Quote Originally Posted by buzz View Post
You can try the flashlight test: Turn all the lights off in your room to make it absolutely pitch black, try to make your way to the humidor, step on something sharp and ram your shin into a coffee table or something, turn the flashlight on, put it in the humidor, see if any light shines out of it.

Welcome from AZ.

-Buzz
Hahaha, nice. This should prove even more hilarious after the Stone IPA I've been drinking tonight. It's too cold to go outside and smoke so I figured I might as well enjoy some beer that will ruin my palate.

I think the seal is good though. After watching a few You Tube videos and re-reading a few things last night it seems like the seal good enough at least. I began the seasoning process last night. I just did the shot glass method last night as I realized I didn't have any new sponges and it was too late to go to the store. Today I picked up some sponges and did the wipe-down method with distilled water and left the moist sponge in the box on top of a plastic bag. I did notice that even after the basic wipe down, the lid fits a lot more snugly. If I just slowly close it, it requires just a little force to completely close and if I drop it from about an inch I definitely get more of a whoosh sound now.

Interestingly, I've been doing the salt test on my digital hygrometer for over 24 hours now, but it still doesn't seem like the reading has stabilized. Hopefully, once I get that dialed in I can get the hygrometer in the humidor so I can tell once the humidity in the box is stabilized. Probably should have just picked up the Boveda calibration packet, but I was trying to save a few bucks.

Thanks for the helpful replies and welcome posts!