Guitars...cases or on the wall?

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Guitars in cases or hang em?

  • Case em...

    Votes: 19 45.2%

  • Hang em...

    Votes: 23 54.8%
  • Total voters
    42
Dogbreath

Dogbreath

Im an ex-spurt
Maybe you guys can help to settle a small dispute.

My thoughts are that guitars are best kept in their cases. Humidity, temp, safe...etc

My pal sees no point in them other than from home to gig to home Hang them on the wall with hangars that you can buy in any guitar store. Dust em off and they're fine.

I can see his point. Easier and quicker to get to, and it looks VERY cool to see a wall full of guitars.

So...........what say you masses of guitar intellect?

Case em?

Hang em?
 
Oh...

I know this has been covered so bear with us.
:D

Thanks.
 
one arguement I've heard for hanging is that it helps to maintain the neck.
 
Ahhh

good point.

(Even if you don't want to say nothin, vote your thoughts. thanks)
 
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I believe in hanging them up, it reminds me to grab one and keep playing- ;)Heres a photo of my hanger

GtrrackwithEpi.jpg
 
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Probably safer and better for them in the case but I have most of mine on the wall. I like looking at them, admiring them, and showing them off. To me they're like works of art. Also they're always right there, ready to be played.

And you know the old saying "out of sight, out of mind"? That's another reason why I don't like keeping them in the case.
 
I made a guitar cabinet from an empty wardrobe cabinet. On the inside I have hangers for 3 guitars and room for an amp. This keeps everything protected and dust free, but within reach for quick access.

When I had them in cases I found I did not play them as often, out of sight out of mind.
 
case or stand! I can't see that hanging can do any good. to my physical mind gravity puts uneeded strain on the neck joint. but maybe string tension counteracts that. or you could just pay someone to hold them for ya :P I say case em (with the case open lol!)
 
For those of you who hang em on a wall (or a stand :D ), you haven't noticed any tweakage or anything from daytime hi's and overnite lows? No long term illnesses. Issues etc?

I ask because I've been doing cases all my life and wouldn't mind at all if I lost this dispute. :p
I kinda like the idea of ogling my guit-fiddles.

btw, nice guitar wall, Anfotan. :D
 
Dogbreath said:
For those of you who hang em on a wall (or a stand :D ), you haven't noticed any tweakage or anything from daytime hi's and overnite lows? No long term illnesses. Issues etc?

I ask because I've been doing cases all my life and wouldn't mind at all if I lost this dispute. :p
I kinda like the idea of ogling my guit-fiddles.

btw, nice guitar wall, Anfotan. :D
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Thanks, my wife surprised me with that, a woodworker friend built it for her. I was blown away when she gave it to me.
As far as your question, in winter I notice the tuning will go sharp slightly, not much though-in the other seasons it stays very close. I have been hanging mine since the early 1980's and never have had any problems from it.
 
Cases are safer, hands down, no question, there is no doubt. A guitar in a case is protected from children and animals (a very big deal if you have either), plus a case provides a much smaller air volume to regulate for temperature and humidity. Keeping your gutiar out durring the heating season is just flat out stupid, and even durring the summer it can be a problem.

While I have to admit to keeping my guitars on the wall, it is only because I don't have enough cases for them all (what's that saying about a cobelers children?); your friend is flat out wrong. Cases are always the safest place for your guitars.

And I promise you, I see far fewer guitars with headstocks that were broken in the case than on stands or hangers. FAR fewer.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
you gotta have protection

Leaving your guitar out is asking for trouble.

My Taylor and Martins go back into their little coffins as soon as I'm
done with them. I might leave a nice sold body out for a couple days
I did had a new LP check on me a guitar that had never left the
house.

I have an old Dorado Hummingbird copy that has been out for 35 years it has been docked over a couple dozen times and except for a few nicks and bruises it very checked or cracked.

I now have humifiers and dehumiders in my studio but still like having my guitars in their cases for the buffer factor. I have 4 or 5 I never got cases
for and I may hang them to get them out of the way. I think I'm at 16 guitars
and 5 mandolins so I'm running out of room for cased instruments.

If you must hang them on the wall make sure it is not an outside wall I did that with some shotguns once and over the years it will pit metal surfaces
and warp wood.
 
I keep all my guitars in a case. I have to. Our climate is bone dry, it might not rain for 11 months and 8 months of the year it is 40oC+(104oF) I have had a neck bow so bad that I had to steam it twice and clamp it when it was pliable to get it back to where the truss rod could be used, after I had fixed the truss rod. I use a dish with a sponge inside and wet it about 2 weekly. Had no problem since I started doing that.
 
I have mixed feelings about this debate. In my studio/practice room I have quite a number of hangers and they get used a lot. I don't like having a bunch of stands setting around in the way, it gets cluttered enough without something extra to trip over or get a cable tangled on. It's normal for me to play on several different guitars in one day so the hangers are a lot more convenient. When it's time to shut everything down, they all get a good wipe down and go back into their cases. Then the cases go into racks which keep them safe and in an upright position, I never stack cases (with guitars in them) or store them laying flat.
To me the word CASE is an acronym for Controlled And Safe Environment. If your music room provides that then leave them out, if not, cases are the best place to keep your guitar(s).
 
I keep mine in a rack most of the time - but they are certainly safer in cases.
 
Everything here is in its case EXCEPT the one I play most often (as in several times a day) which is on a stand, (& I usually leave the 'cello out for days at a time but it has a cradle stand & is downstairs where the temperature is more even & the cats less prevelant. It gets really hot here so air conditioning gets cranked for most of the summer & my wife hates the cold so the reverse cycle OR bar radiator are on throughout winter. BOTH are disasterous for my relativr humidity & that of the guitars.
&&&&&& the missus has three cats so NOTHING is scared - those cats can climb I tell ya.
I would love to mount a guitar in the house. The fellow I bought the joint from was an award winning Orstraylun country performer (new country - yetch) & he had an old dreadnought hanging from a hook & noose in the ceiling. Looked GREAT but not terribly practical - I assume it was dead.
 
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