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Location: ma. | does adding a humidifier have any restorative benefits to a guitar that may not have had one used previously? or will it just keep the top stable/pliable from that point on. |
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| I have a classical guitar I bought from a guy that had it in storage for three years in Phoenix AZ. The top and back were sunk in about ¼” and it was unplayable.
After a month at 45% humidity the top and back had a 1/32” crown and it played like a new guitar. You need to study up on guitar humidity before you go messing around though. Taylor Tech Sheets is a good place to start.
Mike
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | We have a local guitar store that will "humidify" a guitar for you. I asked them one day just how they went about doing that (with thoughts of a contraption looking similar to an iron lung or a guitar shaped pressure cooker). They put it in a room at 45% to 50% for a month or so. I wonder how they can tell when its done? :rolleyes: |
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Location: Virginia | They stick a fork in it.
Sorry...couldn't resist.
bd :D |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Marketing, marketing, marketing, They're doing what you can do by putting your guitar in a case with a humidifier (read the directions). In winter, the humidity gets very low, bad for wood, even Ovation wood which is only the top. But if the top is affected by humiditity and the back isn't, stress results. I learned in college to always use "that" in place of "which", but here I've made an exception. |
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