Building painting handle

[VegasCustom]

Hey guys. Bought that $15 stewmac place paint holder thing you attach to bodies or necks. Its just a basic somewhat small thing that you can attach to a dowel of some sort and combine with your neighbors old bike repair stand.
Question now is that this is exactly what I thought it was. A metal dowel that appears to be hammered flat and then what is essentially a neck plate soldered or welded on. So thats my question. Is that thought correct if I want to recreate about 20 of these? And if so, how do you weld the plate on. Is welding just soldering but MUCH more intense?

 

[Bass4ThePublic]

I mean you could probably get away with brazing.

 

[VegasCustom]

Yea just googled what that was and it looks like that was what Stewmac did anyway. I'll try that

 

[NedRyerson]

Is welding just soldering but MUCH more intense?

If you're asking this question, just buy the StewMac product.

 

[T_Bone_TL]

Soldering is sticking bits of metal together with a lower temperature melting metal that melts below 800°F. Brazing is the same, but above 800°F. Welding is actually melting the metal of the two parts together.

If you want to make 20 and don't know how to do metalwork, make them from wood. Plenty of people do that, and it works fine.

 

[Bruce Johnson]

Hey guys. Bought that $15 stewmac place paint holder thing you attach to bodies or necks. Its just a basic somewhat small thing that you can attach to a dowel of some sort and combine with your neighbors old bike repair stand.
Question now is that this is exactly what I thought it was. A metal dowel that appears to be hammered flat and then what is essentially a neck plate soldered or welded on. So thats my question. Is that thought correct if I want to recreate about 20 of these? And if so, how do you weld the plate on. Is welding just soldering but MUCH more intense?

We have a thread here on Luthier's corner all about shop-made holding fixtures, and a portion of it is all about holding fixtures for painting. Many of us showed what we've built. Different approaches, most not needing any welding.

I make mine from aluminum square tubing and bar stock, drilled and tapped and bolted together with machine screws.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/sp...for-luthier-work.1593185/page-3#post-27184568

 

[micguy]

You found something for only $15 at Stew Mac? Wow!

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Plus $12 shipping and handling , otherwise known as. " mis-labeled profit".This is just too stupid easy to build yourself, please don't hand money to Stewmac.

 

[Gervais Cote]

Mine costed me $ 1.25 (a small piece of 2x3 lumber !)

 

[AudioTaper]

Scrap of wood for the win!

 

[micguy]

I hang my basses with a hook and some twine that came with the house (tied up to some conduit that runs over the workbench). I did spend a couple minutes bending the hook to the right shape.

 

[Thumpin6string]

I've been refinishing guitars and basses for over 20 years and I just use a scrap of wood and a couple sheetrock screws through the neck holes in the body like pictured in some of the above posts. Works for me.

 

[Rabidhamster]

Hey guys. Bought that $15 stewmac place paint holder thing you attach to bodies or necks. Its just a basic somewhat small thing that you can attach to a dowel of some sort and combine with your neighbors old bike repair stand.
Question now is that this is exactly what I thought it was. A metal dowel that appears to be hammered flat and then what is essentially a neck plate soldered or welded on. So thats my question. Is that thought correct if I want to recreate about 20 of these? And if so, how do you weld the plate on. Is welding just soldering but MUCH more intense?

Lol it’ll probably cost you the same $300 to buy parts and pay someone to weld them properly, more if you learn it yourself.
What do you like about if that cheaper easier options don’t offer? A neck plate holding the body for paint seems like a really bad idea to me but maybe I misunderstand.

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Low budget, saw stand I had kicking around, a couple hardware store pipe loops screwed to it for a wood dowel to pass through, notched one end to attach to a flat piece of scrap. Cost, a couple bucks for the metal loops. This is set up for horizontal painting.

 

[Gervais Cote]

Low budget, saw stand I had kicking around, a couple hardware store pipe loops screwed to it for a wood dowel to pass through, notched one end to attach to a flat piece of scrap. Cost, a couple bucks for the metal loops. This is set up for horizontal painting.

Brilliant !

 

[Bruce Johnson]

A neck plate holding the body for paint seems like a really bad idea to me but maybe I misunderstand.

The holder is shaped like a neck plate, but it's attached on the inside of the neck pocket, not on the back of the body.

 

[ADHD librarian]

I just put this rig together.
It is made from: parts of old drum kits (broken ones I found at the tip), half a rake handle, a chunk of an unknown timber shaped on a belt sander, and 6 screws...

It's probably a touch too tall, but I'll test it like this for a while before I cut it down.

 

[VegasCustom]

Lol it’ll probably cost you the same $300 to buy parts and pay someone to weld them properly, more if you learn it yourself.
What do you like about if that cheaper easier options don’t offer? A neck plate holding the body for paint seems like a really bad idea to me but maybe I misunderstand.

Yea I’ve upgrade this idea to a wooden dowel like below