Techie Advice;

Gassage

I'm going on hols next week.

I am flying with a lo-co to a port, but want to take a guitar with me.

My plan was to take my old 65 bitsa telecaster, unbolt the neck, take it in luggage, bolt it back.

What are the risks? Is it a no-no?

Bridgehouse

Rosewood and CITES?

aord43

I've heard horror stories about guitars being ripped up by US customs.  Not seen it first hand though.  Rest of the world you might be OK.

Gassage

Bridgehouse said:

Rosewood and CITES?

Mate, did I tag you? No. Piss off.



(good point, but in EU. Med cruise!- neck is 1965 and is stamped tho.)

Gassage

Sorry, for clarity, the bit about unbolting and bolting together?

guitars4you

Bridgehouse said:

Rosewood and CITES?

should be okay if you are traveling with it and staying in the EU - in fact even outside the EU if you are traveling with it then the rules are different - even so it is better to have some receipt that states it is made and imported initially into the EU before 2/1/17 when rules changed

@gassage - make sure you put any screw driver etc in the case as well as they can't go on as hand luggage - I accidentally left my Leatherman in a rucksack this year after a walk a few days earlier - the second it was flagged under x-ray I knew what it was - by by Leatherman and I bet they don't bin it either

guitars4you

Gassage said:

Sorry, for clarity, the bit about unbolting and bolting together?

always easy to do if you know what you are doing - just ensure correctly aligned regarding strings to the edge - check when taking neck of if any pieces of card to change pitch angle

I'm not a fan of taking on/off to many times as one day the wholes will need to be re-plugged as otherwise they become to loose for the screws

Gassage

guitars4you said:

Bridgehouse said:

Rosewood and CITES?

@gassage -- I accidentally left my Leatherman in a rucksack this year after a walk a few days earlier -

My leatherman will sit next to me. In a hood.

Bridgehouse

I was only questioning as if it's Braz then even in the EU some countries can be really arsey about it (esp Germany)

Indian RW? Then you're fine in the EU.

Re neck bolting on off, it won't be off long enough to affect the TR I would have thought. Stick some strings in your hold luggage just in case. 

I would probably tell the airline. I doubt airport security would give a toss. 

Handsome_Chris

@Gassage, Ron Thal removes and refits his necks quite often for travel.  You've probably had more guitars than him so you should know what you're doing. 

Bridgehouse

BTW is there a new rule that I can only reply if tagged?

Crikey. If I replied to all of them I'd never be off here

guitars4you

Bridgehouse said:

I was only questioning as if it's Braz then even in the EU some countries can be really arsey about it (esp Germany)

Indian RW? Then you're fine in the EU.

Re neck bolting on off, it won't be off long enough to affect the TR I would have thought. Stick some strings in your hold luggage just in case. 

I would probably tell the airline. I doubt airport security would give a toss. 

Germany is more of a pain by all accounts on Braz than other EU countries and better not taking is probably safer than taking even if it is your own possession - Nightmare 

I turned a Brz sale on a PRS down the other day to Singapore as it was just likely to go wrong

Bridgehouse

@guitars4you - BRW is a different beast. I wouldn't take my 64 P out of the UK just in case. 

Handsome_Chris

Further to my earlier.  @gassage, Ron uses it so that he can carry his guitars as cabin luggage.  

https://www.facebook.com/bumblefoot/posts/10154852023653085

Gassage

Yeah think it's BRW. It's a trans neck, pearl dots, 65. Colour suggests BRW.

Gassage

Ideally, I'd take one of the strats or the thinny, but more worried that they are more delicate.

Paul_C

I'd have thought the obvious thing to do would be;

Travel - buy guitar - play guitar for a bit - sell guitar - travel home.

Not much different to normal, except for the travel bit.

Bridgehouse

Not sure they sell many guitars on cruise liners..

@Gassage - are you in the ship's band?

underdog

Just buy a squier strat to go with you? Sell it on when you get back.

Hoof

Buy a really shit one from a junk shop when you get there and really get into it. Its limitations might inspire you to play something different and you'll appreciate your good gear even more when you get home.

Three-ColourSunburst

guitars4you said:

make sure you put any screw driver etc in the case as well as they can't go on as hand luggage - I accidentally left my Leatherman in a rucksack this year after a walk a few days earlier - the second it was flagged under x-ray I knew what it was - by by Leatherman and I bet they don't bin it either

And yet they let people take duty free on board, despite the fact that a bottle of spirits could start a nice fire and the broken bottle would make a nasty weapon. Just goes to show what BS most of this airport security thing really is, and how profit always comes first.