Solid wood guitar storage

BigPaulie · January 2022

You're overthinking this.

The answers to the last time you asked a similar question are still valid.

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/219770/all-solid-guitars-and-humidity-control/p1

bertie · January 2022

I keep mine in the fridge - for all my cool choons

artiebear · January 2022

It's a guitar. It should've been built to be played.,toured with, and lived with. It's not a delicate artefact and is is certainly not to be considered precious..

Zonular · January 2022

Grand lads, sorry for over posting on the same topic
The faith insert of keeping the guitar flat in the case threw me.
Tbh never had a acoustic as nice as this before, just need to get over the babying stage

Mellish · January 2022

@Zonular ; no worries, hope we've been able to help

sev112 · January 2022

PS my book is still in the process of drying out with the airing cupboard and dehumidifier - nearly there

Mellish · January 2022

@sev112 ; have you regularly opened the book rather than leaving it closed while drying?

artiebear · January 2022

In an interview with a world famous cellist, she nonchalantly stated that if her crazily ex[pensive 18th century cello felt tight and dry after getting home from touring, she would stick it out on the balcony of her Italian apartment for a day or two in damp weather to rehumidify it. She said the process worked perfectly. I like her way off thinking.

Lewy · January 2022

artiebear said:

In an interview with a world famous cellist, she nonchalantly stated that if her crazily ex[pensive 18th century cello felt tight and dry after getting home from touring, she would stick it out on the balcony of her Italian apartment for a day or two in damp weather to rehumidify it. She said the process worked perfectly. I like her way off thinking.

Cellos and flat top guitars are made so differently you may as well cite an anecdote about someone leaving their bike out
on the balcony!

artiebear · January 2022

Lewy said:

artiebear said:

In an interview with a world famous cellist, she nonchalantly stated that if her crazily ex[pensive 18th century cello felt tight and dry after getting home from touring, she would stick it out on the balcony of her Italian apartment for a day or two in damp weather to rehumidify it. She said the process worked perfectly. I like her way off thinking.

Cellos and flat top guitars are made so differently you may as well cite an anecdote about someone leaving their bike out
on the balcony!

Not really, the effects of humidity present in many of the same ways.

sev112 · January 2022

Mellish said:

@sev112 ; have you regularly opened the book rather than leaving it closed while drying?

Yep, thanks, it gets opened several times and day and then stood or hung upside down with as many pages fanned out as possible. It’s mainly the bits of the pages closest to the seam that are still a little damp

TINMAN82 · January 2022

artiebear said:

In an interview with a world famous cellist, she nonchalantly stated that if her crazily ex[pensive 18th century cello felt tight and dry after getting home from touring, she would stick it out on the balcony of her Italian apartment for a day or two in damp weather to rehumidify it. She said the process worked perfectly. I like her way off thinking.

I’ve heard Tommy Emmanuel say he’ll leave the shower on in his hotel room and put a couple of dry guitars in the (empty) bath to humidify.

BigPaulie · January 2022

Zonular said:

Grand lads, sorry for over posting on the same topic
The faith insert of keeping the guitar flat in the case threw me.
Tbh never had a acoustic as nice as this before, just need to get over the babying stage

I imagine laying a guitar case flat is more to do with the case than the guitar inside. i.e. so that the case doesn't warp, and that its seals/hinges/latches all line up and function properly.

There's nominally 90kg of string force on the structure of your guitar. The force of gravity acting upon your guitar's mass is relatively negligible.

Play the thing.

bertie · January 2022

mine are in their cases cos Ive no room to store them separately, and upright - have been since I got them..........

BillDL · January 2022

@Zonular ;

You mentioned in a previous comment: "in the case from faith, it specifies storing the case flat? Never heard of that before".

more recently you said: "The faith insert of keeping the guitar flat in the case threw me."

Two different things.

Assuming it is the latter, I think the "store flat in case" could be a translation thing. Perhaps it has been mis-translated from an instruction to put it into the case on its back, just in case some numpty might be tempted to lay it face down, or put it on its back with a towel under the body.

Mellish · January 2022

@sev112 ; yep, that's it. Keep doing what you're doing and all should turn out good

Zonular · January 2022

Noticeable difference between my old all laminate and solid top btw, the faith sounds spectacular.... Iight need to try a Martin, selling off some gear at the moment so the war chest is building

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