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Hey I've been on a buying spree the last several weeks and want to thank and acknowledge everybody involved. I'll also have some fun discussing the different boxing methods they employed. 
First up: plon
plon sold me a Fusion PRO at a great price last month!
Antony needed Paypal, but my account is messed up, so a big thumbs up for plon's patience...he waited and held the Fusion until I could get the payment to him.
A big shout out here to my new buddy VinceV for helping me out with the Paypal thing! I had invited him to a really good Thai restaurant in a city that's between our cities...well, make that WAS 
Imagine my embarrassment when we show up there and the whole strip mall has been torn down (sometime in the last few months) ! That's the 3rd time in as many months that I've struck out finding a particular Thai place!
Thanks again, Vince!
Just as an aside here: I have all my gear shipped to my work building. I also ask of all my sellers to double box guitars and to boycott UPS. So that usually means FedEx Ground, as they've always handled shipments well & charged very reasonable rates. Now I am always paranoid about how exactly sellers plan to package gear, especially guitars.
I think I'll start another thread on what MY version (the correct one, heh) of double boxing is. Plon packed thusly: Fusion in HSC, wrapped by a couple layers of bubble wrap, in a box, then *tightly* in another box. That is, he used 2 boxes all right, but 2 similar sized ones with no packing in between.
I had a bit of a chuckle about that. But, it all turned out fine, because the guitar arrived in excellent shape!
OK, here's a pic of the Fusion:
I love the high end features, and this guitar has what I call "heft", it feels really "significant", similar to my old SL2H (USA).
First up: plon
plon sold me a Fusion PRO at a great price last month!
Antony needed Paypal, but my account is messed up, so a big thumbs up for plon's patience...he waited and held the Fusion until I could get the payment to him.
A big shout out here to my new buddy
VinceV for helping me out with the Paypal thing! I had invited him to a really good Thai restaurant in a city that's between our cities...well, make that WAS Imagine my embarrassment when we show up there and the whole strip mall has been torn down (sometime in the last few months) ! That's the 3rd time in as many months that I've struck out finding a particular Thai place!Thanks again, Vince!
Just as an aside here: I have all my gear shipped to my work building. I also ask of all my sellers to double box guitars and to boycott UPS. So that usually means FedEx Ground, as they've always handled shipments well & charged very reasonable rates. Now I am always paranoid about how exactly sellers plan to package gear, especially guitars.
I think I'll start another thread on what MY version (the correct one, heh) of double boxing is. Plon packed thusly: Fusion in HSC, wrapped by a couple layers of bubble wrap, in a box, then *tightly* in another box. That is, he used 2 boxes all right, but 2 similar sized ones with no packing in between.
I had a bit of a chuckle about that. But, it all turned out fine, because the guitar arrived in excellent shape! OK, here's a pic of the Fusion:
I love the high end features, and this guitar has what I call "heft", it feels really "significant", similar to my old SL2H (USA).
So thanks, Derck, for taking it to a place that packaged it up & shipped it. I think they charged something like $42 just for the packing job...all they did was wrap the head twice in thick bubble wrap and then tossed it in one big box filled with loose packing peanuts. I swear that couldn't have taken 5 minutes 
I stayed patient through all this, cuz I know how it is, plus I had a bunch of other axes coming in (see above and below posts). But I started wondering when the homework-eating dog was gonna make his appearance! 
Glad you like her. She really does have some good Jap mojo goin' on. Really comfy too. Enjoy brutha...
It sounds way better than I expected, and the color is darker than I expected also! The Forest Green looks black in low light situations (most of my axes are black). Will definitely play the Warrior on the big gig we got this Saturday! Hopefully I'll get some pics taken then! 
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