Leaving For Korea - Maintenance Tips!

[ScoobySteve]

So I'm completing all my packing right now as I'm posting this. I'll be leaving for LAX in about 5 hours, but while I get ready does anyone have any advice for EBMM maintenance while over seas and for travel?

My EBMM JP6 w/ Rosewood Neck is going to Korea during the summer. Egregiously humid and hot temperatures, with no real cool temperatures to come. I'll be there for about two months. Any stability, tuning, wood condition/issues that I should be wary of?

Tips for traveling with the EBMM OHSC?

Anything is appreciated!

Thanks guys!

-Steve

 

[Dante]

i'd stick the guitar in a bag if they don't let u take the case as hand luggage. i would seriously avoid taking it as cargo bay luggage. i have heard one horror story too many to trust mankind with an axe.


i think your thruss rod might need some tweeking. take a good foto of the relief at the 12th fret while pressing a string down at the first and at the 19th fres. otherwise you'll need a guitar tech when u land certainly, there are guitar techs in korea.

 

[happiegolfer]

Pack your guitar like you're shipping it

Wow, this is my first post after learning so much from the site. I have a sport, a SS and just bought a AL. You'll be in the middle of the monsoon so it'll be humid. Be prepared to carry your guitar in the rain if you're gigging. Some use golf bags to cover up, some just use large plastic bags. Make sure you air out your case over night.

On packing, I've been able to carry my guitars to Korea, but school is out so the planes could be packed and they might not let you carry. I've packed up my guitars in shipping boxes with padding and cut out the handle area of the box (easier to carry) to be prepared for both situations. I do some work in Korea and know pretty much all the music stores so if you need a good repair shop, buy accessories, find musicians to meet or just want to go to a few shows PM me and I can help out. Have a fun trip.

al

 

[agt]

Have a safe trip!

 

[mb99zz]

Yes, be safe and watch out for the wicked witch of the North while you're there

 

[bkrumme]

Let the guitar become acclimated to the environment before doing any tweaking. The last thing you want is to do the same work over and over again.

I agree with Dante. Take a gig bag with you (pack it in your luggage) and carry the guitar with you if they don't let you carry the SKB case on.

 

[fsmith]

*If* you can take it as a piece of your carry on luggage, an EBMM guitar in an EBMM gig bag is the way to go. People bitch about the size of MM guitars (too small!) but for traveling with the gig bag they are very compact and I've had no trouble going throughout the US with a couple of mine. It stores very easily in the overhead bins and have even had helpful stewardess's offer to keep it in their own bins at the front of the plane.

I'd have been screwed if I ever had to check it and I guess I've been lucky but I made sure to do my homework before leaving and made calls to the different airlines to make sure they wouldn't have a problem with it being a carry on piece.

I just took my Petrucci with me on vacation to a very humid locale and within a day or so had to make a slight truss rod adjustment. I didn't have an ice pick or anything else handy so I snagged a fork and bent one prong out to accomplish the task. Gotta love the way EBMM engineered their truss rod system...

fred

 

[ScoobySteve]

Thanks for the advice guys!

After a long lay over in Tokyo, I've arrived here in Busan. Literally just got settled in. I ended up checking the OHSC by adding a couple of my softest tees in there as extra padding after about a 15 minute argument with the check in clerk. I called for the manager and she came to assist and completely understood my situation. I'm carrying an expensive instrument, they're completely full so I couldn't carry it on board, and they have no liability program for instruments that get damaged en-route. They promised me to take care of it, and even put it at First Class priority luggage at no extra cost. That was wonderful.

After a lay over in Tokyo, a transfer, and finally back in Korea, I got my Ball back and am happy to say that it is in perfect condition.

Except for the neck, the trem, and the tuning was WAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY off. Brought all my guitar tools with me too, so I guess I'm gonna be spending more time on it tonight.

Thanks again guys!