Quote Originally Posted by wazkelly View Post
When you can one ready made for around $100, why bother.
Because sometimes standard cases just don't do it; I have 4 oddly shaped guitars that standard cases wouldn't touch, and, being old, OEM cases were out of the question and the Gator cases with the movable internal blocks were prohibitively expensive so I built my own custom cases.
Which certainly protect the instrument but, my goodness, the bastard things are HEAVY!! :-D