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I just started guitar lessons last week (I've been trying to teach myself for a while, so I can strum some chords, etc.) After four weeks of lessons I'll be going out of town for four weeks. I really don't want to go four weeks without practicing and have a big setback, lose my calluses, etc like has happened in the past when I stopped practicing for a while.

I also don't want to break my guitar on the airplane. I have a hard case but it's pretty cheap. Really good acoustic guitar cases cost as much as my guitar is worth, so I don't really want to spend $100+ on a case. Anybody here have experience checking a guitar with a typical chipboard case? I'm thinking of padding it with all my socks and underwear. That might get interesting on the way home.

And, since I know it's coming:



I'm also wondering if I could rent a guitar for a week at a time while out of town. (I'm going to three different cities.)