Chord 5 Bass/Guitar Stand Rack

[KiOgon]

I just bought a 5 space Guitar Rack/Stand made by Chord, £16.99 + £4.68 P&P, IMHO excellent value - couldn't make one for that!

It was delivered next day, I received an email advising a delivery slot of 16:01 to 17:01 & the knock on the door was - 16:01, absolutely brilliant, why can't all couriers be like that?

Packed in a 'strong enough' plain box, with a picture on the label, which is useful - 'cos there's no assembly instructions/picture/guide. Inside are 7 main parts, (some of the work is already done), with a bag of nuts, bolts, washers & spacers. The top rail is assembled with hinged ends + the neck supports, the top & bottom rails have nice smooth yet firm foam fitted apparently glued in place which is good.
No tools required BTW, all hand tightened fittings.

You don't have to be a genius to work out how it goes together, but some previous experience - perhaps with MFI flatpack furniture - might help . 1/2 hour max! If you're still struggling after that, go down the pub!

A couple of minor issues, there's 2 types of "bolts with knobs on", 2 long & 2 short of each, with no indication of where they should fit I used the roundheads on the hinged parts at the bottom & the ovalheads on the top adjustable height part, seems right to me. Also a pain - the 4 "coach bolts" to secure the lower rail to the feet are all the same length, but the front rail is meant to be raised on 2 plastic spacers to give a slight angle to the way the guitars sit. With the spacers in place the 2 bolts are not long enough to get the wingnuts on so I ended up substituting a couple of M8 nuts for the spacers & all's well.

I found on assembly the bottom rails both needed to be "the same way" or they pulled the frame out of square. The Height adjustable top section I thought fine at it's lowest setting, this leaves the neck support at approx the 7th fret (on a P bass) with plenty of room beneath for the body/horns.

Verdict:
Quite substantial, well made, good materials, decent coat of black paint, nice firm rubber covered touching points, easy access, plenty of space for 5 normal (P bass) size & shape basses. Takes up a lot less area than 5 separate stands! Easy to sling a cover over the whole lot to keep dust off, imagine the barmaid putting a towel over the pumps at time gentlemen please!

It will of course hold other body shapes, Jazzes + other irregular shapes sit comfortably enough, but IMO it's best suited to a collection of mostly P basses so my 1 Jazz is out on it's own stand, in the corner, with a gnome!

Recommended, Overall = 9.5/10
Useful 10, Value for money 10, Budget Price 10.
Ease of assembly 9, Finish 9, Materials 9, Design 9.

Cheerz, John (Please excuse my crap photography)

[Shire]

Thanks for the review! It made me buy one a couple of days ago. Arrived less than 24 hours later and had no instructions but if you look at the picture on the website its all pretty straight forward

For the price I thoroughly recommend them too. They do exactly the same as the stands that are double the price.

[dudewheresmybass]

was it an ebay buy?

[Shire]

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' post='1089485' date='Jan 14 2011, 04:11 PM']was it an ebay buy?[/quote]

No, I got mine from here:

[url="http://www.djmmusic.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=180-167"]http://www.djmmusic.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=180-167[/url]

Very fast delivery and the courier supplies a time slot when they will arrive (they'll give you an hour window)

I'll get some pictures of mine tonight

[jantheman]

Just to resurrect an old thread...instructions can be found [url="http://www.djmmusic.com/mmDJM/Multimedia/180167%20Setup.pdf"]HERE[/url]