I’ve finally made a wall hanger for my telecaster. Everything was scrap from other projects. The wood came from the underside of a dresser that got taken apart, the copper is from old baseboard, the wooden “plugs” in the copper are from something years ago (honestly, I forgot I even had this in the basement). The “feet” on the lower pieces were from an old parts CB radio I took apart years ago.
The hanger itself consists of a board with two pieces of 3/4″ copper held in place by 3/4″ dowel whittled down to fit tightly in the pipe. These pieces of dowel then got cut at roughly a 15 degree angle and screwed to the board. This makes the copper pipe mounts slope upward, holding the guitar securely. The copper pipes slip over these and then I put two similar pieces of dowel (cut straight this time) in the top of the pipes to make caps. These caps protect my guitar from nicks and scratches while loading it into the hanger.
The two lower legs are to keep the guitar from trying to rotate while hung on the wall. The guitar just barely touches them when it is in the hanger. These pieces are 1/2″ copper pipe and have plastic “feet” sitting on top with long screws going through them that mount them to the wall.
It works great and I love the look.
