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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: gwEm on March 26, 2012, 04:42:08 PM

Title: Storing guitars - recommendations?
Post by: gwEm on March 26, 2012, 04:42:08 PM

this thread has worried me: https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27233.0

i store my collection all tuned to e-standard. is this a problem? i wouldn't have thought so, but would be interested in the opinions of forum experts :)

Title: Re: Storing guitars - recommendations?
Post by: Twinfan on March 26, 2012, 04:52:48 PM

What you're doing works fine for me....

Title: Re: Storing guitars - recommendations?
Post by: Philly Q on March 26, 2012, 05:47:17 PM

From what I've read, I believe it's better to store guitars with the strings under normal tension than slacking them off (unless they're going in the cargo hold of a plane).

It's what they're designed for, after all.  And they're supposed to get better with age, from "being a guitar" for many years.  Surely that wouldn't be true if you kept loosening the strings and turning them back into inert lumps of wood.

If we lived in a climate with greater extremes of temperature and humidity, we'd have to get used to adjusting our truss rods a few times a year, I guess.

Title: Re: Storing guitars - recommendations?
Post by: Ian Price on March 26, 2012, 10:44:36 PM

I've always had my guitars tuned to standard. Never been a problem for me, even when I was up at more than a handful of different types of guitar.

Title: Re: Storing guitars - recommendations?
Post by: AndyR on March 27, 2012, 08:30:25 AM

Yeah, the thread worried me too (especially because I have a Gibson with an odd looking neck - plays fine, but looks very odd when you sight it :lol: - so I'm watching the thread with interest).

However, I kind of reached the same conclusion - they're built for standard tuning, so why not leave them as that? If I slackened one off and then didn't play it for months, it could take days to reorganise itself when I do tune it back up...

I am finding with the new place (the old one was obviously an ice-box :lol:) that I'm going to have to go round adjusting a lot of truss-rods. They've all moved a bit, but they're all playable and I have higher priorities at the moment - so I'm leaving them "as is" for a bit. Give them all a bit of time to further figure out what they're up to!

Title: Re: Storing guitars - recommendations?
Post by: HTH AMPS on March 31, 2012, 04:38:38 PM

I look at it this way - when you're gigging regular your guitar is always tuned up and ready to go.  You wouldn't leave it with the strings slackened off between gigs each weekend, therefore why do this if the guitar is sitting doing nothing for a few months or more?!?!?!  :?