1" Tube - 6" Length
PVC - Standard PVC
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Make a budget friendly guitar rack with PVC Pipes!
You have just landed on the best DIY guitar rack step-by-step guide that will save you money and is very easy to build. All you need are a few pipes and PVC tees and elbows. It will look incredible in your home or recording studio. A perfect PVC project for new DIYers or experienced builders.
This PVC guitar rack is 42” wide and it supports 5 guitars, but you can adjust it according to your needs. We also recommend giving it a perfect finish with your favorite plastic spray paint.
Ideal for: Guitars and electric guitars.
Let’s start with this new PVC project that will give order to your musical space! Let’s do it!
Instructions
A note before starting -
Please understand - the below diagrams are genuinely and carefully designed to help you navigate the build process. However, we don’t include specific recommendations for which tools, hardware, or products to use. These truly are “DIY” designs.
As such – a significant portion of the build-process will be up to you, the builder. So please know, there is no “right” or “wrong” way to assemble any of our designs! If you need to depart from the instructions, or rearrange things along the way, feel free to.
The only thing we ask: please be safe and use glasses and gloves while building. And of course, there’s no shame in asking an expert for help or seeking guidance from your local professionals at any time.
And please: enjoy the process!
The construction process begins with the help of our parts list, which will measure each section of pipe that you will need for this project. This part of the process may be a little laborious and time-consuming, but I assure you that the final result will be worth it.
After you have measured all your pieces and cut them precisely, make sure to clean them very carefully.
We will begin by assembling the upper part of this project, which consists of joining a 90-degree elbow with a length of 3-inch pipe and this is attached to a one-inch T.
Then we take a 5.5-inch section and glue it to this same T and at the other end of the tube we are going to glue another 1-inch T, and we do exactly the same with the next section. This part is a bit repetitive so it will take you very little time to do it.
Basically it is about joining a section of 5.5 inches to a T and then another section of 5.5 inches to another T and so on until completing the 5 sections of 5.5 inches to the 6 T's of one inch just as you are seeing on the image below.
When you have glued the last T, just add a 90-degree elbow to the last 3-inch section.
And with this we will have finished the first stage of the upper part of our project.
After this we are going to prepare our 6-inch tubes to which the 1-inch caps will be attached to one end. We will repeat this process a total of 6 times.
And when you have finished joining the tubes with the caps, we are going to bring the assembly that we made previously to the table and we are going to start gluing each 6-inch tube with its cap on each T that we assembled previously.
And when you have finished gluing the last piece in place the top part of our project will be complete.
Now we will focus on the base of our guitar rack which consists of gluing a 3-inch section of tube to a 90-degree elbow and a 1-inch T, to this T we will glue a 3-inch tube, then to this this 3-inch section we will attach a T and to this T we will attach a 7-inch pipe and at the other end of the pipe we are going to attach another one-inch T to which we are going to glue a section of pipe. 3¨ to which we are going to glue a 90 degree elbow. And the process is the same for the other part of the base, when you have both completed the result looks like this.
Then we are going to concentrate on joining these two assemblies that we just made. We are going to achieve this with two 42-inch tubes that we are going to glue right on the 2 intermediate T's of our bases.
When you have finished gluing both ends of the 42-inch pipes, the result looks like this. With this we will have finished the base of our project.
Now we will concentrate on the backrest, which consists of gluing a 10-inch section and a 15-inch section to a one-inch T and we will repeat the same process a second time, when you have finished we will join both assemblies with a pipe of 42 inches that is glued to the intermediate T's of both assemblies. The backrest should look like the images below.
Now we are going to assemble all the groups of parts we built before. Glue the upper part and backrest section to the base. Make sure that each element fits perfectly and that it is very well glued. With this stage completed our project should look like the image above.
For the finishing touches, prepare your spray paint, it's time to give the final finish to our project.
This is perhaps the most fun part of all! Make sure you paint every edge and every end so that not a single inch is left unpainted.
Once everything was glued and painted, the result should look as the image below.
How did you feel about this project?
Did you enjoy the process?
I hope you did, just as I did. Tag us on your Tik Tok account - I'd love to see the colors you chose for your set of guitars!
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