A cased LP is heavy......

Rocker

Not usually much of a problem if you are only carrying it from the car to a gig but up that distance to a Kilometre and it becomes a different proposition entirely.  My Epi LP is heavy on its own and heavier still in a guitar case.  I expect other companies LPs are equally heavy or not light anyway.

What is needed is a case with two small wheels at the guitar body end and an integrated or pull up handle at the headstock end.  Similar in fact to how suitcases are made.  Does anyone make such a guitar case?  Business opportunity for someone???

Alterlifeson

There is a company that makes them. Pete Thorn was showing one off on Instagram he is using on the current Classic Rock Show tour. Looked very heavy duty and had suitcase wheels as you said. I'll try and find the link.

bandmaster188

Ta da!
https://i.imgur.com/lpoeGHU.jpg

skunkwerx

On smooth pavements I can imagine it being good, but around here It would need independent suspension to stop it getting rattled to hell hah

Ossyrocks

I sold a Gibson Historic 58 Les Paul a couple of weeks ago and the guy who bought it wanted to courier it to France. Of course I had to weight it, but my digital kitchen scales wouldn't weight the guitar in it's case as it was over it's limit, so I weighed them separately and added the two together.

I was very surprised to find that the case weighed more than the guitar!

Rob

Sassafras

Strap it to a skateboard for maximum cool.

Whistler

Or use a gig bag you can wear like a rucksack for longer journeys with the LP, something like a Mono case.

PhilKing

The SKB iSeries case (http://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=sku_has_wheels-1-75&id=610&o=&offset=&c=82&s=75) has wheels and is built like the proverbial brich shithouse.  I have one and they are great, but heavier than the guitar!

andy1839

I have one of the SKB usa cases with wheels on one end. Superb bit of kit, my R9 lives in it permanently. 

Managed to get a b stock one from Bax for quite a reasonable price. 

ESBlonde

My Atkin case has strap loops attached so in a pinch you could sling it over your shoulder and keep your hands free.

I think I've seen somewhere a webbing arrangement which you set a regular case into and then

Edit

Not sure what happened to the rest of my text - brain fart probably.

I think I've seen somewhere a webbing arrangement which you set a regular case into and thensling it onyour back like a gig bag but rigid. I'd imagine having a coat on would cushion the thing far more than a tee shirt in the summer.

RaymondLin

PRS cases are worse I think.

p90fool

I have put my SKB Explorer case in the car before now without realising there was no Explorer in it until I went back to the house for my amp and saw it on the wall.

FarleyUK

PhilKing said:

The SKB iSeries case (http://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=sku_has_wheels-1-75&id=610&o=&offset=&c=82&s=75) has wheels and is built like the proverbial brich shithouse.  I have one and they are great, but heavier than the guitar!

I've got one of these bad-boys as well - they're built like tanks! Using mine to take a Les Paul to the US this summer. Only issue with it is the key for the locks feels like it could easily snap...

Amazing case though - but pretty heavy!

rossi

My Midtown is fine until I put it in its case .Then I can hardly lift it let alone carry it to blues jams  .I am very old though.I have got a gigbag that it  fits but often I just take my Tele as its super light and indestructible (ish) not that its a problem .A tele is all you need really.

CeeJay

The pavements around here and you'd have a case full of parts by the time you got to the gig!

hollywoodrox

PhilKing said:

The SKB iSeries case (http://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=sku_has_wheels-1-75&id=610&o=&offset=&c=82&s=75) has wheels and is built like the proverbial brich shithouse.  I have one and they are great, but heavier than the guitar!

I have had 2 skb cases , very good . I ha e sent a Gibson and epiphone through the post in them as well . I currently have a gator pro go 

Philly_Q

RaymondLin said:

PRS cases are worse I think.

They weigh a bloody ton.  And they're so big and cumbersome too, at least Gibson cases are guitar-shaped.

hollywoodrox

Ahh actually my skb cases were the hard foam ones that strap on your back. Rock solid though 

Musicwolf

RaymondLin said:

PRS cases are worse I think.

You're mot kidding.  For probably the last year I've be gigging with my US Standard Strat which came with an SKB moulded case which is both sturdy and light.  Last week I decided to switch to the PRS core, which is a heavier guitar, but the case - it's unbelievable.  If I cary on using this guitar then I may have to stump up for a Hiscox case.

Looking on the Thomann site the SKB case for the Strat is £125 (not Fender branded) whilst the PRS case retails for £195.

Maybe it's true - the PRS's were never meant to be taken out of the consulting room 

skullfunkerry

I borrowed my friend's Explorer years ago to take to work for some reason... at the time I was living in Rugby & working in London. It was probably the heaviest guitar I've ever picked up, and it was in a massive hard case that weighed about as much again. By the time I'd walked to the station I barely had the strength to get it into the overhead racks on the train... luckily there was a luggage rack so I put it in that instead. Then I had to wrangle it through the tube and then walk to the office from Old Street station... I can't remember what we were doing with it at work but I'm amazed that I had any movement left in my fingers when I got there!

mbe

I think a motorised ride-on case would be perfect for those long load-ins at the arena gigs we all regularly play.