phiphika1453
Young Ape
Nice work so far. Are you going to angle the shelves like you would see in a B&M or just lay the shelves flat?
China Cabinet Conversion into Humidor (work in progress)
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Nice work.:tu Are you going to have the bottom humidified or will that be storage? Here is a link to the humidifier I have in mine.
http://stores.cigarsolutions.com/Categories.bok?category=Avallo+Accumonitors
http://stores.cigarsolutions.com/Categories.bok?category=Avallo+Accumonitors
I am going to have them lay flat however I can get risers for certain boxes if I wish. I am simply making a shelf that will replace where the original glass was in the cabinet.
Thanks for the link. The bottom of the thing is going to be for storage of cigar related accessories, such as some desktop humidors, ash trays, matches... all sorts of crazy stuff...
I am still debating on what I am going to do as far as letting the active humidification take care of the fans vs. setting them up myself with a PIC micro controller. We shall see how much time and effort it takes! Thanks for all the great comments!
elderboy02
SilverBack
Nice! This is going to be great! :tu
King Leonidas
Mustard & Biscuits
You are quite the master of the wood.
Many years of practice.... oh and I just started wood working... :tuYou are quite the master of the wood.
Awesome project bro. I've built several myself for friends and relatives, though I' not in the business even remotely. I truly believe the best looking cabs are those designed (or retrofitted) around china cabinets or curios. I built my personal cab from a project in Fine Woodworking, it was meant to be a curio or gun display cab.
I REALLY dig that old school belt-drive saw. I can't wait to see the final product.
P.S. The sides of the cab are likely already wood glued together, I think you could lose the unappealing caulk. If anything its the glass that would leak - for which I highly recommend ditching the caustic caulk for some fish tank sealer, which is food safe and totally cigar friendly.
P.S.P.S. I would also consider slanting the shelves, it totally changes the look of the unit and really drives home the intent of the unit - displaying cigars/boxes. Its easy to do after the fact, just thought I'd mention it.
I REALLY dig that old school belt-drive saw. I can't wait to see the final product.
P.S. The sides of the cab are likely already wood glued together, I think you could lose the unappealing caulk. If anything its the glass that would leak - for which I highly recommend ditching the caustic caulk for some fish tank sealer, which is food safe and totally cigar friendly.
P.S.P.S. I would also consider slanting the shelves, it totally changes the look of the unit and really drives home the intent of the unit - displaying cigars/boxes. Its easy to do after the fact, just thought I'd mention it.
You are quite the master of the wood.
Hehe thanks for the comment on the saw... it was my grandfathers... it works! I wish I knew about the fish tank sealer, that would have been great... oh by the way the caulk dried clear, is not noticable, and you cannot smell it... Also I placed some wood shavings from my jointer into the empty cabinet to get a nice smell a cookin inside of it, I will post a pic when I put up the next update when I am finally installing some pieces.
As for the shelves, I am plannin on doing flat for my design of fans to create circulation... I will build some slanted inserts to slant certain sticks, or even a row, but I guess I didn't think too much about that in the begining.
texasbadbob
Evolving Lead Gorilla
Where did you get the cabinet? It looks really cool and will look even better when finished. How many boxes do you think it will hold?
Craigslist, and I have no idea, over 1000 cigars I know that...
http://www.bristolvalley.com/catalog.asp?prodid=293407&showprevnext=1
Cheapest wood I could find, and they charged me actual shipping... well I am assuming so, it was reasonable.
Now for the next set of pics....
Notice on the background of the humi there is a line going down the middle... I was originally going to butt the wood up to that and have a section going down the middle, but I decided it would look nicer, and be easier to raise the wood off of the back and simply make it one sheet across. I was at first debating what to make the risers on the sides out of but went with scrap Spanish Cedar as anything else would impede the integrity of the cabinet.
Sizing the bottom pieces in
After sanding the wood it got really dusty and hard to clean, so I took some distilled water and wiped off the boards before I glued them in... idn't it purdy?
Then I placed the top part of the cabinet on the ground so I could glue in the back walls, making sure to support the edges.
The scraps I used to secure the sides of the backboard
First piece in, with weights upon it
Gluin'
Had to find a lot of random heavy things sitting around the garage as i had 3 sections to weigh down for each of the 4 boards
The next day it started lookin nice! Take a look at that grain!
There will still be some visible other wood (the back brace) when finished, I might choose to cover this, but probably won't care that much when everything else is done, you will notice in the next few pictures what I am referring to.
I tried to pair the wood up for the back wall so that the paterns complimented one another. This happened to occur because of the place in which I got the wood as mentioned above
The look with the shelves in place
Image from inside looking down the length... notice, I wasn't able to completely sand out the glue marks
More of the back brace
I also wanted to secure some brackets for the front corners of each shelve as they currently had no support as it was designed for glass... When making these little brackets I tried to hammer right into them and this is what happened....
So make sure to drill small pilot holes in thin pieces of wood
Also, as I was hammering it in I realized I was putting a lot of stress onto the glass from the pounding so I got an air finishing nailer to afix these pieces to the cabinet
Once installed...
Now supporting weight
I am also adding an edge to the front of the shelves so I can hide my wire and LED lighting, I like the way this turned out
Image from inside looking down the length... notice, I wasn't able to completely sand out the glue marks
More of the back brace
I also wanted to secure some brackets for the front corners of each shelve as they currently had no support as it was designed for glass... When making these little brackets I tried to hammer right into them and this is what happened....
So make sure to drill small pilot holes in thin pieces of wood
Also, as I was hammering it in I realized I was putting a lot of stress onto the glass from the pounding so I got an air finishing nailer to afix these pieces to the cabinet
Once installed...
Now supporting weight
I am also adding an edge to the front of the shelves so I can hide my wire and LED lighting, I like the way this turned out
Once finished, this is how they look...
Notice the cuts in the areas where the supporting brackets are
Final step of the night, glue the bottom board to the cabinet
If I had to do it again I would have scuffed the wood first as it didn't seem to want to stick to great to the finished surface...
More with the make-shift weights... notice the jenga game I was playing with myself on the right...
That is all for tonight! Keep up the comments, but please don't quote the pics in your quotes as this post is large enough without doubling or tripling the picture count.
Notice the cuts in the areas where the supporting brackets are
Final step of the night, glue the bottom board to the cabinet
If I had to do it again I would have scuffed the wood first as it didn't seem to want to stick to great to the finished surface...
More with the make-shift weights... notice the jenga game I was playing with myself on the right...
That is all for tonight! Keep up the comments, but please don't quote the pics in your quotes as this post is large enough without doubling or tripling the picture count.
I could be mistaken, but the point of using spanish cedar is that it holds moisture without molding, or warping. Thats why all humidors have tight fits, the wood has little movement from dry to wet.