Hanging lap steels up on the wall...

[J. Wilson]

I have seen pics of this. I assume it doesn't harm the guitars at all?

Standard hangers (whatever they're called) for my standard guitars don't work with all my lap steels. Is there anyone out there who makes something specific to this purpose? I have a small home and mounting them on the wall is convenient... and cool.

Any advice here on different methods or products?

[Ray Montee]

I used molding as my base.........

and measured the neck of my g'tars at the NUT......

and then used RedWood pegs drilled into the board at a very slight, upward angle.

It's worked well without incident now, for a number of years.

Some of the Ric's have really long necks, like taffy.....(I only jest!) Sorry,

[J. Wilson]

I used molding as my base.........

Thanks Ray! Do you mean you use molding at the bottom to help support the guitar?

[George Piburn]

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[Jon Flynn]

I've done something like George, only using strips of soft leather from a craft store. Cut slits in each end (similar to a button hole on a shirt), slip them around the 1st and 6th string tuners, and hang.

[J. Wilson]

We Weave some Nylon String into 3 strands for strength and use a piece of packing foam to keep the backs from getting drywall specks on them.

And thank you too George. Those are beauties. But where is the string in relation to the guitar? They're not hanging from the tuners are they? I am not a builder of course, but my instinct would dictate that would put undue stress on those parts.

[Greg Cutshaw]

The Slatwall type of rail has hundreds of styles of hangers available but you can start with a rail like I have here:

http://www.gregcutshaw.com/Slatwall/Slatwall.html


Greg

[J. Wilson]

The Slatwall type of rail has hundreds of styles of hangers available but you can start with a rail like I have here:

http://www.gregcutshaw.com/Slatwall/Slatwall.html


Greg

Too cool Greg! This is a space saving solution that I could really use down here in my basement music room. Thanks!

Thanks also to Geo, Jon and Ray!

[Robert Murphy]

I use picture rail moulding and braided cord with wire rated at 60 lbs.

[George Piburn]

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[J. Wilson]

My concern with hangers is: Over Time the possibility of Wear Marks.

a valid concern to be sure! The hangers I have have a soft foam rubber on them. I would hope this would not cause any wear over time...

[Greg Cutshaw]

George, your steel guitars are awesome and I read all of your posts showing the cool custom jobs you've built.

I've updated the dead link to the place "String Swing" where I bought my guitar hangars. If you look there one of the choices is the mandolin/violin hangar which could be used to cradle the bottom of the lap steel. You would then just need a simple retainer at the top of the lap steel to prevent it from tipping out. Of course there are hundreds of slat wall vendors with every conceivable hangar you can imagine.

https://www.stringswing.com/


Greg

[John Billings]

Cheap rubber coated tool hangers. Angled slightly to hold the "guitars" to the wall. Kinda looks like they're floating.

[James Kerr]

Thanks J.W for asking this question, we are getting to see a few back rooms and Instruments, this thread could widen if questions are asked about what we see.

James.

[J. Wilson]

Thanks J.W for asking this question, we are getting to see a few back rooms and Instruments, this thread could widen if questions are asked about what we see.

James.

Yeah, its been pretty cool hasn't it mate? I hope Ray Montee posts some pictures of his guitar wall. I can't recall which discussion it was, but he posted some pics of his family of guitars. He has the best collection of Bakelites I have ever seen. I was slack-jawed at the sight.

Ray, if you read this we would love to see those pics again. It will illuminate the process you use to display those beautiful instruments on your wall.

[Bill Creller]

After thinking about about hanging guitars on the wall a few years back, I decided I sure didn't need to be a collector, and sold & gave away most of them. If I never play them, they are are gone!
I guess I figured out that having 20 guitars wouldn't make me a better player.

[Jerry Hayes]

I just take a piece of coat hanger and bend it in a V shape and make small hooks on each end to loop around the top two tuning pegs and then just hang it on a nail or screw or whatever in the wall. Works great...........JH in Va.

[George Piburn]

I've taken the Liberty to share photos of Ray's Wall of Fame. These Photos are an excerpt from Ray's DVD

[Richard Shatz]

[Ray Montee]

Very nice of you to post the photo's of my wall-hangings......

While my lil' wife was arguing the point that we didn't have any such photo's to send to the Forum......I scrolled further down and there, before my wandering eyes did appear, my very own music room wall complete with guitars.

THANKS YOU Mr. Boards! You're a great and wonderful guy.

And thanks to Mr. Wilson for suggesting they be included in your thread.

[Ray Montee]

I recall seeing some photo's of Rick Aiello's marvelous guitar collection.

It's really a monster and they hung with loving care.

Hopefully Rick will post here. PLEASE!

[Graeme Jaye]

Cheap rubber coated tool hangers.

John, I'm curious to know what the six string is? The resolution is too low for me to read the name on the headstock and I've never seen one like that before.

[John Billings]

It's a Dynacord Cora. A very rare guitar!
http://jazzgitarren.k-server.org/dynacord.html

[Alan Brookes]

On the instruments I build myself I always mount a hanger on the back of the instrument so that it can be hung on the wall. It usually amounts to an eyelet hook, which will fit into a standard picture hook nailed into the wall.

These are Board Zithers. Notice how similar they look to lap steels. They're basically the same instrument.

For other instruments I hang them as George does. I slip hair bands around the tuners and hang them from hooks in the wall. I've never had one fall down. Hair bands are much stronger than elastic bands, which lose their elasticity over the years. If you hang your guitars with regular elastic bands, I guarantee they will fall eventually.

[Graeme Jaye]

It's a Dynacord Cora. A very rare guitar!

It certainly is, I'd never seen one in all my 50 years of playing! I thought the name on the headstock might be Dynacord, but discounted it as it looked so different from their other instruments.