| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] Re;Strap problem | | Date: | Thursday, April 19, 2007 13:09:16 (-0700) | | From: | Tom Foote <footet @.........edu>
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> On Apr 18, 2007, at 3:47 PM, kcsteelplayer@aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> [snip..]
>>
>> I have the same strap with the leash lock. 3 times or more the
>> leash lock
>> has saved my instrument from hitting the floor. But why did the
>> strap come
>> off the button?
>>
>>
>> I had one do that on a custom Tele I was borrowing (Lacewood is
>> beautiful);
>> The problem came in the straplock's locknut coming unthreaded.
>> Guitar tried to
>> hit the floor
>
> I think this is more common then a lot of us have been led to
> believe.
> continual checking of the nut and security of the strap where
> it attaches to the box is a good
> idea. There's a repair man in town here who told me that he's
> put more than
> one Telecaster back together again because the Schaller Strap
> lock failed!
>
> The price of liberty (or a good reso) is eternal vigilance.
>
> FWIW
>
> Tom
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