Shipping all my Gear...

[whitenoise]

Well, for anyone that has been in, or grew up in a military family they know all about relocating every few years. I will be moving from the East coast to the west coast next week. I think i have everything covered with shipping my gear. here is my plan.

The military will come to my house and pack all my household items (to include all my guitar gear). I will be driving across country, and plan on taking with me my acoustic, Gibson LP custom, and maybe one other guitar (a 86 kramer). I also plan to take a few pedals and a Honeytone. My other guitars will have hard cases and i will make sure that they are secured (and not moving around) in those cases (with buble wrap or t-shirts). Pedals are easy, they will be secured in the pedal case. All the stuff pack by the military i will have to do without for around a month, maybe a little more.


Now packing my amps, i have a 69 fender twin, and a marshall 2555 with a slanted cab. I plan on taking out the tubes, wraping them in plastic bags, and them placeing the bags in bubble wrap before boxing up myself. I plan on making sure that the front side/grill cloth will be heavily pertected before the amps get packed and crated up.

is there anything i am missing that could increase my chances of getting my gear across county without any casualties?

thanks for any info

[guitardr]

I was able to find interlocking foam corners for the inside of boxes for amps & cabs. Check them out plus foam sheets for the sides/top. Suhr uses them, I'm sure others do too.

[Audio_Builder]

You might want to short the speaker jack to keep the speakers from flopping around during the move.

[jpv0209]

I've gotta do the same thing in about 6 or 7 months. My wife is in the Air Force and we'll be moving after the beginning of the year

[whitenoise]

Yeah, this will be the first time i will move with a lot (for me) of nice guitar stuff. On my last move, i had a less expensive ibanez acoustic that suffered some neck warping while being in storage for a few months. But all my other guitars made it safely. I didnt have a real amp at that time, and no pedals. I like my amps, and it would be costly to replace them. i just want to make sure i do everything i can to prevent any damage. And i know nothing is going to be 100% safe.

[rooster]

If you have time, on any of your amp heads, block the transformers in using a piece of lumber and shimming it with cardboard. Anything that will hold them in place. Also, if you build a little crate around them using ferring strips (spelling, anyone in the construction trade) with masonite on the inside and packed with a bit of foam, that will protect the faceplates; that masonite is some pretty tough stuff as far as puncture resistance in case anything rattles around.

Good luck, and thanks for your service.

rooster.