Humidor dividers...

[hendu3270]

I have a 300 ct humidor that I bought a couple of months ago when I became so infatuated with cigars, (hello, my name is Chris and I have a problem). Anyway, it was missing one of the dividers in the bottom portion of the humidor, (CI refunded me $10 since it wasn't included). I am wanting to put another divider or maybe even two more. Spanish Cedar is not readilty available in my area and I don't feel like ordering it online and having to wait on it to arrive. My question is this, would it be an issue if I were to simply use a 1/4" thick oak piece as a spacer? I wasn't sure if this would affect my cigars in a bad way, or screw up the humidity level somehow.

I really like the boxes that some of my cigars have come in but trying to keep the boxes in the humidor is just taking uo too much room, so I need to take the gars out of them. Any tips on types of cigars that I could actually have sitting next to other cigars or is the typical rule to have all brands separate from others?

Thanks for any help or advice,

Chris

[heftysmokes]

I would guess you should be okay with a piece of oak as a divider. I've always been under the assumption that spanish cedar is used to line humidors because of its ability to maintain a more constant humidity, so I don't think a single piece of oak is going to cause any harm.

As far as storing different cigars together, the only hard and fast rule is to NOT store "flavored," or "infused," or "aromatic" cigars with regular cigars. Some people like to store their corojos with their corojos and their maduros with their maduros, but I feel that if the tobacco has already fermented and cured in a barn in the DR (or wherever), the marriage of flavors is going to be minimal, if that.