In terms of actually displaying your guitars, the racks in most cases won’t work too well. The size of the rack determines how many guitars you can put on it. If you have multiple guitars, a rack is a good option, especially for a studio environment. If it had latches, the guitar would never have made its acquaintance with the floor. I managed to grab the stand, but not the guitar. I had left my strap on, and as I lifted my guitar it hooked one arm and tipped the stand and down went my husband’s guitar. Get one with latches on the yoke if at all possible. We most recently had one that held our acousric guitars, a simple tube stand design with a yoke on either side. ![]() These are similar to the full guitar stands mentioned above, but they have place to hold multiple guitars, usually either two or three guitars. If you bump your guitar slightly while moving past, you’re almost guaranteed to find your guitar still resting securely in the stand as long as the impact isn’t hard. As with a floor stands, just don’t go pushing the neck of the guitar. They’re designed to sit nicely on the floor at an angle to distribute the weight of the guitar well. In some cases, they’re more sturdy than some of the tubular guitar stands. While this may sound like a terrible option, they’re actually pretty sturdy. There is no support for the neck and no place for the headstock to hang. These just give your guitar’s body a place to rest. ![]() These will work well if you travel to gigs and/or the studio fairly often and just want a robust stand to display your guitar. You can just look at the construction and see better quality support structures. These stands are similar to the tube stands, but usually come with a tripod at the bottom which can fold for transport. So for a lack of a better name, the bigger better guitar stands are made for musicians on the move and who need a more robust stand. Bigger, Better, More Portable Guitar Stands To remove your guitar, you simply lift it and then bring it forward out of the now open yoke. As long as your guitar is hanging, the locks will stay closed. You simply put your guitar into the yoke and the weight of the headstock resting against the yoke triggers the latches to close. While it can seem scary to put your faith in the automatic lock, it works very well. You can find those with manual latches similar to those on tube stands, but far more commonly, you’ll come across those with an automated locking mechanism. The mechanism is usually a lock mechanism so that the guitar can’t tip out. Essentially, there is a support for the guitar’s body to rest against, but it doesn’t actually rest on anything, except for the headstock. This may sound unstable, but they are built quite solidly and in a way that distributes the weight so that it doesn’t topple over once you hang your guitar. Similarly, you can get these type of stands that simply hang your guitar. This makes them more portable than their other counterparts that are stuck in that shape, although it can be a schlep to transport your stand regularly. Some of them allow you to fold the feet like a tripod and remove the yoke that the body of your guitar rests on, and even the yoke that holds the neck. We’ve had these before we got our double stand and they held our acoustic guitars and my husband’s electric. ![]() ![]() Tube stands are generally the most affordable stands. From personal experience, I would recommend a yoke with a latch. Some stands come with an open yoke for the neck to rest in and some have a latch that provides a lock. Your guitar rests on the bottom and the neck is supported with the headstock ideally sitting top of the yoke. These stands tend to look like they’re made out of tubes, hence the name. So always check out the specs for the specific stand that you’re interested in to make sure your guitar will fit well and be fully supported wherever you intend to use it. Even within the different types, you will find that certain stands are fully adjustable to fit various guitars and some aren’t. They vary in terms of how portable they are, how they support the guitar, and whether they are suitable for home, studio, and stage. You may find any of them will suit you, or you may find that a certain type suits you. There are a few different kinds of stands. Let’s get into guitar stands for this article. If you are in the market for a guitar wall mount, that is another decent option to consider. While guitars look great on the wall, I should know, we have our guitars up on the wall, not everyone is at liberty to do that. There are a few different types of stands, particularly in how the guitar hangs, and whether you want to put multiple guitars on stands. What’s more, is that if your guitar is out where you can see it, it makes you want to play it more than when it’s sitting in its case or bag. No one can deny that guitars on display are essentially, practical art.
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