Guitar cases

[Dickie Blues]

Just curious, what guitar cases and gig bags do y'all use? I think I'm done with hard cases. Deciding between a reunion blues expedition or gator icon, not a mono fan personally. For my acoustic, it came with the taylor aerocase and it's been incredible!

 

[HumanisHappy]

I have the gator tsa hard cases with LED.

TSA ATA Molded Electric Guitar Case with LED Light-GTSA-GTRELEC-LED - Gator Cases

TSA ATA Molded Electric Guitar Case with LED Light-GTSA-GTRELEC-LED

gatorco.com

 

[Dickie Blues]

I have the gator tsa hard cases with LED.

TSA ATA Molded Electric Guitar Case with LED Light-GTSA-GTRELEC-LED - Gator Cases

TSA ATA Molded Electric Guitar Case with LED Light-GTSA-GTRELEC-LED

gatorco.com

Sweet! I like their hard cases! Didn't know they had one with LEDs! The titan gator was awesome for a strat!

 

[Lbpesq]

The Road Runner Highway Premium is a great gig bag. Good hard sides, very protective, has a neck support with velcro strap. Probably as protective as a HSC.

Bill, tgo

 

[Tretgeraet]

I love Reunion Blues, I have a Continental Voyager as well as the new Expedition case. Can't say anything bad about them, they're really good cases.

 

[mayfly]

I'm completely on gig bags these days. For guitars that I care about I get them from Glenn Cronkhite. Really nice. Really expensive. https://glenncronkhite.com/product/guitar-gig-bags/

for other guitars, I just use whatever cheap gig bag the local music store has that fits. Hmmm... I'm thinking I should really sell those 'other' guitars...

 

[Rick]

I use a sturdy bass gigbag for transport of any of my guitars to gigs which was given to me by my local guitar shop (God bless parkway music!); I have / have had hardshell cases of various types (wood or abs) made by gator, skb, or tkl on behalf of other companies like ibanez, for when the gits are either not on a stand or hanging on the wall. Main thing is they have a home, when not on the wall or at the gig.

In order to promote peace and harmony in my house, I keep the number of guitars down to seven.

Bass gig bag

 

[aarontunes]

Gator ProGo gig bags for me. I own, like, five of them.

 

[Dickie Blues]

I love Reunion Blues, I have a Continental Voyager as well as the new Expedition case. Can't say anything bad about them, they're really good cases.

Awesome! Have you flown with it by any chance?

 

[Tretgeraet]

Awesome! Have you flown with it by any chance?

No, not yet, but I totally would! My bass player took his (out of production) RB Aero case on some flights without any issues, which is smaller, but of similar construction.

 

[NedRyerson]

Gig bags for me, but I don't go anywhere other than my local microbrewery for the occasional jam sessions or for practicing in my hotel room when I travel for conferences (driving only; I'm not taking instruments for conferences I fly to).

As a tangent, the Boss Katana:Go has been a tremendous bonus for hotel-room jamming.

 

[Rick]

I've flown to asia and europe with regular abs cases and bags like the GoPro, and I've always been able to gate check them. Never had a problem, lucky I guess. Now I don't fly with a git, I just make sure there's one where I land, or go without. Too much anxiety that I would put up with 25 years ago. If no guitar, I read a book. I gotta look into that Katana:Go

Now adays I don't like carrying a ton of weight. Got the guitar in a gigbag and it's strapped to my back, the amp weighs less than 25 lbs, that's in one hand, and in my shoulder bag is the rest of the wires, extra strings, nail file, emergency mic ... no pedals. So I can walk and carry everything in one go. Though now adays I use the wireless thingies the Aaron suggested. that's the basics.

 

[Don O]

Old school hard shell cases for me. About 25 years ago Ameritage (still in business) put their $400 gold series cases on sale for $99. After it arrived, I was so impressed, I bought 3 more. Anytime a guitar leaves the house it is in one of these cases. Lots of internal storage and stands up on its side very well.

 

[mycroftxxx]

The Mono Vertigo is fantastic. I love how you can easily remove the guitar from the case with the case vertical, but when closed, the neck has plenty of support. Not cheap but worth it.

 

[ghostrider]

I'm not sure why you don't care for Mono, but the Vertigo is pretty awesome. My only complaint with it is the lack of extra storage pockets so they can sell you the Tick for an extra $100+.

I bought a small pack on Amazon (link) for $13 which solves that problem well enough for me. I just used the pack's compression clips to loop through the Mono's D-rings.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Just standard hard shell cases for me these days.
My gear doesn’t take a beating these days like it did when I was touring and getting constantly thrown around.
I don’t even have a hard shell case for my keyboard controller, just a soft bag. When I was hauling around a hardware synth, I had the big ole SKB with about 3 inches of foam all around that thing, and I’m glad I did!

 

[Dickie Blues]

I'm not sure why you don't care for Mono, but the Vertigo is pretty awesome. My only complaint with it is the lack of extra storage pockets so they can sell you the Tick for an extra $100+.

I bought a small pack on Amazon (link) for $13 which solves that problem well enough for me. I just used the pack's compression clips to loop through the Mono's D-rings.

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Sweet! Just not a fan of how the guitar goes in, it's a little flimsy which gave me trust issues, and the straps didn't feel very secure stitching wise. The vertigo had some pros for me though. I actually liked the storage, and the boot is something that should be on all cases.