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A frugal and reversable straplock solution.Didn't have to modify vintage instrument.It's just a plastic clip hrom a bread bag.

Must have been Wonder Bread.

That's cool, but you know what else works is the rubber washer off of the Grolsch bottle.

Kira, how did you figure that one out.... sharing a beer with the guitar???

ram wrote:Kira, how did you figure that one out.... sharing a beer with the guitar???

Probably read the thread at BGC.

But that takes tools and costs the purchase of the washers.Bag clips are free.

fatcat wrote:

ram wrote:Kira, how did you figure that one out.... sharing a beer with the guitar???

Probably read the thread at BGC.

But that takes tools and costs the purchase of the washers.Bag clips are free.

Nah, it's just a very well-known method (though I've seen the bag thing before too)

besides, you don't get the fun of drinking the beers!

collin wrote:

fatcat wrote:

ram wrote:Kira, how did you figure that one out.... sharing a beer with the guitar???

Probably read the thread at BGC.

But that takes tools and costs the purchase of the washers.Bag clips are free.

Nah, it's just a very well-known method (though I've seen the bag thing before too)

besides, you don't get the fun of drinking the beers!

Yep, I've heard of the ol' rubber washer off of the Grolsch bottle trick many years ago, way before the internet existed!

What??? There was a time when the internet didn't exist???

Didn't think that Grolsch was available here in the Sheeples Republik, but the INTERNET! helped me find it listed in the state owned store system--not available on the free market.I'll have to get some next month.

Be really careful with the bread clip solution, as it gives you a false sense of security. I tried those with a Mosrite I had as a teenager, and had a few failures. I wasn't throwing the guitar around either, was just rocking out.

ram wrote:Kira, how did you figure that one out.... sharing a beer with the guitar???

I do recall that alcohol was involved, yes ...

Nah, truthfully I learned that one way before computer forums, in the days whose memories would become, well, a bit blurry for some of us.

cjj wrote: What??? There was a time when the internet didn't exist???

AG hadn't invented it yet....

johnallg wrote:

cjj wrote: What??? There was a time when the internet didn't exist???

AG hadn't invented it yet....

Uh, yeah. I was using it before he'd even heard of a computer!

I would be careful with the bread bag trick - I bet it would lend more false security than actual security, but the Grolsh stopper washer sounds intriguing!