So here is my design for a guitar stand. I knocked it up in Sketchup because it is one of the free projects for use with the now immininent 'Cadface' (see earlier posts) to demonstrate just what you can do with it. I had previously designed a guitar stand like a frame structure, similar to an A' frame easel. It took ages, so I went back to basics and thought, cheap materials and a laser cutter or jigsaw. I designed this one based on 12mm plywood (Yes I know it will kill some lasers filters to chew their way through 12mm Far Eastern WBP smoky glue bond cheapo ply..) where everything was contained within one shape. Realistically it would be better if the pegs holding the guitar were 22mm dowel, but this also works.
Now I am just Waiting for the first GCSE project to come along, using CadFace, that bears an awfully similar appearance to this... How far removed from this design will tell us how inspired rather than copied the student has been working, andwhether the teacher is aware of my version, how high a mark they will get!
As for me, I first saw this idea on the wall of my Furniture Design tutors office where he had created an arch top folding chair out of a single sheet of plywood, cut with a jigsaw, and with all pieces already in place.... Influence or Copying? (And his chair was much better than this stand!)
