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Ding'dwall Combustion 5...
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Blessed is the warrior who finds beauty in his wounds...
The thing is, what made more "dings" and battle scars on any bass I had, or guitar, was the actual strap! It contained some metal or plastic elements of where you adjust the height. Those did way more scratches and dings than any other things. So now, I have exclusively all leather which you just can adjust by cumbersome re-threading through the holes, and 2-3 different holes made for the strap pin. I don't know why I should have adjustable straps that it easy to adjust. They are set up for me only and I do not grow any taller these days, and I DO use one different strap for every bass, and guitar. I want to place them in the case with the strap on.
I band member of mine, has a valuable Les Paul but as he is a Allman Brothers fan he just have to have one of these straps:
and boy, that body and neck has lots of dings and dents from it. I just shakes my head every time... he just smiles.
The thing is, what made more "dings" and battle scars on any bass I had, or guitar, was the actual strap! It contained some metal or plastic elements of where you adjust the height. Those did way more scratches and dings than any other things. So now, I have exclusively all leather which you just can adjust by cumbersome re-threading through the holes, and 2-3 different holes made for the strap pin. I don't know why I should have adjustable straps that it easy to adjust. They are set up for me only and I do not grow any taller these days, and I DO use one different strap for every bass, and guitar. I want to place them in the case with the strap on.
I band member of mine, has a valuable Les Paul but as he is a Allman Brothers fan he just have to have one of these straps:
and boy, that body and neck has lots of dings and dents from it. I just shakes my head every time... he just smiles.
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It took out a nice chip on the front face of the guitar. I was young and stupid. Now I'm old and stupid!
This one was white once upon a time. Now the dings don't show at all.
And not even a cool story to go with it.
I know! It's very disappointing.
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anything with nitrocellulose laqcuer dings easy if you just stare hard enough into it. I've always wondered why some stores carries their most expensive guitars/bass high up hanging under the ceiling. So you have to ask personell to bring a ladder to climb up and reach it, in order for trying it out. The higher up the harder the fall. Dings more easier and breaks headstocks. Even if they got locking hangers.
On top of that if they hang out from the wall, so you save a lot of space (i e from the sides out) it's much easier to ding neighboring guitars too. The other day I was a music store (away from my home town, first visit) that - among other things - had a Gibson EDS-1275 white double neck 12-6 string hanging....in ONE of its necks only. I mentioned it in a very cautious and caring way, to the store "guitar expert" owner and he said something in the lines of "doesn't matter, it's a Gibson". I looked at the price tag at the 'bargain' price of 9.000 USD
eek - and sort of just giggled inside me, and thought that, well, this shop ain't going to have my money on anything else either. But granted, it had no dings, as of yet, but an accident waiting to happen.
If he had it on a floor stand it would tip over more easily, he said. True, so true ...
On top of that if they hang out from the wall, so you save a lot of space (i e from the sides out) it's much easier to ding neighboring guitars too. The other day I was a music store (away from my home town, first visit) that - among other things - had a Gibson EDS-1275 white double neck 12-6 string hanging....in ONE of its necks only. I mentioned it in a very cautious and caring way, to the store "guitar expert" owner and he said something in the lines of "doesn't matter, it's a Gibson". I looked at the price tag at the 'bargain' price of 9.000 USD
eek - and sort of just giggled inside me, and thought that, well, this shop ain't going to have my money on anything else either. But granted, it had no dings, as of yet, but an accident waiting to happen.If he had it on a floor stand it would tip over more easily, he said. True, so true ...
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Ok, nuff of this. I've always wondered why they do not ALWAYS on any guitar or bass, have it like they do on some electro acoutsic guitars. The body strap pin IS the output jack too. You plug it in after you've strapped on and if there's any gnarl in there you detect it immediately. Once the plug is inserted it's impossible to drop it, and the strap at the other end very rarely makes any bass or guitar drop, since you hold the neck while playing or even to keep it from bouncing around. It forms a strap lock immediately.
On electro acoustic guitars, the combined strap and output jack together forms a perfect strap lock. Once the cable is inserted. I do have had many so called strap lock constructions that went south too. Literally. If one use an angled plug on top of that, so much better. You minimizing the risk of accidentally unplugging too, by stepping on cable or something.
Above will not secure the strap, of course.
Below, will...
On electro acoustic guitars, the combined strap and output jack together forms a perfect strap lock. Once the cable is inserted. I do have had many so called strap lock constructions that went south too. Literally. If one use an angled plug on top of that, so much better. You minimizing the risk of accidentally unplugging too, by stepping on cable or something.
Above will not secure the strap, of course.
Below, will...
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