DIY Guitar Rack - Custom built for GAS

Hey everyone,

This ones a quicky that I though someone might be interested in.

After recognising that we had developed GAS not long after starting out first build, Miss 8 and I set about designing a suitable (see cheap and easy to build) rack to help us quantify and maybe control our newly discovered illness.

Besides, it was mantherapy and positive daddy/daughter's bonding time, what possible objection could there be from the Ministry of War and Economics? Right.

Anyway we searched the interwebs and found a few ideas to steal on Pinterest. I can tell you it was hard to fight the primeval urge to point at the most extravagant ones and say 'eureka!' thats the one. Lucky, I am aware that taking over a bedroom in our hootchie and putting in wall to wall racks is a good way to a. piss off the honourable Minister, and b. disappear without trace....she has that ability.

So Miss 8 and I drew up a carefully considered plan on a warm Friday night whilst being entertained by those crazy sisters in Frozen...
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We then did the required resource tender process (searched for costs of materials at the Green Box website), and then applied for the appropriate grant from the Ministry.

It was Saturday, and after getting financial approval (and completing my other jobs for the day as chauffeur and domestic goddess) we headed to the green box to make our purchases.

Sunday was build day, and we had been allocated 3 hours from 2pm to 5pm to use the open workshop and this is the result..
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and Ta Da!
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I was a bit confused at the Ministers reaction to the number of spaces though? She was wondering why so many....

Oh, the total cost for new materials was under $25

cool! I wish the man cave had space for such a rack.

beauuuwwdifullll. Need all that space.....

That's a pretty cool looking guitar rack you built there mate, definitely looks like it should do the job really well.

What material have you used to cover the dowel?

nice looking rack !!
@ Gav looks like black foam tubing is available from the big green shed, that's what I used on my 4 racks !

Awesome work mate! Might have to upgrade my rack soon myself!!

Excellent rack and just what I need (I have guitar cases stuffed everywhere...)

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Excellent rack and just what I need (I have guitar cases stuffed everywhere...)

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Yep, i have the same affliction.

Looks real good. I wonder if it's within my skill to build one? I have a variety electric, bass and acoustic guitars and only one of each case... :)

Hey Tony thanks for your idea of the dowelling to support the necks, I built this rack yesterday for a friend. They wanted to put 2 acoustic guitars in the rack, the rest electric. They asked for the rack to hold 8 guitars and I have managed to fit 10 electrics and 2 acoustics in the 1200mm length for future GAS haha

When I bought the materials I only planned to have enough dowelling for total of 8 guitars, so I ran out.
I used the K-Flex rubber tube insulation to cover the bottom rack lengths and also over the dowelling.
I recommend anyone with about 10 guitars or more to build a rack. Materials for this cost about $80 and that includes 2 cans of black paint I will paint it once I've finished the dowelling. Took about 5 hours to get this far

here's a pic of the raw materials in case anyone is interested

Looks good! I reckon i'm going to need to build one too... my 3 guitars rack is full and i've got 2x guitars in construction ;-)

What diameter of dowelling did you use?

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Hi Fred, cheers mate. The bottom rails are 40 x 30mm pine and I had to round the edges and used 1.5" Kflex on that.
The dowels are 16mm diameter and the 1/2 inch kflex fit over that nice and tight. I used a 16mm spade drill in the drill press then glued 100mm lengths of dowel into the 70x30mm pine backboard.
How many guitars are in your collection mate ? would love to see a couple of pics of your collection

Hmm, something else to build...

haha that's it Franken, just about every time I step into the workshop there's a new side project !

Hey cool Woks looks great. Now all we need is a parts list and dimensions lol. You either need a bigger room or more racks for all your guitars to Woks.

haha that's it KB, the axe room is chockas

happy to scan a sketch with dimensions and a parts list if anyone wants it

Your going to need an extension woks for that and the brewery lol. When you get time the parts list and dimensions would be great no hurry Woks.

no worries KB, well looking at the photo of raw materials I can remember the parts list.
1) 2 pieces of 70 x 30 x 1200mm pine (for base sides and backboard which supports necks)
2) 2 pieces of 40 x 30 x 1200mm pine for (2 bottom rails)
3) 1 piece 89 x 19 x 1800mm pine (for both side uprights)
4) 3 x 1 metre lengths 1.5" or 1.75" (not sure which) K-flex insulating tube (to cover bottom 2 rails)
5) 2 x 1 metre lengths 0.5" K-flex insulating tube (cover the dowelling)
6) 3 x 900mm long x 16mm diameter dowel
7) 50 pack of 65mm timber or chipboard screws - could probably get away with a 25 pack
8) 8 x 50mm screws to screw uprights to side of base (into 30 + 19mm) so could use 45mm long screws
9) paint of your choice, I got British paints satin black have a primer and paint in one, cost $7.45 each

from the big green shed all this came to about $83 and you will be able to fit 12 guitars - mine 10 electrics and 2 acoustics had to be spaced further apart.
I will draw a clearer sketch of dimensions next few days and post here KB

You will also need a 16mm spade drill to drill the dowel into the 30mm thick backboard and some glue.

Brilliant thanks Woks much appreciated

no worries KB, I thought about round rails but hard to get timber in about 40mm diameter to have the strength required and PVC would flex too much. The K-flex fit over the 40x30 pine but had to round off the corners of the pine with a 40 grit paper on a orbital took under 10 mins. When I paint it I will remove the K-flex from the dowelling and mask the bottom rails with newspaper and tape

Good work Wokks I think I'll need to build one of these soon

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cheers Ponch, I have sketched the dimensions from top of my head, will confirm I remembered the lengths correctly tonight and scan it and post on this thread.
I think at least 50% of the forum could use a guitar rack and it saves so much space and any axe is readily available to pull out of the rack, plus less chance of an axe leaning on a wall falling over and damaging it or even worse breaking a headstock off

here is the sketch of the dimensions. Please ask if you have any questions. The pine rails are actually 42 x 30mm

Great project! I may need to make one of these next time! :D

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haha that's it Franken, just about every time I step into the workshop there's a new side project !

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Yeah mate, it's a bit like that lately. Every time I get a new tool or something there's a new project that has to be done with it, then you realise that you could have done it easier if you just had tool x. So you buy tool X. The you find a project to use tool X, which leads you to the realisation that you could make a better job of it if you had tool Y and so it goes on ad infinitum until you could run a woodworking business from your basement.