Ernie Ball Strap Locks

[GWDavis28]

Drew, good to see you in the desert man!!

Any time frame for these???

Glenn |B)

[Bierschinken]

Is it true the locks will be in stores soon?

[fogman]

I can't wait for these too! This and the Wah are going to be so awesome.

[GWDavis28]

Originally Posted by drewbixcubed

These locks will not use our current standard strap buttons. They are designed to be extremely similar however, with zero modification necessary to the instrument.

Does that mean that future MM's will have the strap buttons for the strap locks??

Thanx, Glenn |B)

[idoc]

i called eb yesterday, sales guy says strap lock wont be out till january

[Colin]

Originally Posted by idoc

i called eb yesterday, sales guy says strap lock wont be out till january

that's not far away

[Bierschinken]

Don´t get me wrong but that is what i call "delayed"....

They were announced in may I think....now they´re announced to be available in january

[TheStiffness]

Good things take time.

[fogman]

Well worth the wait!

[INMT]

I used my Delorian to go to the future and check out the strap locks, damn they are cool. To bad I forgot to bring any back.......live and learn.

[Bierschinken]

Originally Posted by TheStiffness

Good things take time.

Yes, and the fact that I know that they will be great gives me enough patience.
Otherwise I´d have bought some Schaller´s a few months ago

So, pleeaaasse keep my JP from crashing onto the ugly floor

[marsguitars]

Wow, it was 8th March 2007 when I first posed the question here... now 8 months later, 100 posts and over 8,000 views later this thread is still going strong and we're still waiting - I sure hope they're worth it when they finally appear!

[Fusionman]

Back in 1978 or so when I first started to play gigs, I never used strap locks...in fact I dont think mechanical systems were even marketed until a few years later. Back then though, the common gtr strap had big thick leather end pieces and were really hard to even get off and on regular strap buttons. I dont think I ever had a slippage problem and never dropped a gtr because I didnt have strap locks.

Then along came the Schall*r and Dunl*p strap locks and suddenly everyone had them. I had decided that the Dunl*ps were the better choice for me and there is a set on every gtr I own or have owned for the past 25 or so years.

In Sept 2007 I bought a JP6 and decided Id wait for the EB strap locks as I didnt want to use the Dunl*p longer thinner wood screw on this gtr. I bought a decent EB strap for the gtr and Ive done about 6 or 7 gigs with this gtr and I got to say that there has been NO issue with strap slippage at all. While the strap itself is not all that heavy duty, the regular EB strap buttons really grab the end tabs very well. Its a small design change with big results.

Again, at a gig Im not running around on stage or this big showman tossing gtrs in the air. Im a stand and play kind of guy. It just goes to show how you how much we automatically depend on certain "must have" items and how much we probably can do without them.

Irregardless, I really dig the idea that the EB strap lock screw is the same as whats in the gtr now thereby eliminating the need to re-drill or mod the screw hole, so whenever they are available, Im in for a set or 2. LOL. After all, the JP is a large investment and why take chances...

[Bierschinken]

Different time, same question - whaazz uuuup with them strap locks?

[Jodizzle]

3 weeks later .....
...... keep waiting