A guitar warps its neck when the air is too dry or too wet, and it falls off the stand as soon as someone carries a bag through the room. In the overview Security for collectors it is an instrument that belongs in the case when you leave the room.

What gets ruined without a thief

Heating, cellar damp, a strap that loads the headstock, strings you forget at concert tension on a stored instrument even though the neck does not want that. You store it in the case or on a stable hook, not on the outside wall. You copy the serial number while you can still read it in the sound hole.

When someone comes

A case goes along. Five guitars on the living-room wall are a display. The one with a name and a receipt does not hang there. It lies in the case, locked, papers elsewhere. The policy names it when the price falls outside the lump sum.

The folder

Maker, model, number, year, receipt, condition of neck and frets. Photo of the front and of the number.