Darryl Hattenhauer
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50%! Lordy, no wonder they dried out. I think of 40% as about right here in the arid zone.
50%! Lordy, no wonder they dried out. I think of 40% as about right here in the arid zone.
Thanks, Wiley. They are $20 at Sam Ash, just down the street from me. I'm going to try one.
Do any of you use a room humidifier? I used to use mine regularly, but then I got irregular, so to speak, and now I have cracks I don't need.
So a few days ago, I went back to leaving it on all the time. Today I raised the setting to 50%. I'm leaving the lids open on the cases of the 3 cracked instruments. But with another 29 cased instruments in one bedroom, I don't have room to leave more cases open. How long will it take for the instruments inside the closed cases to absorb the same amount of humidity that the axes in the 3 open cases will be getting? Any guesstimates?
...Cold drops humidity the most out here, because the colder the air the less moisture it can hold as vapor...
GardMan; I now try and keep my Guilds just around 40% RH... because they sound better. When the RH gets up to 50% said:Yes, that sounds right, because the humidity will expand the wood, and somewhere along the line the swelling must impede the sound, I would think.
"RH" Is called "Relative Humility" because it's temperature dependantAddie,
A guitar store owner here told me he kept the room for his upscale axes at 40%. I've even heard that 30% is ok here in Fee Nicks. But I'm going to have to ask more people. I now suspect that 40% might be a minimum, and that he keeps it that low because it would be too uncomfortable at 50% for somebody who just walked in from 20%--the average outdoor "hum a ditty" in Phonics.
Yes, that sounds right, because the humidity will expand the wood, and somewhere along the line the swelling must impede the sound, I would think.
You can recharge those pouches, if they dry out. I've done that a couple of times with some that came with a used-instrument purchase. Just put the dry pouch in a baggie with a damp sponge, or add a damp-sponge-in-a-baggie to a guitar case that already contains the dried-out Humidipak (or whatever they call 'em nowadays).