Guitar wall mount / hanger for (steel-string) acoustic or electric guitars (UPDATED).

DESCRIPTION:

This guitar wall mount / hanger is designed in a rather massive and edgy manner to be capable of carrying esp. acoustic and electric guitars.

The design has been updated with an optional extension part - a TPU top cover.

Please be aware that this TPU cover has been designed with guitar neck dimensions - measured at the nut - of (up to) 1.68 Inch in mind. For guitars with a neck width of 1.75 inch or more an appropriate resizing (for instance using a slicer program) is needed.

The TPU top also makes the placement of a 1.68 inch acoustic or e-guitars on this mount a little bit more tricky and puts the guitar body some millimeters closer to the wall.

INSTALLATION:

• The guitar wall mount:

The guitar wall mount / hanger is intended to be fixed with two 4mm x 75mm (0.157in x 3in) countersunk screws.

The through-holes are about 35mm or 1.38in long. The distance between the screws should be 30mm (1.18in). I also used screw caps for better optics which, as the screw heads themselves, also should be up to about 14mm (0.55in) in diameter.

NOTICE: Please be aware that if you are going to take some larger diameter screws, screw threads could potentially cause more or less damage of the inner wall of the through holes, so in that case i it could be reasonable to add an appropriate number of walls in your slicer program.

• Installing the guitar wall mount TPU cover:

I presume as more practical solution to use a non-permanent adhesive like a high quality thin double-sided duct tape (as by using this part the through holes of the mount get covered, i think it's advisable to have an easy way of removing the top in case the mount needs to be taken off the wall)

The double-sided duct tape can be easily cut in three pieces: 2x 43mm and one piece up to 88mm in length. Two shorter parts are then placed along the flat surface on top of the mount and the third, long piece is to be placed on the backside of the arc wrapping beginning from the bottom center towards the top corners on the front. It seems easier to me to fix the tape on the TPU cover first.

ABOUT:

This guitar wall mount and the top cover are own works created for 3D-printing from scratch on GNU/Linux using Blender. My appreciation for all volunteer developers of Free Open Source Software, whose engagement has essentially helped in creating also this project.

Good luck and happy making!

gexo (-graphix), march/april 2024

Following values are meant as a guiding help especially for beginners in 3D-Printing in finding their optimal settings. It could be necessary to choose absolutely different options depending on local needs and circumstances, as slicer options (esp. regarding walls and infill strength) should rather be chosen with caution and the guitar weight in mind.

PLEASE BE AWARE, the TPU cover makes the guitar mount opening not insignificantly smaller, so if the guitar has a neck width greater than 1.68inch (or 42,672mm), the whole model of this guitar mount, as well as it's TPU top, should be appropriately resized (for instance using your siicer program).

Moreover, the smaller opening makes it placing a guitar on the mount a little bit more tricky and puts the guitar some millimeters closer to the wall.

For my acoustic guitar (2,1 kilogram) with 1.68" neck width i opted for a vertical print with "PLA plus" and overall filament usage including "mouse ears" almost everywhere around it to prevent warping was about 90 gram by using the following CURA-slicer settings:

top/bottom and wall strength at 1,6mm (4 walls with 0,4mm line width 0.2mm layer hight with a 0.4mm standard nozzle),
as well as an "alternate extra wall",
22% or more infill (grid pattern, due to its density), for an e-guitar i choose at least 25% of infill,
"connect infill lines",
fan speed lowered to 20%,
lots of "mouse ears" to prevent the used PLA+ (SUNLU) from warping on the standard E3S1PRO PEI-bed,
no other supports needed.

For 3D-printing the TPU cover i used OVERTURE TPU95A and the following extra settings:

enable "print thin walls" in CURA (but i guess it would be better for this print to replace the standard 0.4mm with a smaller nozzle),
no supports needed,
fan speed reduced or off.