A Different Kind of Seal Test

WaxingMoon · 01-21-2012, 06:00 PM

I am building this Quarter Sawn White Oak humidor and decided to go with fuming the oak. Fuming is when you put the piece in a sealed container with a bowl or two of ammonia inside with it.....

The ammonia vapors (fumes) cause the tanins in the wood to react....causes a sort of chemical reaction that darkens the wood, especially oak due to it's high tanin content.... Hence, the term fuming....

So... I decided to put a test piece of Quarter Sawn White Oak inside the humidor to test the seal..... if the seal was bad, the test piece would have turned as the humidor did.....

In the picture, the test piece that was inside of the humidor during the fuming is the square on the left.... the "control" piece is the longer piece to the right, which was not involved with the process at all......

First time I've this......

So... I am very pleased to see that my seals on my humidors.....do just that. Seal it!

01-21-2012, 06:00 PM	#1
WaxingMoon Humidor Builder Join Date: Dec 2009 First Name: Ed Location: Albert Lea, MN Posts: 658 Trading: (3)	A Different Kind of Seal Test I am building this Quarter Sawn White Oak humidor and decided to go with fuming the oak. Fuming is when you put the piece in a sealed container with a bowl or two of ammonia inside with it..... The ammonia vapors (fumes) cause the tanins in the wood to react....causes a sort of chemical reaction that darkens the wood, especially oak due to it's high tanin content.... Hence, the term fuming.... So... I decided to put a test piece of Quarter Sawn White Oak inside the humidor to test the seal..... if the seal was bad, the test piece would have turned as the humidor did..... In the picture, the test piece that was inside of the humidor during the fuming is the square on the left.... the "control" piece is the longer piece to the right, which was not involved with the process at all...... First time I've this...... So... I am very pleased to see that my seals on my humidors.....do just that. Seal it! __________________ This correspondence has killed no trees, however, several electrons have been disturbed!