Proposal: Move Guitars to Play Room 🎸💡👷

[nelsonic]

⚠️Warning: Contains First World Problems! 🎸🤘

At present the guitars are in the office where I used to practice with them in the before time …

Haven’t use them in a while and they are just taking up valuable wall space. Feel like they would be more appropriately placed in the “leisure” Play Room. Specifically on the south wall:

Yes, it’s a picture of a blank/empty wall. That’s the point! There is space for them on this wall.

The wall gets no direct sunlight so the wood/paint/finish of the guitars won’t be damaged.

@iteles please LMK your thoughts on this. If you agree I will get it done ASAP. This will free-up the wall in the office for “organising” (shelves/drawers) & declutter the space and make the guitars more accessible to people wanting to play them.

Todo

• discuss if this is the “right” thing to do.

Hint: I think it is … otherwise I wouldn’t be opening this issue … 😉 but happy to hear counter-points. 👌

• measure placement of guitar hanger mounts. 📏
• Drill holes 🕳️
• Mount the hangers
• Transfer guitars 🎸

[nelsonic]

These are the guitar hangers we have:
Hercules GSP38WBK Plus

they are locking safety hangers which means the guitars can’t accidentally be bumped off. 👌
got them for insanely cheap during BlackFriday.

Yes the box is dusty. Will be opening this 4th one and mounting the acoustic Fender if this proposal moves forward.

[iteles]

You mean the leisure room in the basement rather than what we're using as the 'play room' currently, right?

Sure. Why not.

I'm more concerned about adding extra shelves to the already cluttered office. Need a different issue to discuss its purpose going forward.

[nelsonic]

What we have been calling the "Leisure" room will eventually just be called "Play".
It's the room that already has a Piano and will have the "amphitheatre" for mini concerts.
But this is all distracting semantics.

Moving the guitars. 🎸 ✅
Open the issues you need to. 👌

[nelsonic]

Measuring the Guitars at their widest point to know how much space to leave between them:

it’s amazing how much of a parallax error taking a photo of a tape measure gives … 🤦‍♂️

Going to rest them on a flat surface, measure the widest point and then will list the measures. ⏳

[nelsonic]

• Les Paul: 335
• Strat: 325
• Steel Accoustic: 345
• Nylon Silent: 360
• Steel Silent: 350
• Mini: 230
• Ukulele: 150

[nelsonic]

Was going to start putting these up now, but it’s stopped raining so I’m heading outside to finish the safety netting for Aft Deck. 👌

[nelsonic]

Aft Deck is at 98% completion. Requires a(nother) trip to Leroy to complete… so looking at this again. 👌

Width of the wall is 1530mm which is enough space for 4 guitars. 🎸
Going to have plot the position of the first one now so I can drill the holes tomorrow morning when I can make noise. 👌

[nelsonic]

Measured out all the holes for the 4 guitar hangers last night. And prepared the area to drill:

Can only do the drilling when everyone is awake.
It will take T4min to drill the 8 holes. 🕳️⏳

[nelsonic]

Holes drilled:

first hanger mounted:

Rinse & repeat. 🔁⏳

guitars transferred:

Done. ✅

[nelsonic]

FYI/BTW: placed them as high up as possible so that
A: children cannot easily reach (remove) them 👶
B: they are out of the way but still easily accessed by adults 👌
C: leaves plenty of space for the next stage in the project! #275