Help: Shipping a guitar

Subject: Help: Shipping a guitar
From: GUEST,Novice
Date: 15 Dec 02 - 06:57 PM

What's the best way to prepare a guitar for shipment? Thanks in advance for any help.

Subject: RE: Help: Shipping a guitar
From: Midchuck
Date: 15 Dec 02 - 07:13 PM

It's all here (if this blue clicky works).

Peter.

Subject: RE: Help: Shipping a guitar
From: kendall
Date: 15 Dec 02 - 09:13 PM

And, if you ship it UPS, insure it for twice what it's worth. Those apes injured mine.

Subject: RE: Help: Shipping a guitar
From: GUEST,Novice
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 01:18 AM

Thanks Midchuck and Kendall for the link and the tip.

Subject: RE: Help: Shipping a guitar
From: Willie-O
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 01:51 AM

Don't ship it by UPS. Period. You're better off leaving it on a streetcorner with an address note. It probably won't get there, but no one will charge you a bunch of money for lying to you and treating your valuables like a garbage bag.

Subject: RE: Help: Shipping a guitar
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 02:10 AM

I've shipped many a guitar (some fairly expensive ones, some to the factory and back) via UPS without any mishaps. Let the tension down on the strings, pack it well in it's case and insure it for at least what it would cost to replace it. My 2 cents. vl

Subject: RE: Help: Shipping a guitar
From: Willie-O
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 02:19 AM

WEll, it's a good thing their parcels get through sometimes. My inlaws used them to try to return a banjo to a friend who had left it at their house...months later they found that when they finally got it to Toronto, they took it to the wrong address, and left it on the wrong doorstep without a signature. Banjo gone.

That's zero for one in my experience.

W-O

Subject: RE: Help: Shipping a guitar
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 02:46 PM

My Gurian came UPS from a Catter out in DC. Well packed and it arrived in fine shape. The link should help you a bunch. Long as you can pitch it off a roof top without worry it will arrive fine.

Steve