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Can I rehydrate a guitar (body and neck) in a soft case?
Hallo I have to rehydrate a 30 years old guitar stored in a closed room. I need to rehydrate all the guitar, ca I do it in a soft case (with foam) with only a tube/snake humidifier inside the hole?
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Try it - can't do any harm (although I suspect that a soft bag will be pretty useless for retaining humidity - a hard case would be considerably better).
Also, I'd shove a couple of home-made 'sponge-in-a-baggie' humidifiers in there.
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How can i do a home made sponge? The external of the case is woterproof...
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Insert a slightly damp sponge into a ziplock bag that you've poked a few holes in. If guitar case doesn't seal very well just check sponges more often. When dry add water. |
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Check the proceedings every couple of days, and re-wet the sponge as needed. I know people who actually use hanging suit bags to do this very procedure. They fashioned a hook inside the bag from which to suspend the guitar, and in the bottom of the bag they placed a dish of water. Then they closed the zipper. It's much faster than the sound hole sponge, or Dampit as it's called. HE |
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But you didn't mention that in your OP, did you?
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That's what I use, but I've got hard cases. The soft ones don't hold in the moisture as well. I cut a good quality sponge in half and put 2 or 3 half sponges in a well-holed ziplock. You can regulate the humidity to some degree by how much water you squeeze out of the sponges. Those dampits don't give you enough sponge surface area. I just put the bag under the headstock - the moisture eventually gets throughout the case.
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Full instructions here -
http://www.bryankimsey.com/humdifier/
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Hard to talk in another language :-)
The meaning was: is ok if the case is woterproof? :-) |
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Thanks everybody for the answer
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Ciao!
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GC puts guitars in large plastic bags with sponges to rehydrate them before working on them.
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