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I would say it depends a bit on the guitar. I also assume you are talking shipping a uesd guitar. Food for thought, most new guitars ship in tune. If a guitar is going to be in a plane, always down tune. If a guitar has a Floyd and is not being flown I would always try to keep it in tune for however it is set up to be in. Anything with a massive headstock back angle (like a Les Paul) I would detune so long as it is a fixed bridge just to alleviate string tension and pull on the neck should it be drop kicked across the shipping yard.The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
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I'd take the tension off of the neck. It only takes a few minutes.Administrator of the SDUGF
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Originally posted by JB_From_Hell View PostI’ve shipped and received lots of guitars of varying construction types. Pretty sure none have ever been downtuned. I’d be more concerned with packing it securely.Last edited by Ascension; 01-29-2022, 08:40 AM.Guitars
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The other thing to consider is if you’re going to loosen the strings, you’ll also need to loosen the truss rod.
I did loosen the strings, truss rod, and remove the floating bridge from a mandolin I shipped.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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Originally posted by JB_From_Hell View PostThe other thing to consider is if you’re going to loosen the strings, you’ll also need to loosen the truss rod.
I did loosen the strings, truss rod, and remove the floating bridge from a mandolin I shipped.
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Further, a local PRS dealer told me when he gets guitars shipped in, he opens the case, strums a chord, tweaks the tuning if necessary, then hangs them on the wall.
That leads me to believe PRS ships them tuned to pitch and setup.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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I've bought only 3 guitars that were shipped to me from outside Canada. One Kramer with a Floyd on it was absolutely perfect when I opened up the case!
The other two fixed bridges were slightly out of tune but rock solid after I broke them in a bit.
If we're talking acoustics then more caution maybe. When I brought a flamenco guitar back from Spain I loosened the strings completely, and wrapped the whole guitar in a towel inside the case. No idea if all of that was necessary but traveling from an Oceanside climate to frigid Canadian winter, it survived
Maybe it has to do with Gremlins from time to time?
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I remember my classmate getting his ES.335, that cost him 3000USD, home from shipping with a broken headstock :/
even though it was packed in a hardcase, and the strings loosened.
Good thing is, he got a nice repair, that couild barely be noticed!If somethings important- send a PM. I might be offline for long periods. Rock on!!!
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