I the guitar came in a nice modern foam hardcase ¹⁾ and that is good for transport, but not for walking around at living history events. So I am exploring something my 16c counterpart might have made or had made to use in this setting.

My thanks to https://www.pinterest.co.uk/passamezzo/instrument-cases-15-17thc/ For gathering and posting some of the images below

Engraved Italian portrait from 1510, Suonatore di viola da mano, of Giovanni Filoteo Achillini (1466–1538). By Marcantonio Raimondi, after a lost original painting by Francesco Francia.

So larger, but still, a good idea for a hard case.

From https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b69534380?rk=21459;2 – image only

https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&query=dc.subject%20adj%20%22achillini%2C%20giovanni%20filoteo%20%281466-1538%29%22 – info page

I do keep returning to the idea of making it some leather “armor”. But I think that would be best accomplished by making a wooden form to shape it on and I have not committed to that yet. I think it may be what I end up doing. I have done hardened leather for bottles (waxed) and armor (waxed or “boiled”) in the past. So it might be nice to dust off those skills.

Currently for carrying the guitar while walking around I am wrapping it in a rectangle of wool and placing that in a shaped net bag I made out of hemp. This temporary solution is working well. Which of course means I am in no rush to make something else.