Thanks supplebanana, it was somewhat of a challenge to get up there with the rocket before the timer on the camera ended. maybe not hours, but long enough to learn a few techniques. like pic up the amp AFTER you are on the stand Someone asked me how strong the stands are because the own a 68 pound amp, thus the trapeze picture act was born. When I can find a large plastic barrel I'm going to sacrifice and weigh test one of the studio stands by putting the barrel on it and filling the barrel with water. Then I'll take note of how many gallons it takes to collapse a stand if it actually does collapse, then I'll do the math. I'll have a real number regarding weight capacity then. As it stands now I've had well over 200 pounds on them before and they held up just fine.
I'm learning a lot about woodworking by hand lately, Had a bit of a tough day with the Swamp Ash yesterday, I couldn't seem to control the tear out and today I'm going to have to start over with the build. Frustrating but still pretty cool to learn again after all these years of orbital sanding.
I think building these amp stands will be a good introduction to some of the skills used in building solid body guitars, there are some similarities in the tooling processes and assembly. The amp stand finishing process is not at difficult for sure, no nitro and all, IMO amp stands need to be able to take a bit of abuse that would damage a decent guitar finish.
I can see my first guitar build in my mind's eye and one day I'll build it. It will look similar to this one: