After ordering another four baroque style bows from a factory, I've sort of run out of space in my cases to put them in... well, that's not quite true... I've run out of space in the cases that I use the most regularly! I could put them in various spare and lesser used violin/viola/double cases, but that sort of makes them less easy to get to.

The bow holder slots in my regular cases (each case has either two or four slots) is taken up by the bows that I use as my first choices for performing. And when I'm travelling around, I don't want to accidentally realise that I've left my favourite and most reliable bows behind in a different case! So, with these lesser-tier bows that I use for lending out to students and for alternate/emergency use... I needed a different case solution.

There are cases that luthiers and bow-makers have that hold only bows... often you see them in sizes where they could hold from 4 to 10 bows. Needless to say, without a violin body to take up space, these bow cases can quite easily house quite a few bows in a smaller compact oblong case. Perfect for storage!

I started looking up the various options that were for sale... originally, I had thought that I could just pick one up quite cheaply... but it turns out that they are sort of a niche thing... and as such, they were more expensive than I would have thought that they should be! In many cases, they were more expensive than a cheap violin case! In fact, by the time that I settled on a particular bow case, it was quite apparent that I could probably purchase several cheap violin cases instead! But that would have the original problem of a larger bulky case that was more difficult to store, and less convenient to get access to the bows.

I did toy around with a bow case that would house quite a few more bows... just so that I would have the option of more storage if I got more of the cheaper factory bows. But given the large step up in price, I figured that it was probably best to just wait until that became a real possibility, and then I could probably order a much cheaper large bow case at the same time from a Chinese factory.

So, I settled on this six slot case... it is probably a touch nicer than what I needed... but the options were quite limited in Australia. And if I ordered from a Chinese factory, the shipping would have been quite expensive. So, I figured for the slightly higher quality version... which ended up being cheaper due to the lack of shipping costs.

It is a nice piece of kit... but as I said before, quite a niche product, even amongst musicians! But I do want to have a selection of Baroque and Classical bows for students to make use of... even if they aren't the higher quality bows that I'm more used to using with my own instruments. Something is still better than nothing... and if I intend to have students occasionally appear with our ensemble, I should make sure that I can equip them properly as well!

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