with...

I've picked up a few estate pipes recently and most have needed only a basic salt treatment, retort sanitization, and a polish. I have one though that is a bit more weathered. I could use some advice on this one. The bowl cake was pretty thick and the consistency of rock. The odor is non...

Hi guys - I've never restored a pipe before, but I there's A LOT of info on here, so I think I could do it if I read carefully. There's an estate pipe on eBay that I'm a little interested in; even if it turns out pipe smoking isn't for me, I'd love to be able to point to it and say that I was...

So, by chance, I may be coming into a "wealth" of cigars.. well, a large cabinet humidor, filled with cigars.. (there is an unfortunately story behind the items, so while I am happy to hopefully be receiving the items, I am sad to report the original owner passed away last year and he was a...

Hi everyone. Boomer posted a thread about offering up a prayer for the victims of Hurricane Ike, which I appreciate. As a follow up to that, I have a cousin that works for an electrical utilities contractor here and 4 crews (including his) are leaving Western North Carolina for Texas in the...

The general consensus seems to be that you can't just shock them back to life by placing them in an established humidor. My question is -- can you gradually bring them up to humidity, and back to life, by leaving in a humi as it seasons? I have a friend that let his humi go and allowed about...