Humidity

Many high end guitars are built in the 45 to 55% humidity range. This is most likely due to the higher natural humidity in say Pennsylvania or Tennessee, that dictates the builder work within that range or some happy medium. Branzell Guitars are built in Nevada, the driest state in the union. For a guitarist that is valuable and desirable. My shop is easily humidify up to 30 to 35%. If I knew your guitar would never leave Nevada I’d build even dryer.  A dryer built guitar is less prone to many of the repairman’s bread and butter fixes like cracks, sunken tops, action issues, sharp fret ends, loose braces or any number of tortures experienced by wet wood gone dry. And there is another equally important benefit, dryer guitars sound better than wet ones. Ever play one of those old dried out Gibson or Martin acoustics that have been through multiple repairs caused by dryness? The really good ones are often quite parched. What about taking a guitar built in a dryer environment to a more humid one? Given the choice I’d take the dry to wet, over the wet to dry scenario. Just avoid extremes.