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  • Well-cured wood can help. Guitars built with green wood will crack easily.

    Plywood guitars are tough - my resonator guitars are impervious to dryness, and they’re made of plywood basically.

    The other thing that might explain it is survivor’s bias - the guitars on the wall at the pub or in a mountain cabin either survive, or they crack and die. We see the ones that made it. Same thing with 200 year old parlor guitars - they are survivors.


  • Well if you subject your guitar to humidity fluctuations, it may well crack. Many do. My guild had a crack when I bought it, and when I moved to colorado it developed another. I have another guitar that has survived lots of changes in humidity and severe dryness without cracking. Maybe the wood was cured better, or I just got lucky.

    I keep my nice martin humidified to ~47% all the time. Maybe it would survive dryness, but I don’t want to take the chance. When they dry out it changes the way they play, being humidified properly helps keep the action consistent as well as protecting it against cracks.





  • plateaued since when? if you look at the second half of the graph, 2022 forward, it looks more steep to me.

    I take it ‘geometric mean’ is the geometric mean of ‘statcounter’ and ‘steam’? What’s the specific source of those latter two measures? For instance, when I look at linux usage on the statcounter website I get more like 1.5%, not 4%.