Strap twist

[Guest MoJo]

Has anyone else noticed that if you have a twist in your strap, you always turn it in the direction that introduces another twist first, when trying to get the twist out?

[Happy Jack]

I always end up with the side with jam on touching my shoulder ...

 

[Reggaebass]

Yes   Every day , all day, all the time 🙂

[rogerstodge]

You’re bang on there mojo, then you try to twist it the other way and end up with 2 twists in it??

[Teebs]

This happens to me.

Every bloody time.

Even if I work out which way to untwist it, its always wrong

[Skinnyman]

I find it easier to just get in with the twist and then do a roly-poly while wearing the bass.

 

No I don't. I have the same issue as everyone else.....it's even worse when you have a wireless transmitter clipped to the strap

[LITTLEWING]

I'm normally okay with that. My problem EVERY freakin' time is the guitar stand coming with me when I lift my bass to start a set....

[Vinny]

I've given up, I undo the straplok every time!

[Delberthot]

I'm with Vinny on this one.

After years of turning the strap the wrong way I just unclip the strap lock at the bridge end of the body and let it unfankle itself then clip it back on. Saves getting annoyed at an inanimate object when it doesn't do what you want it to 😀

[fleabag]

That effing strap twist alway gets me. I swear there's a strap consipracy going on, and the strap knows it winds me up. It's not like it's just one strap, either. I have around 4 and the cunning bustards all do it.  Like bungee cords that always manage to hit you in the bluddy face, the strap twists out of sheer bluddy mindedness.

Accidently kicking the muthas down the stairs doesnt help at all. They're so light they just shake it off.  I may take my Black & Decker heat gun to the next one and see how it likes that bad boy

[Skinnyman]

24 minutes ago, fleabag said:

That effing strap twist alway gets me. I swear there's a strap consipracy going on, and the strap knows it winds me up. It's not like it's just one strap, either. I have around 4 and the cunning bustards all do it.  Like bungee cords that always manage to hit you in the bluddy face, the strap twists out of sheer bluddy mindedness.

Accidently kicking the muthas down the stairs doesnt help at all. They're so light they just shake it off.  I may take my Black & Decker heat gun to the next one and see how it likes that bad boy

You might even get it to go straight.... 😁

Geddit? Go straight? Fleabag, see, so.... Go straight.

's funny.

*Sigh*

I'll get me coat

[fleabag]

Nah, not happening 

 

[ezbass]

8 hours ago, LITTLEWING said:

I'm normally okay with that. My problem EVERY freakin' time is the guitar stand coming with me when I lift my bass to start a set....

Yes! Very much this! GAH! 

[fleabag]

Oooh i've done that at home a few times.  Bound to happen at a gig at some point

[Marky L]

It's part of the same law in physics that determines you can only ever insert a USB product after flipping it over a minimum of three times.

[operative451]

12 minutes ago, Marky L said:

It's part of the same law in physics that determines you can only ever insert a USB product after flipping it over a minimum of three times.

Even with USB C which is supposedly symmetrical!!

[tauzero]

On 24/02/2019 at 14:20, LITTLEWING said:

I'm normally okay with that. My problem EVERY freakin' time is the guitar stand coming with me when I lift my bass to start a set....

Ditto. And my guitar stand is built in to my stool so as to make it really really obvious.

[rogerstodge]

Hopefully there’ll be no mention of “it don’t matter how neatly I roll my jack leads up but every time I get them out at a gig they look like a plate of spaghetti”

[Unknown_User]

So cathartic reading this thread!  Thank goodness it's not just me being an idiot!  I'm sure that doesn't help, but at least it's not just that.

[tauzero]

I manage to unwind mine, but only after I've stood staring at it slack-jawed for a minute or two, working out the topology. It would probably be quicker to take it off and put it on again.

Off at a tangent - why is it that no guitarist (apart from me) uses straplocks, regardless of how expensive their instruments are? Every time they put a twist in their straps, I have to tell them otherwise their guitars would fall off.

[Delberthot]

most guitarists I know don't even use a stand

[Davo-London]

We have it easy to be sure.  Have you seen LH and RH drummers share a kit?  It's furken hilarious.

My peeve is my in-ears.  One goes in easily - the other one is a constant source of angst.  The swine just won't go in.

Davo

[tauzero]

12 hours ago, Davo-London said:

My peeve is my in-ears.  One goes in easily - the other one is a constant source of angst.  The swine just won't go in.

Push it into the ear it's easy to push it into, backwards, then push it all the way through. Simples.

[Davo-London]

Took me three readings to understand!  Very droll!