Includes Hardshell Case

[Dave Locher]

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A: Guitar Center

Q: What are things that weren’t in my town in 1995, Alex.

Maybe it was my youth and inexperience; maybe I have a face that says, “Exploit me”; maybe it was before the e-commerce boom, but my experience with guitar stores in the 90s was that they thought they were doing you a favour by being there and having some guitars to look at. If you had enough money to buy something, you paid the price they asked, and that was it.

Oh, I remember those days quite well! I bought all my stuff at one tiny shop because the guy was decent to me AND he would bargain a bit on his prices. Every other shop in the Akron area either treated me like I had to earn the right to be there or I shouldn't care about the prices.
Got some good deals from that guy, including my first really good guitar and my first Gibson. Shop is long gone now.

 

[LLL]

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25 years ago, I spent over $2k on a carbon fiber acoustic, which, when I picked it up after paying it off, was told that it doesn't come with a hard case. I asked for all of my $ back. They found a hard case to throw in for me.

Well played.

 

[Open lane]

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Not 100% on topic but I got two skb soft exterior hard interior gig cases. I absolutely love them for their light weight, protective quality, and the fact their dimensions meet the criteria for the megabus.

 

[ErikH]

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Not 100% on topic but I got two skb soft exterior hard interior gig cases. I absolutely love them for their light weight, protective quality, and the fact their dimensions meet the criteria for the megabus.

I have a case like that for my Dean ML Chicago Standard. Fits like a glove and plenty of protection. I like the SKB Gig Bag I use for one of my Strats but I do prefer either the soft exterior/ hard interior or a full hard shell.

 

[GuitarStv]

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My Charvel So Cal came with a gig bag, but it's honestly the worst gig bag I've ever seen. It's incredibly thin nylon and I'm not sure that it would provide any significant protection. I'd have rather they just didn't sell with a bag/case than they give you one that's so useless the first thing you do is throw it out.

 

[devastone]

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~$3K Suhrs come in gig bags, I always found that annoying, or would, if I were to purchase one.

 

[GuitarDoc]

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It'a a total waste of money to include a gig bag. They just take up space in my closet and NEVER get used. They are more of a liability to me than an asset. I'm a bit OCD about protecting my guitars and they only go out in a hard case.

Sell me a guitar with a hard case or no case at all (regardless of the cost of the guitar), but please don't include a gig bag. I've even told stores to keep the gig bag...I don't want it taking up space in my house.

 

[OLDERBUDWISER]

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I try to give the "free"bags away when I have to ship a guitar

 

[Chistopher]

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There's one guy, Mike Marshall (world class bad mofo), who packs his $200k+ 1924 Gibson Lloyd Loar signed F5 (the mandolin equivalent of a '59 burst) in a $75 Chinese Travelite polyfoam case. His reasoning is that if he's on a bus or in a cab, it's on his lap, if he's walking somewhere, it's strapped to his back, and never gets laid down anywhere. This makes sense to me.

I try to keep my nicer guitars in cheaper cases so that they don't get stolen. I don't quite think I'd bring a instrument worth the same as a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT Final Edition (with the additional $12k upcharge for the Alu-Beam Silver finish).

 

[Adieu]

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There are $200k mandolins????

Who the hell has that kind of dough for a mandolin????

 

[JB_From_Hell]

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There are $200k mandolins????

Who the hell has that kind of dough for a mandolin????

Are you familiar with '59 Les Pauls? Pretend that's what we're talking about, and it's essentially the same situation.

 

[Adieu]

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Are you familiar with '59 Les Pauls? Pretend that's what we're talking about, and it's essentially the same situation.

But there are filthy rich superstar guitarists...and filthy rich people who envy worship and idolize superstar guitarists


....can someone make boatloads of cash playing mandolin? Are there doctors and lawyers and dotcom billionaires who secretly wish they'd tried to become star mandolinists instead??

 

[NegativeEase]

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I agree that it should be an option -but I only use hardshells for shipping guitars and non-primary guitars (backups) that might sit out in a van with cases etc because I have a gig bag thats reinforced in all the important places -you can hurt it without something crazy happening -I find that guitars in hardshell cases get touched, moved, abused and tossed around by roadies, soundmen, other band mates etc etc -whereas a guitar in a gig bag is treated with care at a club.

Plus cheap hardshells are false confidence -I mean unless it's in an ATA rated case with proper shock absorption -it's not better than my gig bag in most circumstances.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

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My Charvel So Cal came with a gig bag, but it's honestly the worst gig bag I've ever seen. It's incredibly thin nylon and I'm not sure that it would provide any significant protection. I'd have rather they just didn't sell with a bag/case than they give you one that's so useless the first thing you do is throw it out.

No way. I believe every So Cal/ San Dimas comes with a very nice SKB hardshell case...you know standard TSA approved case. That's the only reason I can't part with that sucker. The guitar is almost unusable but the case is just too nice to let go.

 

[Nostalgic Distortion]

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You sure? I thought MIMs were $299 for solid, $319 for burst around 1999/2000.

In 1999/2000 they had surpassed the $300 that they’d been at for quite a while & were I believe $100 more that the year before? If I remember correctly it didn’t take long after that for them to jump up to $500 where they stayed for about a decade until finally bumping them up in the $600 range recently...

 

[JB_From_Hell]

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But there are filthy rich superstar guitarists...and filthy rich people who envy worship and idolize superstar guitarists


....can someone make boatloads of cash playing mandolin? Are there doctors and lawyers and dotcom billionaires who secretly wish they'd tried to become star mandolinists instead??

You realize these instruments existed prior to their value skyrocketing, right?

 

[ItsaBass]

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Anything "proudly" made in the U.S.A.

If it's apathetically made in the U.S.A., then no case required.

I'm happy my special edition $1,000 ($1,200 retail, but I got a good deal) Mexican 60th Anniversary Jazzmaster came with one.

I am not happy that my $1,200 American Performer Mustang Bass came with a low quality gig bag made for a full scale bass. The American Performer Series is nice...but overpriced by about $200–$300 per instrument, IMO.

 

[NegativeEase]

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Anything "proudly" made in the U.S.A.

If it's apathetically made in the U.S.A., then no case required.

:lmao: