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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Both I would think. I too have been at Guitar Centers where the humidity was so high in the "high end room" that you could see it like a fog in the air, and the guitars actually seemed wet. Another good reason not to spend your money there. Too high humidity is almost as bad for a guitar as too low. Between 40 and 60 percent is just right. At 85 percent the top swells so you have "artificially" high action, and you will later see a kind of washboard effect on the wood grain. I have a humidifier built in to the furnace here at the shop and it works great. (Helps keep my skin from drying out too.) |
Of wood guitars and humidifiers...
