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I've had 2 tops crack on me. One guitar I had left out on the stand for 2 days, another I had waited just a little bit too long to refill in in-case humidifier. First one re-cracked because I hadn't yet figured out that you need to refill the humidifiers in a gig bag more often than in a hard case. In summer you need to refill them every two weeks, you can get away with once a month in winter. (opposite of everywhere else) But yeah, top crack repairs outnumber all other repairs out here.
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My husbands Martin cracked on the back, I believe because of the humidity change from Santa Barbara to Prescott, AZ. He refused to case or humidify, now he does both. Good advise given above. I am now a big believer, please humidify!!!! |
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I was going to say splits/cracks. Humidity problems.
The only time I've ever had to have a guitar repaired was when the two piece back pulled apart. This would have been due to inadequate humidification, I'm sure. At the time I discovered the problem, I'd only had the guitar for about 1-2 weeks after purchasing it new. It was very painful to have repaired, even though I paid no money. The guitar was my first nice one, and they kept it for a very long time so they could re-humidify it. I was terrified for months that I'd have to be vigilant with wet sponges in order to protect my instrument, but it's been a couple years now with no further problems.
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Here in Minnesota the low humidity problem is during the winter - every year we will see 400 - 500 guitars with low humidity symptoms and perhaps 150 - 200 of them have cracks in the top. I hand out perhaps 500 brochures a year on the problem and it has not gone away.
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There's a great line in the book Understanding Wood that goes something like:
"Someone once quipped that 90% of all problems with wood involve moisture. For those who ignore basic wood-moisture relationships that is a conservative estimate." |
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Well I live in 'ol blighty where it's never dry!
I never knew about humidity till I joined here but I don't worry about it too much - I keep my guitars in their cases and I have a humidity reader out in the house - it tends to hover around 55% when it's been raining and settles down at 40% when it's dry - but there have been days when it's been as high as 80% or as low as 30% - I just don't take the guitar out of it's case on those days and trust that any change it feels will be slowed by the case... Haven't noticed any adverse reactions yet...
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