As all the guitars I play with are not finished with nitro (the les paul being the exception and the fact that it's next to go and I never play with it anyway makes it a moot point), and I use schaller straplocks anyway, and I am vegetarian and don't like using leather when I can avoid it, I'd go with the couch strap.
However my pleather Get'm sergent strap is all I need.
Vinyl eats lacquer, varnish, shellac, etc. It can be volatile stuff.
I personally don't see the reason for vegetarian straps. The cow dies anyway for the meat industry - it's just using all the parts. Better that than waste.
And if you really have to go veg, I say Souldier. Cotton FTW.
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I've got an old Kodak camera strap that I've been meaning to adapt into a guitar strap.
Just like the one below but stinkier. Maybe get a bedazzled MISS TEEN USA beauty pageant sash and rig it up ... or not. Old tie style? Maybe if you're in Weezer?
Lots of this kind of stuff to be had on ETSY.
these are actually made not too far from my house. when the black keys came through last, dan bought 4 of them!
i haven't bitten the bullet and snagged one yet, but i'll be having the dude make me one like my purple rosette one that was my aunts when she played acoustic as a kid. i use it on my dot atm, but it's too short.
Any recommendations for a comfortable strap using an 8 pound Tele? I didn't know anything about straps and bought a Levy cotton strap. It provides no relief at all from the weight of the guitar and the Comfort Strapp is ugly and looks bulky.
I use a 3 inch wide levy strap, it cured the problem of my guitar being too heavy.
Issue I have now is that the levy strap is too long, so I might buy a planet waves padded comfort wide strap, in black.
I could always just man up and get one of the cool straps I posted. I'd have to put up with a bit of shoulder ache after playing too long though, and thats probably not too healthy.