davismanLV
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This is why, in a recent thread, I mentioned that one's personal care & feeding experiences regarding nitro finishes is best applied only to instruments from the same maker and from a similar era. Nitro formulations have been and remain a moving target!Well that's interesting. I actually had no idea what nitro Collings uses, or that there were a variety of nitrocellulose lacquers for that matter. I do know that Collings applies it very, very thin. Like .004" I think.
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Hey, dwasifar, there's some risk (but not a ton) with the cold re: shipping when a guitar is properly packed in a HSC within a box that's insulated with all kinds of airy packing material. The real risk to the guitar is rapid temperature change. So, if you haven't heard this already, acclimate the box and then the HSC first before you even consider taking the guitar out. If the box been subjected to freezing outdoor temps, I do at least 12 hours to let the box sit in my house -- usually I open one end of the box right away but everything stays where it is. After (at least) those 12 hours I remove the HSC from the box. Then I let the HSC sit unopened for (at least) another 12 hours or so (maybe more). If the latches on the case feel at all cold, wait longer before popping them. It's at that point that an unacclimated guitar would get blasted by warm air and craze the finish.It is cold here now, and I brought that up to Chris, who gave me some pointers on how to acclimate the instrument and avoid finish crazing from thermal stress. But that was why I was trying to keep it out of being parked over a weekend.
What's the word (besides fronobulax) for when a moderator stirs the pot?I'm afraid to ask, but can't resist...
What's the latest, dwasifar?
duck soup.What's the word (besides fronobulax) for when a moderator stirs the pot?
That's always been my experience with Fedex......always on time or early. And we've had them deliver here at 8:30 pm before.Yay! A Wednesday delivery will be something to be thankful for no doubt! Can’t wait to hear the outcome.
Interestingly enough, I had a package shipped via Fed Ex last week, got a tracking showing arrival on the 22nd. Next thing I know on Sunday morning I get a text from FedEx saying it’ll be dropped off on Sunday! I thought hmm, wow, they deliver on Sundays? Sure enough found a huge box leaning up against the front door yesterday afternoon. Hope you get yours in no time.
Wow ! And congrats . This is one heck of a tail one well deserving of the Guild archives!I was waiting for an issue to settle out before I posted with the update.
You'll remember I had instructed Chris at Guild not to ship late in the week if there was a chance the instrument would spend a weekend sitting on a truck or in an unheated warehouse. That turned out to be what would have happened, so with my approval, Chris waited until today to ship, and he called me with the tracking number they'd generated.
At that point, while on the call, both of us simultaneously realized we had forgotten about Thanksgiving this week. A ground shipment leaving today would probably not arrive until next Monday, basically doubling the very problem we were trying to avoid.
Chris asked me if I wanted to delay shipping another week. I had a different idea, and asked him, "Out of curiosity, how much would it cost to upgrade this shipment to two-day and get it here Wednesday? I can reimburse you for the difference if that's necessary." Of course, I was quietly hoping it would not be necessary, and Chris didn't let me down in that regard. He said it was a good idea and he would try to just get it handled for me.
A couple of hours later he called me back. He "did some talking" to some people and got the shipment upgraded to two-day at no extra cost to me. He said FedEx is not guaranteeing two-day over the holiday week, so it could be Wednesday, or it could be Friday, but no later than Friday, and provided me a tracking number.
When the tracking number first registered in the FedEx system, it said the shipment was late for pickup and would be delivered Friday. But when I returned to the tracking site just now, I saw this:
So it looks like it will be a happy family Thanksgiving in the Dwasifar household. Can't wait for Wednesday.