When I used to play with shirt tucked in I'd sometimes fold a bandana and let it hang over the belt buckle (with half of it inside my pants behind the buckle. But I never worried about shirt buttons.
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Buttoned-down shirts and glossy finishes?
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I didn't know these exist. I apparently don't get out enough... LOL! Luckily, I haven't noticed any scratch marks from my regular buttoned dress shirts, but why tempt fate?. Thanks for this post. post.
It isn't buttons that will eventually wear on a poly finish. It's heat and moisture. After just a few years of steady gigging, the back of the instrument will craze. Add a few more years and the tiny pieces of finish will fall off. By ten years or so the places where the bass gets touched, the back, the top of the lower bout, will have little to no finish left. I almost always play in a long-sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up about a quarter way to my elbow. The finish wore off the lower bout from constant contact with nothing more abrasive than my arm.
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There is, (or was) a product that was marketed as a protective cover that you would apply to the back of guitars intended to prevent damage. I don't remember what it was called, and a brief search did not find it, but I may have heard about it right here on good old TB. It may have been offered pre-cut for certain instruments, I don't really remember. It was some kind of clear plastic sheet that you could apply, and remove without damage to the finish. I don't have the time to look for it right now, but maybe someone else here knows about it. I will see if I can find it later tonight when I can find the time to do so.
That sounds like half the people here in Vermont. It's like our state shoe or something.
Casino band here; We have to dress nice for all those gigs, typically 2-nighters. Gloss finishes don't get affected by my button down shirts.
But I at least try buying shirts with dome shaped buttons rather than thick concave cup-shaped ones
But I at least try buying shirts with dome shaped buttons rather than thick concave cup-shaped ones
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As others have mentioned you can use the clear 'pickguard' material people put on acoustic guitars.
