• From: Iowa
  • Registered: 2010-08-01
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Topic: Spring! The furnace is off and the guitar is out!

Heeding the advice of my local guitar salesman, my Fender has lived this winter in the gig bag with a humidifier.  It only got out to practice and play.  Spring has sprung, the furnace is off, and my guitar is set free.  In the last few days I have found myself just picking it up at random to practice.  Seems like the hassle of getting it out of the case (boy, am I lazy) kept me from it more than I realized.  Really having a good time.  Practiced til my fingers hurt.

Scott
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Re: Spring! The furnace is off and the guitar is out!

Shame on you Scott!!!! Why would you neglect a perfectly good guitar like that? What has it done to you? I bet it has given you hours of love and you stick it in a lonely, cold case. I hope it forgives you and sings like a good guitar should.

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  • From: Baltimore Maryland
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Re: Spring! The furnace is off and the guitar is out!

Keep mine on a stand and play it every day

  • From: Virginia, USA
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Re: Spring! The furnace is off and the guitar is out!

Mine is always within reach.

  • From: Western Australia (born in NZ)
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Re: Spring! The furnace is off and the guitar is out!

Spring!!! We've just going into winter over here!

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Re: Spring! The furnace is off and the guitar is out!

There are four guitars and two basses on stands in my office.  One of the guitars is right beside my chair and I will run through a song or practice a riff while my computer is downloading or uploading files.  Keep it handy.  The humidifier is a good idea, though.  I run a whole room humidifier in my office during the dry months.

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  • From: Iowa
  • Registered: 2010-08-01
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Re: Spring! The furnace is off and the guitar is out!

It's not that I wanted to punish my Fender.  It's a solid top and the salesman told me low humidity would eventually damage it.  I don't have a room humidifier, so I used a humidifier in the gig bag.  It gets very cold and dry in the winter in Iowa.  It also gets very hot and humid in the summer.  Best (or worst) of both worlds.  I did it for it's own good.  Tough love, you know.

Scott
Philippians 3:13, 14
Takamine GS330S

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  • From: Hampshire, UK
  • Registered: 2008-11-23
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Re: Spring! The furnace is off and the guitar is out!

Living in the temperate South East of England I have a Strat, a Tele and an Epiphone Wildkat on the wall about 8 feet away, with an amp tucked under my desk, my Ovation on a stand about 15 feet away and the Guild leant up against the piano about 8 feet away. None of them more than about 6 steps from the sofa!

Jerry

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