Am I being a big baby about hanging my guita on a wall hanger?

blakejcan

blakejcan

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I have a bunch of those wall hangers in my house that I've used without issue for my less expensive guitars. I like the look and that they are just there and ready to go.

I have a shiny new Firebird that I love dearly. The big bird has a long, long (I mean really long) one piece neck that runs through the whole thing. Am I being ridiculous in not wanting to hang this guitar on hook on the wall? In my head I just see that long thin fragile neck getting tweaked hanging there.
 
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If you're worried about the actual hanging causing damage to the neck . . . you're being pretty crazy. If you've got kids and are worried about them possibly doing damage to the guitar . . . valid concern.
 
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I'll take the pacifier out of my mouth and go live my life :)
 
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Make sure your hanger doesn't have a material that will react with the nitro finish on that Gibson. As for the neck tweaking, I wouldn't worry about it. Earthquakes, now that I'd worry about.
 
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hang em high! if you feel the hanger is secure enogh to hold the weight, then go for it.
 
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The only guitar I won't hang on my wall is my acoustic, because Larrivee said not to. In cold climates the temperature in a room can differ by as much as 10 degrees C between floor and ceiling, which can lead to warping and cracking in an acoustic.
 
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Show me a guy who hangs a '59 burst on the wall and I'll show you an idiot..but that would never happen cause idiots don't have '59 bursts.
I wouldn't even hang My '85 on wall, and probably not even any decent guitars I own. Cheapies?; sure, why not.
But it's your guitar ..hang away.
 
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I won't hang my USA Soloist on the wall. Everything else, sure. But if I had a Telecaster, I probably wouldn't hang it up -- that headstock shape is a wall-hanger repellant.
 
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I'm at a loss to understand why anyone would hang a guitar on a wall. Who wants dust on their guitars and in the electronics? God invented guitar cases for this very reason.
 
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blueman335 said:
I'm at a loss to understand why anyone would hang a guitar on a wall. Who wants dust on their guitars and in the electronics? God invented guitar cases for this very reason.
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If your guitars need dusting:

- You have too many guitars
- You don't play enough
- Both of the above
 
Re: Am I being a big baby about hanging my guita on a wall hanger?

You should like I do and sort of put them in a pile in the corner. Way better.

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I hang all my guitars. Here's why.
1). I enjoy looking at them. To me, they're as beautiful as art. Instead of hanging art on my walls, I hang guitars.
2). When they're hanging, I'm more likely to play them. And pulling down a guitar I haven't played in awhile is often a source of creative inspiration.
3). I live in a place where humidity isn't a concern. If I did, I'd at least keep the acoustics in cases with a Humidipak in each.

As for Earthquakes, that is a valid concern. The hangers that I use are Off the Wall. They're have three bolts each and they swivel from side to side. In a really bad earthquake, I'm sure they'll end up on the floor. But in a mild earthquake, they just swing around a bit.
 
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Evan Skopp said:
I hang all my guitars. Here's why.
1). I enjoy looking at them. To me, they're as beautiful as art. Instead of hanging art on my walls, I hang guitars.
2). When they're hanging, I'm more likely to play them. And pulling down a guitar I haven't played in awhile is often a source of creative inspiration.
3). I live in a place where humidity isn't a concern. If I did, I'd at least keep the acoustics in cases with a Humidipak in each.

As for Earthquakes, that is a valid concern. The hangers that I use are Off the Wall. They're have three bolts each and they swivel from side to side. In a really bad earthquake, I'm sure they'll end up on the floor. But in a mild earthquake, they just swing around a bit.
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Those ones that some shops use with the little closing fingers would probably be a good idea.
 
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Evan Skopp said:
I hang all my guitars. Here's why.
1). I enjoy looking at them. To me, they're as beautiful as art. Instead of hanging art on my walls, I hang guitars.
2). When they're hanging, I'm more likely to play them. And pulling down a guitar I haven't played in awhile is often a source of creative inspiration.
3). I live in a place where humidity isn't a concern. If I did, I'd at least keep the acoustics in cases with a Humidipak in each.

As for Earthquakes, that is a valid concern. The hangers that I use are Off the Wall. They're have three bolts each and they swivel from side to side. In a really bad earthquake, I'm sure they'll end up on the floor. But in a mild earthquake, they just swing around a bit.
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Since I live in Santa Barbara as well I might as well get on board. If it's good enough for you it's way beyond ok for me.
 
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I have 10 out of 30 on the wall simply because I only bought 10 hooks, and I've run out of wall space in my cave. 9 on a Rockstand, 3 on a triple-stand, and the rest are scattered between the corners and the closet. My basses are not on the wall due to their weight, and the drywall is only 1/4" thick at best. If I had a reliable wall stud to mount them to, they'd hang by the neck. None of them are going into their cases unless I'm leaving the house with them. I'd rather they be in the way with the potential to get irreversibly damaged than die a slow painful lonesome death in the case in the closet.

They are works of art, as Evan said. They're also easier to get to than the stack of cases in the closet.

Dust? Pfft. It wipes away easily enough, and since my control cavities are closed, I don't see it getting into the pots. If it does, I open them up and give them a squirt with contact cleaner (an easy feat since they're all rear-loaded as God intended).

There is no evidence to my knowledge that proves hanging a guitar by the neck will cause any problems, beyond finish issues due to the interaction between certain types of foam padding and nitro. If anyone dislocated a guitar neck by hanging it on a wall, then they had a crappy guitar. Gravity is not going to rip the neck off your Strat, Soloist, or Les Paul.

If you have vaulted ceilings and hang your acoustics 10 feet high, then I can see the temperature variance happening. I live in a house, not a museum or cathedral, so everything's human-height.
 
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I've got around 10 hanging in just about the dustiest environment imaginable, including my 513. Colour me unconcerned....
 
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Sounds reasonable to me.

Gravity is gravity and it doesn't negotiate. There is no failsafe for the hanger, or for the hanging procedure.
 
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Id hang mine if I had a place to. I used to be like blueman and prefer them in a case, nice and safe and dust free. (especially when my kids were young). But now, Id leave them out to enjoy seeing them and I could just grab one whenever. It would be easier than digging thru all the cases and all.
 
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