My guitar fell of the wall..

[Hecubus]

You got really lucky! Glad it wasn't a disaster.

 

[golfnut]

Few day ago the entire assembly fell down to a PRS forum member.
a dozen damaged guitars, thousand dollars of damages ...

Lesson learned:
let's stop using those f...ed wall hangers ...

Should just feel fortunate that the construction company that built the house didn't build it like the person that hung those guitars. Other wise that house would cave in and destroy everything.
Wall hangars are as safe as the installation of said wall hangers. Just about every guitar I bought spent some time hanging on a wall hanger in a music store. And mine are hung better than that.
I got no problem with those that want to store them in cases. I just can't imagine someone that obsesses over the guitars tops, flamed, quilted or beautiful wood grain then stores them in cases.

 

[Juan Tumani]

This is how I do it and check the integrity of the hangers when I take it off or place it back on.

I think I would die inside if one of my guitar fell off.

Out of the many many guitars I've owned over 3 decades I've only ever broke one headstock.

Sadly it was on my first achieved dream guitar, a 1988 Les Paul Custom. I set it in the floor stand and as I walked away I heard it hit the floor (face of the headstock directly to the floor, the body of the guitar still in the stand).

I did die a little inside.

 

[Leee]

Talk to anybody who has worked in a guitar shop for any period of time.
Get them to tell you their stories about guitars jumping to their death.

Of all of the possible hazards that may befall my beloved guitars, theft, fire, etc.…
You can bet that falling from a wall hanger is no longer a possibility.

I have two hangers in my office, and usually I have a couple of acoustics on them.
I may hang an electric on there from time to time, but they are no longer displayed that way permanently.
I decided in the 90s that there was no way I was hanging any of my valuable guitars.

 

[Gibsonrocknroll]

 

[Juan Tumani]

Talk to anybody who has worked in a guitar shop for any period of time.
Get them to tell you their stories about guitars jumping to their death.

Of all of the possible hazards that may befall my beloved guitars, theft, fire, etc.…
You can bet that falling from a wall hanger is no longer a possibility.

I have two hangers in my office, and usually I have a couple of acoustics on them.
I may hang an electric on there from time to time, but they are no longer displayed that way permanently.
I decided in the 90s that there was no way I was hanging any of my valuable guitars.

I'll hang any guitar I want to look at regardless of price. I have more guitars than hangers so most live in their cases by default.

I just won't skimp on the hangers and I won't use floor strands of any kind at home. On stage I won't use any tree style stand. I only use the racks.

 

[Leee]

Damn straight on the racks.
The tree stands are asking for trouble.

I have two locking a-frame stands that I use now and then.
They are heavy and well-built, highly resistant to falling over, but I bought them 30 years ago.
There’s nothing on the market like that anymore.

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

Tough.

I would bring the guitar to a competent luthier and ask for advice.
Good l*ck with that.

 

[James R]

Yikes, no bueno, friend.
I've always enjoyed the look of wall hanging guitars, but mine are all on terra firma, in racks or stands.
Works for me, they're as safe as can be.

Sorry this happened, I can imagine the feeling of having your heart in your throat when you walked in and saw it on the floor.

 

[Wrench66]

Maybe grab a hold of those wall hangers periodically and give them a good pull to make sure all is well with them.

 

[Dilver]

It’s fine… Extra long screws, screwed directly into the wood studs. Floor stands are the devil. I only put my tele in one because you could probably pound nails with that thing and it’d be fine.

 

[Nikki M]

Decked tailpiece for extra sustain.

You'd need to bash in the other side to even it out properly..*wink

 

[spike450]

I wouldn't touch it. Trying to lift the bushing could loosen it... it MAY be loose now, remove the strings and check for wobble, but don't try to work it out.
Just unscrew the screw to lift the tailstop off of the body if it bothers you, but I wouldn't touch it other than to make sure it's not going to come flying out.
Monitor for tuning instability on the treble strings.

Thanks for the advice,

 

[Seven]

That really sucks. Sorry it happened but glad the damage wasn't worse.

I've got 15 guitars hanging on the walls, including some weighing 10lb +. I screwed every wall hanger into a stud.

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Same. I've been doing it for decades. I also purchase longer, stronger screws and toss the ones that come with them. Might be over kill, but they're never coming out of the stud unless I take them out.

 

[Martijn R.]

I use the flat wall multi angle hangers by Stringswing with extra long / thick plugs and screws in a solid stone wall.

The screws are of such a length that if they would come loose and stick 2 inches out of the wall they still wouldn't be able to fall out.

I am fortunate to have 8 inch stone walls throughout the house

 

[JMP]

This massive cabinet, and another one slightly smaller, have been my primary guitar storage vehicles for many years.

Before this I tried every manner of hanging guitars, racks on the floor along one wall, racks on a couple of banquet tables to get the guitars off the floor so I had storage underneath, you name it.

I could’ve bought a nice Les Paul for what I paid for those two cabinets, but they have been well worth it.

I have several ancient Rock Stand racks by Warwick, and they have held up really well.
I bought new 100% cotton bath towels at Walmart, my wife cut them down and added Velcro fasteners to cover all of the foam rubber.
They are a cinch to pull off and throw in the washer.
(They do collect dust.)

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Now THAT is an amazing storage solution! Damn!

 

[Martijn R.]

In regards to the guitar, I would have it checked by a skilled luthier if it was mine.

At first sight the edge of that bushing has been pressed down in to the top but there is no telling what else might have happened. Is it still straight? Are the threads still good? There might be more wrong then meets the eye.

If it fell more or less flat on the ground are there no indentations in the frets by the strings? No fine cracks anywhere on the neck?

I am not a luthier and I have no experience with a crash like this but those are just a few things that come to my mind.

 

[efstop]

Mine are all in cases, waiting for me to build a rack that will hold all of them. I don't have the wall space to hang 20 guitars and a place to store the cases, too. I do have a few stands so I can rotate them.
I don't play that often, so I don't mind removing one from a case and then returning it to the case.

 

[Deftone]

Few day ago the entire assembly fell down to a PRS forum member.
a dozen damaged guitars, thousands of dollars of damages ...

Lesson learned:
let's stop using those f...ed wall hangers ...

PRS forum member...that explains it.

Same. I've been doing it for decades. I also purchase longer, stronger screws and toss the ones that come with them. Might be over kill, but they're never coming out of the stud unless I take them out.

Decades for me too.....like three decades. I should have mentioned I also use the extra long screws into studs. 3.5" self drilling coated deck screws with the torx end. They drill a hole so the wood doesn't split.

 

[CB91710]

But many times over the years, this is what it looked like at my place.

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No way I would ever line up all of my cases like that.


At least not unless my wife were out of town visiting the daughter in Florida.