Imagine how unhappy that makes your guitar! You can start by considering where you generally keep the guitar. But that makes it subject to the dry humidity. It helps to know the relative humidity of the place where you keep your instrument.
Buying an inexpensive digital hygrometer is a smart way to find that out- I keep one on a bookshelf near my hanging guitar. A good set of numbers to aspire to is 50 percent humidity at 70 degrees. Many of us would have a hard time making that a reality, so do what you can—generally percent humidity is optimal. To help maintain that level, I keep an inexpensive humidifier running in that room in the driest months.
Warm them gently to get them to release their moisture, then cool them back to room temperature and put them into the case. They'll absorb moisture until they're full, at which point you warm them to dry them out and restart the cycle. Initially you'll need to go through the cycles more often as the guitar and its case get humidified or dehumidified.
Once those have stabilized, the cycle will stretch out. The bags in my acoustics have been fine for about five months right now, even with weekly practices and playing the guitars several times a week. The trick is to close the lid as soon as you take the guitar out. If you're in an environment that alternates between dry and humid, then you can leave them alone and they'll maintain themselves. They're a great tool for keeping the wood at the right moisture level, and are recommended by Taylor guitars for just this purpose.
Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How often should I use my guitar humidifier? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 1 month ago. Active 7 years ago. Viewed 12k times. Find all posts by AZLiberty. Could be 4 or 5 days with just in-case humidification. Going slow isn't a bad thing. You can move it along a bit more swiftly by following this process, which I found online, implemented, and thankfully returned a too-dry Martin back to humid happiness: I don't know who to credit for this, but it works like a charm!
Take a plastic bag and spread it out inside the guitar under the sound hole. Take a washcloth and get it wet not sopping wet. Microwave the washcloth for about 25 seconds. Put that in the soundhole of the guitar laying on top the plastic bag. Put another plastic bag over the sound hole, beneath the strings. Come back in a couple hours and re-microwave the washcloth. Do this a couple times a day. Usually in a couple days the body has resumed the original dimensions and you are back where you wanna be.
In extreme cases, like one I was working on last month, it may take more than a week for it to get back to playable condition. Don't over do it, take it slow. It didn't get that dry overnight, and it won't rehumidify overnight either. I had a similar experience. My guitar came back from repair after 2 months and the truss rod was extremely loose no tension. I suspect it must have been left out of the case under extreme summer heat.
I panicked. I put it back into the case with planet waves Humidipak. It started recovering the next day, but better the following day. Originally Posted by cspencer. Originally Posted by ecguitar Your trussrod became loose due to the guitar drying out? Or from being in extreme heat? Neither scenaio makes sense that it would result in a loose trussrod. All I did was leave a bowl of water next to the guitar sitting on its stand, refilling as it evaporated.
According to a study conducted by William Grit Laskin, it took a completely dry guitar almost a month to come back to equilibrium. Grit, along with D'Addario had developed a in-soundhole humidifier that was so efficient that it actually caused problems. I've emailed Grit to get the real numbers, but it's something like that. I'll update my post as soon as I hear back from him. Originally Posted by Davis Webb. Most of you probably will not agree with this, but this is the conversation I overheard in a music store.
A guy had brought in a guitar in pretty much the shape as the one described here. A conversation got started between the store employee and a few other customers about how to deal with it.
The guy was told to put it on a stand in the bathroom and fill the tub with hot, steaming water.
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