Yep that's exactly what's happening! My favorite strings and my two favorite gig-worthy mods. It's MY bass on permanent loan, lol
An adjustable strap, and then permanently attach it to the bass. Not T-nut strap buttons. Not lock straps. Some sort of washer or strap-button that literally prevents the strap from being removed without unscrewing it. It may mean having to spin the strap around to untwist it more often, but it means not having the bass fall to the floor while someone is playing it, completely unaware that they didn't attach the strap correctly or it's flipped and slowly unmounting itself.
I'm always amazed at how many guitarists and bassists, even ones who have been playing for decades, don't bother to check that the strap is on the buttons properly before they play, only to have the instrument pop off the strap and fall to the floor. At the jam i go to, in the past year i've yelled from the bar to the players no less than 10 times "Check your bottom strap! It's flipped and gonna pull out!" Half the time they're playing someone else's instrument. (Also i have to yell from the bar that the two guitars are out of tune with each other, but that's another story.)
And with lock-straps, you think you'd be safer, but people who don't know how to lock them, or people who never used them in will somehow figure out how to unlock the strap, and then put it back on the bass without locking it, again, only to have it fall to the ground. Saw one friend do that to another friend's brand-new week-old Fender Jazz Ultra with lock straps. Took a big chunk of paint out of it. (Free relic job????)
I know the house-bass you bought isn't the most expensive in the world and it's gonna get banged around a little bit by nature of being the Jam Bass. But making it a little bit harder for someone else to destroy it wouldn't hurt.
Great call! I forgot about the strap part altogether. Duhhhhh. Thanks!
I use unscented lotion! Same idea
