Humidor Instruction Sheets

General Care
Cigar Environment
Seasoning your Humidor
Mounting and Filling your Humistat and Hygrometer
Directions For Calibrating Your Hygrometer
Directions For Mounting The Hygrometer

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General Care
Caring for your humidor is quite simple. As with all fine leather and wood furniture, simply dust your Humidor regularly with a clean, soft cloth. No liquid or spray dusting or waxing product is necessary. However, if you do elect to use such products, follow all manufacturers’ directions very carefully. Make sure to avoid getting any such product into the interior of your humidor.

Cigar Environment
Cigars must be kept in a properly humidified environment. The correct ambience is between 66 - 72% relative humidity and at a temperature of 70ºF. Large or rapid fluctuations in either temperature or humidity may cause swelling and cracking of the cigar wrapper. Your Humidor is the perfect choice for storing cigars. The humidity regulators or humistats offer a controlled environment and create in the humidor a desirable constant relative humidity of approximately 66 - 72%. The humidification system is based on a physio-chemical process (the molecular mechanisms allow for rigorous water evaporation control).

NOTE: Your Humidor should be kept as far away from a radiator, heating vent, or sunny window as possible.

Seasoning Your Humidor
It takes time, patience, and a little know-how to get a new humidor ready to hold cigars. You’re trying to recreate the tropical environments where most cigars are made, and you can’t rush the process. Putting cigars into a dry humidor can ruin good smokes.

Your Humidor has an interior of untreated Spanish cedar, the preferred wood for humidifying and aging premium cigars. The wood needs to be humidified, or seasoned, before the box is ready to hold cigars.

To season your humidor, take a new sponge - make sure it is unscented and free of soap - and wet it with a liberal dose of distilled water. Wipe down all the exposed wood, including dividers, and the interior lid. Avoid using a paper towel or a fraying cloth; these will literally leave a paper trail on the wood. After you’ve wiped down the wood, squirt the sponge with more distilled water, then place it inside the humidor on a plastic bag - to avoid direct contact with the wood - and close the lid.

Next, you need to prepare your humidification device. Use only distilled water. Minerals contained in tap water will destroy most humidification systems by leaving deposits that will clog the humidor element. Once the humidification device is filled, be sure to wipe it down to remove all the excess water. Rest it on a hand towel for approximately 30 minutes.

Close the humidor with its humidifying element and the damp sponge, and leave it overnight. The next day, refresh the humidification device (it may not need it) and check the sponge. If it is fairly dry, add more distilled water. If it is very damp, leave it alone.

Let the humidor sit another night, and then remove the sponge and plastic bag. The walls of the humidor have now absorbed all the water they need, and now you can safely store your cigars.

Mounting and Filling your Humistat and Hygrometer
1. Remove the protective tape from the magnet and adhere to the inside top of the humidor. Make sure the inside surface is clean and dry. Position the humidity regulator to the magnet or other supplied mounting hardware.

2. Fill the humistat with distilled water only. Slowly drop the distilled water into the foam through the slots of the regulator. Continue to add water until the foam in the humidity regulator is saturated and water spills over. Dry the regulator carefully after filling. Replace it in the humidor. **Refill the humistat when the hygrometer indicates a relative humidity below 70%, about once a month.

Directions For Calibrating Your Hygrometer
(Dial Style ONLY) Electronic Digital Hygrometer #1546 does NOT require calibration

After your humidor has been seasoned, it is necessary to calibrate your Dial Style (Analog) hygrometer before use to maintain the proper humidity level. It is easy to do! Simply wrap the hygrometer in a wet cloth for 30 - 40 minutes. Remove the hygrometer from the wet cloth and readjust the hygrometer through the back with a screwdriver and turn it so that it reads 100% (not all meters have this adjustment). Then place the hygrometer in the humidor. NOTE: IF you find that the screw driver turns but the needle bounces back and will not turn please refer to Instruction "B" below.

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Instruction "B"

1. Insert the screwdriver into the back edge of the hygrometer (where the silver back meets the brass outer ring - not all meters have this adjustment). Slowly push down on the screwdriver to pop the silver backing off.

2. Inside the hygrometer you will notice a white ring that is wrapped around the coil. Gently lift and remove the ring.

3. To calibrate your hygrometer you need to place your thumb on the white paper inside the hygrometer so it does not move. Then with your fingers gently turn the silver ring that encases the coil. You'll notice the needle moving. Turn so the needle points to 100.

4. Snap the white ring back into place. Snap the silver backing back onto the hygrometer.

You are now ready to mount your hygrometer!

Directions For Mounting The Hygrometer
We recommend that your digital or Analog (Dial Style) hygrometer be positioned on the inside top above the humistat.

Remove the protective tape from the magnet and adhere to the inside top of the humidor. Make sure the inside surface is clean and dry. Position the hygrometer to the magnet.