Will Basses rust at the beach?

[nathan]

I'm going to the beach in a week and i would like to bring my acoustic guitar and bass. Should I be worried about the metal on them rusting, since the air will be salty, and i'll be playing them on my beachfront porch?

[tplyons]

The basses won't and neither should the hardware.

[pointbass]

Assuming you don't leave them on the porch un-cased overnight, the salty air will not be any issue. I live at the Jersey Shore and own many basses ... not a lick of rust on any of them ...

[Gard]

The only thing I have seen in a beach-front situation is the polepieces on a Stingray rust - buddy of mine has a house gig in Destin, FL, and his polepieces were totally rusted!

Now, if you work a cruise ship gig, or are on the water constantly, I have seen it eat hardware. One time when I was working at Bass Central, we got an Elrick fretless on trade that I had to remove all of the hardware from and clean all of the corrosion off of.