Calder Guitar Case Story Ch 22 Gig Bags Development
October 05
The hard case which has been the focus of much of our work is on hold while we focus on developing two gig bags - the Calder Ultra and the Calder Standard (working titles).
Barry Noble and I are beavering away on the detail of the Ultra - a gig bag with a carbon fibre inner shell...Its looking good and I've got some local government funding which will pay for Barry's development work.
Finding a company that can make the fabric outer skin for the Ultra is proving tricky. Seems that in the UK there are very few companies making rucksacks or anything like a gig bag - everyone has shifted production to the Far East. And that means getting hold of groovy hi tech fabrics is difficult - 'cos the production of these materials has all moved East as well.
The US has more going on - there is the very wonderful Tom Bihn company that make rucksacks and other useful bags and hip west coasters Timbuk2 which make messenger bags in LA - though I see some of their new products are being made in China. So it may be I will get the Ultra exterior covers made in the US...
The Calder Standard gig bag is still in development with Stirling Moulding up in the N of England - I should have some samples soon...but they are busy as hell and its hard getting hold of the boss and when I do hard to get a sense of when my work will get done.
category: early development
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The hard case which has been the focus of much of our work is on hold while we focus on developing two gig bags - the Calder Ultra and the Calder Standard (working titles).
Barry Noble and I are beavering away on the detail of the Ultra - a gig bag with a carbon fibre inner shell...Its looking good and I've got some local government funding which will pay for Barry's development work.
Finding a company that can make the fabric outer skin for the Ultra is proving tricky. Seems that in the UK there are very few companies making rucksacks or anything like a gig bag - everyone has shifted production to the Far East. And that means getting hold of groovy hi tech fabrics is difficult - 'cos the production of these materials has all moved East as well.
The US has more going on - there is the very wonderful Tom Bihn company that make rucksacks and other useful bags and hip west coasters Timbuk2 which make messenger bags in LA - though I see some of their new products are being made in China. So it may be I will get the Ultra exterior covers made in the US...
The Calder Standard gig bag is still in development with Stirling Moulding up in the N of England - I should have some samples soon...but they are busy as hell and its hard getting hold of the boss and when I do hard to get a sense of when my work will get done.
category: early development
Calder blog homepage
Calder website homepage
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