Homemade stand or wall hooks?

[H2ODawgs]

Does anyone have any plans for a homemade stand or wall hooks.

Thanks in advance
Chris

[Doug Edwards]

This works for me. Nothing more than a routed Cedar 1 x 4 with shaker pegs.

[mythicfish]

Stands and racks certainly free up floor space and they make for a nice display of ones "trophies".
But they're not for me ... if it's not in my hands it's in the case.
The convenience isn't worth the exposure.

Curt

[morgan]

Here's one I built to store them in their cases. The "bays" are slightly different widths to fit the cases.

[morgan]

Here it is empty.

[earthsave]

Both of those are very nice and excellent ideas.

[swampy]

Go to one of the big home improvement stores and look in the garden section or maybe the tool section for tool hooks. They are basically the same hooks used in guitar hangers. The ones I bought were coated. I've had mine up for about six years, without any problems. No rubbing off on the finish or anything like that.

The plus side is that I pick my mandolin up at least ten times a day if not more. On the downside its not good if you live somewhere with harsh winters or low humidity.

[Paul Hostetter]

I agree - an instrument out of its case gets played more. And I think cases are really lousy environments for humidity control.

I live in earthquake country, so my wall hooks are like these:
http://www.lutherie.net/wall.hook1.jpg
The display constantly changes, but one of the walls of my life looks like this right now:

http://www.lutherie.net/wall.instruments.7.07.jpg

And under each instrument is a pad like this:

http://www.lutherie.net/wall.instruments.pad.jpg

Even with small tremors (or running children) the instruments can swing a bit, and the pads prevent scratches. They're just thick felt.

During the '89 quake (it was huge) not one instrument in my shop or my house fell. The ones one this wall then may have been at 90 degrees to the wall at the peak of the shaking, but they all stayed put.

[Doug Edwards]

Nice Collection Paul. Is that a Martin Uke? Mine's a late 50's given to me by my wife's aunt. Probably the only 50's Martin I'll ever own.

[jefflester]

What year's the ring-tailed lemur? #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[mandroid]

and there are forked hangars at the hardware store, plastic dipped, broom/rake hangers
gluing some leather would cover the plastic and be varnish friendly
lag screws into a wall stud, it wont swing though, like a cord suspended sort, like Paul's .

[Paul Hostetter]

The uke is a 20's Style 1. The velcro-pawed maki lemur is clinging to a valiha, also from Madagascar. The valiha's from 1995, the lemur is from 2006.

[H2ODawgs]

Thanks for all the replies and pics. #Greatly appreciated!!!

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[Lee Callicutt]

The display constantly changes, but one of the walls of my life looks like this right now:
Is that a Stromberg?

[Paul Hostetter]

The guitar? It's made by Dana Bourgeois, possibly the only non-cutaway archtop he ever made.

Clockwise from upper left: classical sanxian, southern China probably 1925; laouto, a Greek mandocello, by Yorgos Grachis, San Mateo CA 1953; Martin baritone uke 1936; gondola paddle mandolin, Sicily 1985; Bob Thornburg gourd banjo 1995; Earnest Hooch-uh-lele, Maine 1995; Martin Style 1 uke 20's sometime; Bourgeois archtop 1996 (I think); valiha toritenany, Antananarivo 1995; Lyon and Healy Tu-Ba-Phone (!) with five-string neck by me; 1917 A-4, 1921 Style Something-I-Can-Never-Remember-Thanks-To-Jon-Lundberg Martin mandolin; bottlecap shaker, Mali 2006. About the only ones I don't really play are the valiha and the silly baby roundback mandolin. I'm not much of a sanxian player but it does get plunkage from time to time. The guitar, mandolin and banjo display is in constant flux.

http://www.earnestinstruments.com/jpgs/hootchulele2.jpg

[mandroid]

Ah , tune up by removing the glasses and Smokey Malt first.

[Paul Hostetter]

It came from the factory with Johnny Walker Red, but that didn't last long. I'm into Caolila these days meself. Does wonders for my ukulele playing. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Lee Callicutt]

The guitar? It's made by Dana Bourgeois, possibly the only non-cutaway archtop he ever made.
Yeah, the guitar. I love those big,beautiful, voluptuous bouts!