# Securing guitars: neck, humidity, and the stand in the walkway

> Secure guitars: stable humidity, not by the radiator, stand out of the walkway, note the numbers.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/gitarren-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

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](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) 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.

## Häufige Fragen

### On the wall or in the case?

Play on the wall, store in the case when the room is open or too dry.

### Next to the heating?

No. The neck warps.

### Number, where?

Copy it down and photograph it. In the sound hole it later becomes unreadable if you never noted it.