“The PET-1 was invented, because I wanted a decent guitar humidifier for an old beater, an original 1966 Yamaha FG-180.

Sadly, it looked like it had been stored in an attic for twenty years. The sound board was warped and the tone was beyond bad, not that anyone could tell when I played it! I wondered if simply by humidifying I could breath life back into a guitar that otherwise should be used for kindling.

And that’s where I hit my big problem, none of the humidifiers worked well enough to do the job I wanted – You know, actually humidifying the tone wood of the guitar not the small pocket of 5cm air surrounding the humidifier – What good was that ever going to do – unless I stuck it in a case for 6 months, checking it all the time?

There was the one with syringes and a fabric that could potentially leak, another that was a tiny sponge in a box that could drip, another one that had packets that eventually dried out and would bankrupt me one day, a long sponge inside a rubber tube, all of which were fine, if you started humidifying from day one, and never let the guitar out of its case!

So, not satisfied with other products in the market place, I set about building a better humidifier.

One that had a large capacity, and large surface area – features that make it efficient at delivering humidity. And most importantly one that couldn’t leak. And so the PET-1 was born.

Amazingly, in just a few short weeks the humidifier managed to breath life back into the FG.

It was quite astounding.

The sound board returned to its original shape, you could smell the fragrance of the wood emanating from the sound hole, and most importantly the infamous tone that makes the old FG’s somewhat sought after, came back with vengeance.

It sang with a deep full bodied sound, rivalling that of guitars many times its value, when played by someone other than me.”

Steve – Inventor & Co-Founder