Traveling With a Guitar

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Permalink Reply by Justin and Amanda Claypool on August 13, 2008 at 2:49pm

alright here's a travelling with a guitar 101. usually if you have a good case (hard case, solid clasps . . .) then you can check it as luggage. but depending on what kind of guitar you have, you may not feel comfortable with that. it all depends on what airline you're travelling on, but often times you can carry it all the way through to the gate and then once their, they hand check it underneath. a few times i've been able to put it overhead, but that's pretty rare these days. on your domestic flights within australia you could potentially be charged extra luggage for it.

and yes PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure you loosen the strings completely before you get on the flight. because of the altitude the strings will tighten and if you don't loosen them before hand, that much pressure could cause the neck of your guitar to break. so yes, you MUST loosen the strings.

hope that helps

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Permalink Reply by Aaron M on August 17, 2008 at 7:16pm

Yeah, pretty much what Claypool said... loosen the strings (two or three complete revolutions of the machine head is more than enough) and carry it as far as you possibly can.

If you have a case with locks... make sure you carry the key on you, not in your checked baggage. They don't like it when they can't undo the locks, it turns out. But yeah... a good case is essential.... they get chucked pretty hard sometimes.

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