Canada Post

[scotty]

Congrats Jeff. It looks great.

+1 Sweet!

[jps]

Nice Orange, too!

[winston]

Nice Orange, too!

I had to look twice at that amp it looks a lot like my Roland 60 bass amp.

[iamltjbukem]

Thanks! The Orange is a little solid state one....not the greatest with the Ricky but I had a 58' Les Paul before this that rocked with it! I am moving this summer to the UK so I will grab a VOX over there.....

This V59 is great! Very versatile! Love it!!!!

[winston]

Try the AC30VR Jeff. It is the best of two worlds at less than half the cost of an AC30. I just love mine.

[steversaurus]

nice!

any customs/duty dings?

[kiramdear]

All's well that ends with a new-to-you v59.

Looks just like my own. With the hot toasters it is very capable with modern rock sounds. I use size .012 round wound strings on mine, nothing smaller. I'd be OK with .013s too, but the setup is perfect and I'm too lazy to tweak it - maybe next time. I have used flat wounds too, but the rounds' bite is generally more useful than the flat wounds' plunk, YMMV. Anyway, congratulations on a very special guitar.

[iamltjbukem]

Thanks for the compliments! I have 11's on it right now because that is all the local music store had.....so this weekend will get some 12's and 13's to try. Also I ordered a Bowtie bridge and am waiting for that before changing them again. Duty cost me $307.00 CDN........not a biggie really........drag yes but not losing sleep over it! This is the second one I have seen since I owned a black one back in 1991 so I wasn't going to freak out over a few hundred....

Do love it though but I think the strings could go the one up in the gauge department to keep it in tune a tiny bit better.....

[steversaurus]

3 bills for duty. What percent of the cost is that? Man it always makes me weary buying this cross border. Imagine the added duty/customs if it had not been made in the US!

[iamltjbukem]

It cost me with shipping about 2500 CDN....so whatever the math is for that!?!?!?!? I really wanted it so it doesn't matter the cost! Just that someone else didn't buy it first!!!!!! LOL

[bitzerguy]

Basically you were charged the HST at 12%. Doesn't look like any duty or clearance charged. You have to pay the sales tax, new or used when cross border shopping. No big deal.
THis was actually a pretty good customs deal. If it had been UPS you would have paid another $75-100 just to "clear" the guitar, plus the HST of $307.

I wouldn't complain either, for a rare beauty such as this (rare at least in Canada). Good job via Canada Post and USPS.

[iamltjbukem]

Thanks for the compliment!

Yea I just love it! Sounds great! Plays great! Is Great!

[steversaurus]

Thats not too bad at all. Glad another Rick is coming up North and not the other way around!

[iamltjbukem]

For awhile anyways....moving to the UK in August........

[treewalker]

Canada post has a 50/50 on whether or not you may or may not get charged for something when it comes in from out of the country, UPS, FedEx, ex will nail you every time.