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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I was wondering, in the context of applying finishes to guitars, what do people mean when they say a guitar breathes? I understand it to mean that when wood breathes it lets moisture in or out. But I also thought my adamas didn't breathe, and the bowl doesn't breathe, and people make guitars out of plastic, aluminum etc, and there pretty good. Do these other things breathe? Does anyone here know what "breathe" means? |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I always took it to mean how a guitar responds to atmospheric changes. In that regard, an Adamas could still have neck/fingerboard (and maybe bracing?) issues if not cared for properly.
I work with wood, and always wondered about the outside of a guitar having a finish but the inside having no finish. I don't understand why that isn't a big problem.
But that's all the time I'm gonna spend thinking about this for the rest of the year. John <>{ |
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Location: south east Michigan | Maybe because conditions are the same on both sides.
Somewhat related....There is a pocket door between the bedroom and the bathroom. The bedroom is air conditioned, the bath is not. During that last heat spell that door bowed into the bedroom almost a full inch. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I don't know much about that, but my new natural cedar Elite sounds absolutely phenominal! I'm putting new strings on everything I have with steel strings, so I can get an accurate comparison. I just had a friend tell me he thought it even sounded better than my Adamas I. I guess that one's really is gonna' be a debateable issue. What sounds "better"? |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Do guitars breathe?
That's a question that I'd been wanting to ask for a very long time. At that time, I was browsing through the MUSIC 123 catalog, and came across the Epiphone "Revolution" Casino. As per the catalog, John and George stripped the finish from their Casino's, claiming that it "breathed" more, which also coincided with the stripped down sound of The White Album.
The question puzzled me since ... and while the "breathing" of the Casino makes a good marketing slogan ... I don't think it justifies the asking price of 2.5 Gs. |
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OT: Do guitars breathe?