Dang. Mrs. and I are getting ready to start a big reno. I gotta pitch this idea for built-ins.
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Bass storage
- Thread starter novak7
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Dang. Mrs. and I are getting ready to start a big reno. I gotta pitch this idea for built-ins.
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I remember after the Rush show at the Hollywood Bowl a long time ago I was invited onstage by the security to watch the teardown (the band had departed already). They had what looked like huge Snap-On garage tool chests and they were storing the guitars in them much like how this cabinet does. I thought that was such a great idea but I don't have the space in my condo for such a cabinet.
I keep all my instruments in their original cases or after market cases - but always a hard case. I do not own a single gig bag. The way I figure it, cases were made for a reason - storing your instrument. I either lean them vertical or stand them horizontal. I don't stack because If I want the bottom one, I have to dig. I do like the drawer idea. The wall hanging thing looks like a dusting headache to me as well as a potential hanger failure risk. Either way you still have to keep the cases somewhere.
Just my 2 Cents worth.
Just my 2 Cents worth.
This reminds me of.....Go to the 40 second markhttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7e/76/10/7e7610a2e753fdf80fef2d3207da4c12.jpg
35-40 basses? Whoa. Nice. If my house had an extra 8' foot closet, there's no way in H-E-double-hockey-sticks my wife would let me use that for storing instruments. She'd have that thing filled with clothes faster than I could meekly say, "B-b-but affprod does it".
I've got my collection of 12 or so basses, in varying states of play-readiness, stored leaning vertically in their original cases and gig bags, a couple feet off the floor in the basement. I'd rather have them upstairs but, hey, we just don't have the space.
Anyone dead set against storing their basses in a bassment?
Buy either a Warwick 7-guitar stand, or some individual stands. You can line them up on the floor in front of the wall. Keep your double necks on the wall. Easy. You can probably angle 7+ guitar stands along that wall and still have room to hang 7 above/behind them.
What's the old joke? Pot doesn't leadt to harder drugs, pot leads to carpentry?Nice!!
Hahaha never heard that joke. But its truely the storie of my life.
I was going to suggest the same thing. A 7 guitar stand on the floor and keep the BC Rich hanging.
I've used a Warwick for 10+ years in my studio and it does the job for anything remotely normal shaped.
You're right that the doublenecks might need to stay on hangers. They'll sit in the stand, but stick out pretty far so it would be easy to knock into them.
If I'm building something to store the guitars on it needs to be easily movable with wheels or something so I can move it into a closet. As far as leaving the doublenecks on the wall that's what I was trying to get away from. Does anyone know of any cheap guitar vault companies?
Do you have a hard case for it? Hard cases store easily under beds, behind amp cabinets, in closets, along walls, behind doors, etc.
well i could easily buy hard cases for everything, the major points are to have accessibility, minimal floor space required, and mobility.
GAS is a disease.
Stop buying gear, and sell untill your walls can accomodate all your stuff.
The worst are the cases. Taking your basses out case in order to display them nicely doubles the space problem.
Fact of life : fish never grow larger than the bowl they are in.
Pics Hereunder :
- illustration : The cases issue
- cheap homemade wooden stand for acoustic guitars. You buy those stands for 10 bucks. Feet length must be ajusted by sawing / glueing with a pin so that one side rocks and stands vertically. Notice the foam insulation tubes set as protection.
-currently experimenting a face to face suspension storage system (as opposed to side by side). Space between instruments must take into account basses dont hang straight vertically. There is an angle due to the body weight center being offline with the suspension point. Probable future issues : dangling around uncontrolably against each other (pendulum effect) during manipulation. Solution : foam spacer pads, or protective cloth. Issue 2 : A (not shown here but it is there) rope ring closes the suspension bands to tightly secure the headstock (issue with asymetrical fender heads). But getting the 2 suspension bands closer to their center tends to increases the spinning, with basses potentially bumping each other. Issue 3 : hanging the guitar well in parallel can be tricky. Checking the band is not twisted is important. Shape of some heads can difficult things (humpless tele head... )
Stop buying gear, and sell untill your walls can accomodate all your stuff.
The worst are the cases. Taking your basses out case in order to display them nicely doubles the space problem.
Fact of life : fish never grow larger than the bowl they are in.
Pics Hereunder :
- illustration : The cases issue
- cheap homemade wooden stand for acoustic guitars. You buy those stands for 10 bucks. Feet length must be ajusted by sawing / glueing with a pin so that one side rocks and stands vertically. Notice the foam insulation tubes set as protection.
-currently experimenting a face to face suspension storage system (as opposed to side by side). Space between instruments must take into account basses dont hang straight vertically. There is an angle due to the body weight center being offline with the suspension point. Probable future issues : dangling around uncontrolably against each other (pendulum effect) during manipulation. Solution : foam spacer pads, or protective cloth. Issue 2 : A (not shown here but it is there) rope ring closes the suspension bands to tightly secure the headstock (issue with asymetrical fender heads). But getting the 2 suspension bands closer to their center tends to increases the spinning, with basses potentially bumping each other. Issue 3 : hanging the guitar well in parallel can be tricky. Checking the band is not twisted is important. Shape of some heads can difficult things (humpless tele head... )
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Change your hanging brackets so the basses hang at about 70 degrees to the wall and load that rack up.
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