Vin’s Best $20 You Can Spend On Your Guitar
It’s me again. SUP?
So how many times have you gone to pick up your favorite axe, grabbed it by the strap and kathunk, the guitar falls. YIKES!!! Or if you’re lucky or quick enough, you catch it. Phew! Close call. Well there’s an easy solution – Strap Locks.
It’s amazing that we buy a new or used guitar, spend good money on it, take it home and put our favorite strap on it ‘cause it’s worked soooo well in the past. The only bummer is the leather at the end of almost all straps gets soft and loose over time. At some point daily use does that. Kids and parents should pay close attention before disaster strikes.
THE GUITAR STRAP IS NOT A HANDLE!!
Now for a true, funny and yet sad tale in Vinman’s Life. It was my 16th birthday (I won’t give out the date). My father gave me a custom USA Hammer Phantom - $1600 at the time - big dough!! It was purple, my favorite color, in fact it was called purple rain. Anyhow I was doing my best Yngwie Malmsteen solo, throwing the guitar around my neck, catching it and continuing to play the solo. I was getting pretty darn good, too. Then it happened. Snap! The leather on my strap was old and loose and the guitar went flying across the room. AAARGHH!!
It was horrible. To me it seemed to happen in slow motion. The guitar lands eight feet across the room with a KTHUNK!! I’ll never forget that sound. Then silence.
I gathered my composure, ran to the guitar and looked down. The strings were two inches off the neck. I’m like wow, not too bad. Then I picked the guitar up and the body drops off the neck and just dangles there. YIKES!! Needless to say it was fun explaining that to my old man. It was a long summer!
The moral of the story is that strap locks save guitars. Whether it’s a $150 beginner or a $5000.00 Tom Anderson, $20 bucks is the best investment for you and your guitar. If you don’t have strap locks yet, come on in and get a set. All my guitars and basses have them.
Thanx for your time,
Vinman
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