Guitar Stand From Junk Pallets

To start this project You need to acquire some discarded single use wooden pallet. I found mine behind a convenience store where I worked ready to be scrapped. After disassembling of a pallet I used 3 of the thicker planks like on the second picture.

Tools used:

wooden pallet

jigsaw

router

angle grinder with 100 grit paper plate

1 paint spray can

1 clear coat spray can

masking tape

newspaper for masking

sandpaper

felt

wood glue

3 screws

electric drill with a screw bit

wood filler (optional)

chisel

hammer

First You need to cut 2 planks into four pieces like on the first schematics. Measure the width that looks good to You. Then by rounding the corners using jigsaw on the red line, we are left with two pieces. Those two pieces we move under the second horizontal piece like on the second picture.

On the first horizontal board that is rounded we drill a hole for the guitar strap screw on the edge of the board (see picture 2). Next to it, on the lower horizontal board, comes the chamfer/edge for the back of the guitar. It is made with the angle grinder with grinding paper plate attached to it. Cut enough for the guitar and the felt that comes on that edge so it does not get scratched.

The 2 bottom vertical boards are first glued together. Then using the router we make a hole for the neck of the guitar stand.The hole must be wide enough for the third plank to be inserted into it. After making the hole with router, we must clean up the edger with a chisel and a hammer for the hole to be rectangular. On the bottom part of this piece we make a small slot for the 3 screws attaching the bottom part and the neck like on the third picture.

Optionally 2 little cubes can be added as a guitar stop ends for the sides of the guitar. We glue them on the bottom part of the stand.

As for the neck of the stand, we carve a slot on the top that fits guitar neck. Make sure You carve a little deeper so it has room for the felt that is glued there so the guitar does not get scratched. Next to that slot I added 2 small end pieces to be sure guitar does not slide to the side. They can be seen on the finished stand photo.

Using the wood glue we glue all the bottom pieces together like on the second picture and we end up with something like on the forth picture.

After glue for the bottom part has dried up we mount bottom and neck piece together using screws and wood glue. First we put glue in the hole for the neck and insert neck in it in the position that we want it to be. After that has dried up, we screw 3 screws with a drill through the bottom of the lower half into the neck. That way neck is nicely secured and it does not move.

After that we can optionally use wood filler and fill some irregularities in the wood if they are present. After that comes sanding of the whole stand and masking of the parts that we do not want paint on.

Spray painting was done using spray paint cans in 5-6 light coats of paint after which masking tape and paper were removed and 6-7 layers of clear coat were applied. Make sure enough time is passed in between coats and please use good mask so You do not inhale fumes from the paint.

After painting the clear coat I left the whole thing to fully dry for another 4 days. After the drying process was done all that was left is to glue felt on few ares. First it was glued to the slot for the guitar neck on top, then on the chamfer next to the guitar screw hole and finally on the bottom of the whole guitar stand.

After all this was done You can enjoy your new stand and play some tunes.