String Swing Hardwood Home & Studio Guitar Hanger (Shades May Vary)
- The #1 Selling Guitar Hanger from String Swing
- Adjustable yoke width will accommodate acoustic or electric guitars, and mandolins
- Yoke pivots to cradle the instruments headstock
- Keeper rings are included with the purchase of the CC01
- Wood block is made of real hardwood, shades may vary
The most popular and top selling guitar hanger on the market, the CC01 is perfect for displaying your guitar at home or in the studio. The hardwood base mounts to your wall allowing for a professional and graceful way to display your favorite guitar.
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Where to go for left handed guitars and basses? Part One â left handed Explorers
Article by Gaskell Guitars
These days, with more and more major guitar manufacturers ceasing to make their products in left hand as well, one might well ask the question “where do I go for lefthanded guitars and basses these days?”
In actual fact, there are definite guitar models that are popular with guitarists that you cannot get in left hand at all. Some have never been available in LH option.
Fortunately there is one guitar brand in the world that makes left-handed guitars and bass guitars only: Gaskell Guitars, from Australia. Gaskell Guitars was started by New Zealand-born lefty guitarist Kevin Gaskell and since 2006 has become international renowned.
Gaskell makes left handed guitars and basses that are otherwise not available in lefty option by original manufacturers. Here are some examples:
If you are a left-handed guitarist and you want to play, for example, an Explorer style guitar you will be confronted with the following list of facts to contend with:
a) Gibson, the original maker of Explorer guitars does not make left-handed Explorer guitars.b) Gibson no longer makes left-hand guitars at all and you will not even get one through their Custom Shop. c) Hamer who also make Explorer guitars do not make lefties.d) Dean Guitars make an Explorer as well, with their unique V-shaped Headstock. From time to time they do a few lefties. Limited colours though. Still, kudos to Dean for doing that!e) Peavey make an Explore-esque guitar not the same as an Explorer but similar, but they do not make left-handed ones.f) ESP no longer make Explorer guitars based on the original Gibson style ones, but make a more pointy version. It is possible they make their variant in left hand through their Custom Shop. Expect to be paying over 00 for something like that, if they will do it!
g) At the beginners, entry level of the market, we have Rondo Music in the USA who brings in a Chinese-made Explorer style guitar which they do in LH and in 3 colours. It’s not the same shape as Gibson Explorer but is very definitely Explorer-derived. People in online forums, generally rave about how “good” they are but what they mean by “good” really means “cheap price.” And cheap price equals “good.” Any guitarist who says one of Rondo Music’s Agile, SX, or Douglas guitars are “good” does not know what a “good” guitar is. For the price you pay (US 0-700) you could say the guitar was “good” only if you meant the price. Still, people seem to buy these and then replace all the cheap hardware and electronics for good stuff. But by the time you have done that you could have just bought a better quality guitar! Getting back on the subject, you can buy a cheap Explorer style guitar from Rondo Music. Their customer service appears to be excellent, and good on them anyway for offering a lot of cheap lefty guitars as well as right handed guitars. Hat’s off to you guys!h) If you live in the UK, there is Gordon Smith Guitars, the UK’s equivalent of USA’s Gibson. You can get a lefthanded Explorer guitar from them. It looks exactly like a Gisbon. However the wait time can be up to 12 months, per reports. They are about double the price of a Gaskell.
Gaskell Guitars makes left handed Explorer style guitars. Their production models, the Classic and Classic II are similar to the original Gibson Explorers but with slight smaller, more rounded bodies and with a Gaskell original headstock, different from Gibson. No legal violations there!
For the left-handed guitarist wanting a more pro level guitar there are two choices: the Gaskell Classic PRO or the Gaskell Huntsman.
The Classic PRO is customizable and available by pre order. The Huntsman is a matt black gothic style Explorer with all the work to make it done in Australia, and fitted with EMGs.
Left-handed guitarists wanting a quality, gig ready, Explorer style guitar, there is really one place to get one from: Gaskell Guitars.
No matter where you live in the world you can get a Gaskell guitar or bass without too much hassle. Left-handed guitars and left-handed basses only. Designed by a lefty, for lefties. How much more better than that can you get it?
About the Author
Gaskelll Guitars is the only exclusvie manufacturer of left handed guitars and left-handed bass guitars in the world. Available world wide. Website: http://www.gaskellguitars.com
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A useful tool to save space and get you to practice more often,
This thing isn’t some fancy item with tons of features to review, but it does what it’s supposed to: it grips your guitar or bass securely, saves some floor space, displays your instrument nicely, and puts it in plain sight and arm’s reach so that you can practice more often. I also like the fact that it’s wood and not some ugly polyethelyne plastic or something like that. As I couldn’t find a stud in my wall, I mounted this thing on the side of my wood bookshelf and it looks and works beautifully. One thing: DO NOT JUST DRILL ANYWHERE INTO YOUR WALL FOR THIS THING!! Make sure you mount it in a stud or on some significant piece of wood, because odds are some day the weight of your guitar or bass will rip it out of drywall and then you may or may not have damaged your instrument. So, buy one or five of these and make a nice display of your axes.
-Stephen
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|Great deal,
I’ve purchased similar wall hangers from some of the online musical instrument dealers for $12 to $14 and was skeptical when I saw these for around $9. I am happy to report that the structural quality is as high as the more expensive options and (to my surprise) the wood grain is much better looking than the picture would indicate.
Others have suggested that these be mounted to a stud but the included drywall anchors, when installed correctly, are very secure and would easily withstand the heaviest guitar you have (unless, perhaps, you play a 4″ thick solid ebony instrument). If your studs are 16″ apart, you could utilize them (staggered mounting if necessary) and get a fairly dense wall of guitars but if your studs are 24″ apart you’ll have a large (8″+) gap between instruments and may wish to opt for drywall anchors for some instruments as I have.
The back of my acoustic instruments (000, 00, Parlor & Classical) sit well clear of the back wall so I haven’t had the need to put protective backing on the wall behind them (consider some backing if children or careless adults will be removing & replacing instruments from the wall). If you plan to use these for electrics, I’d opt for the electric specific hangers so they hang closer to the wall.
As a guitar builder, here’s some advice for any newbies:
Keep your instrument in it’s (humidity controlled) hard case except when playing. Failing that, keep it up high using a wall hanger and control humidity for the entire room (40 to 50%). I’ve seen far too many instruments get damaged when sitting down on a guitar stand.
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