When my son went on the road, we coughed up the money for an Anvil brand transit case. They had drawings in stock for various Alembics, including his Europa 6, so a perfect fit with custom options was ordered over the phone (those things we used before getting hooked on the internet). This was about 5 or 6 years ago and the case was maybe $350, really not much more than a normal case. After 2 1/2 years on the road, his friends guitars looked like they had been used to chop wood, but his Europa had not a scratch on it. These instruments are beautiful and expensive, and for a little more money you can really protect it. This is no place to pinch pennies IMHO.