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Stop the strap lock squeak?
- Thread starter Bighouse
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No beeswax around here- but I do have an old can of moustache wax left over from the days when I waxed my moustache. Good thing I kept it as most of the ingredient is likely beeswax- and one never knows when one may wish to wax the moustache once again! Imma give it a try.
Firehouse Moustache Wax might have a new market to capture. Seems to have worked great. I did clean out the connections with a cotton swab and was surprised to see how much black powder came out of the connectors. I'm assuming that's just frictional wear on the black pushpin coming in contact with the strap button, and not the chrome on the strap button itself? But a small coating on the inside of the strap lock eliminated all the squeeking.
I've always just cleaned them and that gets rid of the squeak. The saddle side on the strap gets junk in there that causes the squeak.
I use a small tiny needle dropper with some Gun Shield firearms oil.
I barely put it on, and they always work nicely as designed.
I barely put it on, and they always work nicely as designed.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I ran in to a guy one night who had a very expensive Les Paul on strap locks. He noticed mine and asked me how I kept them from squeaking. I told him I put a tiny amount of wax from a toilet sealing ring on them and so far no squeak. After a night of playing I noticed when he took his strap off he had the open end of the lock pointing down, as in had the pin failed his guitar would have fallen out of the open end of the lock. I mentioned it to him and he said he thought that's what made it quick disconnect. It took a minute to convince him to flip them, but once I got him to picture his very expensive guitar on the floor chipped or broken, he decided it might be a good idea.
Seems kind of like putting and snapping your car safety belts on your seat before you sit down.
I got a set of these:
Well-Hung StrapMaster Old School Leather Strap Locks Well-Hung StrapMaster Old School Leather Strap Locks | Reverb
They work great, look cool, are super quiet, and add a couple inches to your strap length.
Well-Hung StrapMaster Old School Leather Strap Locks Well-Hung StrapMaster Old School Leather Strap Locks | Reverb
They work great, look cool, are super quiet, and add a couple inches to your strap length.
You should see how deformed some of my Schaller strap buttons are, from the combined weight of the instrument, and me constantly moving around.
Every few years I loosen the screw, and rotate the button by 180 degrees, but have had to eventually replace some, after they've run out of orientation options, and been swapped between tail, and upper bout duties.
The acoustic squeaking doesn't bother me, but you can always tell a StingRay with Schaller strap locks, between songs at a gig. It sounds like high tension cables swinging in a wind, coming out of your amp - and that's before you even kick on the distortion.
