Originally Posted by: john of MT
I believe in wiping down the strings too although there is another train of thought out there that doing so more rapidly diminishes their coatings. I also wipe down the entire guitar after playing. And the guitars are [u]always[/u] in their cases unless I'm within a few minutes of sitting down to play. I've never felt inconvenienced by the 10 seconds spent opening the case.

If you are using coated strings yeah that could be an issue. My sweat happens to be far more corrosive than any cleaning agent may be, so for me I don't worry about that. I tried coated strings once and they turned black on me just as quickly as regular strings.

I wipe my guitar down after each use also. No reason not to keep it nice looking.

I don't really have a place to conveniently store my guitars in their cases, but having a rack that sits along a wall that holds 5 guitars is both space saving and convenient for me.