What Straplock are you using?

Re: What Straplock are you using?

I use a 1" diameter washer under a 5/8" washer and a 1 1/2" wood screw tightening the washers all the way tight to the body so the strap doesn't even move around.
 
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+1 to all the Schaller recommendations - they are unquestionably the better design.

TGB: your post is awesome. It confirms what I have suspected all along. Thanks.
 
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wixomwhat,

Is that what Malmsteen uses, for his famous spin behind the back guitar thing ?
 
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Schallers or nothing for me !

I love the looks & they ARE super SAFE, saying that, i do not run around nor do i do synchonized ballet with my other guitarist - we get 'their' attention with the music, NOT STAGE ANTICS)

Oh, and the Dunlops look like 'lil Mexican Hats on the guitar - no, thanx !
 
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One guitar has huge screw eyes, and another has Dunlops.

All teh others have Schallers. With a bit of Loc-tite (aka. Thread locking compound) the nuts will never loosen.

Or alternatively, use 2 nuts per lock, as a nut turned against another nut becomes a self-locking assembly. There´s a company that makes Schaller knockoff straplocks, and they use a 2 nut system ;)
 
Re: What Straplock are you using?

Schallers
I put dunlops on my guitar 15 years ago (cause as far as I know that was all I could get) Dropped / almost dropped guitar several times, thinking the strap was on good when it was not, and it did not fall out immed, it waited a few minutes so I was really sure it was good.
Plus, on top of what others have said, the length of the dunlops increases the twisting force placed on the screws.
 
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I've had the same Dunlops on both my guitars for years with no problems. A couple of minutes of maintenance (clean & lube the bearings) every 6 months or so and they have continued to work perfectly - post #10 should try this. They haven't given me a reason to try the Schallers which I'm sure work fine also.
 
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I've used Schallers on every electric guitar I've ever owned and have never had a problem with 1.

I usually put some Epoxy Resin into the strap button hole and then screw the Schaller into this. After a day for the resin to set, it'll never move again :)

I also use a Spanner to tighten the nut on the party that fits to the strap. A little tighten every other month or so and I've never had a problem :)
 
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SchecMan said:
I've had the same Dunlops on both my guitars for years with no problems. A couple of minutes of maintenance (clean & lube the bearings) every 6 months or so and they have continued to work perfectly - post #10 should try this. They haven't given me a reason to try the Schallers which I'm sure work fine also.
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I've never heard of anyone having to do maintenance on a Schaller strap lock.
 
Re: What Straplock are you using?

ratherdashing said:
I've never heard of anyone having to do maintenance on a Schaller strap lock.
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Just about everyone that has mentioned that they use Schallers in this thread has done maintenance on them. For example, loctite & epoxy resin.

Cleaning and lubing my Dunlops twice a year, comes to about 4 minutes a year, isn't enough of an inconvinece for me to change to Schallers.

I'm sure both systems have failed one time or another. I keep the bearings clean on my Dunlops and people who use Schallers do the loctite epoxy thing to keep failures from happening. :)
 
Re: What Straplock are you using?

SchecMan said:
Just about everyone that has mentioned that they use Schallers in this thread has done maintenance on them. For example, loctite & epoxy resin.

Cleaning and lubing my Dunlops twice a year, comes to about 4 minutes a year, isn't enough of an inconvinece for me to change to Schallers.

I'm sure both systems have failed one time or another. I keep the bearings clean on my Dunlops and people who use Schallers do the loctite epoxy thing to keep failures from happening. :)
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The epoxy and lock-tite aren't maintenance - they are a one-time thing done as an optional part of the install. You don't have to keep putting lock-tite on them, the way you continuously have to re-clean and lube the Dunlops.

It's also not a very essential step, merely an extra precaution. Personally I have two Schaller-equipped guitars, I didn't use lock-tite or epoxy, and I've never had a guitar come loose.
 
Re: What Straplock are you using?

ratherdashing said:
The epoxy and lock-tite aren't maintenance - they are a one-time thing done as an optional part of the install. You don't have to keep putting lock-tite on them, the way you continuously have to re-clean and lube the Dunlops.

It's also not a very essential step, merely an extra precaution. Personally I have two Schaller-equipped guitars, I didn't use lock-tite or epoxy, and I've never had a guitar come loose.
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Neither have I. :laugh2:
 
Re: What Straplock are you using?

ratherdashing said:
I've never heard of anyone having to do maintenance on a Schaller strap lock.
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Back in 1988 I was having an issue with the Schallers where the nut that attached the strap to the post was loosening up now and again. If I got a chunk of the leather from the Ernie Ball strap in the threads then it would tend to stay put a little longer, but still it would require that I check on it every so often.

At the time I was working at an auto parts store putting stock away when I came across Loc-Tite. I read the package and kind of shrugged my shoulders and tossed it into my bag. I figured it couldn't hurt and that night I put two drops on and cranked it down.

That strap has been on my #1 ever since. I've not had to tighten it ever since then. It's on there solid; not going anywhere. There's marks on the nut from having to crank it down from before, but it hasn't had a wrench or socket near it in 18 years.

The most maintenance I every have to do with straplocks is check the assembly that attaches to the body of the guitar.

Eighteen friggin' years.......and I've done this with over a dozen other straps and had identical results.
 
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