"Thank you so much for your email.  I really do appreciate Maker Pipe as I use it frequently for the middle school musical sets and props that I design and build every year. Maker Pipe has found its way into many of our my set designs." - Mark

This build literally rocks! @dolphinuppercut on Instagram shared this video of him playing a solo on a keytar that is made form Maker Pipe and Conduit. Sometimes I think we've seen it all and then something like this comes along!

Greg used a combination of Maker Pipe, Summit Collars, and parts from Lowes to build this awesome guitar body paint rig!

Here's a great build from Tim!

"I was at a loss on how build a shade over the drink table for my daughters wedding shower. The “requested specifications” were fluid 😊. The width was based on a standard 6’ table, and the height needed to be about 6.5’.
Wood was not an option, looked into PVC, but that wasn’t strong enough, that’s when I discovered Maker pipe.

I ordered the starter bundle plus end plugs based on my sketches and a cut list.
As the project moved forward, I needed to add additional strength for the shades.
I used 98% of all the connectors between this build and another small project."

"There are 80 banners hanging on pipes with your clamps. We will create an Honor Path for about 12,000 people to enter our park for Ceremonies Honoring our Veterans, and then end with Fireworks out on the water." - Brian

"Thanks for making useful products to help DIY'ers like myself! My wife is a music teacher and ordered a classroom set of ukuleles. Carts for 24+ ukuleles retail for around $900. I considered making my own with PVC and connectors, but was concerned with sag and overall appearance. Using makerpipe only cost around $50 more overall, and it makes for a much stronger and attractive storage stand. Thanks for making a great product!" - Keith

"I am a strolling musician, cruising around different fairgrounds playing music. The wagon has a 2000 watt speaker, wireless guitar and microphone system, all powered by battery. I have a full schedule this year, a

nd couldn’t have done it without Maker Pipe. " - Jimmy

http://www.thetikishackmusic.com/

"Your product has been a game changer in my recent builds. A little about myself, I'm the Project Manager at Crossroads Church located in Newnan GA. One of my roles here at Crossroads is to aid in creating a compelling and distraction free worship environment. One way we do that is with lighting and set design and Maker Pipe played a key role with our current gathering spaces. See attached pics. Also, a little enginuity for a palm sander for your enjoyment. " - Adam

A customer recently sent in some photos of their sweet portable amp stand!

Here's a cool one from Greg!

"Wanted to send you some pics of my finished project and how it it's working out so well for all of our quilted banners at church. All the altar ladies are really excited on how it looks and performs. All the actual hanger brackets I had to hand bend using 1/8" thick aluminum strap. Thanks for a great product. Have a great Christmas!"

Mel shared an awesome piece that they created for their theatre production. Check it out!

"The build worked out great. Maker Pipe saved the day and our production. I wanted to make a huge chandelier for our production of Clue. Anything real would have cost thousands. I was able to make a huge piece for under $500. It looked awesome on stage and such a great investment for our future productions."

"I built 8 quilt racks for my wife’s quilt guild show. Top bar was 3/4 emt and verticals and base 1/2 emt. Tee connectors at bottom of verticals. No connector needed at top joint. Used silver utility hooks as suggested by other members. Half inch plugs used to finish off the legs." - Mike

Graciela is an artist and needed some custom monitor stands for one of her newest installations. They came out great!

Alan recently shared this awesome build. He used conduit and connectors to make a banner display frame for the 2023 Bloomington Gold Corvette show! The Corvette is the Campbell-Grant Z06 and the picture shows it racing at Sebring in 1963. Very cool!

Greetings fellow DIYers! I finally built my table for my tables. While it isn’t portable like I initially wanted, it makes up for that with it’s rugged industrial aesthetic and it’s earthlike stability. I had quite a lot of material left over so I made a rickety little shelf for my dining room/workshop. Not nearly as rock solid as it’s sibling, it still gets the job done! Hope you guys dig this!

Bill makes and sells the "Spin Twist Pain Rig" for painting guitar bodies! Pretty cool!

https://youtu.be/ocQk9pl2pMs

My 1st Maker Pipe build. Moulin Rouge Production.

Props for my Natalie’s dance company. They asked me to make mobile frame stations with a curtain. Another mix of Maker Pipe, carpentry, and fabric. Picked the fabric, cut it and hot glued the seems. Tightened it up with fishing line sowed in.

The EMT frame needed to be strong for the dancers to stand/ jump on the middle seat and hold on to the outer frame. Worked great. But now I have to drive these to Orlando in the summer.

Check out this review from Kyle!

"Here’s a stand I made for my job making music in a military band. People didn’t have a place to put their instruments and this solved the issue. It was very well received and people seem to trust the integrity of the structure, and appreciate how clean it looks. Much better looking than pvc. Couldn’t be happier going with makerpipe to make this happen."

Well, I still haven’t figured out a solution for the turntable stand but I did put together this keyboard and laptop stand and I’m loving them!

Donald shared some photos of the wedding backdrops that he made. Check it out.

"These curtains made with 1/2" conduit are a backdrop to cover stage musical and sound equipment for weddings. The fittings from Maker Pipe worked really well and the customer service was great."

This is still work in progress, but it’s a new set design for my church. We were going to use 2x4’s but we switched to using EMT and makerpipe for a reusable lighting frame. It’s going to be 16 feet tall and wrap both sides of the stage. I’ll post more once it’s completed.

Cool story from Jacob!

"We needed a backdrop for a small dance production. When we ordered the printed curtains, we assumed we would fly them from the ceiling of the theater, but it turned out there was not enough overhead space to pull them all the way up!

Free standing frames for this sort of thing are geared to trade show use and are astronomically expensive. Luckily I found you guys and was able to put something together for all three in an afternoon for a few hundred bucks. The 1/2” emt was surprisingly sturdy even with a full 10’ span. Each frame breaks down and can be rolled up into the curtain.

Awsome products - will definitely come back for the next project. Thanks so much!!"

VOICE OVER BOOTH PROJECT

I needed to build a voice-over booth for my wife and found Maker Pipe as a solution to build a frame to hang the sound blankets. I was impressed with the quality of the parts from Maker Pipe. I love the shrink wrapping and black components to make the product look high-end once done.

For my build, I guessed on the design ahead of time and ordered a bunch of components. On the day of the build, I threw the "guess" out the window and built it on-the-fly, adjusting the design according to the parts on hand and how it worked in the space. The design is pretty strong considering the weight of the blankets and the torque on the supports. The sound blankets on the front act as curtains, and the three levels of EMT allow the curtains to easily roll past each other.

Things I learned:
1) Depending on what you build, get used to the system before time so that you are aware of how the parts work and what parts would be best for your build. For example, the minis might be a good idea to help lock the design in ahead of time.
2) Depending on your build, it may be hard to assemble by yourself while working on-the-fly so cut things to size accurately and build in sections before assembling the final.
3) Complicated bending and building was harder than I expected.
4) Put threaded pipe inserts in the EMT ends with flanges for best results.
5) Get an EMT bender if you need to bend things.
6) The pipe cutter and long hex wrench are the way to go for best results and ease of build.

Good luck with your builds!

I need to make a collapsable, portable table that when set up is beyond stable. I'm a dj who uses real vinyl and I do a lot of scratching and beat juggling. I haven't been able to find an affordable, portable stand for my turntables that doesn't wobble when I'm performing. Has anybody made anything like that? I would be extremely grateful for any advice, or blueprints, or ideas that can help me keep the needles in the grooves of the records! Thanks!

custom_shop_artworks on Instagram shared his recent build. He made a guitar body paint stand with all kinds of hacks incorporated into it. He made some custom bushings that allow it to spin around smoothly and the whole thing can telescope up and down. Lots of other cool things too, check it out.

Chris from "The Lost Wax" on YouTube makes all sorts of cool costumes and props. One of his more famous tutorials is how to make knight armor out of foam. In a recent video, he used EMT Conduit to make two different-sized armor stands to store his knight armors and they came out awesome!

https://youtu.be/c2j1urnSH1A

Has anyone used Makerpipe to build dance barres? I run a ballet nonprofit and I could save a substantial amount of money if these materials are strong enough to handle the constant weight and flex. Any designs out there?

Last weekend I was able to make an 8ft letter "K" wrapped in balloons. Super happy client and I was excited I could do it without welding. I used 3/4" EMT for left pole and 1/2" EMT for leg/arm of K. T-connectors with adaptors. Amazing!

The Leonardo Da Vinci Bridge. Now the real thing. Made with "T" connectors to just keep the initial distance between the first two and last two longitudinal pipes (10 feet long all of them). Then on every transversal pipe (40 inches long), a "T" connector just to keep the pipes in place without sliding sideways, since they are not attached to any other pype by any mechanical part. They will be used for the railing afterwards. The bridge was lifted with 10 units of 10 feet long pipes, and 5 units of 40" pipes. I think that a couple cross over conduit campls (as the only one that is placed in the picture, completely loose now), could help prevent the pipes from sliding. Also the shrinkable wrap or some bicicle tires tubbing (will look into doing this as anchoring help), could do the trick. Hope you enjoy the build, lots of fun, trial and error, and... at least 2 hours alone! As long as the pipe does not slide, the bridge does stand alone without any problem.

What was suggested, was also made. First the study, done on Tuesday this week. It works, and the less slippery the surface, the better the Da Vinci bridge works.

Greg shared this build in the Maker Pipe Facebook group, and I wanted to share it with you all. This is a mobile stage covering that they built for an outdoor event they had this weekend!

"The trailer is approximately 20' long by 8 feet wide. The back wall is 8' high, and the roof extends 10' from the back wall to the truss across the front. The connectors worked out great!"

Artisphere in Greenville SC was this weekend and we took the Teleidoscope as our interactive community art piece from the Synergy Mill Makerspace. This time we built two stands for the 55" tv monitors. Here's some behind the scenes:

I made a dozen of these EMT stands for our steel drum band. The nylon insert for the 1/2" pipe allows the legs of the stands to be turned for better positioning while maintaining stability. These 12 stands cost less than 1 regular stand.

I had such a great time making my tapestry loom. Makerpipe allowed me to update a old design making it even more versatile and aesthetically pleasing. I’ll certainly be making other sizes!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCufwc_nfgx/?igshid=11stywov8vf28

Here's a project we did with maker pipe. It was a huge success for us. I think the pictures speak for themselves.

Great products and customer service.

Robert made these "BeBop Bars" back in 2017. I always love when conduit, electronics and our connectors get combined!