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People who have their houses at 80 plus freak me out.

I'm like "Hey, do you mind if I take my pants off?" ;] This gal that had us over said "go ahead" and I"m struttin around her house in my undies but then she got a couple of her regular visitors and they didn't like that...
 

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Correction, I miss quoted. Not your guitars Grot, I meant Richards.
Never had a problem. I think 60 degrees F is a fine temp for guitars. I juast keep thinking of it as a mid to late October day in Michigan. The humidity is of far more concern to me. I do my best to keep it at 50% but it can be a bit of a challenge here. Right now I'm at 42% so time to kick the humidifier into high I guess.
 

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I'm with you, Richard, but I need to set the thermostat at 68 to keep the wife happy.

If people say they are too cold, I tell them "Put on a sweater."

Then yesterday it was so het in here from cooking Thanksgiving dinner, we had the heat turned off and windows open, and it was snowing outside.
 
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Agree with Richard. Slow temperature changes do not push my alarm buttons.
My preference for humidity is more lenient than ideal--with 40%--60% range being acceptable.
And I really think "slow change" being the key.
In 1995, our youngest son, a Sophomore in college mentioned he would like a guitar to learn on. I found a good used Sigma, no case, made by Martin and he got it Christmas of '95. He graduated college in '98 brought all his "gatherings" home and his Sigma was in a cloth bag with be a draw string. My wife nor I knew nothing about storing a guitar so we put it on a shelf in an outdoor storage building. In 2019, 20 years later, when I was hooked on learning to play and had a DV52, my wife casually says, "Ryan's guitar is in the storage building." I knew a little bit about heat, humidity, and guitars then. That is 20 years of winters, summers, rains, and storms with the inside of the building matching the humidity and temperatures of those 20 years.
We walk down, unlock the building, and she reaches upon a shelf and hands me the bagged guitar.
I took it in the house, loosened the draw strings, and not one crack, or split, or warp, or twist. Tuners all worked fine - tuned it and played, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." Next day, I put new strings on it and had my guitar teacher lower the action. Son has it at his house, now.
Maybe $300-400 guitar. If I did that to good guitar, I betcha it would have been ruined.
 

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I never have, and still do not, like hot weather. Even warm weather is not enjoyable for me. Anything above 70 degrees F seems super uncomfortable to me. I had always kept my house at 52 degrees and kicked it up to 55 if it got below 20 degrees outside.

But, I fear things are changing a bit. Every year my goal was to get to Dec. 1st without turning the furnace on. I never made it but I got close. This year, on Nov. 15th I couldn't take it anymore. The cold just seemed to seep into my bones, I always felt chilled and the dogs breath was blowing out visable vapors. So, I turned the furnace on to 52. Still cold so it went to 55. The old bones were still creaking so it went to 60 degress and that's where it is now. It will NOT go any higher than that. I shudder to think what my propane bill will be.

Ahhhh..... the golden years.
Ugh. Same here. It's not an either-or. I hate the heat, but that doesn't mean I like shivering. At my house, we do 60 when we're up and at home and 50 when we go to bed or go out. (If we have visitors, which isn't often, we roll it up to 65.)

But, confession: Yesterday afternoon, for the first time ever, I goosed the thermostat up to 63 when it was just my wife and me. Just for a few hours. And didn't tell my her.

And yes, hot weather flat-out sucks. Summer is my worst season. It just kills me. When I move, I almost always move north. In central Maine now and have dreams of Newfoundland or Labrador ore Iceland someday. The Villages is my idea of hell on earth.
 

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Agree with Richard. Slow temperature changes do not push my alarm buttons.
My preference for humidity is more lenient than ideal--with 40%--60% range being acceptable.
And I really think "slow change" being the key.
In 1995, our youngest son, a Sophomore in college mentioned he would like a guitar to learn on. I found a good used Sigma, no case, made by Martin and he got it Christmas of '95. He graduated college in '98 brought all his "gatherings" home and his Sigma was in a cloth bag with be a draw string. My wife nor I knew nothing about storing a guitar so we put it on a shelf in an outdoor storage building. In 2019, 20 years later, when I was hooked on learning to play and had a DV52, my wife casually says, "Ryan's guitar is in the storage building." I knew a little bit about heat, humidity, and guitars then. That is 20 years of winters, summers, rains, and storms with the inside of the building matching the humidity and temperatures of those 20 years.
We walk down, unlock the building, and she reaches upon a shelf and hands me the bagged guitar.
I took it in the house, loosened the draw strings, and not one crack, or split, or warp, or twist. Tuners all worked fine - tuned it and played, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." Next day, I put new strings on it and had my guitar teacher lower the action. Son has it at his house, now.
Maybe $300-400 guitar. If I did that to good guitar, I betcha it would have been ruined.
Yep. That's the plywood advantage. Extremely stable material.

Good story!
 

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People who have their houses at 80 plus freak me out.

I'm like "Hey, do you mind if I take my pants off?" ;] This gal that had us over said "go ahead" and I"m struttin around her house in my undies but then she got a couple of her regular visitors and they didn't like that...
"Your vacuum cleaner ate my pants. There was nothing I could do."

I thought that commercial was hilarious.

Video quality isn't very good, but found it.

 
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Forget all that. Just test fire up your generators so you'll be ready for winter power outages. When the lights go out, we really learn who's wimpy and who's not.


Slight veer - over here the occasional power outages happen about once a year - or 3 years - and they are fixed within half an hour in cities - more time spent in the countryside - but as I understand - hardly anybody has their own generators for grid backup.

Back to original thread - when temperature goes under 19-20 C - 66-68 F - my hands get cold - no pullover can help - I have slippers and plenty clothes - but my hands are bare - and it affects my fine motor skills - and those are what I need to play guitar - surely I can do something - but just few more degrees warmer is a game changer. About 75 F is good for me, who is not THAT young physically anymore. . .
 
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Slight veer - over here the occasional power outages happen about once a year - or 3 years - and they are fixed within half an hour in cities - more time spent in the countryside - but as I understand - hardly anybody has their own generators for grid backup.

Back to original thread - when temperature goes under 19-20 C - 66-68 F - my hands get cold - no pullover can help - I have slippers and plenty clothes - but my hands are bare - and it affects my fine motor skills - and those are what I need to play guitar - surely I can do something - but just few more degrees warmer is a game changer. About 75 F is good for me, who is not THAT young physically anymore. . .
Gloves with part of the fingers cut off? I keep a pair of cheap nonbulky fleece gloves, fingers partly cut off at my computer for cold hands days. Cut the fingers off, after your own fingers have been removed of course :p , at first joint and if that isn't good for what you want to do, trim off a little more.
 

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Gloves with part of the fingers cut off? I keep a pair of cheap nonbulky fleece gloves, fingers partly cut off at my computer for cold hands days.
Same for me. Mrs Jaguar calls them my Bob Cratchit gloves. :rolleyes:
 

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I've spent nights in the ADK's with temps 20 below zero...in a tent...with an appropriate bag...old Moonstone -30 rated bag.

I spent 4 hours Thursday walking in the cold.

Richard, it may sound dumb but I'll wear a watch cap in the house....wife loves it low 60's in winter. You lose a lot of heat from your head.

I don't like AC and Ill dress in sweats and cap in July if she has the AC blasting.

Speaking of which...31 and snowing....time for a romp in the woods e0 mi utes south of here!!
 

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The first time I ever went camping in tents was in Iceland. I have never been so cold for so long in my life. It was miserable. It is probably because of that one outing that I dislike camping. Dislike it a whole lot and hope to never go again.
 

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Ahhhh, camping!! I don't like camping either. Probably because I had to do it with my family, and they were not very fun. We went from Los Angeles up the coast into Canada and down through Montana and the like to Colorado, then back to LA. My dad was gleeful because he was saving money on a hotel/motel. My mom was hateful because she had to work harder to get meals and such ready and improvise. She wasn't fun in the BEST of circumstances, so camping made her even worse. My older sister and brother complained the whole time about being cold or me moving around too much in my sleep.

As the youngest, and still just a kid, I thought it was GRAND!! Except it was all about deadlines and driving day and night to make those deadlines and sometimes sleeping in the back of a station wagon with the other two siblings. But campfires and sleeping in a tent and such were great fun to me. The people not so much because everyone was cranky. We'd see those big dinosaurs off the highway at a rest stop and just fly past all the fun because of deadlines.

The best time we ever had was when the 1961 Comet wagon wheel bearing went out in nowhere Montana. We made it to some little town and found a mechanic. We stayed in a motel. We got to sleep in a real bed. They had a pool and a restaurant. We were delayed for three days while the part was shipped in. Every day we got to eat real food in a restaurant and then go play in the pool and then do stuff in town and see local stuff and even go into the gift shop. Everyone finally had a good time. THEN, the wheel bearing was fixed but we had to make up 3 days so back to hell in the station wagon again until we got home. So my family kinda ruined it for me. I've been on camping trips since that trauma where I had a good time.

But these days, I don't understand people going to so much trouble to create a home "with all the comforts" and then leaving that to "rough it". I'll just skip the camping, thanks very much. All my favorite stuff is here at home. I like it here.

And now that it's up to 68 from 61 in here and I've got hot coffee, I'm good. :p
 

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I did a lot of camping with my family - luckily it was a happy family, I have some great memories.

But after lots of camping as an adult supporting my two boys with Boy Scouts, I have had enough!

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Not so much into camping any more either. Oh, let's leave the comfort of home to go live in the dirt for two weeks!

If I want a campfire, I go out in my back yard.

Now, I'd rather go to a motel and ride bikes to the state parks.
 

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Generators? If they are 25hp or less, our governor just outlawed them starting in 2023 as well as any other gasoline motor under that size. That means all the lawnmowers , chainsaws, and other gardening gear too. Every now and again, I've thought about getting a generator in case of PG&E or So Cal Edison issues or some natural disaster. Hey, the San Andreas fault is what makes the pass through the mountains that Interstate 15 / Route 66 follows. That's not too far from my house. So, it could happen.
 

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If I want a campfire, I go out in my back yard.

Now, I'd rather go to a motel
Agreed. Camping as a kid was fun. As an adult, especially on motorcycle trips - not so much. Made the switch to motel/hotels and motorcycling was much more fun.
 

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No kidding, John! That's a harshly early startup date for small engine outlawing. Pack up and come east. We have no wildfires, air pollution, earthquakes, mudslides or Sasquatches, and the land goes on forever. You just have to deal with cold and snow, which makes you less wimpy.

You don't need a big 'un, just enough to keep light and heat until the power line guys put things back together.
 

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Generators? If they are 25hp or less, our governor just outlawed them starting in 2023 as well as any other gasoline motor under that size. That means all the lawnmowers , chainsaws, and other gardening gear too. Every now and again, I've thought about getting a generator in case of PG&E or So Cal Edison issues or some natural disaster. Hey, the San Andreas fault is what makes the pass through the mountains that Interstate 15 / Route 66 follows. That's not too far from my house. So, it could happen.
John, all my CA people have let me know about this. But I understand about all the leaf blowers because they're a epidemic here. I live at a conjunction of 4.... FOUR HOA's and they all have people come at different times and the noise and ....

There is OBVIOUSLY too many peoples on this planet. Especially here in 'Murica!! There's hardly any wild or natural spaces any more. It's sad. Another 10/20 years and I'm out, but what about the kids?? Which I don't have. But let's talk about PLASTIC!! Okay, not because this is a guitar forum. So what was I saying?? Oh yeah generators... okay, whatever..... :p
 
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