MadAsAHatter
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I'm in the process of resituating my music room for everything to be hooked up and easily accessible. Step 1 was getting some multi guitar racks. There wasn't anything on the market that I liked or would work so I went ahead and made some myself.
Everything is made from maple hardwood that started as raw slabs. It's all held together by threaded inserts for wood and flat head bolts. I wanted to be able to take it apart if I ever needed. Each one is 48" tall, 50" wide 17" deep and can hold 12 guitars. I designed it so that the guitars would sit mostly upright. That was mainly to save space vs. designs that lean back more. It also has the benefit of not putting much pressure on the neck while resting. I also designed it so I can add a second level to each one. Being hard maple I was expecting it to be heavier than it is. It's rock solid sturdy for sure though.
The pieces that cradle the neck are those tool hooks from home depot. I've been using them to hang my guitars form the wall so I know they won't react with the finish. I've also used the indoor/outdoor carpet covering the bottom rails before and haven't had an issue with it reacting with finishes either.
Most of the work was plaining the wood down to thickness and ripping it to width so I didn't take many in progress pictures.
Edit: Adding an updated pic of the final product to this first post for those who may not scroll to it on the 2nd page. There are a few extra pics of details in that post though.
Everything is made from maple hardwood that started as raw slabs. It's all held together by threaded inserts for wood and flat head bolts. I wanted to be able to take it apart if I ever needed. Each one is 48" tall, 50" wide 17" deep and can hold 12 guitars. I designed it so that the guitars would sit mostly upright. That was mainly to save space vs. designs that lean back more. It also has the benefit of not putting much pressure on the neck while resting. I also designed it so I can add a second level to each one. Being hard maple I was expecting it to be heavier than it is. It's rock solid sturdy for sure though.
The pieces that cradle the neck are those tool hooks from home depot. I've been using them to hang my guitars form the wall so I know they won't react with the finish. I've also used the indoor/outdoor carpet covering the bottom rails before and haven't had an issue with it reacting with finishes either.
Most of the work was plaining the wood down to thickness and ripping it to width so I didn't take many in progress pictures.
Edit: Adding an updated pic of the final product to this first post for those who may not scroll to it on the 2nd page. There are a few extra pics of details in that post though.
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