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Hi all!

We've been given the challenge of framing a signed electric guitar but are at a loss of how best to do it!

I thought we could possibly sit it in a guitar A stand and build a box around that with a bit of fishing line around the neck to stop it falling forward but this might just add to the weight unnecesarily!

The customer wants it to hang on a wall... just to add to the challenge! Someone suggested checking out Hard Rock Cafe as they have a bunch of guitars framed but from memory they are lying horizontal and our customer wants it vertical!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Framers
Edinburgh

Does it have a tension bar in the neck and a metal plate on the back to access the tension bar adjustments?

If so you may be able to replace those screws with longer screws and drill hole to match in a nice solid backing board. I hope that this helps.

Take a trip to your local guitar shop, they should have a metal bracket which is designed to screw to the wall and hang the guitar from the headstock. Probably cost around £10-15 or maybe less! If you want to get really flash, buy a cheap capo, fix that to the bracket and use the strap to hold the guitar from falling out.

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I did one a few years ago...

If i remember rightly there were a lot of available fixing points on the back of the guitar, so used some large cable ties threaded through from the back and secured at the back to hold it in place... the ones on the back of the guitar were hidden.

The one on the neck was placed just below the fret under the strings, but as the fret board was black and the cable tie was black it was hardly noticeable.

Ones in TGI's are just screwed to the wall from the front basically, no regard for the guitar itself.

Used a wide frame mitred on its side to give the frame its 'depth'

Hope this helps...

Also, just realised you put Hard Rock, not TGI's.... not too sure how they do them there.... but yes they have loooooads there!!!

I'd be trying to persuade the customer to have a little corner cabinet made. That would be simple enough to build, could have a really fancy frame for a door, a stand inside and not be sticking out a foot.

You shouldn't really put guitars in frames. They die.