The bagpipe music stand

The brief

Create a functional music stand with a bagpipe incorporated into its form. The customer left room for a personal interpretation rather than specifying an existing design.

The stand had to remain useful as a music stand while carrying a specific visual identity. The bagpipe motif was not an unrelated engraving added at the end; it shaped the design and the manufacturing approach.

From a rough idea to a buildable object

I developed a rough concept and acquired a BobsCNC to make the carved design I had in mind. Learning the software became part of delivering the object, not a separate exercise.

I brought in @svyart.3d_artist to refine the digital artwork. That collaboration helped carry the concept into a form I could fabricate.

The project is a useful example of acquiring a capability for a real deliverable. CNC equipment alone was not the answer: I also had to connect the digital artwork to the physical rest, pedestal, and base.

The physical work

The stand combines a carved music rest with a wooden pedestal and foot assembly. Figured cherry, the bagpipe motif and the rope-like border give the piece its visual character.

The process photographs show parts, clamping and assembly, alongside the completed object. The project account records an oil-and-wax finish.

What made the commission different

The finished object combines a customer-specific theme, an unusual material treatment, digital-art collaboration, and hands-on fabrication. The process views belong alongside the completed stand because they explain how the parts became one functional object.

The artistic refinement and the fabrication are credited separately. Keeping those roles visible makes the collaboration clearer, and gives a future customer a more accurate picture of how a similarly individual brief could be developed.