I haven’t traveled with my #1 travel guitar. Stupid right? I only bought and sold four other guitars before selling off three of them. I grabbed my 2000 Steinberger Spirit the last several work trips.

I wasn’t sure how to (best) solve my little problem: The Arbor slides a bit off the lap sitting. The Steinberger Spirit solves this with Ned’s clever and patented flip out kickstand.

I got adhesive velcro strips awhile back, but kept trying to think where to get a cheap solid block of plastic. Only in the past 10 days or so did an idea dawn on me! Decking! Like the Trex et al types.

I sourced a small piece of it lying in my garage that two years ago I had cut up to make a custom window sill for a free window I got on craigslist and framed a new hole for over my garage.

I got back to my parents place where I had scrounged this 12′ long extra Trex decking… and chopped a little triangle off it. Then up in Vermont I mocked up and custom measured and cut and filed several times before settling on this ‘shark fin’ looking type of thing.

It’s tapered to follow the body shape. And VOILA! This guitar just sits perfectly balanced comfortably on my leg now. I’d dare say even better / more comfortable than my Steinberger Spirit!

Now to just start a little business haha!