Dunlop Strap Lock Quality fading?
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GuitarStv
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Protip - the Schallers work best applied to a guitar, rather than your mouth. : D
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ErikH
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Something I have noticed with the installation of Dunlops, and this could be user error or just not knowing to install them this way, but the flush mount pins are just that, flush mount. They are not meant to be attached like conventional strap buttons on top of the wood. There has to be a bigger hole for them to sit in the wood. I have seen them installed incorrectly and from what I've ran across, that is when they fail. Yes, I know it's the bearings on the strap side component that are prone to failure but the flush mount buttons installed wrong adds unnecessary load to the strap.
There is the dual-design buttons for standard installation, which I have a couple sets of. Never seen a dual-design setup fail. The dual-design are shorter and provide a better load on the strap if one does not want to go the flush mount route. Plus if you need to, you can use a strap without the lock mechanism and not worry about it.
I've seen folks install the Schaller strap component upside down thinking they are fine. Not if that spring and pin in the cup fail they're not. The Schaller buttons do not work well as a normal strap button without the locking mechanism. The flange is not large enough to hold a strap on securely by itself.
So, there are pros and cons to both. Choose your weapon and rock on.
There is the dual-design buttons for standard installation, which I have a couple sets of. Never seen a dual-design setup fail. The dual-design are shorter and provide a better load on the strap if one does not want to go the flush mount route. Plus if you need to, you can use a strap without the lock mechanism and not worry about it.
I've seen folks install the Schaller strap component upside down thinking they are fine. Not if that spring and pin in the cup fail they're not. The Schaller buttons do not work well as a normal strap button without the locking mechanism. The flange is not large enough to hold a strap on securely by itself.
So, there are pros and cons to both. Choose your weapon and rock on.
Certainly a system could be designed with no flaws. But even very expensive guitars come with 50cent strap buttons that have to be swapped out. Come on, engineers, get on this.
Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
Ibanez used the V-shaped locking pins in the 80s on the Roadstars which are perfect for 95% of players. You would have to be thrashing around like Angus for them to fail. I wonder why they stopped using them.
Ibanez used the V-shaped locking pins in the 80s on the Roadstars which are perfect for 95% of players. You would have to be thrashing around like Angus for them to fail. I wonder why they stopped using them.
Something that simple and effective, yet most companies don't use them.
Chistopher
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5 pages of a Dunlop installation gone bad due to user error thread that morphed into "Dunlops are bad".
Great job.
Switch to 40 results per page, it's much nicer
donaldr
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ErikH
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I have a couple of 3” straps from them. Used one on an LP and Jazz bass without issue. They do the job.
GuitarStv
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For the win
Legit. Those are pretty secure strap locks.
JMP/HBE
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Chistopher
malapterurus electricus tonewood instigator
No but you can usually hold your cigarettes between the tuners
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