how to store your guitar ?

Hello Micky,

  Good question and I'm sure that there are lots of options about short term storage, but really it should depend more about where on the planet you are.  Wood generally doesn't like radical changes in temperature or humidity.  The more constant and stable the environment is the better your instrument will fare in the long run.  50% humidity and constant temperature (or slow changes) will keep things from expanding or contracting and tearing the joints apart or splitting panels.

  In my part of the world, humidity is not a big issue, but temperature is, so into a well insulated case they go and when it's time to make music.... open case for about 20 minutes and a full hour on a stand then tune and it's "showtime"!  Usually only have to give all that time if they have been transported in the boot for a time in transit.  If it's freezing, or really hot.... they get the rear seat space and passengers get the boot! LOL

Take Care;
Doug

A properly installed guitar hanger of good quality will not harm your guitar.

I use a floor stand and keep my guitar right beside my desk.  Every time I do a download, I'm strumming or picking something.

Ken - You can't move.  What's a king (even an unofficial one) without a castle?

- Zurf

And? do anybody name their guitars?
              Ho'way Tell us all...is it "Betty" or a  "Suzie" or "Cyril" or "Henry" for the ladies lol

Cos it looks like no one wants to admit to having another Woman" or "man" in there lives lol?

just a thought peeps   Cheers Micky

Dont Stop Kid Keep Rockin'  !!

I use all three methods of storage. I have my electric hanging on the wall. My laminate acoustic which i play the most is on a stand and then my solid top acoustic/electric i keep in it's case until a few minutes before i play it. I play them all at least 4 times a week. They are all kept in the coolest room of the house so i really don't have any tuning or any other problems with them. As for naming them i have them all named. The electric is called Heavy because it weights about 13 lbs. The laminate is called Jasmine because it is on the headstock. Then the solid top is called Woody because it's all wood and has a woody tone.

How about a mote?  You've got to have a mote and a drawbridge to be a proper king. 

Micky,

No names for my guitars.  I refer to them by type.  "The fretless", "the Yamaha acoustic", "the classical", etc.  No real nicknames.  Except possibly for my Ovation Magnum bass, which by the second set used to get called "that overweight hunk of mahogony".  Then again, it's got enough sustain that I think I could hit a note at the end of the first set, go take a break, strap it back on at the beginning of the second set and have to mute the note before starting a new song. 

- Zurf

I keep mine on the stands on the floor. I call my Epi the Beast.