[Loopsider]

Is it a difficult process or can i just drill it in. Is cracking likely to happen?

[pimp_vince]

Is it a difficult process or can i just drill it in. Is cracking likely to happen?

cracking is likely, it's very hard to do apparently, not a lot of fun if your neck joint breaks so take it to your local shop and get the guy there to install it so that way if he breaks it he fixes it.

you could always get one that goes around the headstock.

[ee40oztofreedom]

i wouldnt do it, and i heard if you do that with an acoustic it kind of feel off balance when you stand up with it

it get the leather thing that goes around your headstock for like 5 bucks

[joeybcdt]

Taylor Instructions

[stratocasterblue64]

Keyser, if I'm not mistaken, is what I have, it attatches right above the bridge... it comes with another piece, that goes on your strap.... it works out great.... and provides a good balance

[dadfad]

Drill a small hole in the heel (maybe 1/16" diameter, about a half inch deep). Rub soap on the screw-threads when you screw it in. Use a drill 1/32 to 1/16 smaller than the screw-size of the button (most are about 1/8"). I prefer to not put the strap-button on the bottom of the heel. I prefer the underside of the heel near the body. (Like if you were holding the guitar in playing position, the head of the screw would face the floor. I prefer it...the pressure angle (to me) is better and it doesn't stick into the bottom of your case, allowing the guitar body to still lie flat.). I wouldn't do this to an expensive vintage guitar (but I WOULD do it to an expensive new one).

[skesal]

Well to get my strap on I tied a shoelace to the one end of my strap and wraped it on the neck under the actual strings.

[Loopsider]

i got a new guitar off the pawnshop for 50 bucks and the thing dadfad mentioned was already done for me

[wannalearn01]

i got a new guitar off the pawnshop for 50 bucks and the thing dadfad mentioned was already done for me

New and pawnshop sort is a oxymoron huh? lol

R/Troy

[capo2nd]

Well to get my strap on I tied a shoelace to the one end of my strap and wraped it on the neck under the actual strings.

I do that too.

[adds]

I just sit down with the bastard.Why stand when you can sit? is acoustic all about sitting down with a few beers and gaveing a little jam? Well it is to me.Electrics are for standing.

[dadfad]

Same here. I rarely have a strap on an acoustic guitar. The only time I ever use one is the occassional time I play with a band but use an acoustic guitar on a tune or two. Occassionally as an acoustic-intro into an electric tune. When I play solo I always sit.

[capo2nd]

I just sit down with the bastard.Why stand when you can sit? is acoustic all about sitting down with a few beers and gaveing a little jam? Well it is to me.Electrics are for standing.

I always sit on a bar stool but I'm changing harmonicas when I do songs on harmonica and guitar so it is a tad better to have a strap so the beauty doesn't fall down while changing the harmonica, wouldn't you say?

[adds]

I just sit down with the bastard.Why stand when you can sit? is acoustic all about sitting down with a few beers and gaveing a little jam? Well it is to me.Electrics are for standing.

I always sit on a bar stool but I'm changing harmonicas when I do songs on harmonica and guitar so it is a tad better to have a strap so the beauty doesn't fall down while changing the harmonica, wouldn't you say?

I guess your right.


God i hate saying that .

[capo2nd]

I just sit down with the bastard.Why stand when you can sit? is acoustic all about sitting down with a few beers and gaveing a little jam? Well it is to me.Electrics are for standing.

I always sit on a bar stool but I'm changing harmonicas when I do songs on harmonica and guitar so it is a tad better to have a strap so the beauty doesn't fall down while changing the harmonica, wouldn't you say?

I guess your right.


God i hate saying that .

Let be my only comment.

[dadfad]

I change guitars often (I usually have three on a stand beside me plus the one in my hands) for acoustic sets. A strap makes that a pain-in-the-azz for me. I try to "schedule" harp changes to coincide with guitar changes.

[evileye]

Lemme' guess: A 1930 gibson jumbo, a j45, a 12 string, and a resonator?
Whatever the selection, you like to go prepared, ehy?

[capo2nd]

I change guitars often (I usually have three on a stand beside me plus the one in my hands) for acoustic sets. A strap makes that a pain-in-the-azz for me. I try to "schedule" harp changes to coincide with guitar changes.

I'd probably do it like that too if I used any different tunings. I have the Takamine in my hands, the capo in the shirt's pocket and beside me I have a little table with the harps on it and a glass of water for the harps and a pint of beer for me.

[dadfad]

Lemme' guess: A 1930 gibson jumbo, a j45, a 12 string, and a resonator?
Whatever the selection, you like to go prepared, ehy?

You pretty much nailed it! (But the Gibson is a '34!). It changes a little. Sometimes I'll have another six-string in another tuning instead of the twelve. Or the 12 instead of the National. If I'm doing several sets I might change tunings and substitute one for the other for the next set, etc. And the kind of gig I'm doing has an influence. A straight-blues gig might be the '34 in standard, the J-45 in open-D, the J-50 or 40 in Open-G and the National in D or G. More just "old-timey" might lose the National and add the '30 L-1 in Scotch-B, with a 12-string instead of the Open-G 2nd-Jumbo. But generally, what you said is "the standard" set-up!



And.....

Capo2nd....

...and beside me I have a little table with the harps on it and a glass of water for the harps and a pint of beer for me......

Some guys do it the other way around and swear by it!

[capo2nd]

And.....

Capo2nd....

...and beside me I have a little table with the harps on it and a glass of water for the harps and a pint of beer for me......

Some guys do it the other way around and swear by it!

Hehe, I know.