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I'd like to thank nearly everyone for their comments. Nearly everyone... The piss on my parade contingent can kiss my ass. As I said initially it wasn't just trying to avoid a bit of tax. That a Fringe benefit to being able to ensure the guitar gets to my in o e piece, and it isn't caught up with CITES for weeks.
Edit: i should add that’s its very unlikely you’d see the same personnel on inbound/outbound flights. Duty roster would see to that. And they dont keep records of what people take through security.
edit 2: security more concerned with confiscating your liquids
I like this guy
I picked up a nice old Fender P bass and a Steinberger XL2 , which I brought back with me (unlike the girl ) Heathrow customs main concern was that the Steinberger was not a gun as it looked like a weapon in a gig bag . Once they were satisfied it was a guitar ,they waved me through no problem at all . ( mind you that was 15 years ago )
I have heard a story of a guitarist stopped at customs having to play a song to the officials to prove he was a musician , rather than a " guitar mule "
One might well get away with just bringing a guitar back (and there is the Cites advantage), but the take-a-guitar-case-out gambit doesn't seem to offer any advantage.
take a shit, even broken, guitar with you that has similar looking case and flog it to anywhere for any amount.
that way when you get stopped on way home you can go to your Facebook and see look there is me playing it last week before i flew out.
That's not on at all!!!!!
Saved a few quid but that was back when the exchange rate was more in our favour.
Actually the shop made me up a dummy receipt for like $200 in case i got stopped (on guitar centre paper )
I’m definitely on the go for it side here. It’ll cost you more for sure and if the customs folk want to stop you and you can’t prove it’s had it’s tax and duty paid they will charge you. But if you have the money for this caper and you think the guitar will be around more than a month or two, what an adventure and great way to start out the relationship.