My New Guitar

My new guitar is finished and added to Etsy. It is going to be hard to get rid of this guitar. I love the pop of color!  https://www.etsy.com/listing/168424922/upcycled-acoustic-guitar-shelf-one-of-a? This specific guitar has one long shelves. I would recommend hanging it using 2 hooks on the attached black and white cord.

Instead of doing my traditional guitar, I wanted to do a horizontal style shelf. I carefullt cut it with my dremel and found an extra block support on the inside of the guitar that was hard to cut. I cut a hard shelf to go into the guitar with grooves for the slats that were built into the guitar. I adhered it to the support I glued into the guitar. I cut a piece of trim and shaped it to the front of the guitar.

I decided to spray paint the entire guitar, so I took the metal pieces off and sprayed away. (Note to self: Don't Spray Paint when it is cold outside!!!!)  I used silver leaf to add accents on the neck and trim along the shelf. A musical themed upholstery fabric lines the back of the inside of the guitar. What a challenge cutting this to fit in perfectly. The final thing was to add Black Rhinestone Sticker Embellishments  and a black and white cord to hang the guitar. I would use double hooks to hang the cord on for added support!

 ~Sarah

Lost Guitar Post! My Guitar Shelves!

Last fall I started to make guitar shelves. Somehow, my post disappeared, so... I am re-posting it.

Tom found a couple guitars at garage sales and brought them home for me. They were not in good shape, so fixing them to play was not an option. I decided to make shelves out of them. This what came of them:

I used my Dremel to cut open the guitars. The first guitar had 2 cross bars in the back when I cut it open. The second Guitar had 3. now I knew how many shelves each would have. I added wooden support bars along the inside to support the shelves. I sanded everything and carefully sprayed the front of the guitars and the inside of the guitars black.

The first guitar I sprayed the hard wood shelves I added black. (Adding hard wood shelves to a curved area with a small opening is quite a challenge when the shelves do NOT bend. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to manage it.)

To complete the first guitar, I went into my scrap booking stash and carefully cut and glued the pages I chose to the back using the guitars natural dividers as section dividers. 

Note: This guitar was the first to sell and has shipped to Texas.

 The second guitar I made had 3 natural shelf dividers. I prepped it the same way as the first, however, I stained the shelves and edged them with black instead. I wanted to highlight more of the natural wood as this guitar had a very pretty coloring. I rotated the shelves so they would show two toned. The neck of the guitar was missing the bridge, so took it from the bottom piece I had taken off and adapted one for the neck.

I found some metal words and Rhinestone musical stickers I chose to use to decorate this guitar.

Note: This guitar has sold and has shipped to Virginia.

~Sarah

Large Vinyl Album Single Wall Hooks

I like the multi-record album hooks I've made, but not everyone has space for a larger rack, so I made a few single hooks with my remaining hardware. I really like them.

Hook 1: London Album with Silver Hook Double Hook

Hook 2: Grand Canyon Suite with a single hook.

 Hook 3: Midnight Serenade with a Silver Hook.

Hook 4: Big Country Album with a Double Brass Hook.

Hook 5: Genesis Album with an Older Double Brass Hook

~Sarah

New Multi Record (45's) Racks

I liked the Hooks I made for Ashlin's room, so I wanted to try a couple to sell. This is what I came up with:


Shelf 1: Single Hooks

Shelf 2: Red, White and Black; Double Brass Hooks

~Sarah

Vinyl Album Mail Racks.

I decided to make some mail holding racks using the albums.

I took some vinyl records (the larger size) and tried to melt them in a pot of water...I didn't have a large enough pan, so this did not work very well.

I then turned the oven to 350' and put a bowl in it. I left the door open and half the record out of the oven as I wanted to melt only part of the album. As soon as it started to melt, I grabbed it out and bent it over a board.

The next step was to drill a hole in it for hanging purposes. Finally, I added stickers to label it mail. (I tried painting first, but the paint ran along the grooves and it was a mess.)

I made 6 of them so far.

~Sarah