storing guitars

[leerummey]

hi all
just wanted to ask for some advice on storing my guitars
ive recently moved house and there's not much room indoors for my guitars and amp etc
but .......on the upside i have a huge garage (which my wife is banishing me to ) which could easily be turned in to a games room /studio
at the moment though (being winter ) the garage is freezing ,can i store my guitars there or will the cold affect them ?
many thanks in advance for any advice

[pwfirst]

Depends on how cold is cold, Freezing temps are a no no..
Generally speaking, store your guitars in a hard case with the strings lose and a humidifier in the case. cold air is dryer than warm air.

[469roadking]

I never ran across the need before. I'm interested to hear all the response though. Phil would know better than me. It gets a lot colder in his neck of the woods than mine. Although it was 32 degrees out this morning.

[pwfirst]

RK, did you have your long under-ware on?
It was 6 degrees here, this morning with a fresh coating of snow. We truely live in Gods country although some days I am rethinking it. Any room down there for an old, fat, Iowa boy?

[rayden44]

I store my guitars. I store them here, I store them there. I store them just about everywhere. On the ground or in their case. A stand or couch is the right place. Some left dusty out the back, machine heads stuffed not worth a tack. If my short rhyme doesn't get me banned, I'll play more sounds that I had planned

I'd say build the studio, some carpet, foam into the sections of the door, more carpet/egg cartons on the walls you'll be sweet. Might want to attach the wall stuff to a board first, then put the board to the wall.... Maybe some draft stoppers along the bottom of the door. No heat problems then, nice and toasty.

[469roadking]

Dec 6, 2010 18:43:28 GMT -5 pwfirst said:

RK, did you have your long under-ware on?
It was 6 degrees here, this morning with a fresh coating of snow. We truely live in Gods country although some days I am rethinking it. Any room down there for an old, fat, Iowa boy?

Brother, I would like to extend a personal invitation to come on down. If there is one thing we have around here it's plenty of space.
Now I live in North Texas where it does snow at least once or twice a decade, but if you can deal with it then you're welcome. Besides, everybody knows you can't have too many jammin buddies. ;D

[pwfirst]

Thanks RK, If it gets any colder, I may bring my frozen back side down.

[Happy Jack]

Dec 7, 2010 22:45:30 GMT -5 pwfirst said:

Thanks RK, If it gets any colder, I may bring my frozen back side down.

I am with you it is bloody freezing in the UK and I am missing my Subaru AWD

Mrs Jack's heater fan broke in her car so she hasn't got any heating. Her car was full of ice on the INSIDE when she got home from work the other day. I almost felt sorry for her ;D ;D ;D

[lesblues]

-18 centigrade here today (that's 0.4 Fahrenheit). Freezing doesn't come close to describing it. Texas sounds mighty inviting right now

[gasman]

Dec 8, 2010 7:42:38 GMT -5 lesblues said:

-18 centigrade here today (that's 0.4 Fahrenheit). Freezing doesn't come close to describing it. Texas sounds mighty inviting right now

That's too cold for me! It's not as warm here as Texas. It's sunny, but the light wind makes it feel like winter.

As for the original topic, I keep my guitars in the house: Three in cases, two in the cardboard guitar boxes, and one in a gig bag. Whichever one I am using sits on a guitar stand for about a month at a time. I've never had problems with any of them because of the weather, and the humidity around here is usually low.

[pwfirst]

Older guitars are much more resistant to damage than new guitars are. Solid body guitars you can't hardly hurt but acustic's and hollow bodies are the ones that are at risk. Once a new guitar dries out they are much safer. Necks always seem to show the humidity. When they dry out you start feeling the fret edges on the side of the neck, I really hate that.