How long do you keep the plastic protecters on a new guitar

[Bagger]

I see adds for guitars with the plastic still on and the guitar is several years old. I normally tear it off in a few days, not sure why I even leave it on that lng

 

[fezz parka]

5 seconds. Sometimes 10, depends on my mood.

 

[Lazloryder]

There's only one guitar I kept it on longer than 2 seconds. And that's only because I didn't even notice it was there. Soon as I did, it came right off.

 

[Muttcaster]

Never had one w/ plastic. Mine have all been used or parts. Sometimes used parts.

 

[boneyguy]

It comes off within seconds. Sometimes at the store.

What I also don't get are the used guitars I see that are several years old and they still have that little paper sticker on the back of the headstock that has to do with QC or environmental stuff. WTF!!!?

 

[SteveO]

Take it right off.It seems the longer you leave that stuff on,the harder it is to get off.

 

[P-Nutz]

There's only one guitar I kept it on longer than 2 seconds. And that's only because I didn't even notice it was there. Soon as I did, it came right off.

+1

Peace.

 

[mickmac]

Off in the car on the way home!!

 

[bluesfordan]

I've had some guitars 5 years and still had the plastic on it. Then I stopped buying new guitars. All my guitars now are used and hence, no plastic. Not yet anyway. I wouldn't let it stop me from buying one, but I'm not paying for new anymore.

 

[twangplank]

As soon as I get it home but I rarely buy new.

 

[TeleKato]

Immediately.

I played golf with a guy a few years back, who had a driver he'd been playing for a month; still had the plastic on the head, though it was starting to tatter a bit. That's a little over the top. But it is golf.

 

[Geo]

I leave 'em on till they fall off or get read close. Cheap entertainment.

 

[Northerntele]

Till it pisses me off

 

[paratus]

It has been scientifically proven to suck tone and cause brain damage. It has to go NOW.

 

[jcharmon824]

I had mine on my Jazzmaster from August 2008-August 2009. I didn't want to take it off for fear of damaging my precious baby.

 

[beep.click]

I play it off.

When I finally got my first "good" guitar, it took me a while to realize it had that plastic on it. In fact, I only noticed when some part of it started to lift.

At that point, it became a tradition for me, which I still do to this day: the plastic will only come off when I have literally played it off.

 

[PineBomb]

There's a certain kind of person that needs to maintain the myth of new. Then there's the other type of person that can't be bothered. I can't help but think the former, assuming he's a male, has to pee from the seated position ...

... unless the plastic remains only to be ironically torn all to hell. Maybe even metled into the pick guard with other junk taped, seared, branded or affixed in some form or fashion atop. Now that could be a thing.

Wait--did not mean to start a brainless relic/junked-fiddle debate. Sorry. Five or ten seconds or until it pisses me off sounds good to me.

 

[esetter]

As soon as I get home.

 

[oramac7891]

A couple days

 

[String Tree]

I take it off.
I take it alllll off.
I take it alllll of slooooowly.

Naw, I peel that mess back and never give it a second thought.
But then, I have never bought a NEW guitar for the purposes of keeping it mint to increase its value.

If someone bought a very expensive, limited edition, I can see why they would leave it be.