If you're using Hercules wall hanging guitar stands, you might want to rethink it!

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PLX said:
Same thing happened with my Fender bass a couple years ago.. exact same break.. exact same place in the mount.

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Exact same factory in china it seems too lol

Hope your bass didn’t fall down.

Still don’t get why you people use wall hangers? Case for life!
 
Never understood the guitar hanging on the wall thing. All of mine safely on the ground in floor racks
 
MadAsAHatter said:
At least for me it's sort of like out of sight out of mind. If one of my guitars is in a case and not out in the open to easily grab I forget that it's there and it doesn't get attention. So a case is for transportation, not storage.
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First world problem eh? lol

I have only one guitar and wherever it is hidden I have the motivation to go pick it up. Maybe I need 5-6 more haha
 
Spaceboy said:
I've had some of these things for more than a decade. How old were these that snapped?
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I had 3 up on the wall with guitars hanging, and after about 4 years, one of them snapped.

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Aynirar27 said:
That’s what I use. I have like a dozen of them and no problems at all.

I seem to remember a thread in the gear page a while back about Hercules hangers. There was a bad batch or something that went out with identical failures.
Forum posts are often one sided but from what I remember, Hercules knows about the problem but didn’t do Jack shit about it
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Me too, no problems ever with the all-metal version. I wonder if it's because the metal version does not hold the guitar out away from the wall quite as far reduces the pressure a bit. (?)

I also remember that thread a couple years back. The OP on that one was using their triple-guitar floor stand with the grabber style hangers, but I think it was basically the same piece that broke on his.
 
About 15 years ago, I had a bad experience with all of my guitars placed on the wall with wall hangers like these ones.

A pretty big earthquake hit our area and after it was done then I remembered all of my guitars were hanging on the wall.

I ran into the studio and they were swinging back and forth pretty hard and almost hitting each other.

Fortunately, none of them fell off the wall hangers and hit the concrete or hit each other (I had some pretty expensive guitars at that time).

I thought the guitars hanging on the wall looked pretty cool and I had always wanted to have this for myself once I could afford having more than one or two guitars but I hadn't taken into consideration the occasional big earthquakes in California.

I had immediately taken them off all the wall hangers and placed them in their guitar cases.

They are convenient and look pretty cool but ........

I'll keep mine in their cases and one or two on a traditional guitar stand these days :)
 
Interesting. Been using mine for 10+ years. Moved them in and out of 4 different houses and never had an issue. I'll have to keep an eye out!
 
My wall hangers are for decoration mostly, and my cheaper guitars:

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The guitars I'm playing / more expensive guitars, are in hanging stands:

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If they fall they'll damage a synth and a vintage Leslie 142 and another will damage one of my Hammond organs, which would be costly.
 
PLX said:
Nope, it was hanging funny when I noticed what had happened.

I'm not gonna mess around with opening/closing a guitar case 4~5 times a day to get a guitar in-n-out to play.

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U will if u break one.
 
Still, fuck that. Seen the cost of everything these days.
 
MadAsAHatter said:
I've always made my own wall hangers using those heavy duty took hook from home depot screwed into an oak board. Those tool hooks are rated to hold 50 lbs. They also have an slight upturn at the end and vinyl coating so nothing slides off. I used oak since it's strong/dense enough that I knew the screws wouldn't pull out from any weight on them. I had my guitars hanging on those for a decade with no problems before switching to the double decker rack I made. I don't know if they'd react with nitro, but haven't reacted with any other lacquer or poly finish my guitars had.
Have a length of oak long enough to span and screw into the wall studs. Then another oak block screwed into that with 2 screws plus the tool hook. Basically you want the wall board + block(s) to be thick enough so the tool hook only screws into the oak and doesn't poke into the drywall. 1-1/2" to 2" total thickness is enough. Additionally it makes it sit far enough away so a tilt-back headstock or the body won't bump the wall.

Additional Edit... At $2 each they're a shit tone cheaper than anything else and in my opinion much stronger.

These are the tool hooks I used:
Home Depot Tool Hook

Not the best, but here's a couple of pics

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One more edit: I found a better picture that shows how the hooks are mounted with multiple guitars. The 2nd row shows the blocks mounted, but without the tool hook screwed in.

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Same here. I bought a bunch of them then just cut up a 2x4 to make some bases for ‘em. I’ve got no long length of wall anywhere I can hang them on in a straight line, so they just go wherever I can stick ‘em.
 
War_in_D said:
About three years or so.



I'm thinking of doing the same thing to the remaining hangers before they break too. I think removing the spring, and putting some washers between the screw and the back of the metal "cup" that's inset into the wood base will solidify the hanger and take a lot of the stress off of that point where it broke. It'll lose the ability to tilt/rotate a bit depending on the headstock but I think I can live with that.
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Yeah that's kind of ticking time bomb scary.
 
Been hanging my guitars for decades. Used to use some hercules a long time ago but never had that happen. I am now using a kit i bought on amazon that each one swivels 3 positions. Love it.
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