Hello!

I am sure this was covered someplace in a post someplace, but since I can't search forums, I am taking the easy way out and just re-asking.

If possible I would like an official list of the "materials" that qualify an instrument as weatherproof/waterproof.

I also would like to just clarify that it is the material on Appraisal that matters and not the material on Assess (since sometimes there is a slight variance there).

(This is for Elanthipedia, of course :) Working on updating all instruments to show weatherproof or not and whatnot.)

Thanks!! Linett

For what little it's worth, my guess on weatherproof things has been as follows. I have tested everything unless noted otherwise. The maybes are things I've heard anecdotally are weatherproof but haven't tested myself.

Weatherproof:

- clay or porcelain (e.g. whiskey jug)
- iron or steel (e.g. stamping stick)
- maybe silver or a silver alloy (e.g. silver spoons)
- maybe glass or cut crystal (e.g. an etched glass piccolo with delicate gold keys)

NOT weatherproof:

- wood
- iron-bearing wood (e.g. a white ironwood lute; note not all ironwood classes as "iron-bearing")
- bone or shell (e.g. iron-bound horn)

Unknown:

- metal (e.g. mistglass tabla; note not all mistglass classes as "metal"; see mistglass xylophone)

Please do retest these as I may be wrong. It has been a while.


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