best hard case for mustang?

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best hard case for mustang?

Post by thepossiblebag » Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:51 am

apologies if this has been posted before (my searches were fruitless).

can anyone recommend a hard case for a 65 RI mustang guitar?

thanks in advance!

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by florance » Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:13 am

I found that a normal strat case will fit perfectly, the only thing being you might need to put a pair of socks around the headstock if you wanted it to be rock solid if you put it in a car boot or something! Strat cases are also way cheaper than the real mustang ones, I saved about £120 over buying a "real" mustang case

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by florance » Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:23 am

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Only the rectangle style cases will work I think, moulded ones won't. Here's my 69 reissue in the tweed strat case

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by thepossiblebag » Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:38 am

cool! and thanks for the pic! good information.

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by MrLambyLamb » Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:52 am

Sorry to drag up an old topic, but does anyone know why no official Mustang cases have compartments? I've looked high and low for one like the G&G I have for my Jaguar, but none of them have compartments.

They seem to have the room.

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by dren68 » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:18 am

MrLambyLamb wrote:Sorry to drag up an old topic, but does anyone know why no official Mustang cases have compartments? I've looked high and low for one like the G&G I have for my Jaguar, but none of them have compartments.

They seem to have the room.
I've wondered that, too. The strange thing is that I've seen photos of Mustang cases that have the compartment, but I'm not sure if they actually exist or not. Not too long ago, WWBW had one on ebay for $119, and the photo showed the compartment. I ended up buying it, but when it got here it was just a standard Mustang case without the compartment. I kept it anyway. It was cheaper than any of the other Mustang cases I've seen and it was a new Fender case, so I was happy enough with it. Here's a similar one for sale: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Mustang- ... 3cef90025c

The other option would be to spend almost $4,000 on a CS Mustang. It looks like the case for those comes with a compartment. :wtf: :fp:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Custom-S ... 339a8c609a

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by schoolie » Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:08 am

I bought one of these cases from Barry Clark Music. It's a good case for the price, and has a compartment in the middle:


http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-VINTAGE-STY ... 5417799e58

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by daCod » Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:32 am

Here's a similar one for sale: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Mustang- ... 3cef90025c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

i bought one of these back in 98 with my cyclone. been carried all over the damn place and has held up great, spraypainted logos/shenanigans and all. the lining and padding is quite adequate and is a nice bed of rest for any mustang/cyclone/bronco/duo-sonic etc. guitar. and the storage compartment is a huge bonus compared to the og silver mustang cases. even loaned it to a mate of mine so he could fearlessly tote his old 70's comp blue mustang around touring for a few summers. didnt want to ruin his original silver case.
your paranoia must be weapons-grade.
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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by MrLambyLamb » Sat Jan 03, 2015 2:45 pm

schoolie wrote:I bought one of these cases from Barry Clark Music. It's a good case for the price, and has a compartment in the middle:


http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-VINTAGE-STY ... 5417799e58
Nice! That is seriously the first one I have seen with a compartment.
daCod wrote:Here's a similar one for sale: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Mustang-" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 3cef90025c

i bought one of these back in 98 with my cyclone. been carried all over the damn place and has held up great, spraypainted logos/shenanigans and all. the lining and padding is quite adequate and is a nice bed of rest for any mustang/cyclone/bronco/duo-sonic etc. guitar. and the storage compartment is a huge bonus compared to the og silver mustang cases. even loaned it to a mate of mine so he could fearlessly tote his old 70's comp blue mustang around touring for a few summers. didnt want to ruin his original silver case.
daCod, are you sure that Music123 case has a compartment? Like dren68, I have seen plenty that have a picture with a compartment (and for some reason a tele in a tele case) but then the description says there is no compartment.

(I asked Music123 and will let everyone know what they say.)

Also, has anyone confirmed or denied whether a Mustang will fit in a Strat case (without needing to add a t-shirt or something)? I think there might be some side to side room.

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by MrLambyLamb » Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:57 am

The Music123 cases do NOT have compartments (despite them being pictured).

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by daCod » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:04 am

well fuck!!! that sucks and is complete misrepresentation and complete shyte >:( maybe back in 96-7-8 they had them....? will do some searching and see what i can muster up for ya. i feel bad mang :-[
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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by MrLambyLamb » Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:05 pm

daCod wrote:well fuck!!! that sucks and is complete misrepresentation and complete shyte maybe back in 96-7-8 they had them....? will do some searching and see what i can muster up for ya. i feel bad mang
Unless anyone finds a better option, I think I'm gonna go with the Barry Clark:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-VINTAGE-STY ... 5417799e58

The lack of compartment on every other case I've seen is a dealbreaker for me.

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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by vsr600 » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:30 pm

Hi sorry to revive this old thread but I wanted mention an issue I had with the Barry Clark Music case suggested earlier in case anyone else happens upon this thread googling around trying to find a Mustang case. I have a 2016 "Offset" series Mustang and it doesn't fit snugly at all in the Barry Clark case from eBay. When I pick the case up (with it closed of course) the guitar falls out of the neck support to the bottom of the case. The picture below shows the position the guitar is inside the case when you just walk with it. Unfortunately I realized this after I threw away the packaging and it was too late to return it. I was able to get it to not move around by stuffing a towel under the guitar and it is otherwise a nice case at least.
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Re: best hard case for mustang?

Post by JVG » Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:03 pm

What a pain in the arse!

I'm also in the market for a mustang case. I think I'll just have to suck it up and buy an over-priced fender one, even though they don't have compartments.

The other options just aren't great.

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