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| | Features | For Wooden InstrumentsPrevents Drying Out and Cracking
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| | Description | Large clay filled plastic container (1 5/8" high x 2" diameter) helps prevent drying out and cracking of guitars, violins, cellos and other wooden instruments. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 5.0 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 120.0 grams | | Package Length: | 1.8 inches | | Package Width: | 1.7 inches | | Package Height: | 1.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 12 reviews |
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18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 They work and they're inexpensive Jan 27, 2011
By Alan C. Hahn
I bought one of these to put in my classical guitar case. My nephew just bought an $1800 Martin guitar and he also bought one. We each have different brands of hygrometers but they both read RH of 39% to 41% inside the cases. My house has 2 small room humidifiers going all the time in the winter which keeps the air somewhere around 30%. His apartment is dry as a bone with no humidification at all.He probably gets down to 20% when it's really cold out and he has the heat cranked up. Yet the humidity in our guitar cases is the same.
The reviewer who said they don't absorb water at all is wrong. I weighed the Herco on an electronic gram scale when I bought it. Dry, it weighed around 75 grams. After soaking it for 5 minutes in a bowl of water, it weighed 80-85 grams. Then I zeroed out an empty bowl and started adding drops of water. It turns out the Herco absorbs about a teaspoon or two of water. Not much, but all you need to keep the guitar in a safe range. After all, all those people that advocate putting a sponge in a plastic container with holes drilled into it always tell you to wring it out. After you wring it out, how much water do you think is left. I'd guess around a teaspoon. It just doesn't take that much to humidify such a small space. The humidifier that came with my humidor for tobacco measures about 3x8x6 inches. The humidity goes to 68%.That humidifier also only holds a teaspoon or so.
Bottom line, it's dangerous to put a humidifier inside the guitar. Much better to use a Herco. I resoak mine about every 2 weeks. When I first got it I'd check the weight of it, knowing that if it went back to 75 grams, it was dry. After checking that a few times I came up with the 2 week time span.
The absolute perfect humidity for a wooden musical instrument is somewhere between 40 to 50%. The Herco keeps it in the lower range of that here in wintry New England.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Good Product. Apr 26, 2010
By Roy L. Sharp
"Grasshappa"
My guitar stays in good shape using this humidifier. It is recommended by my luthier that has over 40 years of experience.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Does the trick Jan 04, 2011
By Wildatheart
This comes without directions so it might be useful to know: the correct way to use this is to drop it in a cup of water for five minutes. Take it out, wipe it off, and pop it in your case! Repeat every few days. Will never leak. I like it.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
A bit big for ukulele cases, but works. Jan 31, 2011
By J. M. Taylor
I know this is probably more for a guitar, but I have a few solid wood ukes that need humidity to be happy, so I bought this. You open the lid, submerge it into water for 5 minutes (you may see some bubbles escaping - that's cool), and then wipe off the excess water, close the lid and pop into your case. Do this once-twice a month and you're golden. Works well by me.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Protect Your Guitar Investment!!! Jul 22, 2011
By Jim P.
I bought 2 of these little jewels after having a very bad experience with my Ovation 6-string acoustic guitar. I was living in Victorville, CA (high desert) for 19 years and I never considered the very dry humidity effect on my guitars. One evening I heard a loud bang and a sound like 6 guitar strings breaking at once. What had happened is that the wooden bridge on my Ovation had dried out over the years and finally the wood just disintegrated and broke apparently because it had dried out so badly. It cost me a lot to get it repaired and took over six months for the luthier to find the correct matching parts and to remove the remains of the old bridge without damaging the guitar finish. He did an amazing job but I don't want to ever go through that again. I now keep the Herco Guardfather in with my 6-string and 12-string Ovation guitars and I believe that they do make a difference. A few years will tell for certain. I figure that the Herco Guardfather is an inexpensive insurance policy for my guitars and is definitely worth the investment. Just soak them in water for about 5 minutes every couple of weeks then pour off the excess, wipe off the case, snap it shut and put it in with your guitar. Could not be simpler. Sweetwater Sound has these for $3.99 with free shipping. That's where I got mine via the Amazon website.
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