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Post by carlbarry on Apr 26, 2022 3:32:46 GMT
My HB 35Plus is beautiful and sounds great. I'd like to get a hard case for it---but pay less than the cost of the guitar! Anybody have any suggestions? Guitar Center has an Ibanez AF100C Artcore Hardshell Guitar Case for $80, but I'm not sure the 35Plus will fit. Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2022 23:54:40 GMT
carlbarry The dimensions for the Artcore cases are on Ibanez's website. I'll leave it for you to check out yourself. Ibanez sell a specifically sized aftermarket case model expressly for the AS Artcores which approximate the ES-335/HB35plus body depth and size. It's an ABS hardshell MS100C. The Ibanez AF is a single cutaway deep acoustic body different from the AS/HB35+/ES-335 type body. The M F100C is designed expressly for it. It is deeper. As I recently bought an AS Artcore, I have been looking at cases for it recently. The Ibanez cases are quite expensive in my country. Off the top of my head, the Artcore AS body (approx ES-335) is marginally smaller than an actual ES-335, and I mean marginally. The AM is Ibanez's approx ES-339 equivalent body. So an AS Artcore will fit in any ES-335 case albeit not a snugly as in an Ibanez Artcore case, but I am uncertain if the reverse applies universally. Other than check the specs or try it and see, I think you'd be 100% safe and better off buying pretty much any of the many very affordable generic cases designed to fit the ES-335 for the a HB-35Plus. Trust that helps.
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Post by carlbarry on May 23, 2022 2:16:46 GMT
carlbarry The dimensions for the Artcore cases are on Ibanez's website. I'll leave it for you to check out yourself. Ibanez sell a specifically sized aftermarket case model expressly for the AS Artcores which approximate the ES-335/HB35plus body depth and size. It's an ABS hardshell MS100C. The Ibanez AF is a single cutaway deep acoustic body different from the AS/HB35+/ES-335 type body. The M F100C is designed expressly for it. It is deeper. As I recently bought an AS Artcore, I have been looking at cases for it recently. The Ibanez cases are quite expensive in my country. Off the top of my head, the Artcore AS body (approx ES-335) is marginally smaller than an actual ES-335, and I mean marginally. The AM is Ibanez's approx ES-339 equivalent body. So an AS Artcore will fit in any ES-335 case albeit not a snugly as in an Ibanez Artcore case, but I am uncertain if the reverse applies universally. Other than check the specs or try it and see, I think you'd be 100% safe and better off buying pretty much any of the many very affordable generic cases designed to fit the ES-335 for the a HB-35Plus. Trust that helps Thanks! The SMS100C seems a bit smaller than the Glarry GJazz case, available for $83 on ebay. I'll have to convert, as Ibanez gives dimensions in mm, and Glarry in cm. And neither are real---I mean inches---measurements that Americans can deal with.
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