Guitar necks and the weather?

[BrentSSL]

I'm sure this has been discussed one time or another but I have a few questions because I live in north astern Ohio the weather is always changing. I have had a few guitars that seemed more affected by changing weather then others and do not use tremelo guitars because of the cost of setup.
I wanted to know if different guitar brands, price ,hardware, woods, countries, and set neck or bolt on really matters or is it like playing the lottery just have to get lucky? For example I had 2 schecter guitars one was the C-1 Exotic and the other was the C-1 XXX. The XXX would be different depending on the day not just the time of year the Exotics neck never moved I almsot never needed to adjust the neck. Right now I have an epiphone Explorer and a VBT ibanez and been noticing the Ibanez not liking the weather change as much these guitars are also kept on stands in the spare bedroom of my apartment so I am curious can just the change of the season affect necks and playability that much? That being said I did have a LTD Truckster(the gray one) and it had been left in the cold garage dropped and fallen off the stand a few times and it never had any issues.

 

[f550maranello2]

This is what i do..

all my raw necks i oil with gunstock wax
I keep the door closed and the the temperature set like the rest of the house and NEVER open the window
some guys say to use a humidifier but honestly i have 5 guitars with raw necks and never had issues,

 

[1big1]

i think it depends on the instrument itself. it's hard to say why some are more stable than others. i took my epi lpc out for a gig last saturday and it was stable as a rock.. and it was in the 20's here. if i had taken my '73 sg standard out it would have been all over the map tuning-wise all night. one is vintage.. the other is newer. both have set necks. my mexi strat is also stable in cold weather and it has a bolt on neck. i know some acoustics need to have their action changed during the winter and back again in summer. i don't think a luthier knows exactly how an instrument is going to respond to weather changes when they build them either. i just try to keep the humidity in the 40-60% range. speaking of which.. it's time to break out the humidifiers for the acoustics.

 

[BrentSSL]

do you think the cheaper guitars don't move as much because they're made overseas and require a different kind of paint work finish or something that keeps the next from breathing so much?

 

[1big1]

not sure if it's the woods.. the finish.. where it's made.. or what. the sg was made in michigan.. the epi is korean.. and the strat is.. well mexican.
the sg is mahogany.. the epi is probably nato.. though they say it's s.e. asian mahogany (to me that's a nice way to say nato).. and the strat is alder with a maple neck.
the sg finish is nitro.. the epi is poly.. and i'm not sure about the strat.
all in all i think it's more about the wood and construction techniques and materials more than anything. hide glue vs. a polymer etc.
there is one thing that is for sure. no two pieces of wood are the same.