Mitch
BOM 2/09-Keeper BOTtLe
Couple quick thoughts, one what was the humidity before you started to humidify it. And if you take all the humidifiers out, does the humidity quickly drop or stay about the same? This may help to understand if your problem is humidity leaking out, our your humidifiers not adding as much moisture as you think they are. I'd also shoot for 80% humidity to start, once it gets up in that range back off and see how quickly your humidity drops. If it drops like a rock, keep it high for a while, if it drops slowly back it off to a lower overshoot. If you are in a very dry area like it sounds you are, it will be much easier to bring it down to where you want it once it's seasoned than trying to get it up when your humidifiers are only trying to add a tad over where you want to be.
Also, I'm not a big fan of wiping down surfaces, but you could put a small bowl of water in each drawer and let the wood drink. I don't remember the exact numbers, but if I remember right something like 30% of the weight of wood is moisture, so if you have three hundred pounds of dry wood, you need to add almost one hundred pounds of water to get it set. That's over ten gallons of water that needs to slowly seep into the wood and become evenly distributed.
Good luck and keep us posted. And have you worked out the second mortgage on your house so you can fill this thing? I'm a little jelous, but to be honest I'd be afraid to own something that looks almost empty with five thousand cigars in it.
Also, I'm not a big fan of wiping down surfaces, but you could put a small bowl of water in each drawer and let the wood drink. I don't remember the exact numbers, but if I remember right something like 30% of the weight of wood is moisture, so if you have three hundred pounds of dry wood, you need to add almost one hundred pounds of water to get it set. That's over ten gallons of water that needs to slowly seep into the wood and become evenly distributed.
Good luck and keep us posted. And have you worked out the second mortgage on your house so you can fill this thing? I'm a little jelous, but to be honest I'd be afraid to own something that looks almost empty with five thousand cigars in it.