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>>Definitely rocks! May I ask where you got your handles, corner protectors, 
vinyl covering? I'm planning on making some similar cases soon myself. I'm 
still deciding on whether or not to do the vinyl, or just paint them. Vinyl 
would be cool, but it looks difficult.<<

I get all of my case parts from Penn Fabrication (url below).  They require a 
$50 minimum order and because their prices are pretty cheap you'd probably 
have to buy enough stuff to make several cases to pass that limit.  Although 
somehow I managed to spend $160 there.  I just remembered that Mars Music 
carries a few of their case parts but at much higher prices.

And I would catagorize using the vinyl covering as more of pain in the ass 
and kind of messy than it is difficult.  It's nice though because it covers 
up not so perfect wood and hides nails.  But it is more invovled than paint 
especially at the corners of the case.  My textured paint test proved to work 
out pretty well and might be an alternative.

http://www.penn-fabrication.com/hardware.htm