Charles Obscure Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Most are in cases, but I have one of those 7-guitar racks for the ones I play the most. I keep a couple on stands ready to grab & go as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 They are all in their cases' date=' for the following reasons: a big lab mix who trashes everything she comes in contact with a skinny Siamese cat with projectile vomiting on a daily basis (she got my PRS case last night, right in the locking clasps a wife who smokes in the house a 150-year-old house that produces more dust than a street sweeper. I wish I could keep them out in a case. If I ever get divorced, I will. [/quote'] Damn Jeffery...........I think we're related......... My electrics are in hard cases, and my acoustics are in a refurbished entertainment center(in the glass enclosed ends with PW humidifiers) for the following reasons: A Bouncy Pittbull and his 5 Dingo/Pitt mix 2 yr old offspring........that all think their Jack Russell Terriers. A drafty 49 yr old house, that somehow manufactures Alabama red dust, with the help of (see above line). Clumsy friends that visit. I've had the headstock broken OFF an SG years ago from storing it in a stand, my drunken cousin fell ON it, so for safetys sake, hardshells seem to be best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelo1281734115 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Okay' date=' I disagree. First of all, you were getting fret buzz because you were trying to set up a Les Paul with a ridicculously low action, if I remember the thread correctly. Granted, the case may have caused some slight bowing of the neck, but I can only see that happening if you stored the case flat on its' back for a very long period of time, which I can't see as being practical. Storing it that way would take up more space than just about any other way you could possibly store a guitar in a case... most people would opt to either stand it up on end in a closet or maybe against the wall in a corner, thus orienting the guitar just as if it was standing on a stand or hanging on a wall hanger, or to stand the case up, but laid out longways, so that the handle points up, as if you were carrying the guitar by the handle. Either of these positions would remove virtually 100% of the stress on the neck that might be caused by the settling of the foam you mention. (I am resistant to use numbers though, as last time, the thread ended up being steered into a discussion of advanced trigonometric equasions of force and newtonian law and whatnot, which I would rather not repeat again EVER, LOL...) To say that a hard case would cause more damage to a guitar than letting it swing freely in the open air on a wall hanger or sit out on a stand is pretty laughable. That is the purpose of a hardshell case, to PROTECT the guitar from damage. That's like saying that seat belts WILL cause injury in a car crash. Sure, in some rare cases it may be true (*cough cough* DEF LEPPARD *cough cough*) but far more often, they prevent injury. [/quote'] Thanks for your input, so now I would like to correct my post. I bought my guitar from a guy who told me that he had not used it in 10 years, so when I think back on how the guitar's neck was bent up, I am almost 99% sure that he stored the guitar in the case lying flat on the ground for 10 years!(he was an army guy, who moved all the time and he probably left it mostly in a public storage locker and maybe he piled a lot of stuff on top of it). Even after forcing the neck straight, I still get buzzing in places a few weeks after I adjust the action up to avoid buzzing, even though I raised the action to around 5/64 at the 12th fret (which is about an average action), my neck is still moving on me as new buzzing re-appears many days after an adjustment. Eventually, after the neck settles into whatever shape it wants, I will have to do a fret dressing on this guitar to remove the high frets that are causing the annoying buzzing. In my situation, the bending of the neck would have been avoided had the case been stored on it side, like you mention. This method works great for cases that hug the guitar's body nicely (the Epi case I have fits around the LP's body nice and tight). On the other hand, if you use a Stratocaster-like case where the body cavity of the case is a generic square shape where the body is not secured properly, storing the case upright might even cause a sideways stress on the neck at the U-support as gravity forces the the body of the guitar down (I guess you could get the neck twisted to one side and that would be fatal to a guitar). I like your idea of storing a guitar in its case upright (headstock up), this must be the optimal way to store a guitar inside a case. Thanks for the suggestion (as I have been storing the guitar case flat on the ground myself). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinTheHood Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Now thats what I call "maximizing your space"! Makes me wish we had gotten the child a bunk bed. We are very limited on space and I just tossed one of my guitars in a case and slid it under the bed until I have time to work on it. I'm starting to rethink that move now. A case damaging the guitar is probably on the rare side, but how many people actually lay thier cased guitars flat? Not many, I'm guessing. I guess I'll be pulling it out and standing it upright in the closet with the bass. The wife is going to be P.O.'d. She hates it when I rearrange things for my music equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 The guitars I do play regularly I leave on the stand, the others that I don't play stay in their respective guitar cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiggy Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 duane v, is that stagg rack? if so, if you would put a bigsby on your casino, and put it in between two sg's, would there be still a little gap between them? (bigsby arm turned down to save space) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gashole Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 5 are in a guncase style stand, one (whichever I am playing at the time, a G&L ASAT classic at the moment) is on a single mount floor stand with a cotton rag over the foam to keep the couple nitro cellulose axes I have safe when in that stand. These are in my music room that all of the pets are locked out of...in the living room I keep my little jazzbox on the wall for when its needed...bass lives in its case, and so do 2 other acoustics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 duane v' date=' is that stagg rack? if so, if you would put a bigsby on your casino, and put it in between two sg's, would there be still a little gap between them? (bigsby arm turned down to save space)[/quote'] The rack was purchased from CNB (Rondo Music) http://www.rondomusic.com/gsc2206.html They come these little foam dividers (you can use two of them between guitars) just in case you have a guitar with a substantial tremelo system, or if you don't want to remove the tremelo arm. They give you a total of 8 movable foam dividers. It's a very cool set-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalhed717 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 i have 5 guitars at my house and occaisionally bring the strat over from my dads, and i keep the main four on a five guitar stand. the other is a cheapo acoustic that probably wont be here for too much longer since i got the PR5E and i just kinda sits in the corner (its the redheaded stechild of the guitar family). but the bass, PR5E and two SG's are on the stand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianScout Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 when my father died I received his Fender Coronado beautiful guitar, Wildwood model they called it it had been a case queen for 15-20 years.. when I opened it I was very disappointed, the neck pocket and neck had slowly over time shrunk into the body leaving 1/2" action because of the tilt of the neck.. I was able to shim it, but it's not the same.. so yes keeping your guitar in a case for years can damage them here's what he left me, (stock pic) luthier told me it was not worth fixing,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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