Your New Guitar
So you bought your new acoustic, bass, or electric guitar, you get it home, you want to look at it, and you want to play it. There’s no better feeling than getting a new instrument but after the feeling is gone you need to take steps to keep it looking the way it looked when you took it out of the box.
Wheather you spent thousands or hundreds the steps are the same:
1. Invest in a guitar stand, some guitar packages include a guitar stand, either way don’t leave your guitar on the floof where it collect dust or get damaged.
2. Keep your guitar in a room where the humidity is approximately 50%. Your guitar is constructed of wood and that wood is subject to expansion and contraction depending upon the humidity in the room where you keep it. Hint: A basement or attic is probably not the best place unless the areas temperature and humidity is maintained.
3. Keep your guitar clean using a soft micro-fiber cloth, don’t use a standard towel or dish towel for cleaning.
4. After wiping the loose dust off your guitar use guitar polish. Do NOT use common household cleaners as they are too harsh. You are not required to use polish all the time but once you start using it you and your guitar will feel better.