Jeff_H
Dean Hardtail Fanologist
I was siting here about an hour ago just reading stuff online and all of a sudden I hear this huge clatter and thump. I look up and my brand new (to me) Les Paul has fallen off the wall. The guitar hanger, screws AND studs were completely ripped off and out of the wall. I got up from my recliner about as fast as a person can get up and ran over there, fully expecting to see the neck snapped in two or the headstock broken off.
Holy hell, no damage at all to the neck or headstock, or anything else for that matter. I took it into the kitchen under the best light in the house and put it on my maintenance mat and headstock cradle to give it a proper inspection. No damage to the neck or headstock, period. There is a small dent the width of a fingernail and about a centimeter long, I assume from a tuner of the guitar that was below it (it was offset and not directly below). The only other damage is some slight scuffing on the bottom edge of the guitar near the strap pin; the edge on the backside of the guitar. I buffed it with my cleaning cloth and its hardly noticeable.... it really didn't remove any lacquer.
I'm honestly in shock. I cannot believe it's not broken or damaged seriously in some way. My collectors edition Hardtail directly below it only received one small, very small, chip in the lacquer on the front edge of the guitar, a little higher than the neck pickup. You can't see it unless you're right up on it. I'm very relieved and feeling lucky; very lucky.
As for the mounting, my dad and I went to Home Depot and bought the most robust wall anchors we could find. Each anchor was rated at 100lbs (in drywall), and each wall holder has two of these. These were the type of anchors that screw into the drywall instead of being pushed into the wall after a drill hole is made. There isn't any reason why these should have failed, unless I guess the drywall itself has been weakened in some way, which is possible I suppose.
All in all a big sigh of relief and I'm wondering if I need to rethink my display method. My dad has built houses in the past and remodeled them, so when we installed these and he gave them his seal of approval, I felt pretty secure in hanging them. Here is how they WERE hanging:
Holy hell, no damage at all to the neck or headstock, or anything else for that matter. I took it into the kitchen under the best light in the house and put it on my maintenance mat and headstock cradle to give it a proper inspection. No damage to the neck or headstock, period. There is a small dent the width of a fingernail and about a centimeter long, I assume from a tuner of the guitar that was below it (it was offset and not directly below). The only other damage is some slight scuffing on the bottom edge of the guitar near the strap pin; the edge on the backside of the guitar. I buffed it with my cleaning cloth and its hardly noticeable.... it really didn't remove any lacquer.
I'm honestly in shock. I cannot believe it's not broken or damaged seriously in some way. My collectors edition Hardtail directly below it only received one small, very small, chip in the lacquer on the front edge of the guitar, a little higher than the neck pickup. You can't see it unless you're right up on it. I'm very relieved and feeling lucky; very lucky.
As for the mounting, my dad and I went to Home Depot and bought the most robust wall anchors we could find. Each anchor was rated at 100lbs (in drywall), and each wall holder has two of these. These were the type of anchors that screw into the drywall instead of being pushed into the wall after a drill hole is made. There isn't any reason why these should have failed, unless I guess the drywall itself has been weakened in some way, which is possible I suppose.
All in all a big sigh of relief and I'm wondering if I need to rethink my display method. My dad has built houses in the past and remodeled them, so when we installed these and he gave them his seal of approval, I felt pretty secure in hanging them. Here is how they WERE hanging:
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