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The Shark
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2025
Great for lifting your work piece off your workbench. You can also use large push pins to hold them in place if so desired.
C May
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2021
I used to used cut up leftover bits of rigid foam insulation to hold things I was painting. And then I bought these. These are one of those things that you buy thinking it will be okay, and then you use it once and wonder how you ever survived without it. I will tell you how I survived without these. I always had paint on all my fingers and I was constantly sanding off bits of foam insulation that had gotten stuck to my projects. I did get very good at balancing things precariously, and catching them before they splatted paint side down off the workbench and onto the floor, but those are skills I can use in other areas of my life also. My only complaint about these is that they didn't come in a logical number of items. There are 10 pieces here and most jobs I've done either require 3 or 4 pyramids per piece that I am painting, and 10 doesn't divide evenly by 3 or 4. 12 in the box would have been better. A jumbo size pack would be great too- I need to paint a bunch of shelves soon and will have to order another pack or two.I think the foam insulation bits are still in my garage somewhere. I need to throw them out.
VYRN2012
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2019
Works great but you really need a few packages of you have a project with lots of pieces. You need to use at least 3 stands for each item you are painting. Each package comes with 10 stands so you can only stand up only 2 or 3 items at a time. I was spray panting pieces of wood to build a toddler play kitchen. I had over 60 pieces of wood to paint so ended up buying 2 packs of these stands.Just paint the top of your item and use the edges to flip the item after it has dried to touch. Then paint the other side and any edges. Sometimes the stands would leave tiny pinpoint marks, but they are very difficult to see. Just don’t move the item after flipping the side or you will have multiple pin point marks.These stands save so much time because you don’t have to wait for the first side of your project to completely dry before painting the other side.
TDV
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2019
I've had a similar set of these for years. Unfortunately, my wife gave me a project that required more than ten pyramids so I got these to ensure I could complete the task. This product is very useful and I like it a great deal more than the original set which has flimsy legs and a curved support stand that always worried me. The flat base of these is far more suitable to weight distribution and I feel also more aesthetically pleasing. I've used them to support painting and staining projects with successful results on both. While not required for most applications, the ability to screw them into a board allows them to be configured securely to support sensitive projects. The top edge of the pyramid is small enough that even with wet paint it doesn't really leave a noticeable mark, making them ideal.They also store securely by nesting them together and clean up very easily. I've removed paint and stain from them without issue--although this is an added step I'm sure is completely unnecessary.
Susan
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2016
Bought these to rest cabinet doors on when painting them. They work great! Anything that needs the top and sides painted can be used on these. I ended up painting 18 cabinet doors and wished I had bought more of these. It was better balanced and more stable than the ones I ended up setting on top of empty paint cans. It is possible to get the job done without these, however these make it a lot easier and less likely to run into wet paint. I ended painting my doors in shifts so that I could get the two coats on a door before moving them and doing the next set of doors.I did not try using the things at the base to attach them to my work surface or each other. I guess you just screw through the hole, but I ended up painting my doors over cardboard boxes. So, I would have the cardboard laid out then the stands on top, and place a door over it. This was to save my garage floor from the majority of paint drips. I didn't have issue with the stands sliding around while on that surface, but other people claimed they slid a lot, so if you are using a plastic drop cloth, you might want to secure the stands to keep them immobile.
fishie20
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2015
Great little guys for painting or finishing wood. They really are not that expensive and are great for holding just about anything up. You can do the back of say a door, then flip it over so the back of the door is on the pyramid and paint/finish the front and let it dry. You get small marks on the back from where the pyramid sits, but its the back, so who cares? If you do care, then do one at a time. Having the items you are working on up off the ground it makes it so much easier to get the edges and make it look nice.my one complaint:Why in the wold do they sell them in a pack of 10? You generally use 4 at a time, so I would expect 8 or 12 in a pack! I purchased 2 packs so I could have 5 sets of 4. Just one pack is almost worthless.
cbowers
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2013
I am new to DIY home projects so I am not aware of what is out there that can help a person complete a task. I read a blog where these handy stands were mentioned. I am in the process of refinishing my kitchen cabinets. The first round of doors I did took a long time because I would do one side, wait a day, flip them, and do the other side. With these pyramids I was able to paint or poly the back side, go around the frames, then flip the doors and do the front side. One coat done in one day. That is a very good thing.They do sometimes leave a very, very small mark on the first side but it is so small no one would ever notice it, however, it is the reason I do the back side of the doors first. I did fashion a frame that I nailed the pyramids to, think a capital letter i. Mostly because they are very lightweight and it keeps them upright and makes it much easier to flip the doors.
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