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Permalink Reply by gary herget on July 26, 2017 at 12:53am

Anything that will work inside will work  outside too. If the ground is uneven you can build up one side with short pieces of lumber or simply drive one side into the ground a little to level things out. don't over think it just get it done. Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on July 26, 2017 at 4:15am

Always have a way to anchor your canopy. Even if it's not windy people bump into them. 

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on July 26, 2017 at 4:39am

Invest in a couple of good trestle tables, you can easily chock them up with some scraps of plywood if necessary, and set up your racks and merch. on them. Make sure you have a card reader to take payments with your smartphone  - your first sale will cover the outlay.

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Permalink Reply by Hal Robertson on July 26, 2017 at 5:04am

Thanks for the input! Here's a pic of my existing display. It works fine indoors, but kinda worried about how it will perform outdoors. Leveling it would probably be easy. Just need to find a way to really secure the instruments in case of wind. As you can see, they're just sitting on conduit.

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Permalink Reply by Wade on July 28, 2017 at 2:06am

I made wire holders that secure the neck similar to this rough sketch and it holds well and keeps the wind and young ones from accidentally ripping one off the rack. The one leg is longer so it can stay in the hole and the other side simply lifts up a bit and swings out of the way so that you can retrieve your instrument. Hope this helps and good luck.

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Permalink Reply by Grandpa on July 26, 2017 at 5:47am

Hal, I have several display racks (home-built). One similar to yours, a PVC pipe rack (discussed by many in this forum last year), and several regular guitar stands. Outdoors, I erect my pop up, and hang gits around the two sides with bungee cords, wrapped around the tent frame, hooks around two tuning keys. Free real estate, and easily displays 8-10 gits up high, at eye level. Bungee cords take up no storage space, too. I think this is a good addition to my display racks outdoors. Hope this might help.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on July 26, 2017 at 6:10am

bring a roll of chicken wire ,  wrap the back" wall"  or all "walls"  , and you can hang em anywhere  with a jute loop . 

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Permalink Reply by Mark McCann on July 26, 2017 at 10:36pm

Check out Smokee Stringz on social media... he just changed his display with items from ULine.

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Permalink Reply by JL on July 27, 2017 at 1:37am

carry a few scrap squares of plywood to put under each corner of the display stand to prevent it sinking into soft ground, and a few scraps of 1-by and 2-by lumber to shim up a low side.

screw some D-rings or eye bolts onto your display frame in out-of-the-way spots so you can tie on some sandbags, free-weights, cheap ankle/wrist exercise weights, chunks of 6x6, cinderblocks, something to weight it down against wind and clumsy customers.

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Permalink Reply by bigmcgiv on July 28, 2017 at 8:25am

what did you decide to do?

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