Our Flagship Guitar Display Case: The Estate
A guitar player’s ideal creative space often includes an area of the home that allows them to easily grab a guitar, tune it up, plug it in, and play. However, in addition to the instruments and their cases, this space is often cluttered by an abundance of accessories & tools such as amps, pedals, cables, tuners, capos, spare parts, and – you get the point. This results in a barrier between the player and their equipment, stifling their creative moments and resulting in less time spent with their instruments. As a small business driven to create furniture that brings music to the forefront of the home, we chose to design a single piece of furniture that allows musicians to beautifully display & humidify their guitars, house their amplifier & pedalboard, and store accessories out of view while providing easy access at the spark of creativity. Our design resulted in the Guitar Estate, now our flagship model.
A Guitar Display Case Solution: Beyond Furniture
Over the last decade, our humidified guitar display cabinets, guitar stands, guitar wall hangers, and other custom-built furniture, have been designed with the belief that accessibility breeds creativity. We design our furniture to inspire creativity within the owner, based upon the notion that if you can reduce the time it takes to grab your instruments and set up your gear, you’ll reach for it more often. Over the years, we’ve refined our products, always pushing ourselves to provide serious musicians & collectors with the best experience possible for playing and preserving their instruments. Our music-inspired design comes alive through heirloom-quality furniture, aesthetically pleasing to all that enter the home. So how do we do it?
Locally-Sourced Sustainable Hardwoods
The Guitar Estate is a combination of multiple in-house designs beginning with our humidified guitar display cabinet (the Guitar Habitat) on the top portion of the unit. This instrument display case and guitar storage cabinet can be crafted to accommodate up to ten instruments. Like all of our guitar cases, they’re constructed from locally-sourced Pennsylvania hardwoods of the highest quality, including Cherry, Maple, Oak, and our most popular option, Black Walnut. We also offer Maple, Walnut, and painted black as interior wood choices. By offering an array of wood combinations, we custom-design and build your climate-controlled guitar cabinet to showcase your guitar collection while integrating it beautifully into the home.
Premier Quality Components
From every cut of wood to hand-polished hardware and sanding, we utilize the highest quality components and our proprietary construction techniques to handcraft furniture to store, display and preserve your instruments for generations to come. Guitars, dining room tables, and other quality furniture tell stories and hold sentimental value that results in them being passed down through generations of families, so why not the armoire handcrafted to preserve them too? Below is a list that outlines many of the features and components of the Guitar Estate:
- Glass: Low-E & Tempered glass options offer UV protection for your coveted stringed instruments
- Finish: Nitrocellulose lacquer approved by the C. F. Martin & Co. Quality Assurance team for instrument preservation
- Rests: Premium quality natural cork lines each neck & lower bout rest to ensure safe storage or upgrade to our patented Neck Tie® for added security
- Hardware: Natural hand-polished brass hardware matched to your instrument collection to achieve the perfect aesthetic
- Lighting: High-definition LED lighting makes your humidified instrument display come alive any time of day
- Patented Door Design: Created to maintain the ideal guitar humidity year-round regardless of the ambient humidity in the room.
- Power: Built-in outlets below provide accessible power to your amplifier and pedals
Guitar Case Humidor Expert Design
As with all of our guitar humidor cabinets, the Guitar Estate includes an active humidification system that stores instruments at the ideal guitar humidity level of 45% RH. Our climate-controlled cabinets also have the unique ability to be upgraded with an active dehumidification system for players who reside in tropical climates. Our patent-designed construction and components make our climate-controlled instrument displays the best choice for guitar humidification and preservation. By providing a habitat for instruments to live in safely and securely from conditions that cause damage, your instruments will sound better, feel better, and stay in tune longer.
The Best Custom Guitar Cabinet Storage Solution
Now that we’ve covered the upper instrument storage and guitar humidor portion of the Estate, what remains is the fully-customizable credenza below. This guitar gear storage cabinet allows the player to co-design the piece for their gear collection and creative process in order to allow quick and easy access for the ultimate plug-and-play experience. Own a vintage amp that needs to be custom-fit for storage? We do that too! Detailed below is a list of standard options available for your Guitar Estate’s guitar gear storage cabinet. We’ll also highlight some of our custom Estates built for clients’ select gear specifications.
Standard Guitar Cabinet Storage Options
The lower portion of the glass guitar case includes two soft-closing drawers perfect for storing microphones, cables, pedals, and other accessories that often become an eyesore in a music room. Next, the separate storage cabinet design process includes the following options all built with locally-sourced hardwoods:
Doors:
- Soft-closing doors with hand-finished hardware (Standard Option)
- Sliding Pocket Doors (2 per side) *Upgrade*
Left Side Storage:
- Adjustable Shelves: Perfect for pedalboards, small amp heads, and other gear (Standard Option)
- Full Extension Amp Tray: A soft-sliding tray that slides outward with your favorite amplifier for easy plug-and-play *Upgrade*
- Full Extension Drawers: Soft-sliding storage drawers perfect for players with a large collection of microphones, pedals, and other gear that requires safe storage *Upgrade*
Right Side Storage:
All of these options are available for both the left and/or right side making it easy to design the perfect guitar cabinet for your playing, recording, and storage needs.
- Adjustable Shelves: Perfect for pedalboards, small amp heads, and other gear (Standard Option)
- Full-Extension Amp Tray: A soft-sliding tray that slides out with your favorite amplifier for easy plug-and-play *Upgrade*
- Full Extension Drawers: Soft-sliding storage drawers perfect for players with a large collection of microphones, pedals, and other gear that requires safe storage *Upgrade*
Custom Guitar Cabinet Options
Over the years, we have designed custom variations of the Guitar Estate to suit the needs of many guitar players’ gear collections. This includes custom finishes such as our beautiful Whitewash Oak, Ebonized Ash, and others. Additionally, we have customized the lower storage cabinet to accommodate vintage combo amplifiers via wide full-extension amp trays, guitar amp heads, large open shelving for stand-alone outboard gear & rackmount effects, and more. If you’re interested in a custom finish or cabinet design based on your gear collection, please contact us directly and ask for our in-house designer & co-owner, Matthew Warner.
At American Music Furniture, our music-inspired designs meet at the point of instrument preservation, storage, and most importantly, music making. We create functional custom furniture that integrates easily into your home’s design and creative space, removing barriers that stifle creativity to inspire musicians around the world. Interested in the premier choice for guitar & amp storage, humidification, and displaying in one hand-crafted piece of furniture? Contact us today to start designing your custom guitar cabinet: (267) 272-2460 Follow us on Instagram for new products, videos & updates from the shop!
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