Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I have used The ultimate guitar stands for about 3 or 4 years now and always leave my basses out in the stands, have had no problems at all. On the other hand be careful with new shirts and white, light colored or mapleglo Rics, I stained two different basses on hot nights playing with new shirts. The die goes in never to come out again. The Ric manual warns of this BTW.

Lee's message is a bit ambiguous so let me emphasize that we haven't used any nitrocellulose since 1958- only conversion varnish.

Paul is correct: cloth, leather, any porous material really, will eventually become plasticizer saturated from an underlying material. It certainly slows it down but it's not an end all solution. Maybe a polyethylene bag would be in order under that protective cloth?

I once had an Ultimate stand that was very kind to the guitar. The supporting feet, on the other hand, succeeded in burning black spots into quite expensive carpeting! You can't win.

I've been lucky ... I've never had an instrument damaged from being in a stand ... but back in the early 70's before I had any stands I had a Hofner copy fall over and crack the headstock ... I have one stand that is over 20 years old and the rubber tubing material is still fine

I have a guitar stand that I bought back in the '70's. The original surgical rubber tubing that was on in fell apart years ago so I replaced it with black Gates fuel hose of the appropriate diameter. I capped the ends with rubber vacuum caps to finish it off. It's lasted almost 15 years now and hasn't left a mark on any of my basses.

Good solution. No plasticizers in the black hose, last forever and ozone proof, unlike gum rubber surgical tubing. And you never know when that tri-power GTO out in the garage might need a short length of fuel hose!

Good stuff, that fuel line. I once fixed a split tent pole with a short length of it. That was about 15 years ago, and it's still holding fast.

In my case that would be a '66 Skylark running a 350 Buick Stage II with a 750 Holley.

Another short term solution is Dr. Sholls mole skin. Yes, some weird bandage type material.
It has an adhesive back to it. You can buy a pack that has 4 squares of material for a couple bucks.
You can cut the strips to fit, and pull the back off to expose the adhesive and simple tape it on. I have been using it for a while now without any problems. I don't leave my basses sit on stands for a long period of time however.

Weird bondage-type material, Bob?

I'm not going there...

What could be any better on Valentines Day

I've got some fuel line in my garage - from when some young lads stole the gas out of my
pick-em-up - good idea!!

String Swings! If you got wall! Been hanging my guitars, some from the 60's and 70's with delicate Nitro finishes for years on these things with no ill effects.