I made some pine drawers to put my cards. I tried to find what is best to put over the wood to protect the cards but I can't find something. In my case humidity is not a problem as I live in Canada and the temperature is not moving more than 5 degree Celcius during the year inside the house .
Does somebody has a link or already make some comparison between things like varnishes, paint, gluying some papers, plastic , cardboard, microfiber(which one?) or other things?
Wood is generally not recommended. However the Magic community is pretty much split roughly between so-called investors and everyone else. It's why the words "acide-free" and "archival safe" usually isn't synonymous with Magic and storage. Anyways, here is some information to point you in some direction.
First and foremost is this article that summarizes most of it. The key takeaway is that wood outgasses acetic acid (and/or Formaldehyde for processed woods) which is damaging to Magic cards. It's a similar sort of thing that attacks cards when they're stored in those awful three ring binders.
There are a myriad of other resources but much of it is generalized to try and cover multiple things (books, pottery, etc). Some of them include Gaylord, PEL, SAA, National Archives and National Park Service (yes, really). Buried somewhere in those sites is an excellent resource dealing with storage made from wood. Unfortunately, I can't find it anymore.
In the end, seal the wood as recommended in the article then add some sort of neutral buffer, such as buffer paper (purchasable from Gaylord) to line the drawers. There is an aluminum(?) based product used as a liner but I don't have experience with it.
Personally, I use a metal cabinet (I purchased one from IKEA) and store all my cards in paper boxes. I wish I could buy the archival boxes but those are mad expensive.
Wood is generally not recommended. However the Magic community is pretty much split roughly between so-called investors and everyone else. It's why the words "acide-free" and "archival safe" usually isn't synonymous with Magic and storage. Anyways, here is some information to point you in some direction.
First and foremost is this article that summarizes most of it. The key takeaway is that wood outgasses acetic acid (and/or Formaldehyde for processed woods) which is damaging to Magic cards. It's a similar sort of thing that attacks cards when they're stored in those awful three ring binders.
There are a myriad of other resources but much of it is generalized to try and cover multiple things (books, pottery, etc). Some of them include Gaylord, PEL, SAA, National Archives and National Park Service (yes, really). Buried somewhere in those sites is an excellent resource dealing with storage made from wood. Unfortunately, I can't find it anymore.
In the end, seal the wood as recommended in the article then add some sort of neutral buffer, such as buffer paper (purchasable from Gaylord) to line the drawers. There is an aluminum(?) based product used as a liner but I don't have experience with it.
Personally, I use a metal cabinet (I purchased one from IKEA) and store all my cards in paper boxes. I wish I could buy the archival boxes but those are mad expensive.