MKR wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:51 am
a couple questions about these d'adarrio planet waves humidifiers for individual guitars.
since my martin thread from last week I did get a hygrometer. I go between 35 (at night) to 42 %. We have had a real mild winter in Toronto thus far so we have been lucky, but I'm sure it will get worse into february
I am thinking I am going to install a humidifier into my furnace, but probably won't do this for a while (largely due to the pandemic ).
In the meantime I think i'll pickup 2 of these for my 2 acoustics.
Can you overhumidify if you leave it in a guitar in a case?
If I leave it on a guitar on a stand, is there ever a fear that water can run/drip out into the guitar?
And lastly here's a general question about guitars drying out: Is drying out something that takes a while to happen? Can it happen quickly within a week or would it take a couple months to start seeing problems?
I would say the risks of over-humidifying the guitar with those Planet Waves devices is small, the moisture in there only lasts about a week or so (there are different thicknesses of sponge).
And you could damage your guitar by letting water drip out, but I think you'll find like I did that it's not something you'll really worry about in practice. You'll soak the sponge, and then wring all the water out. I would say that it's pretty easy to tell with the sponges that you are at a point where the water won't be dripping out, I haven't ever really considered it much.
I would say ideally though that these should be used in the guitar case with the guitar laying flat.
I really don't think that it will do a whole lot if the guitar isn't in the case, either. There's just not enough humidity to the sponges if the guitar is out on a stand, although the humidity could quickest go to the wood inside the guitar first.
I moved into a new house with forced air from an apartment with radiator heat and loose windows. At that place, in the dead of winter, even when running humidifiers, I couldn't get the humidity above 30% in the apartment. That's where I would use those in case humidifiers.
Here, I seem to be able to get the humidity where I want it easily, I'm running a couple of room humidifiers and I barely even need those. So I guess my advice would be to get the hygrometer, see what your situation is, and rely on room humidifiers first and consider the in-case humidifiers supplemental to that if needed.
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