Ukulele Gear: Cases & Gigbags

Cases & Gigbags for Your Ukulele

Protect that ukulele from nicks and dings. If you handling your uke a gigbag will do. I someone else is handling your uke, go with a case. Nobody will take care of your uke as well as your will.

5 August 2026

Gigbag or Hardshell Case?

My personal take on whether to use a gigbag or hard-shell case is: If you are ALWAYS handling transporting your ukulele a good gigbag is the way to go. If anyone else is going to handle your instrument then a hard case is better. No one will take care of your gear better than you will.

Mono M80 Ukulele Tenor Case Jet Black

The Mono M80 Ukulele Case is designed from the inside out to be one of the lightest, thinnest, strongest, and most versatile carrying solutions for the professional musician. A hybrid case featuring an ultra-light laminated foam shell with strategically placed ABS panels, the M80 Case provides an extremely high level of protection for your most-prized investments. Smart features like the Clip/Tuck straps make for easy airport travel, while the streamlined profile helps you slip through the crowds.

Hard Shell

  • Ameritage Carrying Cases • Ameritage Humidity Control System to help maintain an ideal level of humidity and preserve your instrument. This is the case that my #1 — Ko'olau CS Tenor came in. It is an optional upgrade from Ko'olau and well worth it.

Gig Bags

  • Reunion Blues • Some of the best gig bags available.
  • Mono Cases • These are the some of the best gig bags available. I use the tenor ukulele bag for my tenor ALL the time.
  • Kala • Kala's Transit bag is really close to a Mono bag at a fraction of the cost. The Transit bag is the goto upgrade at our family Funky Frets Music Store .

Manufactures of Gigbags and Hardshell Cases

Case or Gigbag? If you're handling your instrument, a quality, padded gigbag would be fine. If someone else is a hard case, it's probably better. No one is going to care for your uke like you.

Ameritage Carrying Cases

Ameritage Carrying Cases

Coupling the invaluable input of musicians from around the world with nearly 50 years of case crafting experience, we are creating the “World’s Most Exclusive Musical Instrument Cases™.” Ameritage® is a brand of GWW Group Inc., a family owned business that has been manufacturing carrying cases for the world’s leading brands of carrying cases for decades.

Blue Heron Cases

Blue Heron Cases

Blue Heron® manufactures quality, lightweight Softshell Cases for most stringed instruments. Our cases provide protection for your instrument combined with the convenient portability of a carefully designed gig bag. The most important feature of any soft case is the padding. We use EVA closed cell foam for the body and sides of the case. We also laminate an additional 1/2in pillow of open-cell foam in the peghead area of stringed instruments as a shock absorber.

Calton Cases

Calton Cases

Calton Cases makes the world’s finest instrument cases for the world’s finest instruments. Our database contains hundreds of different instrument patterns. We may already have your instrument pattern on file, but we still get new patterns every week for new models from all sorts of builders big and small.

Case Xtreme

Case Xtreme

Guitar Case, guitar cases, shipping cases, packaging solutions, packing cases, packaging company, custom box cases, acoustic Guitar Case, electric guitar case, Airline Flight Travel case, Shipping Cases, Camera cases Video Gear Cases, DJ Cases, custom made cases, truck bed box, organizers truck accessories, We build custom cases, shipping crates to order.

Cedar Creek Cases

Cedar Creek Cases

Cedar Creek Custom Case Shoppe is located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Our beautiful location in Oilville, VA provides the perfect backdrop for America’s time-honored tradition of custom building. Since our inception in 1992, Cedar Creek has proven to be the leader of quality built high-end custom instrument cases. Tom Dougherty founded the custom shop with the idea of bringing unparalleled quality and service to every customer. He had a vision of supplying each customer with a choice.

Chili Con Cases

Chili Con Cases

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

Colorado Case Company

Colorado Case Company

Colorado Case Company brand makes insulated soft cases, gig bags, case covers and rigid cases for most instruments. This premium, professional grade, brand is designed, engineered and tested to provide incredible thermal protection for your valuable musical instrument. This is the case cover of choice for most professional, traveling musicians around the world. Most of this brand is custom made from your tracing, but some stock items are available. We specialize in unusual and hard to fit instruments.

Crossrock Case Company

Crossrock Case Company

Crossrock launched their first Crossrock branded product in 2007 and in the last ten years, the brand has become one of the leaders in our industry with distribution in over 25 countries around the world.

Fusion Bags

Fusion Bags

A British based company who develop and manufacture designer made gig bags or soft cases for musical instruments. We believe that musicians want a high quality bag that not only gives excellent protection to their instrument but looks stylish. Fusion has achieved this and now presents gig bags for guitars, ukulele, cello, brass, woodwind, keyboard, laptop and sound & audio.

Gator Cases, Inc.

Gator Cases, Inc.

Gator Cases was founded in 2000 by father-daughter team Jerry Freed and Crystal Morris in Tampa, Florida. Initially, they launched with a small offering of molded plastic guitar cases at the Summer NAMM show in Nashville, Tennessee. From there, they expanded the product line to include case and bag solutions for pro audio, IT, audio visual, general utility, band instrument, and percussion. The line now consists of over 1000 different solutions that are made from vacuum-formed plastics, rotational-molded plastics, wood, sewn, and EVA materials.

Gigy

Gigy

When your daughter comes to you and asks "Can we start a business to pay for college before I get there?", you just say "yes" and then work out the details later.

Gruv Gear

Gruv Gear

Gruv Gear exists to bring innovative and well-thought out products to creative professionals and beyond, including career musicians, DJs, photographers, filmmakers, mobile producers and more. We are on-track not only to become a premium lifestyle accessories brand in the Music/DJ and Photo Industries, which is a small fraction of our potential market, but also expand to a broader range of industries that will increase our global footprint exponentially. To date, Gruv Gear products are sold in 5 continents and shipped directly to adoring fans worldwide.

Hi Tone Cases

Hi Tone Cases

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

Hiscox Cases

Hiscox Cases

We at Hiscox Cases are only too aware that in this fast moving, hectic world, it is so easy to damage precious musical instruments. That’s why our “Liteflite” range of cases have been designed to give those instruments the finest protection possible from a LIGHTWEIGHT case at a reasonable price.

Hoffee Carbon Fiber Cases

Hoffee Carbon Fiber Cases

In just a few short years Hoffee has become the premiere builder of carbon fiber cases for guitar, banjo and mandolin. Each Hoffee Case is hand built in the USA through our state of the art process using the highest quality materials available. All of our premium quality interiors are meticulously fitted specifically to your instrument‘s measurements. And that is why our customers say, “It fits like a glove.”

Kangaroo Covers

Kangaroo Covers

Custom made amplifier cover with large exterior pockets for storing cords and effects; made with 1050 denier ballistic nylon or 32 oz heavy-duty textured vinyl. Features leather reinforced handle opening, double stitched inside seams and leather logo. Velcro inner pocket straps pull up and over the top of the amplifier holding the pockets open while loading or unloading. The 1050 denier ballistic nylon is water repellent with 2 inch urethane backing and offers snap buckles. The vinyl model is UV resistant, mildew treated face and back, cold crack to 10 degrees and offers nickel-plated rust resistant buckles.

Mark Leaf Case Company

Mark Leaf Case Company

UPDATE: (*source www.jeromeharris.com*) The Mark Leaf Case Company, run by Woody Metcalf in McPherson, Kansas, seems to have gone out of business in late 2002

Mono Cases

Mono Cases

MONO was founded by Daniel Kushner in the spring of 2006, on the ferry boat between Sausalito and San Francisco, to be exact. A self-taught drummer of over 15 years and a professional industrial designer, Daniel launched MONO to merge his love for music and design with a vision of creating innovative products for a new generation of modernist musicians.

( Curt: This is the bag I use for my Ko'olau Tenor. )

Mooradian Cover Company

Mooradian Cover Company

Welcome to Mooradian Cover Company! For over 25 years, we have manufactured our soft-sided gig bags for musical instruments, including Double Basses, Violins, Cellos, Guitars, Electric Basses, and Keyboards. We also make custom bags for amplifiers and other equipment you need to carry.

PRO TEC International

PRO TEC International

Cases for: Guitar Collection, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Dreadnought Guitar, Classical Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin and Ukulele.

Reunion Blues

Reunion Blues

Founded in 1976, Reunion Blues is the music industry’s premier gig bag and case company. Reunion Blues offers an extensive product selection including over 90 models of cases and bags for fretted, brass, woodwind, strings and percussion instruments.

Ritter Bags

Ritter Bags

From the start RITTER realized that faced with a choice between a bag that was functional but dull, and another which was functional and chic; people would go for the functional chic.

TKL Products Corp.

TKL Products Corp.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

Undercover Cases

Undercover Cases

UNDER COVER CASES, INC. IS A PREMIER QUALITY MANUFACTURER OF SOFT BAGS, CASES AND COVERS. ALL OUR GOODS ARE PROUDLY MADE IN THE USA WITH DOMESTIC TEXTILES AND COMPONENTS – NO IMPORTS HERE! We design, manufacture and sell the best possible soft bags, cases and covers you can purchase for your money with excellent customer service.

Workhorse Cases

Workhorse Cases

Workhorse Cases hand makes custom instrument cases for the worlds pre-emnient musicians, instrument makers and collectors. Our products have carried more instruments to more venues in more countries than all other custom instrument case makers combined.

tomandwill.com

tomandwill.com

The UK’s most popular gig bags. tomandwill.com was born in the autumn of 2006 when we recognised that there was a need for a good quality gig bag at a cost that didn’t break the bank.