I have what many would consider to be a
good problem to have: too many guitars!
The number currently stands at 18, with 9 of them having been made by Uncle Mats his self. Actually, it ain't so much too many guitars as too many guitar
cases and I'm seriously running out of creative ways to deal with them.
I have a small'sh but serviceable music room which I've had to "share" with my son, who was beaten and whipped into playing piano for his Royal Conservatory of Music certification. He mostly disliked it all (classical you know) but ended up with his Grade 7 level. All this by way of indicating that one side of the room has his digital piano, plus a synthesizer, and my old keyboard...plus some of my amp gear...plus speakers for my little PA....plus my son's guitar on a stand (he's still taking lessons).
The long wall of the room has end to end shelving which holds: books(!); more amps up against the wall under the bottom most shelf; small stereo amp / CD player / speakers; odds and ends; and, the PA amplifier!
On the "guitar" side of the room, I have a mic set up in the middle of the room on a boom stand, and behind that a 3-tree guitar stand plus a single stand, and my '65 Danelectro amp. Finally, starting behind the door and running the remaining length of the wall are...
cases!!
Typically, I rotate my guitars four at a time, maybe once a week, which of course means pulling out the appropriate empty cases from the stack, returning the current guitars and taking out the replacements. It's a royal pain in the arse, and the wall is getting scuffed as well.
Being mostly "vintage" guitars they come with an assortment of case styles too which makes it doubly hard to manage. I have everything from big ugly rectangular hard shells to custom hard shells, to "tear drops", to gig bags. I'd really love to put them all into padded gig bags, but I have too many custom cases (Gibson, Westone, Ovation) to do that completely.
I considered hanging the guitars on the wall, but:
a) not enough space! the only wall long enough to handle them all is already covered up
b) the room is not climate controlled so potential damage is possible, especially to the acoustics
c) I don't want to do major surgery to the room
So, I'm open to ideas! What do
you do with those %^#*& cases!?