Someone posted a pic of a rack they had built for finishing their quitar body. I hope whoever did it, will post here and get some credit ;-) The rack allowed him to turn the body as he was painting. A great idea.
I recently realized that I was going to need something like this because I am using a brush-on clear coat. Much easier to do if I have both hands free, and if I can turn the body to catch drips and do both sides.
Unlike my predecessor who built a floor stand. I built this to attach to a tall, stable chair that I have in my garage. You could also make this to attach to a sawhorse or workbench.
It's a very simple rack. Here's a pic of it clamped to a chair.
I attached the guitar body to a meter-long wooden cylinder that was left over from re-modeling a closet. I made the central channel in on the rack.
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To rotate the guitar body, you just need to loosen the two upper clamps that hold the cylinder in the central track of the rack. Works like a charm.
BTW, if the rack looks rough that's because it is constructed primarily of boards my kids broke in Taekwondo. They have broken so many over the years, I have had to find creative things to do with them...
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