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08-27-2008, 08:00 AM | #1 |
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A little advice please gents;
I recently picked up a wooden antique refrigerator for a song, and am considering converting it for cigar storage. It's in good condition, and I believe is porcelin lined. It's about 3 ft wide, 4 feet high and about 2 deep, and would be cedar lined w/ adjustable shelves in the upper half. Easily 12 cu feet of space. I've seen comparable pieces in poor condition on ebay for around $600. Any ideas of what a reasonable price would be for something like this converted for cigars w/ a basic cleanup and finish on the exterior?
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08-27-2008, 01:46 PM | #2 |
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hard to predict the price and very hard to predict whether there'd be buyers... sorry I can't help much. You might want to post your desire to cell such an animal and see what attention it draws.
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08-28-2008, 07:36 AM | #3 |
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If you left the original lining, cleaned it up and made a cedar framework to hold shelves it might be more interesting to a collector. There's no market to make a comparison. Figure your original cost, materials and labor outlay, and extrapolate from there what you think it's worth. Then be willing to sit on it until the right buyer comes along.
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08-28-2008, 09:26 AM | #4 |
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Thanks. Hopefully by the time I get it set up I'll have caught up with technology enough to post some photos.
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09-02-2008, 07:45 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Custom Humi
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Check out my article.... Hope this helps you out! Mark
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09-02-2008, 07:56 PM | #6 |
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Wow, that is a great conversion. Very nice. I would love to do this, just don't have any of the tools to do it. If you don't mind me asking what was the total cost of the conversion?
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Your biggest expense will be Spanish cedar. So it depends on what price you can get it for. You can expect to have $250 - $350 in material cost. |
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09-04-2008, 03:29 AM | #8 | |
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I've seen that article and its been inspirational. I don't think I'm going to tear the liner out on mine, but you definitely have me thinking about taking it down farther than I'd originally intended. Quite a labor of love. I'm leaning toward keeping mine rather than trying to sell. It helps that my girlfriend loves the piece.
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09-11-2008, 06:59 AM | #9 | |
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I set a bowl of distilled water and a hygrometer in there just to get an idea of how it would hold RH, and it ran consistently at 69 percent after a couple days. Thats with the drainage hole open at the bottom. That surprised me, but hopefully that means there will be some ventilation. This should be cool as long as the rh is consistent inside right? Planning to build some shelves and start filling her up. Humidification should work fine with a hydra and a few pounds of 65 percent beads. Heres a dumb question: I've read in a couple different places of folks keeping desktop humidors in larger cabinets. In this capacity they'd basically be used as storage boxes and not need any humidification set up of their own right?
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09-11-2008, 12:36 PM | #10 |
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Nice work, MrTapes, beat me to posting the link.
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