Tele Strap Button Placement Question...Thoughts/Ideas?

[@Superfluity]

Isn't moving the strap button up just the same as letting the strap out an inch or two? The guitar will just find its own balance again but that bit lower, you'll be fighting with it to try and keep it at the angle in the diagram with the lines. It is about the point of moment and the torque the guitar exerts pivoting on your shoulder. At least that's how it appears to me.

 

[@Superfluity]

Cool guitar BTW

 

[Masta' C]

Isn't moving the strap button up just the same as letting the strap out an inch or two? The guitar will just find its own balance again but that bit lower, you'll be fighting with it to try and keep it at the angle in the diagram with the lines. It is about the point of moment and the torque the guitar exerts pivoting on your shoulder. At least that's how it appears to me.

Making the strap longer doesn't change the "balance points" of the guitar and generally results in the added length being distributed equally to both sides of your shoulder, meaning you can have a really long strap or a really short strap and the guitar's resting angle will generally remain the same.

You can move the strap across your shoulder so that it contacts your body at a different point along the strap, which can help to hold the headstock higher by friction, but most straps will eventually settle back into equilibrium once you are moving around.

Changing the strap button position physically changes the weight distribution at baseline (i.e. before you move the strap). Unfortunately, in this case, a change in lift of just 4-5 degrees probably isn't enough to justify a wildly different button placement than standard for most people, but it might be an effective mod for some guitars that are a bit neck heavy.

And thank you for the compliment! This finish (Goblin Flake by Warmoth) is probably my absolute favorite on a guitar to date. Unfortunately, I'm not as big a fan of the "Tele" shape in general, ha ha!

 

[eclecticsynergy]

A Tele always wants to be closer to horizontal than a Strat does. It's just the nature of the beast.
With a wide strap you can hold it at more of an angle, but that'll never be how the guitar naturally sits.

Some Teles can be pretty neck heavy, especially when a chunky neck is mated to a light body.
Decades ago, somebody handy created an effective fix - but I'd only use it where absolutely necessary.

 

[Mincer]

A Tele always wants to be closer to horizontal than a Strat does. It's just the nature of the beast.
With a wide strap you can hold it at more of an angle, but that'll never be how the guitar naturally sits.

Some Teles can be pretty neck heavy, especially when a chunky neck is mated to a light body.
Decades ago, somebody handy created an effective fix - but I'd only use it where absolutely necessary.

My Steinberger uses a similar bracket to remain balanced. I don't even think about it now.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

My Steinberger uses a similar bracket to remain balanced. I don't even think about it now.

Wish I'd had a bracket like that for my Kramer headless 'The Duke' back in the 80s.
It had a solid aluminum neck - not a skinny profile, either - and was ridiculously neck-heavy.

 

[Chistopher]

I was gonna say definitely use 2 strap pins if you're gonna do that. You don't want to lose your ability to stand it up on the ground

 

[GuitarStv]

How neck heavy is the guitar? If it's just a bit, you might be able to get a bigger/heavier trem block to make up for it.