Originally Posted by
Cal
Tone, I'd guess the RH in your home is currently around the 25% mark. Too dry for solid wood acoustics.
The laminated wood babies fare quite well in all sorts of humidity for obvious reasons. But bear in mind that most fretboards are solid and you don't want the fret ends slicing your fingers off when the board shrinks. Also, any humidity excesses will affect the neck itself (usually through the fretboard as the back of the neck is normally sealed by its finish), which I think is probably Steve's problem.
So, during the winter I'd keep your guitars in their hard cases with humidifiers that let the moisture get to the
whole guitar (Shiner's DIY ones are superb) and have a
digital hygrometer in the case too, to make sure the RH is around 50%.
Just my 2 cents.
Thanks for your 2 cents! Done...I'm ordering one of those gadgets right now thank you for your assessment sir.
Btw Stephen S.T. Esquire I didn't mean to hijack your thread sorry!
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