Guitar Stand that holds the guitar instead of guitar strap

Gary Reed · Post by **Gary Reed** » 11 Aug 2013 7:12 pm

I watched a singer perform on Public Broadcasting and the accompanying acoustic guitar guy was playing, when he stands and moves over to a Strat mounted on a stand of some kind and blurts out a great lead with the guitar being held by the stand then he walks away and starts playing the acoustic guitar again which had continued to be hung from him with the traditional guitar strap.

Anyone know of a stand that holds a guitar like this?

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 11 Aug 2013 7:23 pm

I've seen Stephen Stills and Junior Brown use stands like that...Quite well, I might add

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 12 Aug 2013 12:18 am

There are many, but I kind of like the Mbrace one. It just mounts on a regular mic stand.

http://www.mbracestand.com/

Jerry Hayes R.I.P. · Post by **Jerry Hayes R.I.P.** » 12 Aug 2013 3:53 am

I have a couple of them, one for an acoustic guitar and one for a Dobro. The Dobro one is the only one I really use though. You can mount your Dobro on it in a second or two and set it up to play standing or sitting. If you play guitar or banjo you can just walk up to the Dobro and start playing. They're both chrome and very heavy duty and are similar to heavy drum stands. The brand for both stands is "Gracie" I believe. Here's a shot with the Reso in the foreground...........JH in Va.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 12 Aug 2013 6:31 pm

ah ha!! caught you with a guitar with no benders on it!!

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 13 Aug 2013 6:59 am

The stand Junior uses works well for him since the guitsteel is a big instrument.

Jerry Hayes R.I.P. · Post by **Jerry Hayes R.I.P.** » 13 Aug 2013 8:03 am

The one that Junior Brown uses looks like a heavy duty music stand turned backwards..

Chris, I wanted benders on this Ibanez Artist but it's an '82 model and has a very pretty pearl type finish that I didn't want to drill any holes into.....JH in Va.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 14 Aug 2013 9:34 pm

If you're willing to limit yourself to bolt-neck electrics for the stand, and you can drill a hole straight through the body at the neck pocket - which is then completely covered by the neck plate - you can convert an Salvation Army type camera tripod pretty easily. There are some with a slide-in head that holds a baseplate the camera is attached to, and with some finagling with the tripod head, you can slide an extra neckplate in there. Extra, because it is suspended off the real neck plate by 1/2" or so - because there's a stove bolt between them. It's easier to make it than it is to describe it!

My original impetus was to make a stand to suspend Fender-style bodies and necks while the shellac, dye, or Tru-Oil coats dried. I live in a wildlife sanctuary - two big ol' cats in a small place, so I needed something I could use to put a coat on and real quick pick up the whole stand and into the closet before the aerosol fur-bombs woke from their beauty sleep.

It wasn't till later that I figured out how to use it as guitar stand, and you do have to drill a hole through the neck pocket, and sacrifice a couple of neck plates. Steve Howe of YES takes the cake, here - he had one arrangement with a cylinder of guitars, like a gatling gun; and another that was more like a pinwheel with half-a-dozen guitars mounted via their butts. At the time, there was no stigma attached to mounting plumbing parts on old beat-up Fenders and Gibsons. They were just old.