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Location: Phoenix AZ | This is what it looks like when you are done. It's a more or less permanent installation so be sure that 1) you don't need to play the guitar and 2) you don't mind making minor alterations to the guitar. This only works on guitars with center soundholes.
Materials required:
1 guitar
1 roll of masking take
1 toggle bolt
Tools required:
Screwdriver
1/8 and 1/4 inch drill bits and drill
Instructions:
1. The guitar will be bolted to the wall at the deepest point of the bowl. This point is approximately directly under the bridge.
2. Remove the strings.
3. Remove the saddle and in the middle of the saddle slot drill a 1/4 inch diameter hole through the bridge and soundboard. This is your access hole for attaching the guitar to the wall. Set the bridge aside for now. Shake any wood bits out of the guitar.
4. Locate where you want the guitar to be mounted and mark where the deepest point of the bowl contacts the wall. Drill a 1/4 hole through the sheetrock. Enlarge the hole to 1/2 inch using the butt end of the screwdriver.
5. Take the roll of masking tape and unroll all of the tape. It makes a great toy for your cat to get stuck on. Hang on to the cardboard "ring". This ring acts as the mounting stabilizer between the round back and the flat wall.
6. Locate the deepest point of the bowl. Drill a 1/8 hole at this spot. Reach inside the guitar soundhole and insert the toggle blot (minus the toggle end) through this hole in the bowl. Attach the toggle end.
7. While holding the head of the toggle bolt with you hand still inside the guitar, place the cardboard masking tape ring over the exposed toggle bolt on the outside of the guitar and then guide the toggle bolt into the hole in the sheetrock. Tighten the toggle bolt as much as you can by hand.
8. Remove your arm from inside the guitar. Take the screwdriver and guide it through the hole in the bridge saddle slot. Find the head of the toggle bolt and tighten it firmly on the wall while positioning the guitar at the angle and tilt that you desire. Remove the screwdriver.
9. Reinstall the saddle and strings. You're done.
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Locate the deepest point of the bowl. Drill a 1/8 hole at this spot. NOOOO!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Denver Colorado | Man......
What did that guitar ever do to you!?!?!?!? |
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Location: south east Michigan | My last visit to Dave's house....
Ah yes Brad...I see you have noticed my trophy Custom Legend..... It was back in '79 when Moody and I went on safari in south-central Kenya. We hiked with our guide Minabo for 3 days to reach the fabled Great Bowl Valley where to this very day, the Kaman tribe still dwell.
Now this particular Custom Legend lead us on a merry romp. It took all the tracking skills Minabo posessed and without the addition of Moody's gritty, P.I. street smarts, we would never have been able to corner the beast. It was early morning on the fifth day at the String Bridge over Saddle Creek when we caught him grazing. We stalked quitely through the bush to come within range. Suddenly the beast caught sight of Moody's island flowered shirt. This of course threw the animal into a rage fearing that a rouge male was trying to invade his breeding territory. Now Minabo knew better and I'll never forgive him allowing that shirt to come on the hunt. It charged at us in a raging fury. I barely had time to think. My shot was right on. The bullet went right through the saddle and out the deepest part of the bowl. He was dead but he didn't know it yet. The Deep Bowl Bull charged on and did not drop until he was at our feet.
Yes Brad..he makes a great addition to my trophy room. Perhaps you and I should go on a hunt some day, eh old chap? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | well said |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Nice work, Brad. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Brad,
I salute you and the many others that must fill your mind! :D |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | I hate to be the one to say it, but this is the first sign of someone who has TOO MANY GUITARS!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Geez Brad, I was trying to make it through the week on one pair of underwear. Damn you. |
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Location: closely held secret | Nice one, Brad - I'll have to skip over to Kenya next time I go and see if I can bag a Bighorn Adamas!
I'll wear my 'quiet' shirt... |
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| Ok why would you make the hole bigger with a screwdriver? Whatever happened to wall studs? |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Apparently, studs are in short supply at Dave's house... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Oh yeah....look at the new guy talking smack!! |
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| so are you saying that Dave needs a stud service? |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Oh yeah....look at the new guy talking smack!! Nice one!! I grew up with three younger brothers...call it survival instinct! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | First rule of home repair = the stud will never be where you want to hang the guitar, photo, artwork, etc.
... are you saying Dave needs a stud service? ...
Dave IS a stud service! Unfortunatly I'm running pretty low on customers.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was wondering why he had pieces of masking tape everywhere. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Sometimes I think this would make a better floorshow than a chatsite.
"The Guys 'n' Guitars Tour" |
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Location: south east Michigan | By the way...The guide's name is pronounced min-AH-bow. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Yeah, when our group called him "Mini-bo" he got quite ticked. We didn't bag a thing! |
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| Oh dear tuppy. That is (or ought to be) criminal.
Zen is plainly not your thing. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Schroeder, I think you nailed it... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Crucifixion |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | I think screwing an Ovation to a wall qualifies as crucifixion. A Martin on the other hand... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by edensharvest:
I think screwing an Ovation to a wall qualifies as crucifixion. A Martin on the other hand... With that nice flat back, it's a hell of a lot easier to attach a Martin to a wall than one of these round plastic backed things ... |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | ...and only sets you back about four times as much!
I have to ask - what the hell did that guitar do to deserve such being "stuffed & mounted?" |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The guitar was a supershallow bowl. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If I remember correctly, he told me it was broken. You could avoid taking off the bridge and drilling the hole through it if you drilled the hole from the back and used an offset screwdriver through the sound hole. You could also just use the right size drill bit for the molly bolt so you don't have to use the end of the screwdriver.
I'm good at the advice, but weak on implementation. That's why I'm a lawyer. If the above doesn't work, sue me for your money back. And while you're at it, sue Dave for a refund on your string tubes. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Mark,
I'm just plain tired of you being Tup's apologist. Quit it. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That would be too tough a job for me. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Mob lawyer. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I miss Bailey. I know he'd have something to say about this. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Mob lawyer. Nope. One at a time. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Nice. |
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| Ok here I am again wondering why you would have to take the strings off the guitar to mount it could you just loosen them up enough to work around it? And I still cant' figure out why you would need a screwdriver to make the hole bigger.) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by matrix:
Ok here I am again wondering why you would have to take the strings off the guitar to mount it could you just loosen them up enough to work around it? And I still cant' figure out why you would need a screwdriver to make the hole bigger.) You could loosen the strings just enough to reach inside with a stubby screwdriver or offset screwdriver but I found that I could not get pressure againt the screwhead without slipping. And it needs to be very tight. So the easiest solution was to remove the saddle and work straight on through the bridge. I did it by undoing the strings at the headstock but leaving them threaded through the bridge.
If you are a Type-A personality you can drill the appropropriate sized hole in the sheetrock to accomodate the toggle head. The rest of us simply punch the hole with the phillips driver and then enlarge it with the handle.
I've got a Preacher Solidbody also screwed to the wall. It was much easier to do. I cut a 1" thick block 2x2 inches to put in back of the guitar to stand it away from the wall. Take off the pickguard. Bolt the guitar through the block and into the wall, then reinstall the pickguard. This one was much easier because it fell right on a wall stud.
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