Guitar stand

very neat! do you have amy in production pictures? id love to see more pics if youve got them

As a matter of fact I do, but I won’t be able to post them until tonight or tomorrw.

-- Dave- New Brunswick

Nice lamination work. You may be able to make a couple $$ reproducing these since you kept the forms. I can see an owner of a high-end guitar displaying it one one of these stands.

-- You're a unique and special person, just like everyone else.

Thanks, I think my next one will be made from Jatoba, I’ve had great luck bending that stuff and it is near bullet proof.

-- Dave- New Brunswick

Very nice! I can see you selling a few of these if you really want to.

-- time, there's never enough time...

This is awesome. I love the design! I have really been having fun with bent laminations lately too.

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Thanks, I have been approached to do so but like your tag line reads, time, there’s never enough time…
I think the cost would scare buyers off too, I’d need to get about $250.00 per unit.

-- Dave- New Brunswick

I was just at your web site Blake, slick site! I loved that table with the bent lamination! It kind of reminds me of an idea I had to build a slab top coffee table but with curved steel legs. Nice work!

I love bending wood, I started my wood working journey as a boat builder so I got to play with all the different bending tricks.

-- Dave- New Brunswick

Nice job Check this web site for a similar design and a possible answer to you problem
http://www.woodcentral.com/contests/guitarstand/contest_guitarstandresults.shtml

-- DocK, WV

How cool is that! My son is trying to learn to play the guitar. Now I know of something I can attempt to make for him. (Note: attempt)

-- http://inhisgrip1.blogspot.com/

Don’t get me wrong. Its a nice guitar, but you got any pics sans guitar?

-- Do something nice for somebody

I know $250 sounds like a lot of money considering a cheapo metal tube stand can be had for $20 but I have several instruments that way outclass a $20 tube stand.If I didn’t have a 10 month old who will grab anything she can crawl to I would consider making a purchase for that money.You need to forget the mentality that “it’s just a guitar stand” and realize it is a piece of furniture at the least and a piece of art as a bonus.Target collectors and high end guitar shops and you will sell them.People dont put 1938 Martin 00018’s in $20 tube stands…at least I don’t. Just my 2 cents worth

-- teh most beautiful about a tree is what you can make out of it...even if that is only a fire!I hate raking

super nice stand

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Great work, I’m going to have to make a couple of those too. I use laminations so much that I built my own press. It will a glue up 45” in length, 8” + wide and up to 8” thick. It’s also adjustable to remove the bottom beam and make it take a thicker glueup.

-- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com

Great looking guitar stand. Personally, I think $250 is too low for a “hand-crafted, solid wood guitar stand”. Consider the time involved laminating, bending, and waiting for it all to dry; then the sanding and finishing. Don’t sell your time short! I agree with Hacksaw – target the collector and the high-end guitar shops – if a musician is going to lay out a couple of grand or more on a guitar, do they really want to display it on a metal tube frame? I don’t think so!

re the neck restraint – while the rubber band is unique, how about a slightly radiused piece, perhaps padded, that reaches between the ends of the yoke – one end pivots on a pin and the other end has a magnet to match a magnet in the yoke end. Small 3/8×3/8 cylindrical neodymium magnets would give plenty of holding power. Just a thought.

Great job!

Jim

Beautiful stand. How about drilling a hole horizontally and put a dowel through it to hold the guitar in? That is what I do with the hangers that I make.

-- Rob — I've cut it off twice and it's still too short!

Jim,
That’s exactly what I was thinking about doing.

-- Dave- New Brunswick