10-11-2019, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2018
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Originally Posted by Earl49
RH of 38-43% is just about perfect for most guitars, except maybe for the first year or two of the guitar's life. The wood is still figuring out that it isn't a tree anymore and can take a while to season and settle in to the stresses that it now lives under. Cardboard, being made of wood fiber, may soak up some excess moisture until it saturates and stabilizes. Then it won't make any more difference either way - just like the hard case. The presence or lack of strings does not factor in.
The big issue with removing the strings in the long term to also loosen the truss rod. Over time a tight truss rod not opposed by string tension (as intended) can cause a back-bow in the neck, which can become permanent and not correctable.
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Valuable info.
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