5 things you should never do to your guitar
When it comes to being a professional guitarist, learning and upgrading tough to toughest skills are the mandatory parts we already know. But another side, maintaining a guitar's health is also a very important skill that many beginners to successful guitarists don’t know.
If tuning your guitar isn’t cooperating with you then you’ll be unable to make the vibe you need. Also practising a wrong tuning guitar can make trouble in your lessons.
So in this article, you’re going to know the top 5 harmful things that you never should do to your guitar.
Don’t expose your guitar to extreme heat and humidity: Guitar always made with real wood and wood has a tendency to change its size and shape according to temperature around it. Exposing to extreme heat can make your guitar shape change and you can face sounding problems. Your guitar won’t sound normal.
The same thing applies to excessive humidity. Humidity can make it damp on your guitar and then your guitar will sound low. According to many studies and professionals' opinion, a perfect temperature for guitar is 66-77 °F (19-25 °C) and humidity 40-50 present maximum.
Keep away your guitar from water: Water is the biggest enemy of the guitar. The guitar can be waterproof. Touching the guitar with the sweaty or moist hand isn’t good for woody material of guitar. It can harm your wooden quality for long term. Also, electric guitars are able to supply electricity so in that case it really can harm your guitar’s mechanism.
Don’t use soap, furniture polish or window cleaner: Loving and taking care of your guitar is necessary, but excessive caring can damage your guitar’s material and sounds as well. There are many beginner guitarists who clean their guitars with window clever or even furniture polish because it is made of wood. They should know that guitar material of wood is far different than furniture wood.
There are certain guitar polishing and cleaning products available in the market and these are specially made for guitars. You can buy these instead.
Don’t wipe your guitar with a paper towel and tissue: Paper towel or tissues aren’t always soft as it seems to be. Wiping your guitar with these can make thousands of little swirl scratches on your guitar’s wood. That can reduce your guitar’s quality as well.
Don’t Use Compressed Air to Dust the Guitar: You should never go for anything that is made for electronics usage only. Guitar’s material of wood is very sensitive and easy to damage.
During using the compressed air pressure to remove dust from the guitar, you can end up by flowing that inside of your guitar. It also can cause your guitar burning moment where your guitar’s colours can be changed.
These 5 tips are the most common among the many guitarists in the world, especially among beginners.
Avoid this mistake to keep your guitar healthy for a long time.
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