How to Protect your Guitar Neck

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When travelling with your guitar or if you choose to ship your guitar to meet you at your desired destination; taking care of the guitar neck is essential.

Guitar Neck Protection:

As a fellow guitarist we know that the most delicate part of the guitar is its neck. The guitar neck is most susceptible for any damage when traveling with your guitar or shipping your guitar.

Before traveling with your guitar or shipping your guitar you should make it a priority to reduce the tautness of the strings of the guitar and loosen it so that the strings can escape potential warping due to humidity, which is especially necessary when your guitar is shipping or moving via air plane. Temperature and pressure changes in flight can put enough strain on your guitar to snap that perfectly angled neck — unless your strings are loose. Whether you can fit your guitar in the overhead bin or have to nervously watch as it slips out of sight on the luggage belt, you should always loosen your strings before you go flying with a guitar. Taut guitar strings have over 300lbs of tension – you don’t want that to work against you.

 

Guitar Protection:

It is suggested, when shipping a guitar, hard shell guitar cases are best for guitar travel vs. soft guitar gig bags. Always bubble wrap and pad the guitar neck with some newspapers to lend to the cushioning effect to not allow the guitar neck to shift, shake or move. This provides less potential for a guitar neck to move during travel.

Remember, when traveling or shipping a guitar, as long as you have taken the best guitar packing precautions, you should not have any issues when your guitar arrives to your final destination.

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