Using a guitar rifle case as a guitar case?

[Chistopher]

For $200 you can get a rifle case that looks like a guitar case

https://www.saviorequipment.com/products/ultimate-guitar-case-single-rifle-case

I'm thinking of buying one and cutting it to be a guitar case.

 

[Mikelamury]

For the same price you can probably just buy a guitar case...

 

[ehdwuld]

For about $99 you can get a guitar case that fits your guitar
and looks like a guitar case

 

[solspirit]

For about $99 you can get a guitar case that fits your guitar
and looks like a guitar case

A flight case even

 

[Blille]

The gig bag of my Hohner Steinberger copy looked like a rifle bag. Didn’t do great in airports.

 

[JMP/HBE]

 

[larryguitar]

I get the joke, but that's actually a great idea for a rifle case in NPE's.

Larry

 

[GuitarDoc]

At first I thought that the op was serious and I was going to make comments similar to some already posted.
But then I realized that there's no way anyone could make such a post with a "right mind" and saw that it could only be a joke.
(Wait, am I wrong about that?)

 

[eclecticsynergy]

One of my Backlunds travels in a rifle case.
Roller wheels, watertight, and sturdy enough to stand on.
It was $125 on sale from Harbor Freight.

https://www.harborfreight.com/9800-w...een-58657.html

 

[Chistopher]

Oh no, I'm serious about it. To put it in artsy terms, to the average uninformed person it looks like a guitar in a guitar case, but to the rare few that recognize it is actually a gun cases, it would undermine their expectations to find it actually contained a guitar.

It would be like hollowing out a book only to store a smaller version of that book.

 

[dave74]

 

[GuitarDoc]

One of my Backlunds travels in a rifle case.
Roller wheels, watertight, and sturdy enough to stand on.
It was $125 on sale from Harbor Freight.

https://www.harborfreight.com/9800-w...een-58657.html

Good cases, but they are HEAVY! Nearly 4x the weight of my guitars.

You need the wheels just to move around the empty case.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Oh no, I'm serious about it. To put it in artsy terms, to the average uninformed person it looks like a guitar in a guitar case, but to the rare few that recognize it is actually a gun cases, it would undermine their expectations to find it actually contained a guitar.

It would be like hollowing out a book only to store a smaller version of that book.

So you're saying that it's really clever to have a guitar case that looks like a guitar case but is designed to hold a rifle, and you could do a lot of work on the inside of it to actually make it hold a guitar, and that would trick those few people who know that it was designed to hold a rifle? So you'd end up with a guitar case that holds a guitar?!

WOW!!! That really is clever! Why didn't I think of that!

("Too Much Time on My Hands" doesn't even begin to tell the story!)

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Good cases, but they are HEAVY! Nearly 4x the weight of my guitars.

You need the wheels just to move around the empty case.

Yah, I never carry it; I roll it. Way too long for a guitar, as well.
Would've bought the short rifle version but Harb Freight doesn't sell them.

 

[Chistopher]

and you could do a lot of work on the inside of it to actually make it hold a guitar

The way these cases work, they come with a foam pad that you have to cut your self, so it would require no more work to put a guitar in it than it would to use it for its intended purpose. Also it's a lot more secure than a guitar case.

But the added weight is a good point I hadn't considered.