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    Default 2003 F5G Original Case

    Curious as to what case would have originally shipped with a Gibson F5G in 2003?

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    Default Re: 2003 F5G Original Case

    IN 2005 mine shipped with a Travelite or so I'm told. That's what it was delivered to me in.
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    Default Re: 2003 F5G Original Case

    Gibson's contracted TKL cases.
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    Default Re: 2003 F5G Original Case

    Thanks Nick, that is what I guessed. I've seen them with and without Gibson logos.

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    Default Re: 2003 F5G Original Case

    The Ferns from that time period I've seen had square TKL's without labels. I had two friends that bought them in that time period. One of those is housing a mandolin I gave my Son-In-Law. I'd be interested in knowing about the F5G's. I know that Janet Davis was offering hers for a few hundred more in a Calton. I got mine at Mandolin Brothers.
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    Default Re: 2003 F5G Original Case

    In the early 2000s, I would have expected a TKL shaped hard shell case with a F5G. I've seen them listed on the web this way. I've seen some from the 90s with the TKL rectangular case.

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    Default Re: 2003 F5G Original Case

    The 2000 F5G I owned came in a shaped TKL case

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    I believe the "signed" mandolins (F-5L, Fern, Bush, Steffey, Bibey, etc.) got rectangular cases.

    From somewhere around 2000, the F-5g's and F-9's got shaped cases.
    At some point (before the flood) they started shipping these in Travelite cases, which provided more protection during shipping.

    I recall a post here made by Big Joe Vest (when he was with Gibson) that after they switched to the Travelite cases, the incidents of damage during shipping dropped to nearly zero...

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    Default Re: 2003 F5G Original Case

    My 2002 F-9 was delivered in a shaped TKL case (which I still have and use for another F-style mandolin). I currently carry my F-9 in an ABS Gator case which is similar to a Travelite case but with a hard ABS skin. I can believe about damage occurring in the original TKL case, the headstock fits very tightly.
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    Default Re: 2003 F5G Original Case

    Quote Originally Posted by J.Albert View Post
    I recall a post here made by Big Joe Vest (when he was with Gibson) that after they switched to the Travelite cases, the incidents of damage during shipping dropped to nearly zero...
    Yeah, I assumed the Travelite was the case it was shipped in but I haven't met anyone else that bought an F5G from 2005 on. All the other examples were earlier thus far.
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    Default Re: 2003 F5G Original Case

    January, 2005 F5G, shipped from Gibson in a TKL shaped case.
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