Some spaces on the bottom, bellow the horns, around and top of the neck, but fits OK. It doesn't bother me. The left horn holds straight in position when its zipped, so the guitar doesn't swim inside the bag like other bass gigbags. Should fit Gibson Firebirds too.
Made by tough artificial leather, brass-like buckles and buttons. Shoulder straps on back.
In the late 80s of Tokyo, you step inside to a music studio or a guitar shop, you'll see all the players with these bags on their shoulders, smoking cigarettes. If it was black and a bit taller like this one, normally thats a bass guitar.
Guitars, it was always the brown artificial leather. These bags were made tight that you can guess each models what they owned.
"dude, that a Les Paul inside? doesn't match you at all!" or "mmmm a Flying V, girl you are so hot!", talking to myself in the studio while waiting for my bandmates.
So this brand making gigbags in Japan called "Gigbag" started manufacturing since 1972, and they still continue now.
I was lucky enough to bump in to an old used one on the net 1/4th of the price they sell. For more info, Rokkomann.inc is the new distributer, though I don't think they sell overseas.
Oh I forgot to mention, they do sell gigbags for Firebirds (and even for Thunderbirds!) too, about 150 US dollars if you could afford it. But I'm not brave enough to put my "non-reverse" in a reversed way. Did anyone tried that?
Click here for Rokkomann Gigbag page
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