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Location: North Carolina | Trust - but humidify. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | move to Florida |
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January 2005
Posts: 640
Location: boulder | sell all your wood backed guitars and buy the best carbon fiber you can,
also, it is not so much the humidity % of the room (as long as it's inthe 40-70% range), it is the change in humidity. Keeping any constant percentage, is better then letting it vary. I have a small bedroom that is my music/guitar room. I keep it about 40-50% with no humidfiers in summer (basement room) and have to fill a 2 gallon humidifier about twice a week in the winter when it is cold. It is just a habit. one of my good ones.. |
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Posts: 5881
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I never paid any attention to humidity until I joined the OFC and became "informed." Now I watch it all the time. For a Denver basement, I run a dehumidifier in the summer and a humidifier in winter in an attempt to maintain a constant 45%-50% reading. |
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December 2003
Posts: 1071
Location: Carle Place, NY | I learned the hard way that changes in humidity can be disaster on guitars. It wasn't until the bridge popped off of my 1537 that I paid real attention to it. Now I keep all of my Ovations nestled in their cases (as opposed to hanging on the wall like I used to) with a humidifier in the winter and some dessicators in the summer.
The only guitar I keep on the wall now is a Schecter electric. |
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