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Piggy, you are a genius. I never even thought of ripping out an ATX power supply out of the case. I'm stealing this for sure.

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… bill's in the mail mate! -LOL

Yeah man, you should see the stuff I will carve up to get a part!!! -LOL Glad that you can put the idea to good use. Cheers, -R

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Step by step guide with pictures, as I take a Vintage Basset China Cabinet and convert it into a Humidor for my cigar collection. Plans are to seal and line inside of cabinet with impervious insulatio

Finally, what everyone has been waiting for including myself LOL! The "Chinador" is all loaded up and working flawlessly! (85) Just brought into the house and the seasoning begins! (86) Finall

Thanks for all the positive comments. It's still not quit done yet, but I have been hard at work and have made some major progress, as can be seen by the following pics! (64) Cutting and splicing in

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Looking forward to seeing how you stock this beast. Are you unboxing everything or is there a place for box storage?

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Storing what boxes I can on the bottom. Eventually I will seal the two very bottom compartments on each side for boxes, as well.

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this is amazing i want to do this but i think the final product that i would make would be horrendous. great job on this would love to see picks of it filled

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Thought I should give a little update on the project. Getting very close to being done! Should be moving it into the house one day next week!!!!

(82) A lot of you are going to call sacralidge on this for painting a beautiful solid wood hutch, just, as I did! I love natural wood myself, as well. My wife however, wanted it painted to match the kitchen in which it will sit. So, in order to be able to bring it into the house I thought that was a small trade. I got my Humie and she got the color she wanted LOL! However after getting it almost done I really like it better painted than the natural wood! Everyone has there opinions, so lets hear yours!

First coat of Slate Gray Paint.

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(83) First round of antiquing glaze applied. The glaze gives the appearance of old weathered wood.

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(84) Painting and glazing complete, all hardware reinstalled, doors and drawers back on, as well, as and edges sanded a little to mimic wear and tear on the cabinet. All that is left to do is reinstall the lock in the door and wax the entire cabinet. Will be moving it into the house sometime this week.

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This is a bitter sweet post for me. I'm happy, as heck to be almost done with it, but I will miss working on it a little every evening LOL! Might be time to start on a walk-in? The next post will be the last after I have it in its final resting place and loaded up with smokes! I figure it will take three to four weeks to season up enough to start loading. I can't wait!!!!!

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Finally, what everyone has been waiting for including myself LOL! The "Chinador" is all loaded up and working flawlessly!

(85) Just brought into the house and the seasoning begins!

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(86) Finally, the money shots! All loaded up and working great!!! The next few pics were taken under a 6,000K Photographers Studio Light.

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(87) Looks washed out in the pics, but in person the LED's just give off a very soft white glow. I have, however found out that the lights can only be used for very short periods of time because they raise the internal temp by 5-10 degrees depending on the outside temps. Kind of a bummer, as it looks fantastic with them on.

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(88) The last few pics were taken under regular incandescent light.

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Well, that's it folks! It has been a very fun build and I couldn't be more happy with the final results! If anyone is in the process or thinking about doing something like this I would encourage you to go for it and custom retrofit or build something that can be handed down for generations to come that is as good or better than anything that can be bought pre-fab. If anyone should have any questions please feel free to message me, [email protected] Thanks for following the thread and thanks for all the great comments along the way!

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Congrats on finishing! It turned out beautiful. Really love the vintage lines to the cabinet and love that you went with that colour as opposed to some "cherry" stain or somthing like that.

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How is it holding up? Temp/humidty?

This is a great project and I am considering doing something similar...

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So far it's doing awesome! I took out all the extra bead packs two weeks ago and am now only running the humidifing boxes. I actually timed it's cycle just this evening. The humidifiers kick on bout every 15min and run for 1min 30-40sec. I assume that's good, as I have nothing to compare it too?

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So far it's doing awesome! I took out all the extra bead packs two weeks ago and am now only running the humidifing boxes. I actually timed it's cycle just this evening. The humidifiers kick on bout every 15min and run for 1min 30-40sec. I assume that's good, as I have nothing to compare it too?

Awesome... what about the temp? How is this compared to the external temp?

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Well, I have it in a room with a window AC Unit and a fan sitting in front of the AC blowing on the cabinet from a range of about 4'. I have a thermometer sitting up on top of the cabinet on the outside and that thermometer usually runs a couple degrees warmer than the internal temp of the cabinet. Over night and through late morning the internal temp runs 68-70 and for the hottest part of the day, which is early evening in my house the temp can get up to 73-74 depending on how hot it is outside, but it starts dropping back down by late evening. So, absolutely no problems of heat radiating out from the control box located inside the cabinet!

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Amazing!! It has to be infinitely more enjoyable knowing that you did all the work yourself rather than just buying a finished one. I really had a fun time reading your thread. Thanks!

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Amazing!! It has to be infinitely more enjoyable knowing that you did all the work yourself rather than just buying a finished one. I really had a fun time reading your thread. Thanks!

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Well, I have it in a room with a window AC Unit and a fan sitting in front of the AC blowing on the cabinet from a range of about 4'. I have a thermometer sitting up on top of the cabinet on the outside and that thermometer usually runs a couple degrees warmer than the internal temp of the cabinet. Over night and through late morning the internal temp runs 68-70 and for the hottest part of the day, which is early evening in my house the temp can get up to 73-74 depending on how hot it is outside, but it starts dropping back down by late evening. So, absolutely no problems of heat radiating out from the control box located inside the cabinet!

So how's it been running mate? Any issues so far or has it all been gravy?

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Absolutely stunning. You are a complete chinador creator. First of its kind seen ina forum. Thanks for all that you have shown us. Now to figure out how someone like myself with limited skills can do something like this but maybe ona smaller scale.

For lining the cabinet how much Cedar did it take to just line the sides bottom and back of this gorgeous cabinet.

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