A guitar wall mount that hides its screws, uploaded September 23

Guitar wall storage is a priced category rather than a hobby project. String Swing sells its CC11 hanger for $18.99 against a $22.79 list price, and Hercules lists its wood-base Auto Grip hanger at $27.49. 12 Both figures come from the makers' own stores and were read on September 26, 2026. Both products are steel.

Guitar Wall Mount by Teun_J is a printable version of the same product, published on Thingiverse on September 23, 2026. 3 Two printed parts make up the whole thing: a wall mounting plate, and the hanger that carries the instrument. The hanger slides down onto the plate along a dovetail joint, and the seated hanger covers the mounting screws completely.

The licence answers the first question a seller asks. The listing carries CC BY-SA 4.0, whose terms grant the right to "copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially" and to "remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially." 4 The grant covers commercial selling outright, and the obligation attached to it is attribution.

One question stays open through all of that, and it decides the product: how much weight the printed part holds. A mount carries an instrument worth many times its own cost, and a seller answers for that long after the sale. Settle the load path first, and everything else about this pick is routine.

The design works as two printed parts and a joint between them. The wall plate fixes to the wall with screws. The hanger's dovetail drops over that plate from above, and the instrument hangs from the hanger's two uprights. Because the hanger wraps the plate on its way down, the screw heads finish up inside the assembly and the installed mount reads as one piece of plastic against the wall.

The listing ships the plate in two versions, and and you pick one of them. 3

The channel's own drawing of the two plate versions and the dovetail, built from the hole spacing and the assembly order the designer published with the model. The listing carries no photograph of the printed part.

Open the listing on Thingiverse and take the files through the site's own download flow, which needs a free account. Thingiverse hands files over that way, so the listing page is the acquisition route. The listing also identifies its two parts by role, as a wall mounting plate and a guitar hanger, and leaves their filenames to the download itself.

The designer published settings alongside the model. The table starts with those and marks the editorial additions.

Print time lands somewhere around 7 to 12 hours for a plate and a hanger at 0.12 mm with the wall count above. The listing omits print times, so this is an editorial estimate.

Filament runs an estimated 90 to 160 g of PETG for the pair, which lands near $2 to $4 at current PETG prices.

Difficulty is intermediate. The slicing is easy and the assembly is one sliding joint. The work sits at the wall, in choosing the fixing and proving the part.

The designer's own assembly instructions are short: fix the plate with heavy-duty wall plugs and screws, check that it is level, then slide the hanger down the dovetail until it seats. 3 The level check earns its place, because the hanger only travels vertically and a plate set out of level tilts the instrument with it.

The load path runs through the plate's fixings, and there a printed part separates from the steel competition. String Swing publishes a recommended weight limit of 15 lb (about 6.8 kg) or less for its steel CC11 hanger, and its instructions tell you to use the supplied plastic toggles when no stud is found and to leave the supplied hardware in the box on concrete or brick. 1 That bracket is factory-made steel with a lifetime structural warranty and a stated number. A printed plate arrives with its weight limit still to be established.

Two things follow for a seller. Fix into a stud wherever the customer's wall allows it, and where that is impossible, use a fixing rated well above the weight of the instrument rather than the plug that came in a picture-hanging kit. Then prove the part before you sell one: hang a weight at roughly twice the mass of the heaviest instrument you intend to support for 72 hours, and inspect the dovetail seat and the screw bosses afterwards for whitening, cracks or permanent bend. A test article that survives that run is the only evidence you will have.

Priced against the incumbents, a printed hanger has room at $12 to $20, sitting under the $18.99 String Swing and the $27.49 Hercules. 1 Material runs $2 to $4 a set, which leaves a gross margin near 80 % before your labour, packing and shipping. The width of that margin comes from the part being small and the price being set by steel.

Two features sell it. The 60 mm two-hole plate matches the spacing of small wall lights and European junction boxes, so a customer can hang a guitar on holes that already exist in their wall. Colour is the second: PETG comes in a wider range than the black and white the steel hangers offer.

The incumbents hold advantages your listing has to answer, and a published weight limit is the first of them. A structural warranty is the second. The Hercules range adds a locking yoke that grabs the instrument on contact. 2 Write the rating you actually proved into your product page.

Buyers are straightforward. Home players with more than one instrument and a wall to fill are the core. Teaching studios and rehearsal rooms buy several at once. Gift buyers pick one out for a guitarist they know. Demand is the unproven part: the model was three days old when this was written, with only its publication date behind it. 3

CC BY-SA 4.0 is the licence class that already permits commercial use. "Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially" covers selling printed mounts, and "Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially" covers any changes a seller makes to suit their own production. 4

The conditions are the other half of it. Attribution requires appropriate credit, a link to the licence, and a note of any changes you made. ShareAlike applies when you "remix, transform, or build upon the material", and it sends those contributions out under the same licence. Read the condition as it is written and the practical line sits here: credit Teun_J and link the model page on your product page or your packaging insert, and if you rework the file and pass the reworked file on, that file carries CC BY-SA as well. ShareAlike reaches the file; the printed object you sell is a separate act. 5

Prototype this one if you sell into the guitar market, and settle the load path before the first listing. The licence costs nothing and gives a seller all the permission the work needs, the two plate versions make an easy variant to offer, and the margin on a small PETG part is wide.

Then run the test that makes it sellable: fix a plate into a stud, hang twice the weight of your heaviest target instrument from it for 72 hours, and inspect the dovetail and the screw bosses afterwards. Demand is the part nobody has proven yet, and your own first sample is the number that settles it.