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11-10-2008, 09:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | | Tip: wear your belt buckle to the side.
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I've done this for years and never see anyone else do it. I just wear my belt buckle on my left hip, one belt loop over. No buckle rash on ANY of my guitars.
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11-10-2008, 09:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Well, of course. Double bass for me, but same concept.
Most bassists I know do this. |
11-10-2008, 09:37 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | Started doing this 5-6 years ago. I don't tell anyone because I don't care if they devalue a bass I might want to buy someday. 
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11-10-2008, 09:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Suffolk County,NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd Stanley I've done this for years and never see anyone else do it. I just wear my belt buckle on my left hip, one belt loop over. No buckle rash on ANY of my guitars. | Whoa Flashback time! back in the old days? In high school? in the auto shop to be specific, all the greasers wore their belt buckles on the hip, figure out why. No scratches on that candyredmetalflakeflamejobbaby! I'm talking the guys they romanticize in movies, guys whose wives picked them up with the kids in the car after 8th period, so they could make it to their jobs.....Ah the good old days! Come back Fonz. |
11-10-2008, 10:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | Hmmm, my belt buckle has never roughed up any of my basses, it has, however, worn a few holes in some of my favorite t-shirts. I'll have to try this "to the side" thing.
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11-10-2008, 11:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dallas | | yep, i do the same thing even though my instrument is usually above my buckle--just in case 
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11-10-2008, 02:40 PM
| | | Just do like me and get fat.........belly keeps the bass off the buckle! 
Matt
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11-10-2008, 02:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | EMO kids have been doing that for years.
I like how style seems to transcend generations.
Todd Stanley, you are becoming EMO. |
11-10-2008, 07:25 PM
| | Beware the Jabberwock, my son! | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Charlotte,NC | | | One of my best friends comes from a long line of degenerate musicians, one night were at his parents house with his uncle and grandfather and some of our friends. Well my buddy see's my friends grand pa come out of the bathroom and he leans over and tells me how sad it is that he's getting so old he cant get his belt on straight. |
11-10-2008, 07:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | I never worry about it. I only wear a belt if I'm "dressed up" for a jazz gig anyway. My Squire VM fretless can get a few scratches - it'll add character. |
11-10-2008, 09:44 PM
|  | Ampeeeeeeg \o/ | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Israel | | | @op, That's a good tip
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11-10-2008, 11:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | | Yep, side belt buckle is something I used for years. No "rash" on my basses. |
11-11-2008, 02:18 AM
|  | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | | Or better yet, go to a law enforcement uniform supply shop and get a velcro belt. No buckle at all = no buckle scratches.
I've been a paramedic a loooooooooooooooong time and we got given these belts as uniform items about twelve years ago. After a few days to get used to it, I decided I liked the whole 'no buckle' thing. I still wear one every day, and ESPECIALLY if I'm playing.
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11-11-2008, 07:05 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | I just strap my bass high enough that it lifts and separates my man teats. No buckle rash on my basses!
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11-11-2008, 07:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belgium | | I'm part Italian and I wear suspenders. |
11-11-2008, 07:34 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Play naked, it'll be fine.
Though, I always use the side buckle, even when not playing, offset at least.
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11-11-2008, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Leandro | | | most uniform supplies and tool trucks for automotive tools have "scratchless" belts, the buckle id covered by leather.
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11-11-2008, 09:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: danville, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lizooki Just do like me and get fat.........belly keeps the bass off the buckle!
Matt | We have a winner.
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11-11-2008, 09:24 AM
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most uniform supplies and tool trucks for automotive tools have "scratchless" belts, the buckle id covered by leather.
| Yep. I'm a fan of leather belt buckles.
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11-11-2008, 09:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | I started doing that years ago- I took my cue from Peter Tork.
Lately, however, I've taken a fancy to suspenders for holding up my gig trousers.
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