EDIT: Gizmo has arrived. New photo and happy me.

[Jim Soloway]

EDIT: I ordered a Guitarlift on Tuesday. It arrived from Montreal in two days. A quick test and a quick and easy adjustment and the position is absolutely perfect. It should work just as well with my acoustic.

Professional Medium - Revolutionize Your Guitar Play

This is the stock photo


This is me with the Guitarlift in place and a smile on my face.

[Tim Clark]

Good move. I have a different but similar lifting device; without it I would have been unable to continue playing guitar.

[Skip Ellis]

I thought you ordered a Sageworks recently

[Jim Soloway]

I thought you ordered a Sageworks recently

I did but after a month it's not here and no one has any idea when it's going to arrive. Life is too short for that.

[docsteve]

Good choice. I love mine. Great with the old Tele, too. I tried one at a friend's and bought it on the spot.

My Martin has a matte finish and my archtop a nitro finish and an arched back. The suction cups don't stick on either, unfortunately.

[RJVB]

I'm sticking with my DeOros for now because I can leave them on inside my gigbags, but I have indeed been ogling the GL because it should give so much more control over the exact position.

my archtop a nitro finish and an arched back. The suction cups don't stick on either, unfortunately.

That's strange, I have a DeOro support semi-permanently attached to the nitro finish of my archtop, and that rarely gives problems. It also has an Armadillo armrest which does get loose from time to time, undoubtedly because the load on them is different.

Do you have the optional extenders (or whatever the are) for using the GL on an archback?

FWIW, DeOro sell a special low-tack (i.e. not just clinging electrostatically) foil to put on top of uncooperative finish so suction cups hold. I use that one 1 guitar. Applied properly (without bubbles) all you see from a (small) distance is a patch of glossy instead of matte finish. I expect I'd be using it even on a back that doesn't need it - as a reminder of where all those succers go!

[Jim Soloway]

I thought you ordered a Sageworks recently

Turns out that I made the right decision. I called the dealer for the Sageworks today to cancel and it turned out that the order had been lost and they were now looking at another 6 weeks. The GuitarLift is scheduled to arrive tomorrow, two days after I ordered it from a dealer in Montreal.

[RJVB]

How non-slip is the padded part for you?

[Woody Sound]

Looks great for your position.

[Jim Soloway]

How non-slip is the padded part for you?

Very. This thing is really stable, even with the weight of a solid body.

[Jim Soloway]

Looks great for your position.

It really is. Now if only the progressive lenses in my glasses worked as well. I'm actually experimenting with playing with no glasses at all. It may actually be better and my vision is terrible.

[srs]

EDIT: I ordered a Guitarlift on Tuesday. It arrived from Montreal in two days. A quick test and a quick and easy adjustment and the position is absolutely perfect. It should work just as well with my acoustic.

Professional Medium - Revolutionize Your Guitar Play

This is the stock photo


This is me with the Guitarlift in place and a smile on my face.

It looks like you've obtained a very comfortable playing position with the Guitarlift. It's an added bonus that you can use it with a solid body electric because the Sageworks you had on order wasn't designed for that. Did you purchase the medium Guitarlift and would you consider posting a photo showing it attached to guitar from the back? I'm curious to see that perspective. Guitarlift's sales options sure have grown since I looked at them last. Discomfort from the transfer of the guitar weight to the thigh must have been raised because now they offer this as a solution.

[Donnd]

Jim,

Thanks for posting. This looks ideal for my playing. I grew up playing classical guitar using an elevated left leg…..I struggle trying to play my jazz guitars using the same position! Most of the better supports are only designed for the width of a classical guitar. In the event of suction cup failure, it looks like the guitar would just fall harmlessly straight down to the leg.

[Jim Soloway]

It looks like you've obtained a very comfortable playing position with the Guitarlift. It's an added bonus that you can use it with a solid body electric because the Sageworks you had on order wasn't designed for that. Did you purchase the medium Guitarlift and would you consider posting a photo showing it attached to guitar from the back? I'm curious to see that perspective. Guitarlift's sales options sure have grown since I looked at them last. Discomfort from the transfer of the guitar weight to the thigh must have been raised because now they offer this as a solution.

Mine is the medium size.

You can see in this photo that I've adjusted it for maximum lift by raising the lower cups, especially the one nearest the top of the body. That also increased the angle.

My first impression was that it did create some discomfort on the leg and I tried putting a towel under it. That worked but rubber rest is longer than the edge of the plate so later I tried shifting the rest forward so the extra rummer was mostly at the front and that made it much better. I played a 2 hour gig with no break on Friday afternoon with it and there was no discomfort with it at all.



Here's a better photo

[Jim Soloway]

Jim,

Thanks for posting. This looks ideal for my playing. I grew up playing classical guitar using an elevated left leg…..I struggle trying to play my jazz guitars using the same position! Most of the better supports are only designed for the width of a classical guitar. In the event of suction cup failure, it looks like the guitar would just fall harmlessly straight down to the leg.

Hard to imagine these cups failing. I don't know how they will work on the contoured back of an archtop but on my Mustang, they are REALLY stuck on there solidly. There are little tabs on the suctions cups and you can only get them off by pulling on the tab.

[0zoro]

Jim

Is there any more specific name to the Guitarlift model you are now playing with?

I have had a look at their home page in Germany and am unsure about models there. The idea very much appeals to me as my shoulder and back are tiring of the strap and the crossed leg is not the best alternative. Will your model adapt reasonably easy to either left or right leg? I also noticed what seems like an extra cushion where the lift meets the leg, is this an addition or a specific model? Any additional info would be appreciated. Thanks

[RJVB]

I don't know how they will work on the contoured back of an archtop but on my Mustang, they are REALLY stuck on there solidly.

As mentioned above, they sell a kit for use on archback guitars (apparently they want to sell to Smallman or Cabaret owners too ). It's hard to tell from the images if those are just raisers of if they also have some mechanism for letting the cups adopt the ideal angle. That angle could be important given how the guitar weight loads the cups.

he idea very much appeals to me as my shoulder and back are tiring of the strap and the crossed leg is not the best alternative. Will your model adapt reasonably easy to either left or right leg?

Do you want to be able to change legs while playing? In that case you could have a look at the DeOro flamenco model which is designed for just that. I have one (with the optional wide strap) on my Loar and it matches the height of the rims perfectly (I put it on very slightly askew but that's probably not really necessary and only because I prefer to put the single cup against the lower edge rather than in the centre.)

I know several people who have an ErgoPlay. The cups on them look to be of a lesser quality but they have a less important role as the device doesn't depend on them to keep its shape (and the guitar rests *on* them, rather than hangs off them). But it's probably more suitable for someone who always plays in the same position.

[Jim Soloway]

Jim

Is there any more specific name to the Guitarlift model you are now playing with?

I have had a look at their home page in Germany and am unsure about models there. The idea very much appeals to me as my shoulder and back are tiring of the strap and the crossed leg is not the best alternative. Will your model adapt reasonably easy to either left or right leg? I also noticed what seems like an extra cushion where the lift meets the leg, is this an addition or a specific model? Any additional info would be appreciated. Thanks

This is the one that I bought. I'm afraid I didn't know anything about the extra cushion until I saw it posted here. I believe it's an add on accessory but last Friday I played a 2 hour gig with it with no breaks and I was very comfortable. I did adjust the pad forward which made it more comfortable.

A-263, Guitarlift Medium Trans – Grand Salon de Guitare

[0zoro]

[QUOTE=RJVB;1313704]As mentioned above, they sell a kit for use on archback guitars (apparently they want to sell to Smallman or Cabaret owners too ). It's hard to tell from the images if those are just raisers of if they also have some mechanism for letting the cups adopt the ideal angle. That angle could be important given how the guitar weight loads the cups.



Do you want to be able to change legs while playing? QUOTE]

Sorry, I must have expressed myself poorly. My wondering was, could the guitarlift be used on either leg? I have a tele and am not sure exactly how I would use it, thus the question of right or left leg.

[docsteve]

You can use it on either leg - at least, I do.


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