NGD - Seagull SWS Concert Hall

superdave , Hi Dave, first welcome to the Acoustic Guitar Cabin.
Glad you have got your self a Seagull SWS Concert Hall, been trying to see one off these for the past two years, it's a great guitar, and I hope you get many years fun from it.
With reference to humidification of your guitar, can't really help, as here in the UK, humidification for guitars not a real problem, some of the other members will fill you in, better than me.

superdave , my Seagull Coastline Folk Q1 has spent it's entire time with me in a Seagull gig bag and I've had other guitars have their regular home in one as well.  Humidification is fine, maybe even better than in any kind of fur lined hardshell case.  As long as  you remember to zip it up tight.

I usually use just one home made sponge-in-a-baggy sound hole humidifier during the late fall and early spring.  During the dead of winter I crank it up to the sound hole one and another behind the neck, just above the body.  This actually seems to work better in a gig bag than in any fur lined hard shell case, but not better than the Tric cases that were not fur lined.

I have not had any problems with gig bags and humidification ( as long as it's a decent quality gig bag that is, which the ones from Godin are ).  I've even humidified one guitar to seal a crack that I had let happen due to lack of paying attention, and that crack was sealed during a 4 day humidification in a Taylor gig bag.  ( long story, lol ).

FWIW, I live in Ontario in a 50 year old apt. building and the dryness here in winter gets absolutely brutal.

Hope that helps. 


It does actually. I am in Nova Scotia, live in a Bungalow with Heat Pump, so I usually keep the guitars in the basement with case humidifiers in winter and upstairs in summer. So hopefully the gig bag will work out. 

It sounds great. Probably not as bright as my old S&P spruce/wild cherry folk. I like it.

Going thru the setup this evening. Its pretty good as is, and I may just leave it the way it is for a while. May shave the saddle a touch and put mediums on, but quite nice as is. 

Come on then Robert, spill the beans, have you purchased a new guitar.
 If so, a lot more info, and pictures, and review, etc.