BS: GUITAR CASES

Subject: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 07 Jan 02 - 09:31 PM

i love guitar cases with lots of decals on them, it seems to give them a heritage, what do you guys put on your guitar cases? BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jan 02 - 09:56 PM

My single favorite sticker for my cases was the "Live Animal" stickers that came with my cat carrier...

But when I got the 'twins' they came with new cases, that I have yet to adorn...

Check out unamerican.com for millions of cool stickers!

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 07 Jan 02 - 09:57 PM

thanks clinton, i'll check them out, i think that every sticker should tell a story. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jan 02 - 09:59 PM

Well, then unamerican.com might not really be up yer alley then mate...

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 07 Jan 02 - 10:00 PM

oh well i'll still check it out. thanks, BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jan 02 - 10:01 PM

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: rangeroger
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 01:46 AM

The only sticker that has managed to stay on my case is my Diamond Rio "Local Crew" pass.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: TeriLu
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 02:00 AM

One side on my guitar is "Create Peace" and the other side is "Recyclers do It Over and Over and Over..." and another instrument has a "People's Music Network/ Songs of Freedom and Struggle" sticker

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Cappuccino
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 02:33 AM

A music shop in Edinburgh once used to give out a wonderful sticker which read:

'play it? I can hardly carry it!'.

- Ian B

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 10:51 AM

love it, tell us more. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Grab
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 12:02 PM

"Fragile". Not that the Greek woman who loaded it onto the baggage conveyor took any notice...

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 02:15 PM

I saw a guy carrying his guitar into the 3rd District State Appellate courtroom.......I asked him why and he said he was taking the case to a higher court.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 02:19 PM

that's a good one spaw. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 03:11 PM

Did ya check out unamerican.com?

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: wildlone
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 03:25 PM

I checked out http://unamerican.com/ and am now waiting for a visit from the FBI
dave

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 03:28 PM

maybe the f b i needs guitar cases too. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: wildlone
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 03:40 PM

I got a new photo printer the other day and one of the software packages [avery] that came with it can create stickers so I can now make my own.
dave

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 03:46 PM

can you make stickers that will go on gig bags as well? BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: wildlone
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 03:53 PM

Bob I hav'nt tried that yet but the sticker blanks that came with the software seem durable. it only depends on the quality of the ink you are using.
dave

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 07:48 PM

"Fragile," and "Handle with Care." Not that it ever does any good, which is why I have a Calton case.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 07:50 PM

A couple I bought in Hong Kong " No Rickshaw Parking" and another I don't understand, but stuck on nevertheless - "No Smoking except Animal". Also "Best Drummer in the World" - likewise stickers don't stick on my bodhran case! Tattie B

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: GUEST,GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 08:05 PM

I have a handmade and well-soiled post-it note duct taped to the side of my mandolin case...it appeared there a few years ago after an all-nighter jam at a local bar. It was from the bartender, and it said "Will Play For Beer". I couldn't agree more. Also adorning the same case are two large (6x9) stickers, one that says "I was uncool before uncool was cool", and the other, "Just because no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist".

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 08:24 PM

I made a smart-arsed comment to *somebody around here* about getting a sticker for my Guild case that says "My other guitar's a Martin." (He's already used MY line in another thread, by the way.) Now I'm getting a Martin. Maybe I should get a sticker that says "My other guitar's a Guild." I wonder if guilt-ridden Mercedes drivers ever slap on bumper stickers saying "My other car is an '86 Chevy pick-up."

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: GUEST,Avery
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 08:35 PM

"Unattended Children will be Sold into Slavery" (It's a joke - don't get hostile!)

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: allie kiwi
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 08:40 PM

Mine has a post-it note taped on saying 'Put this away!' signed Mum. It never happened *grin*

Allie

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 09:06 PM

what;s wrong with a guild, i'd rather have a takamine, gibson, or a taylor, but if you're giving it away, i'll take it. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: GUEST,sophocleese
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 09:48 PM

Stickers are other people's art. I painted my case. One layer of latex primer and then a sort of mandala pattern in yellow and red with small leaves drifted onto it. I can always pick it out in a crowd. my husband's banjo case looks a little like stained glass ( I chose a rose window motif for the circle); his fiddle case a little like a spaceship.

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 09 Jan 02 - 10:32 AM

that's a good idea, but i still like stickers the best, cause they tell a story. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Midchuck
Date: 09 Jan 02 - 10:58 AM

My favorite sticker is a slogan that my wife came up with, and one of our friends had a bunch made up and distributed them all over the State, and they became very popular...

MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT. OR STARVE.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 09 Jan 02 - 09:58 PM

spaw what sticker do you have on your case or cases? BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Mudlark
Date: 09 Jan 02 - 10:11 PM

My Martin case is chaste and unadorned. My classical guitar case is exceedingly stout but having been with me for over 40 years it looks hard-used...successions of puppies have stripped the black layer off in several places (I keep thinking one of these days I need to ducktape it). And when the handle packed it in, I replaced it with the collar of a beloved bassett hound. When I took this guitar in to be appraised I realized I'd have almost as much trouble parting with that old collar as I would the guitar....almost.

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 09 Jan 02 - 10:15 PM

i have one of my cases held together with duck tape and staples, but it is part of me and i'll patch it anyway i can. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 09 Jan 02 - 11:57 PM

My guitar case was built from the Red Green Show motto of Duct Tape can fix anything motto. Only thing is I used stickers instead of duct tape. Literally covered with them. Everything from NASCAR to The Marines.

And I'd love an "Unattended Children Will Be Sold Into Slavery" sticker. Only thing better would be one that says, "End child abuse by spaying and neutering everyone."

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Kaleea
Date: 10 Jan 02 - 12:07 AM

I never cared for having stickers on my own guitar case, and now that I am such a geezer with back troubles, I have a lightweight nylon gigbag & it's all I can do to remember the darn thing, much less figure out what sticker I'd put on if I'd put one one, and then there's the dilemma of how this arthritic elderly geezer would have the strength to pick up the sticker & push it onto the nylon which would invariably not stick. Fortunately, I am so old, that tomorrow I will probably not remember that I thought about it today.

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Jan 02 - 01:56 PM

So I dug out my collection of stickers and such, in contemplation of adorning the cases of The Twins... I have quite a collection... 2 more "Live Animal" stickers... Some Industrial warnings like, "High Voltage" and "Contains Asbestos"... My "Radiation" warnings... "CAA" stickers... "GLASS Handle with care"..

Just to name a few...

But ya know... I just can't do it... I've really come to like a clean case...

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 10 Jan 02 - 03:31 PM

clinton, what are the names of the twins? BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Jan 02 - 03:51 PM

Dadgad and standard!

LOL!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 10 Jan 02 - 03:53 PM

please explain, for i must be slow. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:13 PM

Sorry... I carry 2 guitars to gigs... both are A Series Seagull 'Folk' models... the only difference between them is that one is in standard guitar tuning, and the other is in DADGAD tuning...

More info can be found on my gear page @ swordforhire.org

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 27 Apr 02 - 10:34 PM

I just found some picks that I had stuck away in one of my cases and they date back to 1969, man what a find. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Mooh
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 06:40 AM

Back in the day (I hate that expression) many of us had on our cases the stickers which came from the Pink Floyd album, Dark Side Of The Moon. I remember having them on an old case back in history somewhere, and I'm sure I've got another two somewhere.

I saw a fiddle player's case one time with great warning stickers which could only have come from a nuclear facility.

For you Ontario residents, you might (or might not) appreciate my anti Mike Harris, and Union Goon stickers on one of my cases. Protest song, protest case.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 09:46 PM

Find anything interesting inside your case besides your guitar?

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: 53
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 02:31 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Fortunato
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 02:36 PM

Hey, 53, howyadoin'? I've not put anything on recent guitar cases except key ring sorts of things. Like a whistle. On the inside I have dried cherry blossoms. You see each spring we play outside, sometime just my bride and I and sometimes a picking party, and when the cherry blossoms fall in the open case...well, I just leave them in there. take care, Chance

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 02:47 PM

I have 'Not to be used with electrical apparatus' and 'It is an
offence for passngers to travel in this vehicle',not to mention stickers for bars I've worked in and people Ive worked with.

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Mooh
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 03:15 PM

Hey Bob, where ya been?

Lots of stickers don't last long, or lots of cases don't like them. There should be ones to discourage theft...

I see alot of kid's cases with the latest one-hit-wonder-stickers, and usually by the time I've heard them they're old news.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 03:32 PM

I don't have anything on my guitar or my fiddle case... however, I did buy a little sticker that says Warning: Protected by Bad Ass Violinist. I haven't stuck it on anything yet, though.

I really want the bumper sticker that says "Towanda!" (y'all who have seen Fried Green Tomatoes know what I mean)

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 03:37 PM

Oh ya... my flute case has a sticker on it that I got from a movie theatre a bunch of years ago...

The standard "Adult Accompaniment required under the age of 14" sticker they put on movie posters...

Keeps kids away...

Subject: RE: BS: GUITAR CASES
From: Sibelius
Date: 15 Oct 02 - 03:57 PM

Mooh, your 'nuclear facility warning' reminded me of why I gave up putting stickers on my guitar case. Hitch-hiking down the M6, I was picked up by a guy in a small van who said "throw your guitar over into the back.... oh Christ, Greenpeace?? That's all we bloody need." He was an engineer working at Sellafield.