Need ideas for the best acoustic guitar floor stand

I just read through this thread again. It's a mundane topic, but all guitarists need to deal with
where to set their axe if the doorbell rings or ya have to run to the bathroom.
Performing musicians need to have a good stage setup... one that looks good from the audience
and also keeps things safe and out of harm's way. The stage needs to be ship shape.

We all need a good stand or several. So do bassists like me and uke players as well as
flautists and sax players, even banjos ought to have a good stand, so they don't fall over
and nick the finish on MY guitar.

One thing that has NOT been mentioned in this thread is the dreaded "finish melting" that
can happen to a Nitrocellulose finished instrument if it sits in a cheap stand over night.
The quick wisdom for this thread is: DON'T BUY CHEAP STANDS...

The corollary of this plastic study is: DON'T LEAVE YOUR SNARK TUNER ON YOUR GIBSON
GUITAR OVERNIGHT EITHER... It will mar the finish. Ask me how I learned this...

If you don't know about this, lucky you. I'm old enough to remember when this was common.
I believe that guitar stands of the seventies may have been the culprits... early in the transfer
of jobs and production out of USA and into our old enemy, Japan.
Maybe newer production is made with better materials, but do I trust the unknown makers?

Guitar stands made to sell for less than ten dollars were once made in Japan, and when Japanese workers
got uppity, production was transferred to Korea and later to China and even later to Indonesia.
Each time the bastards moved the plant, they hired workers who would work for less.
The race to the bottom, we call it. The same guys that would do this might also use plastic
padding that contains residual amounts of "plasticizers."

What that means for musicians is: If you buy a cheap guitar stand made in some foreign country by
hapless sweat shop workers, their bosses might cut corners on the plastic padding that actually
contacts the varnish of your guitar. If you buy a good quality stand with a brand name that's got
some integrity, they might install padding that won't rot your guitar finish. You pay more, but you
don't get the anguish of seeing your prized instrument with marks where the padding softened the
finish.

I also believe that less expensive guitars finished in Polyurethane might NOT be susceptible to
plasticizers in the padding of a guitar stand. Epiphones, MIM Fenders, Squier and other dodgy brands
etc etc... I have a pair of those, and they are impervious to anything but hammer blows and
bullet hits. Here are my darlings resting in a pair of inexpensive "Onstage" stands which have
NOT harmed them.
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