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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Over the years I have tried many ways to store my guitars. Thankfully most of mine are electric, but I have enough Acoustics to make life that much more of a challenge. Shelving can be expensive, and limiting sometimes too.
So here is my latest technique. It's relatively inexpensive, flexible and has some value added features.
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[*]Each Guitar is easily accessible, no need to move other guitars to hunt for the one you want.
[*]It's easy to write the guitar name/model on the box, or use labels or whatever.
[*]The boxes can be had from ULine
[*]If you sell a guitar, you have something to ship it in.
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The wall in this room is 12' wide providing enough room for 16 guitars (each box is 9" wide). The room is only 8' tall so I can only stack 4 high as they are 20" wide. I could lay an additional 7 flat across the top. The boxes support each other and are very sturdy. The boxes only cut into the room 50 inches. Also, for those with electrics, I can usually fit two electrics to a box, and if they have soft cases three easily fit in a box. The four rows of 16 in the above picture actually house nearly 80 guitars.
Obviously all sorts of variations on the above. I'm not sure I'd really want to stack them more than 4 high. I fold three of the flaps in for extra support leaving the 4th flap as a "label" area. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | elegant solution, Miles. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Enviable problem :) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The picture isn't very good. Let me know when you're not home so I can come inspect in person. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I need more closets!
And then I have some at Cliffs, and the factory, and a few stay at each house and the rest travel and that's a pita. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I also forgot to mention, especially for those of us with Earthquakes on occasion, this is a pretty good setup. Granted if the house falls on the guitars all bets are off, but I have heard of instances with collections of all sorts where the shelving gave way and the shelving material caused more damage than anything else. With boxes, they'd just flex and bend and rock, but it's unlikely they would actually collapse. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Nice Idea....have U got one for storing Speakers & Amps.,... :)
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Speakers and amps... yeah I do actually.
Keep the few that you need to practice or noodle on and rent anything else when you need it. Let someone else worry about storage and repair and such. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Miles, stack 'em the other way and your setup can double as a Japanese "capsule" hotel! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | LOL... Actually simple math would show that stacking the other way yields room for a few more but the reality is that the boxes aren't as sturdy that way. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Miles, I think that I can do that in my house! Please send the boxes and contents to me and I will see if it will work.
By the way, we haven't had any earhtquakes here in a long, long time. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Nice setup, Miles. So, is that the entire inventory, or do you have multiple setups like that?
By the way, how much space do you have there? I'd do that on a smaller scale here, but would have to use a closet barely big enough for the vacuum... |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | That's a very clever idea Miles. Do you display any of your collection? |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | I just showed that picture to my wife.........it's gonna take a while to revive her :D
She thinks my two guitars take up too much space. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I have taken some of the more historic pieces "on the road" so to speak to Guitar shows and such, but mainly, just people that come by to visit get to see any of them. I have a few guitars hanging around the house that I swap out on occasion. |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Two cardboxes and their content are missing !!
i have them :D :D
Anyway, this is - technically - the best storage solution i ever saw. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Thanks Miles: great idea and thanks for the link...
Blessings... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Miles - any chance of flooding where you store the guitars? I have learned the hard way to make sure that anything important is up off of the floor.
Otherwise - brilliant! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I thought about building some fixed wood shelves similar to Stongebob's (sp?) basement for the cases but went with an upright set-up due to space constraints. Miles' set up is the easiest, most straightforward, inexpensive yet functional set up I've ever seen. I'm more visual and need the guitars out where they can be looked at and admired. Thanks for sharing your creativity, Miles. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Ditto the idea of keeping things off the floor. Some plain old pallets will handle that.
Also, you might need to keep an eye on pest infestations. Cockroaches love hiding in corrugated cardboard. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Storage is /can be ,Indeed ,a real pain,BTW. Thanks for your advice Mr.O :) ,however,overhere in good old danmark,there`s a little fiscal problem,called "Value Added Tax" (VAT)now most businesses have to pay VAT,where as Musicians do not,so,say a bar-owner would hire a band,and let the band hire/pay the PA rental,that`s when it starts,since the band does not pay/deduct VAT,but the PA rental does.. :rolleyes: ...so unless the Bar-guy does the hiring,there are fiscal problems,on a Forum overhere ,there are heated debates about this,some PA rentals had to close down even !!..so ,I `ve got my own micro-system(active tops) and am busy with getting the Bigger stuff together...and am back to storage problems..ehr..putting 15" subs in cardboard boxes is a little heavy....got any ideas ?! :)
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Yes, this is definately not a solution for use where moisture or critters are a possibility. More of a spare bedroom, spare closet kind of solution. In reality they don't take up any less space then just stacking cases, but as anyone who does that knows, unearthing the guitar you want, even if you know which case its in, is a nightmare.
Definitely not the end-all solution, and if you're not dealing with at least 15 or 20 guitars, maybe not even necessary.
Bot for a lot of guitars, trust me I have tries every solution imaginable I think. This one seems to be the most workable, at least for me. |
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Location: NJ | Then again, . . . there's always Al's "Jenga" method . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Heh-heh, "Jenga"
... He stores all the bodies that same way. |
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What is your storage solution?
