must pack axis in suitcase - oh no..

[moo22]

I'm flying back to states and since i have two other guitars with fixed necks and no flight cases for them , they will have to be the carry ons , sooo
I've got to pack my axis ss in hard shell suitcase - when taking off neck i need to take tension off truss rod correct ? Is there a guess-timate about how many counter clockwise turns i should do to be safe?
Thanks!

 

[beej]

Interesting ... yeah, you can totally do that. When you take the neck off, just back off the truss rod until the wheel turns easily. You'll feel when there's no tension.

 

[straycat113]

I have never touched the truss rod when taking off a neck and shipping a guitar, and since it is not going to be off for a great length of time I see no reason to. I would just remind you too bubble wrap the neck and body and to stuff the case with whatever you have handy be it a pile of clothes and crumpled newspaper so it is stable. Also put all your screws and whammy bar in a ziplock bag. I have seen friends receive three guitars over the years were shipped where the sender did not bubble wrap the body and put the springs,bar and wrenches in a ziplock bag only to have them get loose and destroy the finish from rattling and banging all over it during shipping.

If you want to google shipping a guitar, as ebay and youtube have videos on how to do it. I would send this information to a seller on ebay if I asked if they ever shipped a guitar before and they said no.Good luck.

 

[ohdamnitsdevin]

what time may one contact CS?

 

[beej]

Standard biz hours, Pacific Time (GMT-8), Mon-Thurs.

Or email any time

 

[Jack FFR1846]

I have found that every time I remove the strings, the truss rod wheel is backed off all by itself from the release of string tension. Take off the strings first and look. Having restored my Sub-1 a couple of times, I'm pretty used to removing the neck, and never touch the truss rod.

 

[moo22]

thanks for the replies , I have done this before and not touched the truss rod and all was ok on the other end,
The reason i was asking is that i swear i saw a post in this forum saying how if you take the neck off a music man guitar and don't loosen truss rod it could destroy the neck - and that got me thinking i might have dodged a bullet before.
last time i did this, as soon as i landed i put neck back on and got string tension happening - so it's like 10 hours/ no neck - i'll look into this further
thanks again

 

[beej]

I'm no expert, but I'm under the impression that it's generally ok to have the neck off for limited periods of time w/o adjusting the rod. Long term you don't want tension on the neck, so if we're talking an extended period I'd back off the rod tension.

That said ... with this design, it's so simple to reduce the tension and set the relief (takes all of 10 seconds), I tend to do it whenever I have a neck off for a few hours.