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To reiterate, if someone has one collecting dust - and it just so happens to be 47.75 x 14.5 x 4... I am more than happy to purchase! 
I ran into this when I wanted ultra-lites for my SS Jag. It's Okay that a big seller of tuning gears didn't know. It was excusable that the manufacturer of the tuners didn't know but what really ground my gears was when Fender flat out refused to tell me because they "don't support the modifying of our equipment" as if i'd asked for advice on rewinding a transformer out of an amp. I called a busy but friendly luthier I know and HE didn't know but because he's smarter than I am he said, "You know, mugs ol' boy, a digital caliper that reads in fractions is about $20 dollars at Harbor Freight."
Whenever I'm waiting on a delivery, I jump in my car, park it around the block, walk back home, and sit on the porch.
Yup, you guessed it...within half an hour the brown van pulls up and I swear, the driver always looks disappointed.
They know when you're not home, you see.
Yeah that's crazy to me that some are saying that a soft case offer just as much protection as a hard case. That has not been my exp at all. I have 2 hard cases and 2 soft cases. I use the hard cases for practice and gigs and the soft ones if I just want to store a bass at the house or go to a friends to jam or the like. IME, hard cases offer more protection and storage and Ive usually been able to fit anything from a P or a J to my ATK in a generic Gator hardshell. Im not against soft cases, but to me, hard shell is the way to go if you really want protection on the road or on the way to a gig or on the regular to practice.
OP, I got both my hard shells at GC, a road runner and a Gator. Both were generic fitting as advertised and I have been able to fit a J bass, a P or my Ibanez ATK300 in both of those cases without trouble.
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My Epiphone-supplied hard case, which came with my Jack Casady bass, is crap. It's the first time I've had a factory case be a POS. The lid doesn't line up to close tightly, you have to fiddle with it and close it a specific way, and the latches are so sloppily loose when it is closed that they slip open. And with the prices their getting for hard cases these days you'd expect them to actually fit and be useful, but no.
My Fender came with some a nice case that I can't part with Solid, secures it quite well, and looks really nice. I want to go with the travel cases but I can't bring myself to do it. So I suck it up.
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I am kinda religious about using a case.
This goes back to when I was about 7 and started out on violin.
I still remember my Dad sitting me down and pointedly explaining that the
case was there to protect the instrument.
It only works if I use it and I had best be using it any time I wasn't actually playing.
If for some reason I didn't use it and someone sits on said violin, then Dad is out a grands
worth (in the 50s!) of custom built violin, that his Dad had built for him in 1930.
Yes, it did leave quite the impression.
All my basses have hard shell cases except my Dean acoustic.
I found that I could get the real deal cse mae for it, but it would cost more than I
paid for the bass. It got a Dean fitted gig bag.
The one time I had to get a case, it was for a Jazz I was buying at GC.
They did have a selection of used cases and the sales guy found a Gator
that had the imprint of a J in it, so we knew it was gonna fit.
I like being able to take several basses to a gig and just stack the cases
on top of the amp and PA gear.
Dad is gone, but I do still have the violin, still protected by the orignal case,
well over a half century later.
This goes back to when I was about 7 and started out on violin.
I still remember my Dad sitting me down and pointedly explaining that the
case was there to protect the instrument.
It only works if I use it and I had best be using it any time I wasn't actually playing.
If for some reason I didn't use it and someone sits on said violin, then Dad is out a grands
worth (in the 50s!) of custom built violin, that his Dad had built for him in 1930.
Yes, it did leave quite the impression.
All my basses have hard shell cases except my Dean acoustic.
I found that I could get the real deal cse mae for it, but it would cost more than I
paid for the bass. It got a Dean fitted gig bag.
The one time I had to get a case, it was for a Jazz I was buying at GC.
They did have a selection of used cases and the sales guy found a Gator
that had the imprint of a J in it, so we knew it was gonna fit.
I like being able to take several basses to a gig and just stack the cases
on top of the amp and PA gear.
Dad is gone, but I do still have the violin, still protected by the orignal case,
well over a half century later.
I've always been a hard case guy, partly from being a trombone player and seeing what a slide in a gig bag can look like when "something happens."
I've also been walking across a parking lot in January, slipped and landed square in the middle of my bass case with all 260 punds of me. I like the SKB-44.
I've also been walking across a parking lot in January, slipped and landed square in the middle of my bass case with all 260 punds of me. I like the SKB-44.
I use gig bags for local gigs, but if we are going in a van, on a plane or a train, I use the hard cases.
The hard cases tend to last a couple years, then the latch breaks, the plastic cracks, the handle breaks, etc.
So once every couple years I will buy a new hard case. Usually a generic one and then wrap the bass in band shirts to sell.
The hard cases tend to last a couple years, then the latch breaks, the plastic cracks, the handle breaks, etc.
So once every couple years I will buy a new hard case. Usually a generic one and then wrap the bass in band shirts to sell.
I used to have NOTHING but road cases for my basses. I would NEVER travel any other way. But after about 15 years of lugging those heavy buggers around - I stopped....Now I have (1) bag for my fretless and G&G cases for the rest.
Of course - I don't travel anymore - so it doesn't mae much of a difference..
Of course - I don't travel anymore - so it doesn't mae much of a difference..
The simple life for me, one bass, one case...
I learned a long time ago that hardshell cases protect in ways softshells can't. The convenience of gig-bags is seductive, until you lose a baby (admittedly BG's are hardier than a violin, and therefore better candidates for gig-bags).
I learned a long time ago that hardshell cases protect in ways softshells can't. The convenience of gig-bags is seductive, until you lose a baby (admittedly BG's are hardier than a violin, and therefore better candidates for gig-bags).
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OP, have you checked the Gator website? Go to their menu and choose "CASE ADVISOR", and they tell you if they have a case to fit it. If you can't find it on the list, just contact them, and they'll help you out.
I went the gig bag route for a while and was really happy with the result, then one day I stumbled near a couple cases I had standing against a wall with a gig bagged bass on the outside of that stack. I recovered without butsing my butt, but I did it by catching the wall and bringing my foot down on the neck just below the headstock on the gig bag that had managed to wind up flat on the floor with the bass face up. I heard and felt the crack.
I still use gig bags but I now only lean them against the wall with the headstock up rather than to one side or the other.
I still use gig bags but I now only lean them against the wall with the headstock up rather than to one side or the other.
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Dude… I remember Crying walking through the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport some years ago. I had my bass in an Anvil Road Case. They let me gate check it, but when the plane landed, I had to walk from gate 23 to gate 3 towards baggage claim with that beast!! By the time I got to gate 10, I was Done! LOL!!! That heavy beast just knocked and beat my lower calves and ankles to death! I traded/sold it when I got back home and ordered one of those SKB Bass ATA Roto Rolling tube deals.
Been in ATL-Hartsfield several times...seems like it take forever and a day to get from point "A" to "B". I recall once when I had to change planes - and the flight was nearly leaving by the time we all got there.
Now that I'm in Condition "retired" the last thing I want to ever do again is to cart road cases...absolute nightmare.
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