I've just finished up my first cbg and was wondering if most folks put on strap pins and where they generally placed them. I know its a cbg, so there are no rules but I was wondering as to others sucess as to the best place to put them. I've been pouring over all the pictures but I have seen little to no evidence they are on any of them. In Shane's videos it appears he does have a strap on his box but I couldn't see where or how it was mounted.
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Believe in yourself. Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
That's a bit more that the price for Stew Mac buttons -- those are $3.42 a pair for the nickle ones. I *do* like the looks of the knurled nuts more, though. If I'd done it your way, there'd have been no way in Hades the beggers would have come loose on me. I'd have hit them with lok-tite if they did.
Hmmm. I have some old brass kicking around waiting to be reloaded (will never happen). I bet I could pop the primers out and saw off the very ends ... fill with epoxy and use for strap buttons. My brother is an instructor with the NRA and I've been threatening to make him a "Charlton Heston Special" with .22 fret markers and the ends off old shotgun shells for volumn knobs. Wow. With 9mm strap buttons, I'd have to send photos to Gunny Bush...
Believe in yourself. Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
That's a bit more that the price for Stew Mac buttons -- those are $3.42 a pair for the nickle ones. I *do* like the looks of the knurled nuts more, though. If I'd done it your way, there'd have been no way in Hades the beggers would have come loose on me. I'd have hit them with lok-tite if they did.
Hmmm. I have some old brass kicking around waiting to be reloaded (will never happen). I bet I could pop the primers out and saw off the very ends ... fill with epoxy and use for strap buttons. My brother is an instructor with the NRA and I've been threatening to make him a "Charlton Heston Special" with .22 fret markers and the ends off old shotgun shells for volumn knobs. Wow. With 9mm strap buttons, I'd have to send photos to Gunny Bush...
Do NOT do what I did and just screw the strap button right into the side of the box! The box was too thin to support the weight happily, and the buttons kept working their way loose. I fixed that easily enough by gluing strips of wood at the head and foot of the box and redrilling the pilot holes for the button's screws. All is happiness now.
I have made some out of an old coins with a hole in the middle that I happened to have lying round (spanish and danish I think). Though any good shaped washer would be just as good.
Though I think the most secure ones are eye bolts, but the problem is normal straps won't strap onto them, though I did make a strap once with a clip from a dog lead that could clip onto eye bolts. I tend to put one button at one end of the box and the other somewhere around the box end of the neck like in the picture. I prefer this to tying it onto the headstock because i think it balances nicer, but on one build i put a strap button on the headstock because it is a small mandolin and I found that balanced well.
I made mine out of brass "knurl nuts" anchored by the pretty center nails from an Ook-brand picture-hanger. One is in the center of the bottom of the box - mounted through my rosewood tailpiece. The top one is on the player's side of the top of the box, 1/2 between the neck and the left edge.
You can see the top one in this shot. The bottom one is in the centerline. My phono jack is on the corner, facing down as you play. That way there's no entaglement of cord and strap.
Bob, I haven't placed any strap pins on mine yet. I have only finished one CBG. I am sorry I can't help u. Maybe someone will come to your rescrue before long.
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-WY
Alan Roberts said:
That's a bit more that the price for Stew Mac buttons -- those are $3.42 a pair for the nickle ones. I *do* like the looks of the knurled nuts more, though. If I'd done it your way, there'd have been no way in Hades the beggers would have come loose on me. I'd have hit them with lok-tite if they did.
Hmmm. I have some old brass kicking around waiting to be reloaded (will never happen). I bet I could pop the primers out and saw off the very ends ... fill with epoxy and use for strap buttons. My brother is an instructor with the NRA and I've been threatening to make him a "Charlton Heston Special" with .22 fret markers and the ends off old shotgun shells for volumn knobs. Wow. With 9mm strap buttons, I'd have to send photos to Gunny Bush...
Do NOT do what I did and just screw the strap button right into the side of the box! The box was too thin to support the weight happily, and the buttons kept working their way loose. I fixed that easily enough by gluing strips of wood at the head and foot of the box and redrilling the pilot holes for the button's screws. All is happiness now.
I use a stap A LOT as I play as I walk around.
-WY
Believe in yourself.
Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Though I think the most secure ones are eye bolts, but the problem is normal straps won't strap onto them, though I did make a strap once with a clip from a dog lead that could clip onto eye bolts. I tend to put one button at one end of the box and the other somewhere around the box end of the neck like in the picture. I prefer this to tying it onto the headstock because i think it balances nicer, but on one build i put a strap button on the headstock because it is a small mandolin and I found that balanced well.
You can see the top one in this shot. The bottom one is in the centerline. My phono jack is on the corner, facing down as you play. That way there's no entaglement of cord and strap.