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What percentage range is safe? Guitars not in cases. Mostly my home is about 60-80 % range between winter to summer. Electrics with heavy seal less vulnerable than acoustics? Keep at tention when not playing?


Originally Posted by Toenail-TommyWhat percentage range is safe? Guitars not in cases. Mostly my home is about 60-80 % range between winter to summer. Electrics with heavy seal less vulnerable than acoustics? Keep at tention when not playing?

40 to 50% is pretty ideal...Too much either way is bad...Electric guitars are very forgiving to the humidity.It's the acoustics that you have to monitor for things like dry cracking or an overly damp wet guitar...

A luthier I know told me 40-45 is ideal for most guitars, but most can handle a range a bit bigger than that. Older Takamine guitars seem to be quite robust, but Martins not quite to the same extent.

Are you sure that 60-80% relative humidity is correct? That's beyond most rain forests!!! And there usually is a very large variance between summer and winter, but it would depends on what state you're in.

If you're looking for humidification, Planet Waves (D'addario) make a good one that rests between strings, sitting in the soundhole. Can be used with or without case, and is very inexpensive. (About $10 methinks?)


Originally Posted by SingleCutDudeA luthier I know told me 40-45 is ideal for most guitars, but most can handle a range a bit bigger than that. Older Takamine guitars seem to be quite robust, but Martins not quite to the same extent.

Are you sure that 60-80% relative humidity is correct? That's beyond most rain forests!!! And there usually is a very large variance between summer and winter, but it would depends on what state you're in.

If you're looking for humidification, Planet Waves (D'addario) make a good one that rests between strings, sitting in the soundhole. Can be used with or without case, and is very inexpensive. (About $10 methinks?)

my old ('76) takamine is same as it ever was... still plays like butter and sounds great (would sound better without the adjustable bridge though

I live at 5463 ft, far from the coast, so the humidity range is rather great (morning to afternoon), and seasonally too. Winter is really dry (afternoons hover around 30% RH, with mornings starting out at about 60%) Summer on the other hand hangs about 80%, but on a rainy morning it'll be up at 90's. So I guess I live in a rainforest. But when I visit my old home at the coast, the RH is in the late 80's. Feels like Florida or New Orleans.

My Guitars feel and sound different when I travel, or season to season at home, so guess I am going to have to stabilise my home's RH.

When a guitar is shoved (roughly of course) in the aeroplane's hold, surely it gets very cold and very dry? This will make it sick, no? Lucille travels in her own seat?

from : localhost/article written by Richard Hoover pretty much explains what you need to do to take car of your guitars. I have 10 acoustic guitars. I keep a humidifier in the guitar at all all times as well as a 2nd humidifier under the headstock. I also have a meter in each case. I would recommend storing your guitars in the case. It is the safest place for them when not being played and it is easier to keep them at a constant % of humidity.

Back in college, I had an apt that I had 3 real expensive archtops in. I hade this huge humidifier with something like a 3 gallon water jug in it. The day before I moved out, I ran the humidifier all day trying like hell to make it rain in that place.