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            If you are planning to attend a trip to learn to play guitar this year you may want to think about how you are going to transport your guitar to the many acoustic guitar, blues guitar, flat picking guitar, rock guitar, or Hawaiian slack key guitar lesson venues that are available.

 Case Extreme and The Fly It Safe guitar transporter. A new type guitar case that is designed to turn any gig bag or guitar case into a full blown hard knock travel protection unit. It’s extremely light weight material and strength, is why Air Born Express, United States Post Office, and other similar companies use shipping cartons made of this same space age material.

            Comes stripped down (the shell with one handle) or with the works, carrying strap, detachable wheels and standard super thick dense foam inserts. It can even protect a guitar without a case in a gig bag.

 We have tested the case  with two fat guys standing on it. We got the help of a very nice volunteer and the founder and inventor of the case to stand on top of the case. The combined total weight of these two guys was over 700 pounds and it proved to have absolutely no affect what so ever to the case or its contents.

  These cases won’t break by baggage handlers unless they are run over by or run into with a forklift.  These cases are half the weight of the competitors and they are turtle shell tuff. See it and other travel products for the music maker at our web site or call toll free.

Here is a great testimonial from one of our customers.

Testimonial

            “I was sitting in the Dallas airport watching the bags being unloaded from a plane I was just arriving on. After watching several bags come off the plane I finally saw my guitars that were headed to the Healdsburg Guitar Festival.

Down the conveyor came guitar #1, then #2 and #3. I saw guitar #4 start its way out of the plane but it caught the edge of the doorway and flipped off of the conveyor belt, and crashed to the cement tarmac,15-20 feet below. A few bounces later, it came to a

rest, my stomach in a knot. Luckily I had my guitars in your flight

cases because not only did the fallen guitar arrive unscathed, but all 5 of my guitars were in perfect condition. I will continue to use these

cases when shipping my guitars to shows and can highly recommend them for your travel needs. Thanks for saving the day!”

Paul Woolson

Woolson Soundcraft

From Taylor Guitars Quarterly Magazine

Taylor Customer Service Manager Zach Arntz offers another alternative: “Until recently, we’ve never recommended a flight case because we never found one that could adequately protect the guitar during airline travel, and they were both heavy and very expensive.

At the last NAMM show we met a gentleman from a company Casextreme (www.casextreme.com) who sells The Clam, a lightweight case made of corrugated plastic that incorporates C-shaped foam pads that go over the original case to protect it for air travel. 

The owner of Casextreme, Bruce Lamb actually suggests using a gig bag within the Clam. The substantially reduced weight of the gig bag verses the heaver hard shell case reduces the weight and the overall force of momentum and impact if the Clam is tossed by unruly baggage handlers. 

So far he has received no reports of damaged guitars, and the price is quite reasonable. We’ve been referring customers to him and have heard nothing but positive responses.”

 http://www.taylorguitars.com/

Suggested retail: is around $200. (Depending on options)

Lamb Productions (800) 495-8444, 

3441 Baker St. San Diego, Ca. 92117

Order on line @   http://www.CaseXtreme.com

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As the inventor of CaseXtreme I have to speak up and say this about shipping your guitar rather than checking it as luggage on airlines. Packing it well and checking it as luggage  is much better than shipping your guitar with a common carrier.  Shippers like UPS; Fed-X etc. Also use Airplanes hello! And they have many more people in involved with the moving of your instrument.

 A driver picks it up and throws it in his truck. When it arrives to its home base location it is then off loaded by hand and tossed into a sorting bin then either thrown onto another smaller truck for delivery in town or onto a larger truck which takes it to their airport location and then  the process starts all over again. When it finally arrives to your location it could have been in several different trucks and planes and thrown onto many more conveyers belts and has a far greater chance of damage.

 A good travel case is the key.  Weight is the enemy no matter how good the case is the heaver it is the harder it falls. The inside of your case must have a lot of padding to absorb the shock and protect your guitar from the sides of your case.  Most guitar cases only have a ½ inch of low grade foam padding. If you have a guitar case, try this. Feel how dense the foam is by pinching it with your fingers and thumb. If it crushes easily it’s not really doing much good to protect your valuable guitar.

 Some guitar cases appear to have thick padding but it may only be thick fuzzy velour that makes it look and feel cushy. High grade foam is expensive and most guitar case builder just don’t use it. Add more padding to your case if you can get it in. Especially around the head stock and over the bridge. Pack your case in a strong box surrounded by foam or anything that will protect it from shock. Try to place the packing material around the out side edge of your case so it will have more room for the case to sort of float inside the center of the packing box. This way if a few hundred pounds of luggage is stacked on top of your guitar it won’t crush the sides of your case and push in the top and hit the bridge.

 Now if you really want to save time instead of packing up your guitar and buying new foam and Styrofoam peanuts try looking at this web site. http://www.CaseXtreme.com. These cases are very affordable, well under the $300 dollar range, and they are the lightest weight flight cases available.   

 For more information on packing and how to prevent damage to your case see the video demonstrations. I even throw a beautiful brazillion rose wood acoustic guitar in the Clam CaseXtreme case off the roof onto concrete to prove that these are the best cases for protecting your guitars. I invented this case to be used by the airlines. After hours and hours of trying to find anyone who could point me to the right person in the airlines to present my guitar flight case to was impossible. No one knew who I should talk to.  

  My idea was for the airlines to lease these from me, for lets say $40 dollars a month, and then they could rent them to their customers for $40 dollars a flight. Most people don’t travel enough to really need a flight case, although mine are quite resoable in price i believe many people would love to know that their guitar would be safe on board of any airline and would gladly pay the $40.

www.casextreme.com  and  www.TheGuitarworkshop.com

If you are a guitar player or band member or make a living with anything that can be broken on an airplane or flight on any airline this article is for you. I invented a case that is 100% used and intended for protecting anything if you use airline travel. Although if you travel or ship anything on UPS, FedX or other shipping companies please listen up this article will save you money and grief if you are traveling with something that you don’t want destroyed while traveling.

First I’ll give me some of my background. I have been a videographer for 23 years and am also a guitar player. I was traveling with a group of well know acoustic guitar players and was in Las Vegas at a the (NATPE) trade show. This is a trade show where companies buy and sell television programs. I was promoting a show concept on learning to play guitar and had these guys playing in my booth. The name of the show is “The Guitar TV Workshop“ which is now an online lesson website were you can by DVD guitar lessons or take lessons on line. There are hundreds of hours of lessons on learning to play guitar on Acoustic Blues to Hawaiian Slack Key, or Ki ho ‘alu. The web site is
http://www.TheGuitarWorkShop.com The Artist or Instructors playing in my booth were
John Cephas, Martin Simpson, Woody Mann, and Orville Johnson all award winning players.

When I arrived in Las Vegas and went to get my bags, camera equipment, and guitars everything looked fine. I went to the hotel checked in and we hit the town. When I returned to my room I thought I would play a bit of guitar. That’s when I found the problem. I grabbed my National Steel guitar and when I started to play it just went thunk. The bridge got pushed in from something heavy being put on top of the case or a baggage handler inside crawling over it. The cone got pushed in as well and when I called the airline they said I only had 4 hour to file a claim. Or I got your screwed.

That evening we all went to dinner and we all talked about the problems of traveling with our guitars and me my photographic and video equipment. All the instructors were using the same type of travel guitar cases. They were heavy cases around 28 lbs. each and very expensive over $750 and up. The thing is that they all said that these were the best out there. When I asked them have they ever had their guitars broken in them they all said yes. That’s when I decided that something had to be done. I wanted to design a case that could protect your instrument or camera gear and be affordable.

After 3 years of research and trial and error I designed the Clam Guitar Flight Case, and started http://www.CaseXtreme.com . I knew that one of the major problems with every other case out in the world was that they were too heavy. The old story “the heavier they are the harder they fall” made total sense to me, I knew that to invent a case that would work needed to be light in weight and have adequate shock resistances built into the design.

One day the light bulb hit me like a ton of bricks. I had just received a DVD player in the mail that I ordered. I order stuff all the time from a company out of state so I don’t have to pay state sales tax. For large ticket items this can save you a bunch of money. Anyway this equipment had Styrofoam pads on each corner in a cardboard box that had space around it so nothing is touching the equipment.

So now I had a very sturdy material and I found the toughest foam money can buy and I designed the Clam by CaseXtreme. http://www.CaseXtreme.com I designed the foam suspension system or foam C-Pads that go around your guitar case or gig bag and found the shock absorption system was born. Here is a link to a video on my site of me  throwing my guitar off my roof top in the Clam case onto the pavement. http://casextreme.com/newest_video.html

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