What Options are available for Bass Hard Case

[jmclearnon]

I was wondering if anyone has experience with carbon-fiber bass guitar cases.

I play cello and currently have one.

For bass i would like one as they are very strong and light. I just heard about Calton cases, anyone had experience with them?

Most of the big companies like Bam, Accord ... don't seem to do bass models.

Any help would be awesome, thanks!

[T-Bird]

Hi.

I don't have any experience about CF case makers, but the price-point is such that outside custom manufacturing I can't see 'em ever becoming very popular.

AFAIK the average cello that gets a hard-case is priced around $5000, and an average BG that gets a hard case, 2-3 hundred.

While a CF case would be nice, the average BG or guitar player wouldn't dream of dropping that kind of dough on a "plastic" case. Not on one that costs more than their bass anyway .

There's all sorts of small scale CF manufacturing going on, and if You don't need anything very special, most of those shops will roll one for You.

Regards
Sam