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| I'm sending the Breadwinner back to the Mothership tomorrow, and I just wanted to make sure it'll get there undamaged. So far, it's not in a shipping box (that'll come tomorrow) but I've done the following:
-immobilized/padded the headstock area of the case with crushed newspaper
-placed a large amount of newspaper under and around the neck
-filled every place where the case does not cradle the guitar with newspaper
I had a bit of trouble closing the case, but the guitar seems completely immobile within its confines.
Anything else I need to do within the case? Also, what type of packing box should I use, and what type of protective material should I use around the case when the guitar is in the shipping box? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Jeff K:
what type of protective material should I use around the case when the guitar is in the shipping box? Al uses pizza boxes.... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Don't have too much UNDER the head of the guitar. |
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| Loosen the strings to about half tension! Then relax. I have moved about two dozen guitars to and from all over the USA. Not one stinkin problem. One Guy sent my Ultra GS in a cheap beat up case with no box! He put the shipping labels right on the case. My heart stopped when I saw the UPS man with it. But it was fine.
I'll bet guy's like Al and Tony and others have sent so many guitars they don't think twice about it now.
Nice Guitar by the way. It's kinda what I am after. They seem like fun.
Randy |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I use nothing in the case. But I put lots of styrofoam, cardboxs, peanuts and newspaper around the case, inside the box. Don't worry they're tough. |
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Location: SoCal | When I shipped my Deluxe Balladeer to Germany, I wrapped the head of the guitar in bubble wrap, but for those old guitars, the headstock/neck area was prone to breakage.
Ovation, when they ship their current guitars, don't even detune them. Nothing is in the case but the guitar. They are very rugged instruments. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Acoustic Ovations are far less vulnerable to neck/headstock damage in shipment than they are to impact cracks in the finish, and even the factory has problems with that. UPS cracked a longneck that I had sent to Kim for restoration. It had to have a new top put on it. What the factory has that most of us don't is a strong enough business relationship with UPS that their damage claims are not second-guessed and fought like yours and mine are. |
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