Try looking at speaker stands with a decent base. A lot do have small bases but if you look around you might find something like the one in the picture below which I use (the stick is a CH Products Fighterstick that I use for PC sims) The base is wide enough so that the stick can be used without the stand moving around and I just use some sticky back heavy duty velco that you can pick up from most hardware stores for a few pounds. The stuff I use is really good, according to the blurb on the back of the box a small square around 50mmx50mm will hold 1kg of weight. The speaker stands were around £10 for a pair so with the cost of the velcro on top altogether a nice joystick stand cost me £14

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