Traveling Music Stand
Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 7:01 pm
The Mauswerk Design Traveling Music Stand
03/28/14 Will Reyer
Back in November some of the locals came out and we played acoustic music for 3 hours on a Friday night in my shop. They all arrived carrying ring binders with song lyrics and chords, except the obvious technologist of the group, who had his on an electronic tablet. I've got 3 big ring binders full myself. Nobody had a music stand, though, and the older I get the more useful the books of lyrics are.
Before the next after-hours picking party at the local guitar store then, I got around and quick cobbled up a portable stand out of some 3/16” masonite pieces I had on hand. This started out as a 5 minute project but went through several iterations before it got to be useful design.
A 4x8 ft sheet will make 3 stands. 3/16” masonite works fine. 5mm or 6mm underlayment plywood also works, is lighter but flimsier and has splinters that require sanding. You also will need a 1x2x6.
The uprights are 16” wide and 24” and 32” high on the sides. They're held together with nylon wire ties through 5/16” holes centered in 3/4” from the short edge. On the slanted tops, make protruding tabs starting 3” from the high points and 3” long, sticking up 3/8”.
The slanted notebook table is 12” x 24”, masonite or plywood. The ledge at the bottom of the table that holds the ring binder is 3/4”x 1”x24” pine. Both parts attached with 3-#6x1” fine thread sheetrock screws through #8 flat washers and aliphatic resin (yellow) glue.
The slots for the tabs on the uprights should be 1/8” wider than the thickness of the materials you're using for the uprights, because the parts mate at an angle, not 90 degrees. Drill holes of that diameter 3” apart on centers and cut along lines between the holes tangent to the diameters. If you lay the three pieces together upside down it's pretty easy to see where to locate the slots.
03/28/14 Will Reyer
Back in November some of the locals came out and we played acoustic music for 3 hours on a Friday night in my shop. They all arrived carrying ring binders with song lyrics and chords, except the obvious technologist of the group, who had his on an electronic tablet. I've got 3 big ring binders full myself. Nobody had a music stand, though, and the older I get the more useful the books of lyrics are.
Before the next after-hours picking party at the local guitar store then, I got around and quick cobbled up a portable stand out of some 3/16” masonite pieces I had on hand. This started out as a 5 minute project but went through several iterations before it got to be useful design.
A 4x8 ft sheet will make 3 stands. 3/16” masonite works fine. 5mm or 6mm underlayment plywood also works, is lighter but flimsier and has splinters that require sanding. You also will need a 1x2x6.
The uprights are 16” wide and 24” and 32” high on the sides. They're held together with nylon wire ties through 5/16” holes centered in 3/4” from the short edge. On the slanted tops, make protruding tabs starting 3” from the high points and 3” long, sticking up 3/8”.
The slanted notebook table is 12” x 24”, masonite or plywood. The ledge at the bottom of the table that holds the ring binder is 3/4”x 1”x24” pine. Both parts attached with 3-#6x1” fine thread sheetrock screws through #8 flat washers and aliphatic resin (yellow) glue.
The slots for the tabs on the uprights should be 1/8” wider than the thickness of the materials you're using for the uprights, because the parts mate at an angle, not 90 degrees. Drill holes of that diameter 3” apart on centers and cut along lines between the holes tangent to the diameters. If you lay the three pieces together upside down it's pretty easy to see where to locate the slots.