I live in Salt Lake City (dry as hell) so keeping a good humidor seal is difficult and imperative. I have a coolerdor for aging boxes of cigars (currently about 10). That works great and maintains good humidity with a salt water solution, but I have gone through 3 humidors trying to find one that will hold humidity for my regular smokes. I have settled on an El Rey with an extra credo in the bottom. I add 50/50 each week. In spite of this, I have to gently wipe the cedar with distilled water each 2-4 weeks or else the humidity rapidly drops to 60 or below. Pain in the ass, but in spite of reading everything you guys write here, I havent found a better solution.
And I KNOW some of you think that "conditioning" humidors by wiping with distilled water swells the wood, but those cedar inserts are designed to swell slightly and its not like I'm soaking it with water, just wiping. Before cigarbid I had a single small humidor, and now I have to avoid even looking at the boxes for sale for fear I will buy too many.