{"id":550,"date":"2016-10-03T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=550"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:12:03","slug":"cad-student-is-a-guitar-stand-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/cad-student-is-a-guitar-stand-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"CAD student is a guitar stand hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Seth Boyum<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Graphics Manager<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_552\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-image-552\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2910-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"CAD student\" width=\"546\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2910-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2910-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2910.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandi Mason designed a four-guitar stand as project for her Computer Aided Drafting program. (Echo Photo by Seth Boyum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last semester, RCTC student Mandi Mason displayed her Computer-Aided Design project, a four-guitar stand, at the CAD Department\u2019s open house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor my final project, I was kind of just playing around with some bigger ideas,\u201d Mason said. \u201cAt my house, I\u2019ve got plaster walls and I have a lot of guitars, and I can\u2019t keep putting holes in the walls to hang up all the guitars. I had a need, and I wanted to kind of fix that need, so my guitars were taken care of and my walls were left intact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mason was encouraged by instructors Pam Benson and Jacquie Deml-Mauseth to expand the project to include building the design she had created.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_555\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"wp-image-555\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160504_180006-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"laser cut wood blank\" width=\"183\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160504_180006-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160504_180006-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Mandi Mason<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_558\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558\" class=\"wp-image-558\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160626_155347-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Electric Guitars\" width=\"185\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160626_155347-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160626_155347-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Mandi Mason<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It took two weeks to design the stand using SolidWorks software, one day to cut the wood with a CNC router and three more days, spread across two weeks, to assemble the stand. The wood was stained, with fabric wrapped around the guitar\u2019s alcove.<\/p>\n<p>For further decoration, Mason created an clear acrylic, LED-backlit back plate. The surface of the plate has a laser-etched recreation of the blueprint from the Les Paul guitar patent. The etching was made in CorelDraw.<\/p>\n<p>This semester, Mason is planning to design and build a dove-joint drawer for installing into the stand\u2019s base before declaring the project complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no intentions of actually building it,\u201d Mason said about the stand. \u201cIt was kind of a dream. I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be able to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mason has since designed and built a second guitar stand for commission for a musician who saw the original on the Internet. She is working on her associate of applied science degree, with an emphasis in computer-aided drafting technology.<\/p>\n<p>She hopes to use the skills she has learned for designing furniture and prosthetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Seth Boyum Graphics Manager Last semester, RCTC student Mandi Mason displayed her Computer-Aided Design project, a four-guitar stand, at the CAD Department\u2019s open house. \u201cFor my final project, I was kind of just playing around with some bigger ideas,\u201d Mason said. \u201cAt my house, I\u2019ve got plaster walls and I have a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}