LUTHIERY FIXTURE

摘要

A luthiery fixture or tool provides for a guitar or other stringed instrument to be rotationally supported and securely held above a surface, such as a work bench. The fixture is especially configured to support instruments having differing body dimensions.

主权项

1. A luthiery fixture for resting upon a support surface and rotationally holding a stringed musical instrument having a body and a neck portion extending from the body, said luthiery fixture defining a rotation axis extending along a stringed face of the stringed instrument generally coincident with and extending along the neck of the stringed instrument and adjacent to the stringed face of the stringed instrument, said luthiery fixture further providing for retaining the stringed instrument in selected rotational positions about said rotation axis and above the support surface; said luthiery fixture including a beam member adjustably spacing apart a pair of upright support members; a first of said upright support members upwardly terminating in an arcuate, upwardly opening stirrup portion defining an arcuate support surface upon which a neck portion of the musical instrument may reside in rotational support, a second of said upright support members upwardly terminating in a clamping device for non-rotationally engaging the body of the stringed instrument, said clamping device and said second upright support member cooperatively defining a rotational locking feature allowing the body of the stringed instrument to be rotated relative to said second upright support member and relative to the support surface and to be selectively locked in a desired rotational position.