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Shipping a guitar abroad

  • 07-09-2010 12:20am
    #1
    Mongo
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭


    I'm sending my bass to Germany this week and I'm looking for any tips on shipping abroad. I'm planning on sticking it into the case and putting the case into a large cardboard box (that hopefully I'll get from a music store) and filling the box with bubble wrap or something?

    I also think I'll loosen the strings and stick something between the strings and the fretboard. Anyone else got tips on what to do? What to put in the case or the box?

    Regards
    Mike


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  • #2
    Malice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Depending on how the guitar fits into the case, you might need to put something between the body of the guitar and the case so that it can't move around. Just to be clear, I mean the bottom of the guitar (where the strap button is). I've seen people use bubble wrap and suitably shaped lumps of polystyrene for this.


  • #3
    Mongo
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Mongo


    Nice one. Any other tips from anyone?


  • #4
    Welease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭Welease


    Mongo wrote: »
    Nice one. Any other tips from anyone?

    Don't use GLS....


  • #5
    Mongo
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Mongo


    Why not? Want to say why?


  • #6
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭darrenw5094


    Mongo wrote: »
    Why not? Want to say why?

    GLS are a fricken disaster. I wouldn't put them in charge of a disease.

    There is a super Super thread about those mofo's somewhere on boards.


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  • #7
    Mongo
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Mongo


    Uh ohs. Shipped today with them. Oh wells it's in allahs hands now.


  • #8
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭darrenw5094


    Mongo wrote: »
    Uh ohs. Shipped today with them. Oh wells it's in allahs hands now.

    Well it could only be the Irish part of the journey. It should be passed on to a quality Germany courier.


  • #9
    gerry2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭gerry2010


    ah why are you shipping it to germany?


  • #10
    Mongo
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Mongo


    Because thats where the dude lived who I was trading with. I used GLS and so did he and there was no problems on either end!


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