Free Straplocks.

[pitchfork]

Hey guys,
If you have no money for straplocks unscrew your strap button make a hole in a bottle cap, put the screw through the hole, put your strap on the strap button and then re attatch to your bass. It holds your strap on great if you are skint.
Cheers,
Ross

Ps. I use two newcastle brown caps on my starter bass.

[spaz21387]

lol sounds like it would work but it would look bad. I could have just made them in my metal shop class but i never had the idea before.

[Crudd-Bucket™]

If you have no money for straplocks ...and live in a cupboard. Seriously, what a haggard idea.

[Worrpigs]

...and live in a cupboard. Seriously, what a haggard idea.
123. strap locks are like 15 bucks.

[pitchfork]

It doesn't look to bad and lets face it you can't argue with the price.

[spaz21387]

Hes from England thats why. Just kidding My friend really needed strap locks lol. His band did some small show in the cafeteria at lunch in the school once. He tryed to do the thing where he tosses his bass over his sholder and catches it and starts playing again. But the strap came off and his bass went sliding across the floor. That was the worst sound i have ever heard come from a bass.

[spaz21387]

Hey what about using quarters instead of bottle caps then it would only cost 50 cents.

[pitchfork]

Because theyre much harder to make a hole in, i think.
I've never seen a quarter so correct me if im wrong.

[Skit]

My god how poor are you?
You can get cheap plastic ones from music shops 50p for 2 or splash out and get a £10 metal one...


Why dont you buy some?
Cause you on the welfare, you cant aford it, you'll never get some, you cant afford it... :thumb:

[802.11-NGR]

My friend uses washers. No drilling, and it works fine.

I bought straplocks.

[Led_Zeppelin678]

My Warwick came with straplocks.

A friend of mine just let his friend borrow his Peavey bass for two weeks, and when he got it back he saw that the guy had taken a torn up piece of cloth, jammed it into the holes for the strap buttons, and screwed the strap-buttons in over the cloth...the action was incredibly high, as well (truss-rod damage, anyone?).

[naut]

well, i have a Planet Waves strap that has locks on it. it's sweet.

[Mr. Pickle]

i just use metal washers, u can paint them and they can actually look they were made for it. mine dont b/c they're silver and my bass is purple, but they work really well none-the-less.

[WHoRRID]

Because theyre much harder to make a hole in, i think.
I've never seen a quarter so correct me if im wrong.


i have 2 quaters on my bass, so its possible. i just used a center punch and tapped it the progressed from a smal bit to a larger one. i added a counterbore as well, so the screw didnt stick out too far. its pretty un noticable from a distance, and up close it looks fine. ill do a right it all up if anyone would like to try it them self.

ill need to fine the cd with my bass pics on it... and sign up for photobucket(im so behind the times:lol: )

[DarkGothComy]

Hey guys,
If you have no money for straplocks unscrew your strap button make a hole in a bottle cap, put the screw through the hole, put your strap on the strap button and then re attatch to your bass. It holds your strap on great if you are skint.
Cheers,
Ross

Ps. I use two newcastle brown caps on my starter bass.

Do you perhaps have a how to site or something. I'm not familiar with the mechanics of it.

[PainKiller8191]

hey threadstarter, post pics of your final product this looks amusing

[pitchfork]

I just put this here because i can't justify spending £10 on a bass i use as a backup, i have grover straplocks on my thunderbird (metal cross screw on ones). By the way none of my local music shops sell the 50p plastic ones only the schaller ones.

[sinister]

Why dont basses come with straplocks on already if they are so great?

[PaulSimonon]

Why dont basses come with straplocks on already if they are so great?
A ton do. Just not most mass produced ones.

[ridethelightning]

i got straplocks for 3dollars canadian. the dunlop ones.

common man, im sure you can afford that.

[Dosshiz]

**** it. if it works im doing it, thats $15 im saving

[The Forgotten Bassist]

i got straplocks for 3dollars canadian. the dunlop ones.

common man, im sure you can afford that.


Try getting cheap ones in Britiain. I'm in Scotland and every shop I tried didn't stock them, they wanted a ****load of money to order them in. So I went on Ebay and bought ones from there, and they were £15, a lot more than 3 can$.

[tim_commerfordism]

aye. v expenive in England, about £15 or £20, which is about $30 or $40 ;)

[sixxbassist90]

That would require a new name.
ghetto locks yo!

[Skit]

I get mine for 50p each (plastic ones) Or £10 for 2 metal ones..

I guess I live in a good part of England :thumb:

[pitchfork]

I live in swindon theres plenty of music shops round here but everything costs more than online or they dont have it, good for testing stuff out though.

[Dyslexic Magician]

You guys don't know the value of a dollar. Which would you rather spend, 0... or $15.00....

[Mr. Tamzarian]

Plastic ones cost £1.50 each here in Edinburgh. I've seen some pretty cool metal ones online, but I don't think I need them. My strap buttons are pretty big and I have a leather strap that takes half an hour to put on.

[DashRantic]

Would someone mind posting a picture of a straplock? I've heard about 'em, but I haven't actually seen one before I don't think... Personally, I just wad duct tape around the ends of my straps, works fine for a while.

-Dash

[punkxmetal05]

i'm gonna try that bottle cap thing!

[kaossurge]

I want pictures...

[muthafunkabass]

very cool idea, but ill never be a dumb enough **** to do that to my bass. :thumb:

[kaossurge]

i just tryed the mentioned above washer idea, and it worked very well.

[Ozduck]

washers are awesome!

[kilian]

http://members.lycos.nl/tigerarmy/straplock1.jpg
http://members.lycos.nl/tigerarmy/straplock2.jpg
http://members.lycos.nl/tigerarmy/straplock3.jpg

Works perfect :thumb:

[pitchfork]

Pity i don't drink grolsh lol, strictly newcastle brown for me.

[maco]

aye. v expenive in England, about £15 or £20, which is about $30 or $40 ;)
Wow, they're only $20 (£10 or so) here for the Dunlops and $15 for Schallers (maybe the other way around...not sure)

[d-basser]

http://members.lycos.nl/tigerarmy/straplock1.jpg
http://members.lycos.nl/tigerarmy/straplock2.jpg
http://members.lycos.nl/tigerarmy/straplock3.jpg

Works perfect :thumb:

thats exactly what i do its so easy and you get a couple of bottles of beer out of it.

p.s. nice colour of bass

[Hardinge]

hmmmm i have some of the cheapo plastic ones but for some reason they dont fit on my peavey which pissed me off

[pitchfork]

Oh well ive sold my crappy bass for £35 selling my amp for £50 to some gulable people all in aid for a new fender.

[PainKiller8191]

you sold a bass for £35?












someone bought a bass for £35!?

[pitchfork]

I ripped them off seriously this bass needed scrapping. Repainting, new pots, rewiring, new strings and new bridge. It was a stagg though and the bridge was rusty because i spilled beer all over it.

[d-basser]

hmmmm i have some of the cheapo plastic ones but for some reason they dont fit on my peavey which pissed me off

oh yeah thats the other reason that i use he rubber off bottle tops cos cheap straplocks don't fit peaveys, grr.

[cliff_bass player]

i prefer shaller straplocks... you replace the whole strap pin... it a two peice thing... strap pin and a lock that ataches to ur strap which goes on and off by pulling tle ball at the end... works great. and it was half the price of normal straplocks

cliff... or yea go to bottle cap idea if u want the strap to stay on permently... not a bag idea tho

[Polyamarous]

Straplocks are so overrated.

Duct Tape

[pitchfork]

Don't start another thread on duck tape we all know brain surgeons use it and its useful but its been done.

[hellonearth07]

ghetto locks yo!


:chug:

yep, but i think i'm gonna get some beer bottle caps, crush em down so the edges dont scratch my bass, then put em on there..... i'm thinking rolling rock bottle caps, but i might go wit heinekin.

[hedgefudge420]

i`ve always wanted to do this...but I always destoyed the caps trying to get a hole thru em......

[pitchfork]

Fair enough, I didn't care about scratching my bass and how could you when the strap is in the way. Would look better with the caps crushed down though.

[-whitey-]

also 3 pence washers work amazingly,they are more discreet than the big bottle caps lol

but anything that screws on is better than straplocks that come off,like dunlop,they come off all the time,the hard way to find this out is seeing ur mate's face just as the headstock came flying towards him lol

[pitchfork]

I don't know schaller and grover don't come off easily. I had to use a pair of pliers to unscrew my grovers once.

[Hardinge]

oh yeah thats the other reason that i use he rubber off bottle tops cos cheap straplocks don't fit peaveys, grr.

do u know if the expensive straplocks fit on ure bass

[d-basser]

aint tried, just tried those plastic ones that you fit on and twist. rubber beer bottle washers work a treat tho, also i cant afford expensive ones

[pitchfork]

Use the actuall strap button ones, you replace the strap button with the strap locks.

[fuzzyhair]

I think that if you took off the pin and found a washer that fit over the small part, but stopped at the big part,that it would work excellent. You just couldn't take the strap off.

[lobsterjohnson]

i think i ave weird strap buttons cause their as big at the botom as they are at the top they just taper in the middle

[maddmanp5s]

musicians friend---fender straplocks --13$--the best on the market--i believe--but don't order right now--there on backorder---for a couple months--i've been waitin and waitin---i'm fixin to do a welfare fix like this to get me by till they come in--but as soon as they do i'm changin em cause i like to take my strap off when i put my bass in my gig bag---very worth the 13 $ to me....

[lobsterjohnson]

i just made my own
wors pretty well
doesnt look that bad itll work untill i save some money
i think im gonna paint them black

[Billie'sBouncer]

Never had a problem with these.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Guitar/Accessories?sku=361700

$3.00 i cant complain. :thumb:

[masterofdisaster]

my bro went to europe and got some danish(i think) coins (the ones that have holes in the middle) they are much cheaper than straplocks and gorgeous to boot

[Aes820]

I sewed my straps on. They aint moving anywhere.

[pitchfork]

How the hell do you sew your strap on?

[masterofdisaster]

you take floss(or something similar) and you sew the hole so its smaller. if you want you can also take off the buttons and put the strap in between the buttons and the body. aes is right, they dont go anywhere

[hartke20g]

can someone with bottle cap or washer 'straplocks' post some pics? i don't see how it's the easiest thing in terms of removing the strap.
are there straplocks out there that will let me take my strap off in 5 seconds without having to unscrew the strap pins? because i put my strap on the actual strap pin, not the screw, meaning that the strap goes around the recessed part of the strap pin.

[motoden]

Steal the hose clamps from your lawnmower's gas line and stick em on your geetar.:thumb:

[**AJ**]

I tried putting straplocks on my epiphone les paul standard,
The schaller ones, and the pin was too small because the utter twat who owned the guitar before me put HUGE screws in it. so The smaller screw kept ripping out
So i went rummaging through my old toolbox and found Much bigger screws
but with the same size head as the schaller screws
And i screwed em in uber tight and now my strap is LOCKED FOREVER! MUhahahahahaa
AND when i was finding new screws i found this wierd screwdriver that can screw/unscrew screws that have been completly threaded. i used it on my old epi SG. i was like :O

[Peg Dizzler]

It's my opinion that the Schaller straploks are the best. They have the best system, and very high quality.

Before that I had washers on one of my guitars for awhile, it worked alright, considering I didn't care about the looks of that guitar.

[Golan]

Schaller locks own.

[rocken rossco]

Schaller locks own.
agreed

[pitchfork]

I like the grovers, they are so damn simple and they look badass.

[seibel88]

I tried putting straplocks on my epiphone les paul standard,
The schaller ones, and the pin was too small because the utter twat who owned the guitar before me put HUGE screws in it. so The smaller screw kept ripping out
So i went rummaging through my old toolbox and found Much bigger screws
but with the same size head as the schaller screws
And i screwed em in uber tight and now my strap is LOCKED FOREVER! MUhahahahahaa
AND when i was finding new screws i found this wierd screwdriver that can screw/unscrew screws that have been completly threaded. i used it on my old epi SG. i was like :O

I had the same problem when installing the Schaller's on my LP. I didn't even put the new screws in, instead I used the original screws out of the LP and sanded down the heads so the were smaller, then I had to bore out the straplock so the original screws would fit through.

[rocken rossco]

I had the same problem when installing the Schaller's on my LP. I didn't even put the new screws in, instead I used the original screws out of the LP and sanded down the heads so the were smaller, then I had to bore out the straplock so the original screws would fit through.
yeah i got that problem to, i just filled the whole with matches/glue and screwed into that