I bought an Epiphone Flying V guitar for my grandson. I want to make a guitar stand for it to sit in. This guitar is different from most because the bottom of the guitar has a V. I saw some metal ones and a few videos about buying some but none are very appealing. I want to make mine from wood.
Does anyone have a file for cutting a guitar stand. I ordered some of the guitar hangers that automatically close when the neck is inserted.
I looked on cutrocket.com and there was a couple of guitar related but nothing that I wanted.
Guy, I’m thinking this guitar is screaming for an old wooden barrel lid for the bottom support. (Maybe even a metal lid?)
The curve would make it easy for the “V” to sit in, and there’s plenty of room in the round top for you to decorate it with sentiment. The upper support might even be from a barrel stave.
I am not a guitar player. My question is does it hurt a guitar to hang from the neck only with no bottom support? Can some of the guitar players chime in if just hanging from the neck is good/bad. The answer to my question will help me decide on a design. I did find an interesting picture of a stand made from someone that was making a Flying V and used the cut offs to make the stand.
For this application, either method is fine. The vertical orientation is the proper method, preferable in the case. More important is the material the finish on the guitar come in contact with. Some of the cheaper brand hangers/stands will stain the finish. We use the Hercules brand and have never had a problem.
I like the first one you have pictured, and as long as you had some dimensions to go by, it shouldn’t need any specialized hardware.
The drawing I have is of a 59’ flying V, were the angle of the inside V is 76 degrees, the radius is 1.52, and the body thickness is 1.375"
I have the guitar but have not measured it yet. I have several projects I am working on now. I like to keep my pipeline full. I want to nail down the design. I liked the one made of off cuts. The holes maybe. I did find a flying v picture with wings I would like to incorporate with his name so the off cut one gives me room for that. The stick ones could have the name along the side.
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Here is a design I started but my son Nick did not care for it so I bailed. I was going to use the hardware from the Hercules hanger.
Just spitballing here but I drew this up from the measurements from the guitar. The tabs and holes are for dowels with some plastic tubing over them. The back will have a kickstand and a board will go up behind the neck to hold the guitar hanger.
What do you think? I will have to play with the angle of the kickstand to help put the weight of the guitar over the center but no far back that it takes up too much space. The guitar has rounded edges at the bottom but the flat feet will be angled to match the angle of the kickstand.
Whatever I make I will cut a prototype out of plywood to see if I need to an an offset to get the dowels to hold the guitar without being too tight. May need to make it longer so the bottom of the guitar does not hit the floor. Fun Fun Fun
Thanks for the tubing info. My grandson has several guitars. I will likely make a wall hanging unit. This will go in his man cave room ( second bedroom).
I got my mahagoney finger jointed and glued up tonight. I will definitely make the stand out of mahagoney and it will some form of the flying v. Here are the pics of the finger joints and the glue up.
The clamps were bowing the piece in the middle so I added a clamp to straighten it out. The finger joints are very strong but with enough pressure to bring them together the board bowed. I loosened the clamps and put the clamp down to hold it flat. I could not put one on the other side but the single clamp straightened the board out.
I will cut the stand out on the Shapeoko and engrave it with the flying v further up. I will straighten up the sides to have square edges so I can hopefully use the cutoff for the rear base piece. If not big enough I will finger joint more mahagoney and make the base piece.
I cut a prototype out. It was close so I redesigned it and will cut another prototype before cutting my mahogany. One thing from the prototype is the off cut can likely be my back support for the stand.
I will have to modify the cutoff but looks promising. The round holes are for .5" dowels with plastic tubing applied over them. May use both cutoffs for stability.
The Shapeoko is just so versatile. How did I ever get along without it. Well I did with a lot of work.
The pictures are just the base. There will be more and extend up to the the neck with a hanger attached. The plywood is just to see if the dimensions fit. The base and the cut off pieces are going to be 1.5" thick so they will be very heavy. There is a lot more work to be done but it is a stand to sit on the floor to store the guitar when playing and to put it when playing and need to do something else or take a break.
The metal stands I have seen and the pictures of the curved neck stands seem as they would be tippy if you push on them.
The front piece will have angled legs to match the rearward slant. The rear legs will be fixed and also have that same angle on their legs. I had thought about a kickstand and still may do something that pivots. I just need to figure out the balance between the guitar sitting too far backward and taking up a lot of floor space and no leaning far enough back and being tippy. Still experimenting.
One more consideration is using both cutoffs and angle them to the legs splay so at the bottom they are further apart and closer together at the top with the appropriate angles at the bottom to sit flat on the floor.
Thanks for the concern. You have a lot more experience with guitars than I have. I am just the donor and not the player so my experience is limited. I have built two guitars and bought 4 but they were not for me so my experience handling guitars is small.
(Maybe even a metal lid?)
