Personalized Guitar Hooks/Hangers/Holders
Posted by
deirdrebeth
Bay Area, CA 
Joined Dec 9, '15 

Inspired by @aloha’s guitar holders and @joshmonop’s guitar hangars I made my sister 3 hooks for a Yule gift - one for each of her guitars.

Wash:
Name engraved into BB ply

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Dove:
PG walnut veneer over BB ply

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and Pirate:
Full coverage engrave into BB ply

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I modified @Aloha fish hooks into clefs, but maintained the angle of the piece that slots into the backing so I didn’t haver to make any other changes:

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I then copied @joshmonop’s guitar pick shaped backs for the support, reversing them and making them quite a bit larger for the design:

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All the remaining pieces are BB ply, and everything but the PG veneer was finished with tung oil mixed with mineral spirits. I cut holes into the layers so screws would be inset, and glued everything together with wood glue. I didn’t have a weight, but it was able to hold up a 5lb bag of flour with no issue. The white foam is adhesive craft foam. It’ll likely fall off since what it’s stuck to has the oil on it…but I told my sister to glue them with superglue when that eventually happens :stuck_out_tongue:
No bananas - but the backs are 5.4" and the clefs 4.8" tall

The silly thing I’m proudest of is the X marks the spot on the underside of Pirate’s hook - since that X is across 3 different pieces of material!

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I then picked up some brass screws that blend right into the engraved wood.
If/when she sends me pictures of them hanging I’ll add those here :slight_smile:

Guitar Hook_Final

February 2022 update - turns out one of my sister’s guitars has a wider neck than the others - about 2" to the other’s 1.5", so here’s a version with a wider neck set, all the other pieces are the same.

Guitar Hook_Final - 2 Widths


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