{"id":21,"date":"2008-09-21T00:55:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T05:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2013-10-07T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T03:14:13","slug":"handle-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"handle transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>about a year ago, the handle for my guitar case broke. i guess that&#8217;s acceptable since i had literally taken that case around the world and back. but i don&#8217;t know why i resorted to buying another case altogether instead of trying to fix it. i think nowadays i tend to consider the latter first whenever something breaks. anyway, below is the handle for the case i bought to replace my original case which had broken at the handle. i wish i had taken a picture of the actual broken handle before i proceeded to tear it off the case. but whatever, i looks exaclty like the one below &#8211; just broken at one of the hinges. here, just to give you an idea.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CIMG3653 by mongchacha, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mongchacha\/2873891875\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3175\/2873891875_11af3c40e4.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG3653\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>just about a couple weeks ago, it dawned on me that somewhere, there&#8217;s gotta be a place that sells replacement parts for cases. sure enough, google turned up some satisfying results and i was able to order a replacement case handle from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elderly.com\">Elderly Instruments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ll spare you the story, but this was a hell of a lot more difficult to install than my tap-tempo.<br \/>\ncheck out the new genuine leather handle. it&#8217;s much more comfortable than the wannabe-leather molded plastic handle that used to be there. in fact, i think you can even see the rivet holes where the old handle was.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CIMG3654 by mongchacha, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mongchacha\/2873893261\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3281\/2873893261_02002251f6.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG3654\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about a year ago, the handle for my guitar case broke. i guess that&#8217;s acceptable since i had literally taken that case around the world and back. but i don&#8217;t know why i resorted to buying another case altogether instead of trying to fix it. i think nowadays i tend to consider the latter first whenever something breaks. anyway, below is the handle for the case i bought to replace my original case which had broken at the handle. i wish i had taken a picture of the actual broken handle before i proceeded to tear it off the case. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,9],"tags":[39,65,293,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}