stratpaulguy86
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Hey guys, this project was inspired when my wife bought a new bookcase for her office room and wanted to throw the cheap particle board POS bookcase out. Well, the wheels started turning and the more I thought about it I could see it making a pretty nice guitar rack!
Materials:
1) $6 worth of cheap outdoor carpeting
2) $9- Spray Glue
3) $4- 10ft 1/2" Weather Stripping
4) $2- 2 gold hanger hooks
5) Free (I already had it lol) broken coily guitar cable
5) $5- box of 1.5" wood screws
Tools:
1) Drill
2) Jigsaw
3) Razorknife
4) Scissors
5) Pencil
6) Measuring Tape
First, I enforced the racketty old bookcase with a few wood screws in some "suspect" locations. Once the case was stable, I carefully measured out the spacings for the guitars. I wanted to be able to fit as many as possible without them clanging into one another, but also not too spaced out (would look terrible IMO) Through some trial and error, I cut the neck slots appoximately 2 1/4" apart from one another, with another 2" between spaces. That seemed to give them enough room and the desired look. Using a Jigsaw, it was messy messy work...I would definately recommend doing it outside if possible (whoops haha). After cleaning the dusty mess, I wiped the fresh cuts down with a damp cloth to remove dust and aid in sticking the weather stripping.
The weather stripping did not stick as well as I had hoped, so I used some 3M heavy duty spray glue to fininsh the job. The foam stripping is now secure, and it does an excellent job giving the guitar necks a bit of grip and softness to protect them from damage. After measuring/cutting out the carpeting for the base, I used the same spray glue to secure the carpet. Lastly, I hand-screwed a few hangers and tied the coil cable across so God forbid one of the guitars falls out (nearly impossible with the grippy weather stripping), the cable should catch the guitar. All in all the project cost me less than $30, given that you have the old bookcase and the tools to do the job. I hope you enjoyed me sharing this, let me know what you think! (sorry for the shi$%y blurry pics)
PS (I left one of the slots without the weather stripping for reference, besides I think I ran out a few feet short lol.
Gotta get some more!)
Materials:
1) $6 worth of cheap outdoor carpeting
2) $9- Spray Glue
3) $4- 10ft 1/2" Weather Stripping
4) $2- 2 gold hanger hooks
5) Free (I already had it lol) broken coily guitar cable
5) $5- box of 1.5" wood screws
Tools:
1) Drill
2) Jigsaw
3) Razorknife
4) Scissors
5) Pencil
6) Measuring Tape
First, I enforced the racketty old bookcase with a few wood screws in some "suspect" locations. Once the case was stable, I carefully measured out the spacings for the guitars. I wanted to be able to fit as many as possible without them clanging into one another, but also not too spaced out (would look terrible IMO) Through some trial and error, I cut the neck slots appoximately 2 1/4" apart from one another, with another 2" between spaces. That seemed to give them enough room and the desired look. Using a Jigsaw, it was messy messy work...I would definately recommend doing it outside if possible (whoops haha). After cleaning the dusty mess, I wiped the fresh cuts down with a damp cloth to remove dust and aid in sticking the weather stripping.
The weather stripping did not stick as well as I had hoped, so I used some 3M heavy duty spray glue to fininsh the job. The foam stripping is now secure, and it does an excellent job giving the guitar necks a bit of grip and softness to protect them from damage. After measuring/cutting out the carpeting for the base, I used the same spray glue to secure the carpet. Lastly, I hand-screwed a few hangers and tied the coil cable across so God forbid one of the guitars falls out (nearly impossible with the grippy weather stripping), the cable should catch the guitar. All in all the project cost me less than $30, given that you have the old bookcase and the tools to do the job. I hope you enjoyed me sharing this, let me know what you think! (sorry for the shi$%y blurry pics)
PS (I left one of the slots without the weather stripping for reference, besides I think I ran out a few feet short lol.
Gotta get some more!)
