What’s the consensus about keeping guitars in cases versus leaving them out on wall hooks or stands?
I keep my four most active players hung on guitar hooks over my desk. It’s so easy to take them down and play them, plus, I like to look at them. There is indirect sunlight on them, but the only effect that seems to have had over years is to turn my ‘84 Epi Sheraton from it’s original vampire-like maple plywood pallor to an attractive light caramel, and to slightly darken a very light spruce top on a Blueridge. I don’t really think indirect sun is that damaging. Direct sunlight, of course, will quickly cook a finish. Sometimes it seems to me that these thin highly strung wooden boxes might prefer fresh air to the stuffy trapped air in a case, and that the vertical force on the neck might help keep it straight. But if I had a pre-war museum piece....that would probably stay in the case.
I keep my four most active players hung on guitar hooks over my desk. It’s so easy to take them down and play them, plus, I like to look at them. There is indirect sunlight on them, but the only effect that seems to have had over years is to turn my ‘84 Epi Sheraton from it’s original vampire-like maple plywood pallor to an attractive light caramel, and to slightly darken a very light spruce top on a Blueridge. I don’t really think indirect sun is that damaging. Direct sunlight, of course, will quickly cook a finish. Sometimes it seems to me that these thin highly strung wooden boxes might prefer fresh air to the stuffy trapped air in a case, and that the vertical force on the neck might help keep it straight. But if I had a pre-war museum piece....that would probably stay in the case.