When packing a guitar for shipment must be very careful that it is well protected at every opportunity to minimize the damage to take them. The key is to pack the guitar properly in the box, so that the external forces that may occur during transport and handling can bear. Here are some tips and suggestions to help assure that your guitar to achieve their goal intact.
The safest way to ship guitars to enter the field twice. The internal structure can be a hardA book case or triangular cardboard guitar. The box should be a stable double-walled cardboard box. The search for a box big enough to ship a guitar can be a challenge because of the length of the instrument. Some companies boards 'special' guitar boxes, which are 50 cm x 20 "x 8". Nearly ask your local music store, and be happy to give you a box and used a triangular appropriate packaging of shipments that have received . Please note the actual size of the window:Length, height and width. These are very important for calculating the costs of shipment and in compliance with the requirements of the size of shipping the package. Please note that you are always a window can be reduced if you need it.
First, prepare the guitar for shipment. Strings should be relaxed to relieve pressure on his neck. Archtops quarry in the bridge should be on the top, if possible, be removed and deposited elsewhere. Newspaper or padding can be placed between the strings andthe body of the guitar. Some suggest removing the strap button at the bottom of the guitar (), particularly in the hollow bodies, in order to prevent damage if the field vertically.
Next place the guitar in the inner box (or case) and fill any spaces with packing material. Pay particular attention to the neck joint of the guitar. This damage is occurring most common site. Make sure there is enough cushion to support this sector at the end of the neck.
If the internal field isinch safe over packaging material at the end of the outer packaging. Stand the mast box and the inner box (or case) in an outer packaging, with the end of the body (and not) from the end of the headstock of the guitar. Please fill in the spaces in today's domestic box with packaging material. Enter the back of a couple of good shakes during this phase to ensure that the packing material fills all the spaces. Top box, cut with several inches of packing material for the end, the length of the upper box, tape it up,and you're done. If you are the guitar properly you should be able to shake the package and nothing moves in some packaged.
A few words on the packaging material. There are a variety of ways that this is a good job. Newspaper, popcorn, bubble wrap and polystyrene are used most frequently. One of the most effective packaging I've seen used for packing guitar gift card. If you get for cheap that works really well.
