Hercules Acoustic Guitar Stand (GS200B)

It's not hard to spend considerable money on a guitar stand. But at the end of the day, the job is rather straightforward -- keep a guitar off the floor, safely and securely. Don't damage the finish of the instrument, don't be "tippy", and extra points for being light and easily portable, still more credits for the ability to collapse into a very compact form.All good here. This wee beastie weighs nothing, folds to fit in a pocket on a gig bag, happily holds either an electric or an acoustic guitar very steadily, leaving no marks or damage of any sort behind.The only demerit I could assign would be that if you are dealing with an acoustic-electric guitar that has a cable plugged into the end pin (say, at a gig), well, this cradles the guitar too low for a typical stright-angle jack to clear the floor. You'll need a cable with a 90-degree jack.Otherwise, great item. I've bought 3, and at gigs use them to have several guitars lined up near me within easy reach. So easy to transport and use.

I got it as a Christmas gift & it works so great that I got one for my husband's 6 string fender too! I love that it's adjustable, lightweight & compact. For months I was putting my bass down flat on the floor (which I hated to do) when I needed a break but no more. We have our guitars on the wall so now they come down when we want to practice & these stands fold out to safely hold our babies when we're not ready to put them away. This is automatic adjustable so it can hold a thick acoustic down to my Ibanez bass & probably even tiny ukuleles! It also doesn't leave any marks on the guitar from the non slip grip. It's compact enough that when folded up they slip under the TV console & sturdy enough that I have no fears of our guitars falling. Taking them in & out of the stand is easy. Best choice ever!

Use this stand all the time . Portable & light weight.

I have collected and used a number of guitar stands over the years, from low-end folding to "holy crap, how much did I pay?" stands. This is a perfect one to fold up and stick in your bag for something like an open mic or writer's round, it folds flat, is light, and pretty sturdy. I am not going to confuse it with my larger Hercules or Ultimate top-hanging stands for stability and longevity, but as a portable folding stand, this is flat out the best one out there that I'm aware of. I've only used it on acoustics, but it works on both my Lowden O (roughly jumbo size) and my 2 parlor guitars. I have not tried it on an electric yet, may update the review after I do.

This little guy is really cool. After reading a hand full of comments of people using this for their basses I decided to give it a shot. I like a very portable setup considering I lug around a 6 string bass..I have to say I'm very impressed with how well this works. The transformer aspect had my band in awe, and how small it gets you definitely can't get from any other stand by far haha. If I hold the neck of my bass and shake it around while on the stand it definitely doesn't ever start to fall over, it seems like it could with standard some minor collisions, but it's still scary to watch. It will take me some time to trust this stand for sure but so far I'm extremely happy with it.The plastic it's made of seems like very durable material, not the cheesy plastic most things like this are usually made of. It's got some weight to it too, and almost no flex to it.

So far any electric or acoustic I have placed on this has fit like a glove and has held up. Amazing gigging stand as it fits IN MY GIG BAG with my cables. Only issue I've had is, at a friend's house I had a string break and had to switch guitars to a backup he had. It was a slim acoustic electric guitar. Thicker than an electric but thinner than an acoustic. Unfortunately it didn't sit well enough in the primary or secondary tabs on the stand and it fell forward.

The fore and aft sections of the feet are geared together so that they have to move at the same time. I guess this makes it so that the feet cannot fold up due to being pushed backwards because the force that would fold up the rear part of the foot would require that the front part also fold up, which would mean lifting the whole weight of the guitar. This is a surprisingly good idea. Those hinges, as well as the top hinge that creates the V shape, are very solid and hard to move — perhaps even too much so. The plastic of the whole stand is quite substantial, and there are grabby rubberized surfaces everywhere that the guitar would touch, as well as all along the bottom of the feet.However, the little yellow feet that kick up for thinner guitars are absolutely required for solidbody electrics — without them, the guitar would lean too far back, the center of gravity wouldn't work, and everything would topple over — and they are held up by very weak springs, I guess so that a thicker guitar can easily push them down out of the way, but it feels like it would be very easy for them to disengage and cause your guitar to spill to the floor. To be fair, if the feet are touching your guitar, they're shaped in such a way as to prevent them from being able to fold down, as it would require the guitar to move back first, but if your guitar has reasonably rounded edges (like a Stratocaster), it only just barely touches those feet. In fact, my strat's arm contour makes it not touch on that side at all. These feet should be bigger and have a way to lock them in place. (You could jam something in there to keep them from retracting.)Also, the weight of a guitar makes the feet want to splay outward. On a hard floor, the rubberized feet probably prevent this, but on a rug or carpet, the whole thing sags as the stand goes all duck-footed. There should have been something tying the toes together to prevent that.These are problems that should have been corrected at the design stage. They could conceivably fix these problems, but, right now, it's hard to recommend. If you're still interested, I think that these problems could be fixed with a couple of pieces of cork jammed in the retractable guitar feet, and maybe some steel cable run between the toes to limit their ability to splay.