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Originally Posted by guitar george
For many years I did no humidifying - barely knew what that meant. For the last 10 years, or so, I’ve been monitoring and adjusting humidity levels all the time. None of my guitars, over all those years, have ever had a crack or damage due to lack of humidity. I feel like I’m wasting my time, money and effort.
How much humidifying do you do?
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Not only did I get a crack, my Martin D-16 had a severe warp in the top that caused the bridge to start lifting. This was over 20 years ago and I had no idea about humidity either. I was playing a show with it one night and a luthier who played the open mics occasionally was there and noticed the damage. He said he could fix it under Martins warranty. And he did, but he had to hold onto the guitar for three or four weeks to humidify it and allow the top to regain it's proper shape. Then he reglued the bridge and it was good as new. I've humidified religiously ever since and have never had another issue with any of my guitars. Because I own many instruments, I run two whole house humidifiers. One is the main one, the other is the backup that kicks in should the main one run out of water.
02-08-2019, 05:01 AM
