Agree about Mario suggestions - good ones - but I needed a lot more than a few so I have these (in cherry -pics below) they can hold guitars at angles or flat as mentioned by Bob

http://diamondlifegear.com/guitar_hanger_mx.html?gclid=CjwKEAiAiZK1BRD509nPsYiUk2YSJAAMoAwCIVguAjP9G4n9_w1pCC4T18VOgkrmLXOx9hCnIwgdaxoCiufw_wcB

I have an 8 foot section and a 4 foot section (cherry - pics later).

I put these up a few years ago after I got tired of tripping over cases, many individual single stands, or multiple multiple-guitar floor holders like Mario pointed to (they are really nice but they eat up the floor space and in the one room my wife allows me, floor space is at premium I also have amps, keyboards on multiple stands, shelves for books, other accessorizes,...)

I hate it when I want an acoustic 6 or 12 string or a nylon, or Roland GK configured ax, or the LP or SG, or a gypsy jazz, finding and digging out the right case - etc. was a PITA plus by the time I'd go get that particular ax I'd lose all mental momentum.

My guitars have been out "in the open" to the harmful environment my entire life, and for last 35+ years here in the very, very dry high desert of New Mexico.

It's dry in summer and BONE dry in winter because we have forced air gas heat in my house!

I DO run a small house humidifier in front room

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Sunbeam-3-23-gal-Cool-Mist-Console-Humidifier-SCM3609P-UM/202046485

in winter (because of my sinuses and skin and static- not because of guitars) by the time humidity gets to my room keeps it about 30 (avg) - 40 (max) %. and in summer we run a swamp cooler in heat of day - so humidity climbs to very HIGH in day time and drys out again at night.

My 1968 ES-335 (bought new by my) spent 5 years with me "unprotected" in Taiwan, Viet Nam, Thailand, and Philippines (talk about humidity and temps). Then it went from P.I. to Upper Michigan (in Dec - I was in temp shock) for 4 years in another very dry environment in winter (forced air oil heat in USAF base housing with outside temps in the minus teens for a lot of the winter).

Bottom line all my guitars are FINE!


Here are pics of wall mounts and most of my guitars (the head stock you see in the foreground on floor is a gypsy ax). Mess on desk in my "studio" is because I'm in middle of taxes, a guitar mod, some consulting work, and I'm generally disorganized anyway.


EDIT

Forgot to add - Yes I have to dust them (besides standard "dust" we get a lot of blowing sand in spring and the finest of it (almost like mica/talcum) gets into house and coats everything - so we are always dusting - everything!

I use to keep each guitar in a cotton pillow case (slip down over headstock) but putting up my '89 Stratocaster Plus, about a year ago, I wasn't paying attention and when I set it in the headstock holder the pillow case caught on the foam over the holder fork and the guitar was NOT fully in the fork - and because of pillow case I didn't see it.

Yes, I should have felt it wasn't seated properly but as I said I wasn't paying attention.

Result: I thought it was in, left go, turned my back, then I heard a sickening crash - it hit one of my slide rule carousels (seen in bottom left of first pic) that tipped it over and hit floor- headstock first. It cracked the headstock vertically through two of the tuning pegs. Luckily I found a good luthier and it was repaired and you'd never know it was cracked.

So I took all pillow cases off - I might put them back since dust is a big thing here.

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