Made a Guitar Hanger

Milkman · Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:47 pm

Working from home is crowding us all together, so I decided to get the tele I built off the stand and on the wall! I used the same stock the body is made from to make the hanger. The tele doesn’t quite sit plumb in the hanger because of the headstock shape, but an LP sits in there nice and straight.

fatjack · Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:39 am

Nice. I suppose you could make one with the treble side sitting higher to get it to sit square.

ID10t · Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:57 am

I like. Maybe a removable Fender shim to nudge the treble side up?

TVvoodoo · Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:28 pm

I was thinking of something similar for my own product line, there seems to be a lot of people in that game suddenly - but I was got to thinking why not a "Well-Hung" branded wall hanger as a thing I could sell someday? Yours is a really great design for a single hanger... elegant, simple, different - and just looks stronger and chunkier, which I believe is an important concern. Also the nice space for a branding emblem on the inside.... I had a similar experience making my gear rack for my little gear grotto... different headstocks want to sit differently - I got around it by making thicker padded inserts covered with corduroy cloth that would allow for different shapes to sit proper. But even nicer would be a natural suede cover or something like that.

I would like to see a binding elastic cord or something on it, probably not really necessary, but you know

Great job!

Milkman · Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:45 pm

It’s really not all that wonky hanging in there. If I compensate for this headstock, then symmetrical headstock would sit wonky.

A little wonk won’t weally worry me much.

Milkman · Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:46 pm

I expect a post by @tobijohn in the near future titled “Made a Guitar Hangar”.

Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:04 pm

Milkman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:46 pm I expect a post by @tobijohn in the near future titled “Made a Guitar Hangar”.

Among other guitar related tasks, I still have close to four dozen pickup swaps to do so no time for fabricating wall hangers. I'm pretty much out of wall space anyway until I rearrange what I've got to fit a middle row in where the guitar bodies fit between the necks of the lower row and their necks fit between the bodies of the upper row....

Milkman · Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:45 pm

@tobijohn, that’s why you need to make a guitar hangAr!

nomadh · Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:56 am

Leo invented the tele to vex the guitar hanger industry because of an earlier fight where he blocked them from getting tubes to make their tube amp/ guitar hanger combo. . Eventually they were threatening his family if he did it again so he came up with the strat.
It was in all the papers back then.

nomadh · Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:01 am

tobijohn wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:04 pm
Milkman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:46 pm I expect a post by @tobijohn in the near future titled “Made a Guitar Hangar”.
Among other guitar related tasks, I still have close to four dozen pickup swaps to do so no time for fabricating wall hangers. I'm pretty much out of wall space anyway until I rearrange what I've got to fit a middle row in where the guitar bodies fit between the necks of the lower row and their necks fit between the bodies of the upper row....

The trick here is to add lots and lots more walls. Like a hedge maze or the labyrinth of Versailles.