Originally Posted by MrClean

I seasoned my drawers and shelves, but mine are in a cooler so the only moisture in it are the cigars and beads. When they arrived, they were very dry, you could tell just by touching them. I wiped them down with distiller water, which basically just got the dust remnants off. I put 2 bowls of distilled water in the cooler with clean sponges. I did remove my cigars. Humidity dropped to the low 50's for a few days, then climbed to 80% and stayed there for a week, whole process was about 12 days. The wood had a difference I could feel, I was actually surprised. That was just my experience, but the humidity the shelves will absorb has to come from somewhere.