gig bag width issue

axisus

I'm trying to find a gig bag for my headless guitar. Thomann sell a cheap one, but it says that the max width is 31cm and my guitar is 32cm. I'm thinking that I can probably squeeze it in - or is that a bad idea? It's only to keep it at home and stop the kids and wife from bashing it.

Headless gig bags - not many options about!

tony99

sure you could get one custom made, to your own specs, perhaps with your name embroidered too, gotta be options out there, have you tried the internet?

Kittyfrisk

axisus said:

I'm trying to find a gig bag for my headless guitar. Thomann sell a cheap one, but it says that the max width is 31cm and my guitar is 32cm. I'm thinking that I can probably squeeze it in - or is that a bad idea? It's only to keep it at home and stop the kids and wife from bashing it.

Headless gig bags - not many options about!

Sounds like your guitar home life is interesting 
If it's just for basic protection, have you thought of getting an acoustic bag?
They'll be very affordable, more than wide enough, even though maybe a tad long 

Sassafras

What is it about this headless guitar that the wife and kids hate so much?

tony99

Sassafras said:

What is it about this headless guitar that the wife and kids hate so much?

probably a bit scared of it, sounds like something from Sleepy Hollow

axisus

Kittyfrisk said:

axisus said:

I'm trying to find a gig bag for my headless guitar. Thomann sell a cheap one, but it says that the max width is 31cm and my guitar is 32cm. I'm thinking that I can probably squeeze it in - or is that a bad idea? It's only to keep it at home and stop the kids and wife from bashing it.

Headless gig bags - not many options about!

Sounds like your guitar home life is interesting 
If it's just for basic protection, have you thought of getting an acoustic bag?
They'll be very affordable, more than wide enough, even though maybe a tad long 

5 adults and a teen in a 3 bed semi detached house. Soon to be 6 adults a teen and a baby!

I hate the thought of a floppy end, or indeed a gig bag that's too long for purpose. Maybe I'll just buy it, it's pretty cheap

ICBM

This won't help for your guitar, but a friend of mine used to carry a cricket-bat headless bass in a gun bag... until that stopped being a good idea in public.

jonnyburgo

You in Kajagoogoo now?

mart

jonnyburgo said:

You in Kajagoogoo now?

No, he was too shy shy for that.

Funkfingers

axisus said:

I'm thinking that I can probably squeeze it in - or is that a bad idea?

Bad idea.

A really tight fit will almost certainly bring the teeth of the zip into firm contact with the finish of the instrument.

ICBM said:

a friend of mine used to carry a cricket-bat headless bass in a gun bag... until that stopped being a good idea in public.

The aluminium case for my Chapman Stick looks as if ought to contain a tear gas grenade or cartridge launcher 

Winny_Pooh

Have you looked at gun bags?

maltingsaudio

Is that the headless you had off me ?  If so goes in a Ritter bag

SteveRobinson

You need to plane 5mm off each side of your guitar.

Or 10mm off one side will probably do the trick.

Kittyfrisk

maltingsaudio said:

Is that the headless you had off me ?  If so goes in a Ritter bag

Not a Ritter Sports bag?

axisus

SteveRobinson said:

You need to plane 5mm off each side of your guitar.

Or 10mm off one side will probably do the trick.

Laughed at that!

axisus

maltingsaudio said:

Is that the headless you had off me ?  If so goes in a Ritter bag

I presume that I bought that green one off of you then? I forget who it came from now! Actually it isn't that one. I dismantled it but then got into building my own guitars. I have made something similar size to that one though - any specific Ritter bag that you are thinking of?

axisus

Winny_Pooh said:

Have you looked at gun bags?

It is more of a Spirit shape than a cricket bat guitar

maltingsaudio

axisus said:

maltingsaudio said:

Is that the headless you had off me ?  If so goes in a Ritter bag

I presume that I bought that green one off of you then? I forget who it came from now! Actually it isn't that one. I dismantled it but then got into building my own guitars. I have made something similar size to that one though - any specific Ritter bag that you are thinking of?

Yes you had the green one for parts, glad it went to a good home. I just carried it about in a standard electric Ritter bag you know the purple one,the one where you load it from the bottom, 

mrkb

axisus said:

I'm trying to find a gig bag for my headless guitar. Thomann sell a cheap one, but it says that the max width is 31cm and my guitar is 32cm. I'm thinking that I can probably squeeze it in - or is that a bad idea? It's only to keep it at home and stop the kids and wife from bashing it.

Headless gig bags - not many options about!

Order it and send it back if it doesn’t work. Manufacturers sizes on gig bags are not that accurate as it’s a 3D shape.

skunkwerx

Put the family in bags. Not body bags or anything sinister, just like big inflatable balls. 

That way everything is protected, including the risk of more of them.