A router related safety tip. On my corded router I have the collet spanner (wrench) secured to the plug end of the power cord with zip ties. It makes it impossible to swap or adjust the bit without unplugging the router to use the spanner.

Hi Chris, I have been watching your channels for years which inspired me to create my own woodworking channel named "ONE HANDED MAKER" This video for obvious reasons connected with me on a more personal level, seeing I have one arm and make furniture then post on KZfaq. That said, it's always interesting to hear from a great maker on how they manage "One Handedness" (that is a real word). Love the build and love the video. Regards James - ONE HANDED MAKER - Australia P.S. Good to see you recovered from the incident!

I love the build! And I don't know how well it would work, but if you are concerned about the walnut against the head stock, it might be a nice touch to line the hanger with a thin softer leather sleeve.

I am truly amazed at how your mind works when you design. Very cool piece. It makes me want to dig my guitar out of the closet and have you build me a stand.

I’m scrolling with a thumb that’s still recovering from contact a table saw blade a month ago. Sometimes a small injury waking you up from complacency can prevent a worse one later. I am MUCH more mindful of safety than I was a month ago.

The music at the end took me back to when I first found your channel a few years ago when you had those really nice instrumentals.

Even for a prototype that came out looking fantastic. Thankfully the brass rod screw up is on the back.

Really appreciated being taken along for the ride of the design process. The mark of a good designer is not perfection; but their ability to improvise when circumstances call for it. Lovely piece in the end.

Thank you for not showing the image, can’t stand blood or injuries. I am glad you made a full recovery or Chubyemu would be all over it.

That's an absolutely gorgeous guitar stand. and i'm happy that the injury was as "harmless" as it was.

Nice build. Shit happens. When we stop thinking... Had my nephew help me on a big door replacement job. Let him cut casing on the chop saw. Briefed him before he started... "If you don't touch the blade, it won't hurt you." "I don't want to call your mom and tell her that you can't count to 10 ." He did good. The more time we spend working with tools, the greater the chance of injury. Me? I've spent years with my skilsaw guard chalked up. No problem. It's respect... I did mitre my left long finger on a table saw doing a free hand tapered rip. Stopped thinking. My fault... Fast food napkin and electrician's tape allowed me to finish the job. Vitamin E and Bourbon helped the healing process.

Nice playing - added a nice ending :) For your question, I would use some metal weights embedded in the bottom of a thinner base.

You could do a composite backing on the bottom of the thin design. The fiberglass would reinforce without adding a ton of weight.

Thanks for sharing and thanks for not showing. Sometimes I feel a woodworking incident is inevitable, I just hope when I put the tools down, I can use both hands to count to 10.

I had a similar accident with a router bit on a finger. End of the day, tired, doing a bunch of repetitive routing for cabinet doors. Just spaced out in my hand placement. Like you it didn't really hurt until later but it sure scared me! To this day I know that I should stop when I'm tired, even if I know I am "almost" done -- turns out you are never "almost" done and can go on too long!

Thanks for not showing the results of doing something dumb. I took a piece out of my thumb ages ago on a router bit in my trim router in a similar way. Turned it off, set it down, picked it up to move it because it was in the way and caught the still spinning bit because I wasn't looking what I was doing. Never again. Nice guitar stand too, sometimes the relatively simple builds are as nice to do as the super complicated ones.

I drilled into my knee once (went through wood that was thinner than expected) and it didn't hurt at all. 1/8" bit, went in about 1/4", narrowly missing bone. the heat cauterized the wound immediately, no blood at all. when it started healing it did hurt A LOT as nerves regenerated... glad you're ok and have no permanent damage!!

you could hang anything from that stand and all I'd see is the stand..very handsome..walnut/maple is a perfect choice! Glad your injury wasn't worse..thanks for sharing

Glad you’re ok. Thanks for explaining what you did. I’m sure it saved someone’s thumb or will.

For making the wedge base, have a look at the woodworkers journal, “how to make a pizza peel” video. Basically what you are doing but putting it through a drum sander instead.

I've found that after gluing and clamping two pieces of wood together using a wet cloth with cold glue works like a charm to get rid of squeeze out. It does raise the grain, but saves you the hassle of having to sand the glue off.

That tapered base. You could take the approach you already did and cut the bevel on the thin end to get it started. Then use the sled on the planer as planned. But. Stop just shy of the planer cutting on that end. Sneak up towards it. Then sand to finish and cover any transition remaining. This would avoid force on the end that could cause deformation. Note: you’d need guides clamped to your planer bed to ensure the sled always goes through square to the cutting head.

Personally, I'm thankful for the consideration in not showing gratuitous and unsolicited gore in the video. Glad you're fine and that you made some sweet lemonade out of this mishap.

Beautiful!

I’m inspired! I built some MCM speaker stands with boomerang supports… inverse of this. Love the homage

Tapered bread board for that thin front end 🤙

Simple and yet a very beautiful piece

If you used the sandwich 'inlay' style with the base you could add 5 or 6 strips of brass or bronze. Then put it on the sled and through a drum sander.

Turned out very nice!

That is a really stunning guitar stand mate, Well done!

Absolutely beautiful!

I appreciate you not showing the injury, and I'm glad you're okay. The piece is beautiful, as usual.

Thumbs up.... Even a bloody one! Love the project.

11:00 for next time, consider cutting a mortise into the base and cutting the stand a little longer so that the last part is a large tenon. This way the tip of the curve is not so thin and flimsy.

Thank you for sharing 👍👍. The stand came out nice.

Awesome pivot in style on the piece. Great job.

Dude !!! Now you can tell people you can build something amazingly beautiful with 1 hand… VERY NICE WORK !!!

Glad you are OK. This is a good reminder to stay vigilant. The stand turned out really nice. All the complex angles and the inlay make it a really interesting piece. Thank you for sharing.

Glad you've still got all your digits and hope you continue to keep them. Awesome guitar stand!

Absolutely beautiful piece. Really glad we got to see this project. Thanks for sharing!

That's really pretty. Regarding your thoughts on the base plate of the stand: I prefer the thicker, beveled version. It accentuates the work you did in creating that grain direction and also serves as a more robust and stable platform for the stand. If you're the kind of guy who is going to pay for a custom guitar stand, it's probably going to hold an expensive guitar too. Best if that doesn't go ass over teakettle.

Nice piece of work. Without the back story, I don’t think anyone would have suspected it didn’t go as planned. I appreciate hearing where you had to pivot as I have had too and I'm sure for many others too.

Thankful that your injury wasn’t worse. NO, I didn’t need to watch your additional video content. The guitar stand is amazing and beautiful in its simplicity. Wishing you and your family a blessed week, gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother

That's how you know it was bad -- your body said "you can't handle that..." so it shuts off the pain.

I like the way this one turned out and really look forward to seeing how your "much cooler" design turns out. I'm happy you weren't hurt worse and are healing well.

Love your videos. So talented. Glad you’re still strumming with all digits

Glad to here your ok , had a few minor shop injuries myself in the last 40 years , nice project

Nice build. I'm glad the fingers all good!

Complacency results in more 'accidents' than almost anything else. "I had done that 100 times before."

Turned out really cool. Glad you weren't more seriously hurt.

Love the experiment. Love that you shared your injury with us eventually. Love that you've healed up well!

That's a very cool stand... Awesome job my friend...

Cool build dude!

Glad your thumb is ok...thanks for sharing this build. Enjoyed it and your playing at the end!

I have had the exact same injury, so I know what it looks like 😂. I'm glad you're ok!

Of course you can play the guitar… Great design, but still getting over the sting of the joie-de-vivre God must have felt when you were being assembled ;-) PS glad your main instrument has healed flawlessly!

Glad you’re recovered with what appears minimal long term damage and loved the build. Well done.

This is beautiful. Instantly shot up my list of your fav vids. The walnut and brass is _perfect_ together, and good call abandoning foam for a walnut hook. Looks mint.

You'll be ok, I've smashed both of my thumbs and neither of them have any feeling anymore!! Really nice stand to!!

Beautiful piece of work. Glad to see the thumb is completely healed.

blessing in disguise! now you're more aware and you have a memory for life but your thumb is ok!

Glad the injury wasn’t serious, but also glad that you continued to work with the new physical limitations. It’s a great piece, I don’t play guitar but can appreciate the aesthetic and display of the instrument. Great work as always!

I’ve missed the acoustic music in your videos, sounds great!

My hubby has a guitar stand similar to this and he loves it 😍

Nice Strat!

Thank you for not making me look at the injury. Cool hanger.

The gaskets you can get to go around windows and doors that stick on so they soft close would be perfect to go on the part where the stand contacts the guitar, iy wouldn't be overly gordy and likely unnoticeable when the guitar is on it, while protecting the head.

Regardless how this stand came about, it’s beautiful. Some of my favorite things I’ve made, have been because I had to pivot in my design. Well done.

A nice pass at a first draft. 1 and 3/4 thumbs up.

BEAUTIFUL, my guitar player would wet himself if i got/made this for him. Thank you for soldiering through your injury and putting out this fantastic video. 👍👍 Take care, -Jonny5🥁

"Basic" projects like this can be so beautiful, simple looking yet very enchanting. Thanks for haring this and other grusomes with us. I did a similar chopping thing with a fully sharpened kitchen knife. Still missing part of a fingetip....

Gave my thumb a Deep Dip with a chisel one time. DONT CUT TOWARD YOUR HANDS Had to visit doc. They glued but should have stitched. It healed fine. Significant scar.

I have a strat myself and I have to say this is the (by far) nicest guitar hanger I've ever seen. One day I'll hopefully manage to do something even remotely similar to this.

Glad you are fine and it wasn't any worse. My shop accident was the band saw of all things. Just lost focus for a second and got caught. I am good, but, I certainly won't get complacent again that is for sure. Love the videos and have an awesome day!

Interesting timing as I am building a bass with maple and walnut laminated top and back. Thanks for sharing.

If you wanted to do the wedge base you could do a glue up of the top half with angled grain and then for the bottom you could do long grain going the full length so it would be like a two ply plywood layup with not exactly alternating grain. You could have the glue line at the transition of the small chamfer and since both prices would be end grain on the leading edge it might not be that noticeable. Or you could really lean into the brass walnut materials theme and epoxy the top wedge to a brass plate.

I realize its likely only because the video is about a guitar stand, but I enjoyed the acoustic bit toward the end - took me back to the Foureyes in the garage days. Also, glad you didn't get hurt any worse!

I like the skunk stipe and even the extension on the base - gives the guitar a nice surrounding. Thumbs up for not showing your thumb.

Tip: remove red line from bottom of the video thumbnail... it looks almost exactly as YT line when video is watched :) for a moment I questioned my sanity and almost skipped it

I like the stand you came up with, but I prefer the stand that cradles the guitar around the lower bout and the guitar leans back into the upper cradle.

Glad your hand is okay! Also liked that you went with the walnut and brass over the yellow cord. Would be cool to do a bent all brass version that you could slip the foam protectors onto!

That looked cool. A gift idea for my daughter. Thanks! You might add complacency with belt sander as a good way to f up your thumb too. What about tension rods down each side? You could hide them to retain the slim profile. And it's guitarish.

It's beautiful

My first thought was, oh no, Chris cut his thumb on his table saw. He should have a Saw stop saw. Glad it wasn't too bad. Great project.

Since you asked...I would cut that wedge on the CNC. Either build the same reverse wedge jig you take about and flatten it like you table tops, or attach it to the table and use a ball-nose bit.

Two thumbs up for this! I would like to see a version 2 with more guitar building techniques and woods. Maybe a bookmatched maple droptop with a nice stain or burst. Binding would be cool aswell.

I’ve used leather cord to wrap the hook on my walnut stands. It gives a little padding for the headstock and I feel it compliments walnut very well. Good looking build.

I took a chunk out of my right middle finger with a kitchen mandolin not quite a year ago. I have full function in the finger now, and I can say it hurt some in the moment, but it hurt a lot more the next morning at the urgent care when they peeled off the gauze we'd used to protect the wound. Unlike your thumb, though, the scar tissue is quite visible on my hand.

Great build Chris. The only thing I might change is the material or type of wood for the inlay on the base and vertical holder, but again that's subjective. Amazing simple design. Good to hear you make a successful recovery. I've always hated getting a hand injury, very limiting. Stay safe and look forward to your next story.

Hey Chris, congrats on the work. Sorry for the accident. Maybe in the hanger you could cut some inlays to put a “hidden” pad or rubber where the guitar touches. So the outside would maintain the same look.

The stand is absolutely awsome))))) For the hook, a simple solution would be to attach some foamy material there, or just use the chair leg felt (sold in IKEA). Sold in small pads or in big sheets, so I just cut a stripe of the necessary size. I made a trolley for harp transportation (my daughter plays harp), for the sake of making it lightweight I used plywood, and the spot where harp back of the deck touches the plywood, i just covered with that felt. Looks nice, the felt does not look like smth odd, works perfectly well. In your case just take a black felt. Thanks for your videos 😊

prettiest prototype ever!

Very Nice piece. Now it’s time to get a sliding table saw

I cut the tip of my right middle finger off on a table saw in January of 22 and it didn’t hurt at all. Even after the surgery to clean up the nub that remained it was only slightly uncomfortable if I bumped it into anything. That lasted for a couple of weeks. Now, two years later it hurts pretty bad when it gets cold and it gets really frustrating when I try to tie knots pick up anything small. You never pay attention to how important the tip of your middle finger is until it isn’t there anymore. I’m glad you have no permanent damage. Stay safe. Just thought I’d share that I couldn’t find my push stick and I only had one cut to make so I said “I’ll be fine it’s just one rip cut”. It ended up being half a rip cut that was most definitely not fine. Use your push sticks. I am grateful that it wasn’t worse and I realize how lucky I was.

That stand is absolutely beautiful. To address your concern about the hanger potentially damaging the headstock, I'll agree with others and suggest inlaying thick leather or cork just proud of the surface where the headstock makes contact. I only say inlay so it seems like a feature rather than an afterthought.

I would love to see more smaller project vids. I know they don't turn as big of a profit as the big furniture pieces but, still cool..

I make tapered wood cores for skis using a taper jig just like you proposed for your base. Sending it through the planer is no problem. I even taper to less than ⅛" thick. As long as it's double stick taped to the jig, the planer does just fine.

I had no idea you’re the one who was playing the guitar in your videos. Love the design! I feel like the wood from the headstock and the stand will scuff each other up over time. But in the end (at the risk of sounding super pretentious) that gives character and story to each one. And proves they’re not just looking pretty but also functional and in use.

The first thought I had about making the taper was to use a slab flattening jig and angle the piece. Nice stand, but I personally think the guitar hanger looks a little clunky given the streamlined style of the stand.

Glad your injury was more wake up call than damage! I love the holder. If you have concerns with damaging the guitaer, maybe adding a band of sueded leather to the inside of the holder? that would at least reduce scuffing over time.