Thread: Humidor

Installed the the lock today.
Pictured is a tiny key escutheon and the jig that guides the plunge router to cut the mortise.
The escutcheon is made with brass tubing (1/4 inch O.D.) sliced partly open and soldered to brass channel also sliced open. From this stock I cut off about 3/16 and epoxied it into the key mortise.

This is looking great, thanks for sharing, I have a bit of Spanish Cedar in the shed, makes me want to give this a go

You sure have a lot of patience to fiddle around making your own bits like that, I admire your work and tenacity

hungry, I am running out of patience just in time!
Just a few more coats of laquer and it's a done deal.
Give it a go BrettC. If you have a humidor you're more likely to be given cigars.

After being waved to about three times on my way back from the grocer's. I felt I had to tell about this place where I now live.
When I rode a bike back in the '70s, we would wave to one another, that has pretty much died out now.
But here in Sealevel NC oncoming traffic will wave at you. Or they wave at you from their porches and fully expect that you will wave back.
That and shrimp (with a cast net),crab, flounder, clams and conch are free for the taking.
The only downside are the mosquitos. I kid you not, they can bite right through denim!
Just took these pics before a heck of a rain storm. It is hailing outside right now! - in June! I hope it takes out some of the mosquito population.
The water you see by the side of the road is a canal. There is one just like it on the other side of the road. This is how they got the material to build the roadbed above, what else?- sealevel!

Beautiful place and your work is impeccable.

I gotta post more pics of this place Ciscokid.
A neigbor stopped by the trailer and said I gotta hurry up, I'm cutting into the profit margin! I must have 200 hours into this box. But it was the first curve sided humidor made. That and my Hitachi 3 1/4 horse plunge router died and I had to remake most of my jigs. That being done, the next will go faster.
This is the first box I have made in five years and I lost my edge so I went real slow.

Hello All,
OK, so I've been using these French made locks on like the last 11 humidors and pretty quickly found that I don't like the "lock post" provided so I made my own, "post". A post that simply comes out of the wood - no eschutcheon.
I once sent a humidor to Cigar Afficionado Magazine for a run-off - a judged competition of humidors. Long story short, the lid stay popped out of its hole and made me look bad. I have since worried that the 'stay post' would pull out.
Well, today I figured it out!
The trick is to get a #10 solid brass wood screw and mill it into a lid stay post.
Pictured is a standard lid stay,a screw-in lid stay post (which still needs to be shortened) and some screw in lock posts, all other hardware is Brusso, save the French-made lock post with escutcheon.

Great work Rightendup.
I like your solutions with the locks and stays. I find them very tricky.

Nice part of the world you live in.
I have visited friends in Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina several times. They are all up in the mountains. Beautiful country.
Maybe next visit I will get to the coast.

I haven't mentioned that the dimensions for this box, curves included, are based on the golden mean, or golden ratio of 1.618.
The height times 1.618 is the width. The width times 1.618 is the length of my humidor.
If you go on U-Tube and punch in 'golden ratio' you can see how to get curves that are based on this incredible number.
Any box built with this ratio will have an uncanny 'pleasantness'.
Here's a short vid on Fibonacci's Golden rectangle.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVpqtH-g-ok"]YouTube - Fibonacci - God's Fingerprint[/ame]

A couple more, without the religious overtones.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyBKceaOftI&feature=related"]YouTube - Phi's the Limit[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xgw84Kwrh8&feature=related"]YouTube - Fibonacci Gauge[/ame]

Well, I just put my beloved Alfa Romeo up for sale on E-Bay.
Times are tough. I've owned the car for 21 years! Also went out and bought a lot of beer.
I would like to share with you all my little car. Which soon will no longer be mine.

Once more around with the rottenstone and it's almost done - see signature.
What I have learned from this box is to draw what you want and then do not deviate from the drawing.

It's beathtaking! Amazing workmanship with an impeccable finish. If I live to be ninety, I will never be able to make anything that nice.