mellowgerman
Senior Member
Recently I made a thread regarding humidity concerns in regard to gear. After that discussion, I ended up buying some Boveda packs to help regulate humidity inside of my guitar cases.
My guitars are ALWAYS in their cases when they're not being played, but still, with it being the peak of summer weather extremes, I've been continuing to psych myself out over the matter... I live in an old house in central Florida, (most humid state in the country). We have window units instead of a central HVAC system. So the A/C runs until it's happy with the temperature, then it turns off and the temperature and humidity slowly rise until it turns on again and brings them back down.
Even if I have the humidity inside the case relatively under control, what happens when the guitar is regularly coming out of the case into a far less controlled environment of higher humidity and then being returned to the case. I suppose, at this point, temperature differences are less of my concern than humidity differences. SO...
In your opinion, what's worse for guitars?
(A) Relatively long periods of humidity extremes
(B) Daily fluctuations into and out of humidity extremes?
I know neither is good, but at this time there is little I can do to avoid one or the other. If regular fluctuations really do take more of a toll, would it be better to keep the A/C off more of the time, allowing high humidity, but at the same time making sure that there is less fluctuation?
Am I overthinking things?
On a side-note, we are planning to move when our lease is up at the end of November. One of the criteria for the new place will be a better insulated, temperature-controlled living space. My guitars are too valuable to me, the idea of wood-rot freaks me out, and I want to be able to keep them healthy and with me for the rest of my life.
Thanks for any and all input!
My guitars are ALWAYS in their cases when they're not being played, but still, with it being the peak of summer weather extremes, I've been continuing to psych myself out over the matter... I live in an old house in central Florida, (most humid state in the country). We have window units instead of a central HVAC system. So the A/C runs until it's happy with the temperature, then it turns off and the temperature and humidity slowly rise until it turns on again and brings them back down.
Even if I have the humidity inside the case relatively under control, what happens when the guitar is regularly coming out of the case into a far less controlled environment of higher humidity and then being returned to the case. I suppose, at this point, temperature differences are less of my concern than humidity differences. SO...
In your opinion, what's worse for guitars?
(A) Relatively long periods of humidity extremes
(B) Daily fluctuations into and out of humidity extremes?
I know neither is good, but at this time there is little I can do to avoid one or the other. If regular fluctuations really do take more of a toll, would it be better to keep the A/C off more of the time, allowing high humidity, but at the same time making sure that there is less fluctuation?
Am I overthinking things?
On a side-note, we are planning to move when our lease is up at the end of November. One of the criteria for the new place will be a better insulated, temperature-controlled living space. My guitars are too valuable to me, the idea of wood-rot freaks me out, and I want to be able to keep them healthy and with me for the rest of my life.
Thanks for any and all input!
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