Guitar is returned to it's original foam bag. Innocuous non-original additional packing is added to stabilize the guitar in shipment better than factory packing: (1) Newspaper wads will provide a nest on top of the guitar so the guitar cannot rise in it's inner carton. (2) The original desicant bag is cheap paper and after 7 years is subject to rupture and spilling abrasive silica gel balls into the case; So I put the silca gel bag into a small zip lock bag and secured it in one of the foam bag's headstock cuff's rubber bands. (3) A small bag of raw rice was made and placed securely in the carton to act as a moisture desicant. (4) A nylong string was strung around the foam bag's headstock cuff as a backup for the 2 original 7 year old rubber bands. (5) An additional cardboard shim was added at tip of headstock to fill space that was a bit too loose for my comfort. |