Taking Guitar over

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Jun 9th 2010, 12:43 pm

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John_B

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Re: Taking Guitar over

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Originally Posted by jaye944

any ideas,

have a EPIPHONE DOT, (hollow body electric)

options are

1> fly it over with me, padded bag, in the cabin (according to BA website) probably going buisness

2> have it freighted across. IF SO
i: Should I get a hard case, sepcficaly for this
ii: The softy padded one but, shed loads of bubble wrap

Am hoping to go LCL with my belongings.

I brought a new guitar on a trip back home and brought it back in a soft case. Needless to say it got damaged. It may have been ok in a hard case though.

Jul 10th 2010, 4:54 pm

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adrianj

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Re: Taking Guitar over

epiphone in a hiscocks, went in hold
emerged fine
I packed it also with wadded news paper, specailly round the headstock
locked and strapped the case at two points

(frets.com gave a good write up on this)

came out at the fragile, oversize baggage area

Jul 12th 2010, 1:49 pm

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iaink

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Re: Taking Guitar over

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Originally Posted by jaye944

Glad it worked out. You can probably sell the case for a profit if you are patient, at least, the Hiscox Sax cases sell at a premium over here...

Jul 14th 2010, 1:50 am

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adrianj

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Re: Taking Guitar over

yeah cheers Ian,
I know it may not be the most top of the line guitar,
but I am well fond of it, also I had it tweeked up a little by a local guitar shop
and its starting to bed in nicely

bigup on everyones advice