Packing a bow to ship?

[Goshawkin]

I'm thinking about putting a couple one piece recurves up for sale in the classifieds,but I'm worried about shipping them. What do you use to ship a recurve in? I just got a longbow from Blaino on here. He shiped it wrapped up and in a gray heavy walled(schedule 80?) PVC tube. You could have honestly driven over it with a car and not hurt the bow.
Any ideas on packing the recurves for shipping?

[Bjorn]

At the beginning of the Trad Bow Classifieds Rob has posted some packing and shipping tips have a look it is all there.

[Jack Shanks]

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000125

[Goshawkin]

Whoops,Thanks. I did a search on shipping bows in PowWow,should have checked classifieds.

[PICKNGRIN]

One of the better ideas I have seen for shipping a recurve was using a cardbord tube from a carpet store.  Chad Holm of Holm-Made bows uses them.  To make it wider, he smashed the tube so looking at the end of the tube it was shaped like a football.  Flattening the tube allows more room for the recurved ends.  Then he cut some football shaped boards to plug the tube ends.  He used a few sheet screws to hold the wooden boards in the tube ends.  It made for a very sturdy shipping container!

[Goshawkin]

Thanks for that,great idea.