I'm aware of how important humidification is to the woods of acoustic guitars and basses but haven't a clue what the policy s/b for typical solid body electric guitars like Les Pauls, Strats, Fender Precision and Jazz basses and even some semi hollows like Gibsons ES 335's or semi-hollow basses like Guilds with f holes.
Guitars stores hang electrics out in the high traffic areas and don't humidify them so one might rightly or wrongly conclude that the finish on those kind of guitars lock in the water to keep th instrument from fatiguing from dryness and perhaps "splitting" along grain patterns or other dryness-generated scenarios. To make a long story short, I'm just wondering if there is any benefit to leaving those little packets of silica that case manufacturers ship in their cases to keep them dry and avoid any rot smell from starting--that silica is case related and not guitar related. Might these silica packages work against an electric that might need a little humidity or is this a non issue for the electric instrument world compared to the seriousness of it in the acoustic world?
Just curious, I just bought a hard case for my Fender Geddy Lee sig model about a year after having it in a bag and the case has four packets of silica in it. Do they do anything for or against the guitar? Thanks fellas and lady luthiers
(I'm sure there's at least one somewhere.
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