CosmicMeltdown

There have been many ways to hang things on walls over the history of the human race. A lot of the time a simple nail through the item to be hung may suffice, but beating a nine inch nail through your pristine 70’s Strat’ may not be quite what you want to do. Cutting a notch in the rear of an old and no longer playable guitar may be OK, but what if there’s a chance you might want to resurrect the body in the future?

If you don’t want to damage your instrument but never had the necessary joinery skills to create a frame to mount it in, then your options used to be fairly limited. You could hang the guitar by it’s neck, straight down the wall for everyone to see in all it’s glory. Your choice ranged to the manufacturer of the hook. The Hercules models are certainly know for their decent locking mechanisms. But what if you are a bit more.. avant garde.. A little bit kooky, or just generally like to do things your own way, including the choosing angle/surface you attach your guitar too?

If you fall into this group, ten the Woodie’s Hanger from WIA Music may be for you. WIA Music are a UK based company consisting of two rather inventive chaps who like to make interesting things for guitars. Wall mounting aside they also create an interesting partial capo.

Woodie’s Hanger is *nearly* invisible if you read the marketing, though in reality the hanger can be spotted, but it is a see-through plastic, and so isn’t too ugly to look at. The hanger supports the guitar using the strap buttons and the hangers individual ‘hooks’ have to be positioned for the guitar you want to hang. If you’ve ever hung a picture using a drill, plug and screw then you should have all the technical know how you need to fit the hangers to the wall. The instructions that come with the product aren’t the clearest, but looking at the items and using your noggin should have them fitted in know time.

As the hangers use the strap buttons the guitar can be mounted on any flat surface, wall, ceiling or otherwise. Again due to using the strap buttons, no stress is placed on the neck to support the guitar, depending on where you sit in reference to the fence this may or may not keep your guitar in tune better.

Compared to other hangers out there the system allows you to mount the guitar on any flat surface at any angle you like. Fitting the system is easy enough and the nifty ‘push and pull’ technique for taking the guitar down and putting it back works well. The one thing that counts against the strap button system is that the guitar tends to twist one way or the other depending on the body and strap button positions. A small foam block is supplied to counter this, though I wouldn’t like to try relocating the block after first application.

Overall a sound product, that keeps my guitar flying high.

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