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10-21-2010, 02:16 PM
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Greetings bass bretheren,
Correct me if I'm wrong, which I sincerely hope that I am, but you can't buy just the buttons, can you? What a rip! That means you gotta buy the whole shebang just to get the extra sets of buttons you need for your other basses. I really want to use the dunlops, but why can't they just sell the receptacles like the Schallers? Bunk.
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10-21-2010, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by jazzmonkey  Greetings bass bretheren,
Correct me if I'm wrong, which I sincerely hope that I am, but you can't buy just the buttons, can you? What a rip! That means you gotta buy the whole shebang just to get the extra sets of buttons you need for your other basses. I really want to use the dunlops, but why can't they just sell the receptacles like the Schallers? Bunk.
Please tell me I'm wrong. | All that anxiety & emotion over something that costs about as much as a set of strings?
Get over it. Get on with it. Play some music & get it off your mind.
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10-21-2010, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: N.VA | | | So call me frugal, but I can't justify spending an extra 10 bucks to get a couple extra sets of something to fill up an already full box of misc. instrument parts.
Oh, and thanks for your kind informative response that didn't answer my question. |
10-21-2010, 02:40 PM
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Have you checked Ebay? A quick search their turned up these: http://cgi.ebay.com/Buttons-2-Dunlop...#ht_1378wt_905
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10-21-2010, 02:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Deaf | | | To my (limited) knowledge, you cannot buy just the buttons. You need to buy the whole shebang, as you say.
I too have a box full of male dunlop straplocks left over after I equipped a few basses with the buttons. |
10-21-2010, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: N.VA | | | Thanks you two, that's all I needed to hear.
I gotta give it to Dunlop though, very shrewd marketing. Jive turkeys. |
10-21-2010, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by jazzmonkey So call me frugal, but I can't justify spending an extra 10 bucks to get a couple extra sets of something to fill up an already full box of misc. instrument parts.
Oh, and thanks for your kind informative response that didn't answer my question. | Well, if all you needed was someone to agree with you ... I'll let others chime in for that.
It seems to me you already know the answer to your question. I just intended to be helpful, if not informative. I guess that isn't easy to see while you are so worked up over the cost of life in the 21st Century. Maybe you'll see my point, in a day or 2?
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10-21-2010, 03:22 PM
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10-21-2010, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by fu22ba55 I too have a box full of male dunlop straplocks left over after I equipped a few basses with the buttons. | If you have any chrome male sets you wanna sell, I'll take a couple pairs. |
10-21-2010, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Caca de Kick If you have any chrome male sets you wanna sell, I'll take a couple pairs. | I've got some that I'll give you. Are you ever around Bellevue or Kirkland?
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10-21-2010, 03:30 PM
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10-21-2010, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by NWB I've got some that I'll give you. Are you ever around Bellevue or Kirkland? | I was just in Kirkland last night picking up some guitar pickups.  |
10-21-2010, 03:35 PM
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10-21-2010, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Caca de Kick I was just in Kirkland last night picking up some guitar pickups. | Just send me a PM if you'll be in the area and if I'm around I'll give them to you. I think I have three pairs that I have no use for.
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10-21-2010, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by NWB Just send me a PM if you'll be in the area and if I'm around I'll give them to you. I think I have three pairs that I have no use for. | And PM me for sure if you can't connect w/ NWB... I've got to go look in "the box" but I always seem to have more males than females.... Wait... what? Did I just say that? |
10-21-2010, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by fu22ba55 I always seem to have more males than females.... Wait... what? Did I just say that? | Too funny! |
10-21-2010, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by bassyeah | Woah..
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10-21-2010, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by DavidLopezJr Woah.. | I'm gonna say those on amazon are not the locking kind. Those look like regular old strap buttons... not what OP's lookin' for I don't think. |
10-21-2010, 07:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | You're wrong. Dunlop does sell the button part (that goes on the body) as single units. I've never seen Schaller parts separately hiwever.
BTW, seems like a lot of angst over a non-issue that coulda been solved with a quick look at Dunlop's website.
John
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