Quality Gig Bag for Trinity College "dola"

[Pittsburgh Bill]

I received a ProTec case with my Trinity College mandola. I will be selling my T. C. in May when I upgrade to a Keith Coleman mandola. I would like to keep my ProTec case as they are no longer available.
It is my desire to provide the future owner of my T. C. with a good quality gig bag since dola hard cases are near impossible to purchase without paying more than the cost of this instrument.
Any recommendations for a quality gig bag that will fit this mandola?

[Paul Busman]

I have a Boulder case for my electric mandolin and think it's terrific. It's very well made and comes with backpack straps. It's also available in several colors to make it stand out a bit. If they make one that'll fit a mandola, it would be a good choice. Perhaps a banjo bag.

[Pittsburgh Bill]

A case that fits a mandola is the issue. Lots of cases that don't fit are available.

[bratsche]

A Superior Trailpak gig bag might (or might not) fit, if you can find one. Mine fits my Flatiron mandola, but I don't know the dimensions of a TC. I also don't know if the Trailpak I have was designed specifically for mandola or something else (some short banjo maybe?) but it fits the Flatiron very well. That instrument's 28" long and 10.5" wide.

bratsche

[bratsche]

Okay, I was curious, and I couldn't even find a Superior to match mine. (It is old, and probably discontinued, like so many mandola cases and bags! )

But I did find this which might be of interest. 20mm padding sounds twice better than the Superior, if the other dimensions work.

bratsche

[Pittsburgh Bill]

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Once I realized that metric conversions I learned 50 years ago have failed me and I went to google to convert to standardard measure, IT WILL FIT!
That company has a US distribution center (I think in Michigan) from which I can order. This will be on my todo list when I make it back to Pa.
I just would not feel right advertising my Trinity College "dola" in these classifieds without providing some kind of a case. My T. C. mandola should make for a great introduction to mandolas for one of our Cafe members.

[bratsche]

Glad it will fit! I hear you about wanting some protective bag to sell it with. as well as not wanting to part with the hard case. They are so difficult to come by! I have two mandola cases I'll not part with for that reason - one is a ProTec (like yours, I imagine) that I found many years ago in the Cafe Classifieds, and the other is a nice deep, triple latching mandola-sized hard case that my Sawchyn Beaver Tail was sent from Canada in (gently pre-owned). It's probably a Canadian-made case. The BeaverTail now lives in the ProTec, though, because I needed the extra deep one for my extra deep bodied Weisberg mandola. But both cases are ones the likes of which I haven't seen available since. It's too bad, really. Mandolas get no respect!

bratsche