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Hi Everyone,
I am new to real cigar smoking and have a few questions that I hope arenââ¬â¢t too noobish. I also do not know anything about wood, which is one of the questions I have.
1. Are all wood boxes cigars are sent in made of Spanish Cedar? If not how can you tell which are and which is not Spanish Cedar?
2. Are boxes that are painted or varnished, such as the 5 Vegas Gold boxes, ok to put in an igloodor? Will the paint or varnish affect the taste of the cigars in the igloodor? The 5 Vegas Gold boxes have a very strong odor of paint.
Some expert opinions would be extremely helpful to this cigar noob.
Thanks
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I believe most cigar boxes are cedar even if they are dress boxes (paper wrapped) except maybe the machine mades on the low end.
Regarding painted or varnished boxes I think it depends on how much odor is coming off the box itself. Sounds like it would be a good idea to get 5 Vegas stuff into another container and leave the varnished box out until the odor dissipates.
I'm sure there's better guidance to be had out here somewhere.
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Welcome to Stogie Chat!
I think Headley hit the nail on the head. Most boxes are either cedar or a cedar product (plywood). But the painted/varnished boxes will not go in my coolerdors until all odor has disipated completely.
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Welcome, what I did with my painted box was take the sticks out and put them in the coolidor and leave the box out until the paint smell goes away, put the cigars back in and wham you got your box in the coolidor. No problems with smell for me so far.
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welcome. and everyone's hit it on the head. had a box of sancho panzas that stunk to high holy hell. let it sit until smell disappated. put cigars in box. put box in cabinet.
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