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I've got number three in the spray booth right now but want to get some ideas from you guys. I want to hang the guitar from the endpin but I've already drilled it out for the endpin jack. How do you guys hang guitars this way? One thing I had tought about was to build a hanger that has a crossbar that pivots to form a T once in the body but none of my attempts have felt sturdy enough. Also, I thought about doing an expanding drywall anchor-type of arrangement but wasn't sure exactly how to go about it. Any pictures of these types of hangers would be much appreciated.

Why do you want to suspend it from the end pin?

vlnmakers use the endpin hole . A tapered dowel (stick) is inserted in the hole and the stick clamped firmly in a vice and left to dry

I guess I should have said I want to hang it with the headstock towards the floor. My new booth isn't tall enough for me to suspend it high enough so that I can spray the body without having to kneel down. So basically I need to spray it while it hangs upside down. I know a lot of people just run a screw into the block at the endpin but I already drilled mine so I wouldn't have to drill through the finish later.

Jason: If you use a bolt on neck,you can make a handle so you can hold the guitar in one hand and spray with the other. Put a loop on the end to hang the guitar to dry.
Tom

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It's funny how this stuff works. I've been been trying to think of a good way of doing this for a couple of weeks then I post this then all of a sudden I figure it out. So here's the solution. It's so ridiculously simple. I took a dowel rod small enough to go through the endpin hole and drilled a hole not quite in the middle (through the center but one side longer than the other). Ran a leather shoe lace through it to form a loop. So when you just hold it the dowel hangs vertically. Slip it into the endpin hole, pull the loop until the edge of the dowel catches on the tailblock and voila. I'll take a pic later.

So here it is.

Jason.... that is so dang clever you should patent it.

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You can also get a long piece of half sturdy wire, fold it in half and feed the two ends together into the endpin hole up to the soundhole where you bend a few inches of each at opposing right angles and pull them back to the tail block. Easy to hang because you have already formed a loop and to extract you simply unbend or nip off the bent ends.

Cheers

Kim

Oddly enough when I read your question the thing that came to mind was an old survival trick that is used to catch fish without hooks. It's a really short stick, sharpened on both sides and tied at the center with string. You bend the stick parallel with the string, cover the whole mess in bait, and after the fish eats it and swims away, the stick opens perpendicular again, catching the fish.

I was so excited to tell you how to hang your guitar...and then I saw you already made the same thing. Well done still, good thinking. You now know how to hang a guitar in your spray booth as well as catch fish if you are stuck in the wilderness.

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