No mandolin content but someday you might need to know some of this
I snagged a nice Recording King ROS-616 guitar off the Guitar Center used equipment site back in late November. It didn't have a case so I went looking and finally decided on a SilverCreek 000 sized case from MusiciansFriend. I had a 25% off coupon and that got it delivered to my door for about $86.00.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/acces...0case&index=11
Doing fine, guitar fits all is good except the tab they used on the storage pocket isn't leather it's vinyl. Vinyl is the enemy of lacquer and this guitar is finished in nitrocellulose lacquer. It has one little gold colored rivet holding it on. I assume, wrongly, that I can just uncurl the rivet inside the pocket. I can't without destroying it so I go to the next best thing and I drill it out from the top.
Getting the leather replacement tab is fairly easy. I didn't have any scrap so I go to the neighborhood crafts store (Michael's) and buy these little leather tags they sell for a few dollars for a pack of 3. Cut one of them in half, trim the corners and punch a 1/4 inch hole in the end. I can't reuse the gold colored rivet so I go in search of a Chicago screw (also called binder posts) to replace it. The local home stores and hardware stores only have it in aluminum so I had to order them off Amazon. They were cheap. The final result is a leather tab in my cheap case that won't destroy the finish on the neck of the guitar. I'm actually working on version 2 of the leather tab with rounded corners now that I made the tool to cut them round.
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