Can I also make a suggestion to all aspiring case makers who are reading this?
Study your craft.
Take this as advice or chastisement if you will but before you come here asking everyone for advice on where to source the materials, and how to construct the case, do your homework. Figure out what you need, buy some cases and take them apart.
It's not fair to expect to get everyone here to work for you. Jack Justis, me, and plenty of other case makers have paid their dues by having to find out the hard way. We don't mind the occasional question but and this is me speaking personally, but not being asked to provide essentially a blueprint to cue case making.
So learn your craft.
Am I being mean? You bet I am. Because to me the information is out there, especially with Google and other search engines able to help you find the information you need.
When you dear aspiring case maker say that you don't know where to get the tube which is the foundation of your cases then I have to ask how serious are you? I guess that I have always approached this craft from the idea that you start with the cue and figure out what to wrap it in and then layer on top of that. I can't really wrap my brain around going the other direction by thinking about how the exterior should be first and then trying to find the interior. I suppose it can work that way as well but to me you can dream up all the cases you want but you need the solid interior to put them on first.
Well, anyway, this rant is over. Don't get me wrong, I like helping people and I converse regularly with several new case makers.
Take it as you like.
John Barton - mean grouchy case case maker