Yeah, I think she's gonna be a case queen this winter. Yeah, Jersey is one those places with "AlL fOuR SeASonS" Every year we swing from tropical rainforest humidity to skin-crumbling, lip-cracking dryness. I'm glad I was able to make the switch in the 2 week temperate window we get annually.Larry Mal wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:54 amThe climate concerns will almost certainly need the most attention in winter. This guitar moving from the south to the north is going to put it from a relatively natural humid location to one in which the winters are likely dry due to a combination of freezing temperatures and/or forced dry heat. I haven't been to New Jersey so it's hard for me to speak to it, but I assume that one or both of those factors will apply.seenoevil II wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:00 pm
I haven't been going nuts with mine yet. Trying to ease it into the climate despite moving in the mild season.
I know we had a big thread about this and I might be repeating what you've already read from me, but I always keep a hygrometer around to monitor the humidity in my home, I humidify my home as benefit to the plants and humans in it anyway, and if I am unable to keep the humidity in my actual home above 40% then I use inexpensive in case humidifiers.
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No need to worry much about this, it's all common sense stuff anyway and the best part is what is good for you is good for your guitar.
I'll look into a hydrometer and maybe a humidifier (for the sake of my cracked, bleeding hands as well). Right now I have a damp sponge in a open ziplock baggy in the case.
I once built a guitar case for my jazzmaster by building a close box, then sawing it in two to ensure a good fit. I finished it in June. By December, the two halves peeled back away from each other so far that the headstock could slip through the gap at the top.