So, my wife is shopping for a guitar.

[watelessness]

So, my wife is shopping for a guitar. She doesnt play.

We're in the process of selling our house and will have moved out before we put it on the market. I am leaving behind my studio slat wall but obviously I'm taking all my guitar hangers. She is concerned that perspective buyers would not know what to do with slat wall so she wants to accessorize the wall as part of her staging process - shelves, various hooks, etc. Ok, whatever.

"So, which of your guitars can we leave on the wall?"
And NOW i'm engaged.

After contemplating a buyer walking off with a guitar, or worse, grubby-handed children pawing a guitar like they were loose in Guitar Center, i easily answered "none of my *current* guitars will remain on that wall".

She was fine with that answer and set about shopping for cheap guitars. Then she discovered that guitars can sometimes look like wall art and announces that she might even start decorating the new house with artsy guitars. Suddenly I am engaged once again, and begin to decry how cheap guitars typically have really horrible intonation, but if a guitar is hanging on a wall in a room I am very likely to pull it off the wall and start trying to play. What a horrible dilemma.

What are my odds of parlaying this scenario into something useful that also meets her decorative requirements?

 

[DISTORT6]

Don’t fall for the new shoes and purses to match the guitars ruse!

 

[loocnmad]

Epiphone 339. They look classy, built solid to play and sound great, plus they’re cheap and easy to find both new and used.

 

[dogrocketp]

Used SE. win/win.

 

[bodia]

You gotta play this one out!

 

[Deleted member 47113]

Its a wall art piece, go onto the internet and grab something that looks good sub $200. You never have to do anything more to it than unwrap it and hang it up.

 

[veinbuster]

Sounds fun.
I might get cheap guitars for staging, but for decorating my own house, I would get things I wanted to play.

 

[Moondog Wily]

Luna has some inexpensive guitars that I think are cool art pieces. There is one on Amazon for $225 called the "Henna Dragon". Some of the other ones are more expensive, but there are some good looking pieces in the $200-300 range IMO!! I also second the motion for an SE. Daves Guitar always has a good selection of those both new and used and of course the upside is, you will enjoy playing it!!! I can not say the same for the Luna stuff as I have never tried one ;~)) Do note, you are beyond engaged, you are married!!!!

 

[SinSir]

How many guitars are we talking? Personally I'd grab some cheaper mainstream staples, aka LP, Strat, and/or tele. Buyers may know those and maybe that will be the connection needed for proper staging and a conversation starter. The Squier classic vibe line is solid for Fender or even a MIM. Epi or something for the LP. Maybe even step up to an Eastman SB or Heritage, maybe even a LP Studio? All solid instruments worth a play.

Of course being the PRS junkies we are.. Is there a se(s) at Daves you wanna check out?

 

[DISTORT6]

PLAYABLE art!

 

[Rocketscientist90]

Functionally, the question is mainly who is it for. Its there for the prospective buyers only.
I'd separate the wall art guitar for the house you are selling from the one you might have in your new home.

As @SinSir says a more mainstream guitar will serve well for the prospective buyers to give them an idea of how to use that wall. Grab a 100 USD strat and be done with it. If you ask a non guitarist to draw a guitar, they will probably draw an acoustic or a strat..

For your new home, there are already some nice suggestions above

 

[d^rren]

If you're concerned about somebody walking away with a guitar on a hanger, a couple of zip ties will act as a decent enough deterrent.

 

[SinSir]

Hercules hangers have keyed locks you can pick up for that polished and functional look.

 

[Dasher]

I've been in this exact same place - started cheap but in the end it had to be something that fit the task but that I would play later. That's how my Explorer appeared! Funny thing is, I would probably never had bought an Explorer but it's been a 'most played' over the years. I've had it years - it was actually pretty cheap at the time - no-one wanted a 70s white one that was no longer 'white'! Funny how times change! The explorer did look good on the wall. (I tried this trick twice - but never pulled off the "V"!

 

[Bogner]

Buy A New York Studio Apartment. It Will Cost A Million Bucks And Only Be 800 Square Feet So You Will Have Little Wall Space. At That Point You Will Want To Make It Look Nice So A Really Nice Guitar Is Your Only Answer/Solution To Such A Dilemma.

 

[DRO]

I don't hang my players. I put too much work into the setup, to let the weather screw up all my work.
Besides, when I want to take one to a gig or to the studio, I don't want to have to spend hours on the setup again.
I have a Chibson Alex Lifeson ES Les Pau.l hanging in my living room.
It looks good, but I have no intention of trying to play it.

 

[watelessness]

I don't hang my players. I put too much work into the setup, to let the weather screw up all my work.
Besides, when I want to take one to a gig or to the studio, I don't want to have to spend hours on the setup again.
I have a Chibson Alex Lifeson ES Les Pau.l hanging in my living room.
It looks good, but I have no intention of trying to play it.

Now that is fascinating. I hang everything. I can almost always pick one off the wall and it is still in tune. I do keep the environmentals in my studio pretty constant, regardless of season

 

[The Bird]

I think this is a good time for her to be introduced to vintage Gibsons.

 

[Deleted member 47113]

I don't hang my players. I put too much work into the setup, to let the weather screw up all my work.
Besides, when I want to take one to a gig or to the studio, I don't want to have to spend hours on the setup again.
I have a Chibson Alex Lifeson ES Les Pau.l hanging in my living room.
It looks good, but I have no intention of trying to play it.

What part of the world do you live in? I hang a good portion of my guitars. I'm fortunate that living in southern Ca our weather is pretty consistent. I can let a guitar hang for a month and it will either be in tune or only a couple cents off.

 

[watelessness]

What part of the world do you live in? I hang a good portion of my guitars. I'm fortunate that living in southern Ca our weather is pretty consistent. I can let a guitar hang for a month and it will either be in tune or only a couple cents off.

southern delaware, sort of near the coast