I had one of these D'Addario guitar dock rests that is designed to clamp to the edge of a table, or something vertical like the side of a bookcase. After repairing a Stick that had apparently been knocked over, punching the volume controls into the pickup housing, I kept getting the heebie-jeebies when resting my Stick on the edge of the desk, but this obviously wouldn't help.


So...I took a saw to it to remove the "hook", then fashioned a replacement from some 3/4" plywood and a bit of suede and fastened it with some epoxy.

Voila...



If anyone wants to do the same, that guitar rest is available at Sweetwater (and others I'm sure) for $18

Hi

I originally used Dave Brosky's lap rest for this purpose...

That works!

I've been unsatisfied with somewhat squirrely modified guitar stands or anything else on the market that I could trust to be stable and stout enough. Because of the lack of a body, a Stick doesn't have the same low center of gravity that a guitar or bass has and its uniform linear weight distribution gives it tippy tendencies in the vertical position. So I devised my own stand and built it out of 6061-T6 aluminum. The points of contact are padded with neoprene rubber.

That’s really nice!! I’m extremely cramped in my music room, so didn’t want yet another thing on the floor, hence the wall rack I posted earlier. The rest above is just to allow me to set the Stick down to let the dog out/in, make a pit stop etc. without having to worry about it falling over.

If those “feet” folded also, that stand would be extremely compact for carrying to a gig or travel.

Resting by the firewood

That’s a clever design. Is the belt hook engaged with those crossbars?

you can always use regular fork guitar stand with cloth assembled on the fork piece

Captain Strings, that's a really neat design.

Does that blue, ridged, material you've used as (soft?) covering have a name?