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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Despite all the joy a growing collection of guitars is bringing, the downside is the necessary space. While it's easy and good looking to hang the guitars on the wall, the cases are just standing around in the mancave. I'm still looking for a good way to hide them or, if that shouldn't work, present them in a decent way. How do you guys do it? |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Hidden in a cupboard in the Mancave. However, I don't have as many as others. |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Yes, some of us aren't stricken with 50 guitars :)
I keep my cases under asorted beds in the house.
3 under our bed, 3 under the Daughter's, Brandon's is still being painted but the case will go in his closet and his O on the wall, 1 is with me here at school but when it's home it goes under our bed too. |
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Location: Michigan | Basement. I am lucky, I have a dry basement. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | In the basement, all empty, half in custom storage racks, the rest in horizontally stacked shipping boxes (a great method learned from Miles). |
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Location: GA USA | All mine (5) are lined up in my bedroom. I am seriously wanting to whittle that number down to 3. I was sincere that I would trade the Deacon and Viper for a Newport. Otherwise, I'm gonna sell the resonator and put the viper under my son's bed. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | We have a nice storeroom next to the man cave that holds about 8 or 10 across. I can only get two rows until I run into SWMBO's junk. |
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Location: Jet City | Storgae unit, under the bed, in the closet, in the spare bedroom, etc... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Damon67:
Storage unit, under the bed, in the closet, in the spare bedroom, etc... Ditto... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | around my guitars...what a concept! |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | lol :D |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | basement |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | With the onset of tornado season here, I am trying to have ALL my guitars... in their respective cases, stored vertically, against an outside wall in the basement and away from the carrying beam unless I am actually using them.
I know it probably seems like overkill, but the weather of the last couple of days (non-stop 60 mph wind and torrential rain...) makes me want to batten down the hatches.
If a tornado does show up and picks up the house... I won't really worry too much as long as it leaves the guitars where they are, lol. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Garage....
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Garage.... 
Paaaatty... I'm headin' over to AJs to play for a while... Just one song per guitar?... OK, I promise... |
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Location: Texas | What's a "basement"? ;) |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | It's a re-enforced concrete structure we put under our houses, that not only give us extra space below ground, but also a nice, heavy object to anchor the 'wooden bits' of the house to.
I find it absolutely UNBELIEVEABLE that houses in the US are allowed to be built without them!! Especially in tornado prone areas like Texas, Oklahoma and up through 'Tornado Alley'.
"OK kids... a tornado is coming... everybody get in the bathtub...", lol.
I know you're pulling my leg, but it is a valid point. I have friends in the UK and The Netherlands that don't understand the concept of a 'basement'... and they're NOT KIDDING, lol. |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Garage....
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | AJ, your organization provides inspiration for all of us. And I notice there are still more cases on the sides as you have obviously run out room in these very nice racks. Time for more racks? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Avatar4550:
I find it absolutely UNBELIEVEABLE that houses in the US are allowed to be built without them!! Especially in tornado prone areas like Texas The problem with basements in a lot of the southern states is that they are only 8-10 feet above sea level so building a basement just doesn't work (attics are used for storage).
I am not sure what the "structurally" correct distance above sea level needs to be but I know you won't find any/few basements as far up as Austin.
On the other hand, houses here in Denver without a basement is just criminal. |
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Location: Utah | When we lived in Albuquerque everything was built on a slab. We bought some land and were going to have a custom home built on it (before I got into aviation and had no money). The contractor told us that it was cheaper to build square footage on a slab. If we wanted a certain sized basement it would be cheaper just to build that much more area above a slab. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My relatives in Austin live on rock. To build a basement would have required dynamite blasting. |
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Location: Vernon CT | All 2 in my living room against the wall. |
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Location: Corpus Christi, TX | Mine are all under various beds in the house. The attic snd garage in this area (south Texas) get too hot to store the cases in. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | AJ, you have given me hope and my wife gas...(not G.A.S.)...awesome! |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | There's an open day in AJ's garage on November 27. |
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Where do you store your cases?