Strap locks

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:31 pm

Sammy wrote:
Mike wrote:
Doog wrote:I never really take the straps off guitars anyways.
+1.

Just play the damn thing.
I like to use leather straps, which can prove abit expensive for somone with next to no money, and straps for 13 guitars is a hard task, so I need to be able to take them off one and put them on another. And I know it begs the question, how can somone with so many not afford straps, lol. It's a family thing.

You have too many fucking guitars.

euan · Post by **euan** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:39 pm

http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/Catalogu ... ductId=823

cheap but not as cheap as grolsch solution

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:52 pm

Ive put the poll on, see what that says.

kim · Post by **kim** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:15 pm

i believe warwick also sell straplocks that are similar to those dunlop dual designs but the warwicks go for about 9 euros whereas the dunlops go for almost 20 over here

JamesSmann · Post by **JamesSmann** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:37 pm

i've had nothing but problems with dunlop locks. they strip out of the body way too easily. my american deluxe j-bass came with schallers and they are titties to the max.

TheodorJ · Post by **TheodorJ** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:34 pm

I had Dunlop strap locks on one of my guitars. They fell off. I ripped the whole thing out of the guitar. Screw and everything.

euan · Post by **euan** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:56 pm

Whats the difference between one wood screw and another. Really the strap lock hasn't faild, the wood has.

ElCapitan · Post by **ElCapitan** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:14 pm

my schallers just kept coming off of the guitar every 6 months or so, so I just shoved a load of matchsticks and glue in there and it's stayed in there for a year.

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:17 pm

euan wrote:Whats the difference between one wood screw and another. Really the strap lock hasn't faild, the wood has.

The quality of the screw, the length, and the size of it's "ribs" or whatever they are called. I know that the 2 times I have used dunlops they have stripped out but the schallers have never once done that. The schallers are like 25 USD and the dunlops are like 20 USD so I will pay the 5 extra for that security.

Gandalf · Post by **Gandalf** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:56 pm

i think they look ugly and i dont need them.

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:10 pm

Gandalf wrote:i think they look ugly and i dont need them.

Yes, well I do.

Back to topic?

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:04 pm

Sloan wrote:Here's the deal...

Dunlops stick out really far and seem more likely to strip out. If you have a strap that has a big hole on it (think Ralph Marlin) it can still come out of the part that attaches to your strap. When I had the Dunlops for a while, I eventually went back to regular strap pegs.

Schallers have a nut that you can fucking tourque down on your strap - trust me that shit ain't comin' off.

Conclusion:
SCHALLERS WIN

FUCKING AGREED!!!!

filtercap · Post by **filtercap** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:45 pm

Schaller SloanLox for me.

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:44 am

euan wrote:Dunlop Dual Strap locks

End pin is fastened to the strap and locks into the strap pin. Unlike the Schallers you can still use a normal strap with the guitaer.

what the hell are you talking about? i use schallers with any guitar strap imaginable. i use them with ernie ball straps, levy's straps, other random ones, whatever. i think youve got it backwards. the dunlop ones you have to like force into the hole, and if the strap hole isnt big enough you gotta cut it a little.

schaller has a washer and a nut you screw down. best straplocks evar.

mattyb · Post by **mattyb** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:04 am

i say shaller but only by default cause i don't have dunlop's.

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:38 am

Can't you use beer bottle tops or something lol.

euan · Post by **euan** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:44 am

mewithoutus wrote:
euan wrote:Dunlop Dual Strap locks

End pin is fastened to the strap and locks into the strap pin. Unlike the Schallers you can still use a normal strap with the guitaer.
what the hell are you talking about? i use schallers with any guitar strap imaginable. i use them with ernie ball straps, levy's straps, other random ones, whatever. i think youve got it backwards. the dunlop ones you have to like force into the hole, and if the strap hole isnt big enough you gotta cut it a little.

schaller has a washer and a nut you screw down. best straplocks evar.

You totally don't understand.

Look at those parts. See the part on the far right, your strap fastens onto that tne you lock the two washers around it. Of course you can use any fucking strap with it. If the strap can fit on any strap button then it will fit on the end pin.

The benefit over the Schallers is that once you put on the locking strap button, you can only use the strap you've attach the locking mechanism.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:22 pm

Schaller ones, after my Ibanez fell on the floor and the jack smashed a nice lil hole where the input jack was. Stuck a steel plate over the hole and the small cracks around the hole and its been there for almost 2 years with no problems.

tareofthesnob · Post by **tareofthesnob** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:00 am

have am on ALL of mine. best investment ever!!

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:44 am

euan wrote:

Look at those parts. See the part on the far right, your strap fastens onto that tne you lock the two washers around it. Of course you can use any fucking strap with it. If the strap can fit on any strap button then it will fit on the end pin.

The benefit over the Schallers is that once you put on the locking strap button, you can only use the strap you've attach the locking mechanism.

okay, i see what you are saying now, but you are still wrong.

all of my guitars have schaller straplock pins on them. there have been occasions were i have left my straplock equipped strap at home and had to borrow a normal strap. it worked fine. dunlops have no advantage over the schallers.

Strap locks

Dunlop or Schaller

schallers