Calder Guitar Case Story Ch 18 Carbon Fibre Ultra Gig Bag
Sept 05
Exploring the idea of a Calder Ultra Gig Bag. The Ultra would look like a gig bag - fabric exterior, zip fastener, shoulder straps etc - but would have a carbon fibre inner shell which would give the same level of protection as the best hardcase.
Helping me with this is carbon fibre whizz Barry Noble. Barry knows all there is to know about carbon fibre and is also designer of very cool things - his most recent project is a very very neat little led torch - check his website here.
To make the Calder Ultra even lighter and stronger we're also checking out a material called Dyneema - this is the world's strongest lightest fibre - used a lot by the military and in aviation.
The guitarists from the excellent Gear Page bulletin board have been sending me loads of great feedback about the Ultra concept - you can read what they say here.
So bloggers my questions are:
-does the idea of an ultra gig bag turn you on?
- the price would be high - over $500 would you pay this ? (Remember this is a gig bag that will protect your guitar from
everything you can imagine - including a car driving over it).
- people have told me they want gig bags to be as small as possible - so the Calder Ultra would have just slim external pocket - does this sound good to you?
-because of the hard shell it would not be possible to undo the zip halfway and then slip your guitar out of the Ultra like a regular gig bag. The ultra would have to be put down and fully opened like a hard case. Would this be a major disadvantage?
- colours - black or something more distinctive and heat reflecting?
I'll post some sketches I've done of the Ultra design - different from the designs you've seen so far - tomorrow.
....love your guitar
category: early development
Calder blog homepage
Calder website homepage
Exploring the idea of a Calder Ultra Gig Bag. The Ultra would look like a gig bag - fabric exterior, zip fastener, shoulder straps etc - but would have a carbon fibre inner shell which would give the same level of protection as the best hardcase.
Helping me with this is carbon fibre whizz Barry Noble. Barry knows all there is to know about carbon fibre and is also designer of very cool things - his most recent project is a very very neat little led torch - check his website here.
To make the Calder Ultra even lighter and stronger we're also checking out a material called Dyneema - this is the world's strongest lightest fibre - used a lot by the military and in aviation.
The guitarists from the excellent Gear Page bulletin board have been sending me loads of great feedback about the Ultra concept - you can read what they say here.
So bloggers my questions are:
-does the idea of an ultra gig bag turn you on?
- the price would be high - over $500 would you pay this ? (Remember this is a gig bag that will protect your guitar from
everything you can imagine - including a car driving over it).
- people have told me they want gig bags to be as small as possible - so the Calder Ultra would have just slim external pocket - does this sound good to you?
-because of the hard shell it would not be possible to undo the zip halfway and then slip your guitar out of the Ultra like a regular gig bag. The ultra would have to be put down and fully opened like a hard case. Would this be a major disadvantage?
- colours - black or something more distinctive and heat reflecting?
I'll post some sketches I've done of the Ultra design - different from the designs you've seen so far - tomorrow.
....love your guitar
category: early development
Calder blog homepage
Calder website homepage
posted by Nick CC at
4:01 PM
2 Comments:
In regards to the Calder Ultra Gig Bag...
1) Yes, I do like the idea.
2) $500 is a bit steep.
3) One external pocket is fine, but I do like some various internal pockets.
4) I don't see having to open the bag completely as a disadvantage at all.
5) Black is always good.
I would definately be interested in your carbon fibre violin cases. BAM is developing one now as well I think. So get on it
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