Papabron Posted September 9, 2023 Posted September 9, 2023 (edited) Hi everyone, I’ve got a lovely solid top acoustic that I bought second hand in January. It’s in my room and for the last nine months I’ve been hearing a ticking sound at night. Finally figured out it was coming from my guitar. I think it might be the dreaded death watch beetle which is essentially woodworm. No holes that I can see and the ticking is an even beat rather than fast to slow like the samples I’ve heard of a death watch beatle. Anyway, does anyone have an experience of dealing with it? I cannot find anything online at all… TOA Edited September 9, 2023 by Papabron Quote
Graham50 Posted September 15, 2023 Posted September 15, 2023 Are you sure it’s not the bedroom clock. Death watch beetle is extremely rare and is NOT woodworm which is the common furniture beetle. If you have death watch your house may be about to fall down. Quote
Matt P Posted September 19, 2023 Posted September 19, 2023 i've never heard of Insect damage to guitars, Have you tried moving the guitar to another room and see if the sound follows it? Acoustic guitars will pick up and amplify sounds very well, I'd put my money on this being the case here, the ticking was always there (a clock or watch probably) but the guitar has amplified the previously inaudible ticking enough that it's now noticeable. Matt Quote
Graham50 Posted October 5, 2023 Posted October 5, 2023 Did you discover the source of your ticking, Papabron? Quote
Crusoe Posted October 6, 2023 Posted October 6, 2023 18 hours ago, Graham50 said: Did you discover the source of your ticking, Papabron? Maybe it was death watch beetle after all and his did fall down. Quote
