Best travel humidors?

[Cigars4Troops]

i have a herf a dor as well and LOVE it. only down side is when flying you are more than likely going to have a issue opening it once you land. xikar i believe makes a case with a pressure release valve. also i have seen people let a little piece of string or celo hang out so it dose not make a complete seal

I tried to get a bigger picture but work has alot of places blocked, the herf a dors have a notch, if you have trouble opening them after flying just insert a coin, screwdriver etc in between them and twist, will pop right open.

[Demuths1770]

I tried to get a bigger picture but work has alot of places blocked, the herf a dors have a notch, if you have trouble opening them after flying just insert a coin, screwdriver etc in between them and twist, will pop right open.

i actually saw someone break a hotel butter knife while trying to do that and have also seen it work as well.

[Cigars4Troops]

i actually saw someone break a hotel butter knife while trying to do that and have also seen it work as well.

Ouch...that herf a dor must have really liked what was inside.

[Demuths1770]

Ouch...that herf a dor must have really liked what was inside.

yeah apparently more than we did lol!!! he stole the butter knife at breakfast from the hotel and broke it which its a good thing he tried the butter knife he wanted to use his keys lol. flat head screw driver is what we used to open it

[StogieNinja]

i actually saw someone break a hotel butter knife while trying to do that and have also seen it work as well.

A quarter is a LOT thicker than a hotel butter knife (unless it's one heck of a butter knife!). Use something solid and it works. Also, I have no real grasp of the laws of physics, but twisting seems to get much better results than prying, at least from what I've seen.

I have both kinds and prefer the Xikar over the Herf-a-dor. The ones that I have had did not pass the flashlight seal test, but the Xikars all have.

A few years ago, the Herfadors were made with a nice ABS plastic with a smooth finish and they sealed very well. At some point, the manufacturing changed to a softer, matte-finish plastic. When that happened, the tolerances changed, the plastic wasn't molded as perfectly, and so they didn't seal as well. I ordered then returned several because of the issue.

No idea if it's fixed now or if they still have issues, but I hang on to my older 5ct and 15ct. The Xikars on the other hand continue to be a well-molded ABS plastic that seems to seal perfectly, I have a recent 10ct that works great.

It's a shame because for whatever reason I much prefer the look of the Otterboxes/Herfadors to the Xikars. Wish I could find an older 10ct Herfador before they changed the plastic.