Re: Flying with a guitar... or not

[Tim Mungenast <tmungenast@verizon.net>]

reviving an old thread... i found a sacrificial guitar to unbolt and put into my luggage in pieces... trouble is, according to this chart, no airline will take any bag big enough to hold the neck, so there goes that scheme... even a steinberger clone won't work, unless i am missing something.
http://www.luggagesource.com/Carry-on-size-charts.aspx
(stephen, i hope you got a nice new case out of your ordeal)


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--- On Fri, 8/10/12, Keith Smith <kahsmith@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Keith Smith <kahsmith@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Flying with a guitar... or not
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Friday, August 10, 2012, 1:55 PM

If you're playing a solid body with a bolt-on neck, you might consider removing the neck, packing your clothes in the case and put the body in your carry-on.

Bill Keith did something like this with his banjos; recommended it, in fact.

It's certainly a less attractive solution for a a guitar than a banjo but if you don't do it very often...
k