How long is your strap?

[Waddo Soqable]

I doubt you could get much lower than this bloke

 

 

[Bunion]

Seems to be a new style 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

In our band we have a policy of either above or below the belt buckle, if worn... With sparkley trews like this though it would be rude not to show 'em off!

 

[spacecowboy]

3 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said:

I doubt you could get much lower than this bloke

 

 

My absolute worst nightmare

[Waddo Soqable]

39 minutes ago, spacecowboy said:

My absolute worst nightmare

What, worse than the ^Ricky bloke? 😁

[spacecowboy]

45 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

What, worse than the ^Ricky bloke? 😁

Haha! I think they’re much of a muchness there! 

[Gasman]

These fingerboard pluckers just need to add a hootenanny strap button and all will be normalised....

[nilorius]

Mine is 175,5 cm long. Any one satisfied ?

[Richard R]

12 hours ago, Bunion said:

 

 

 

 

I have been wracking my brains trying to come up with a caption for this but to no avail.

It just looks so utterly painful!

[Bunion]

11 minutes ago, Richard R said:

 

I have been wracking my brains trying to come up with a caption for this but to no avail.

It just looks so utterly painful!

At least he cured the neck dive 

Edited June 11, 2023 by Bunion

[Richard R]

10 minutes ago, Bunion said:

At least he cured the neck dive 

That cheesewire strap would probably cut through his neck.

[nilorius]

39 minutes ago, Richard R said:

 

I have been wracking my brains trying to come up with a caption for this but to no avail.

It just looks so utterly painful!

Long, long, long, long time ago. Before the wind, before the snow.............

[snorkie635]

12 hours ago, nilorius said:

Long, long, long, long time ago. Before the wind, before the snow.............

Oh no! Not the Unicorn and Grizzly Bear story again! 🤣

[nilorius]

52 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

Oh no! Not the Unicorn and Grizzly Bear story again! 🤣

I just wrote on picture i saw, there where Rickenbacker hanging under his knees. Now he deleted it.

Edited June 12, 2023 by nilorius

[nilorius]

On 11/06/2023 at 10:34, Waddo Soqable said:

I doubt you could get much lower than this bloke

 

 

This guy loves to play with his right hand on the neck.

[Waddo Soqable]

1 minute ago, nilorius said:

This guy loves to play with his right hand on the neck.

He's no choice really unless he was a gorilla.. 

[Waddo Soqable]

1 hour ago, snorkie635 said:

Oh no! Not the Unicorn and Grizzly Bear story again! 🤣

Nilo's fairy stories are very quaint, but for some odd reason get censored /cancelled.. Shame really

[tauzero]

On 12/06/2023 at 09:44, snorkie635 said:

Oh no! Not the Unicorn and Grizzly Bear story again! 🤣

 

Not grizzly beer?

[snorkie635]

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

 

Not grizzly beer?

Guzzly beer in this weather. 🍺

[funkgod]

How long is my strap ?

a bit personal, but lets just say.. i dont get many complaints 🙂

 

 

[Baloney Balderdash]

On 23/05/2023 at 11:29, nilorius said:

I wear it pretty high

Pretty much where I got my strap adjusted to as well.

 

To hang at about the same height as if I was playing sitting down without a strap.

 

And this is the strap in question:

 

The Harley Benton 85mm wide black suede strap with 6mm memory foam padding, and the length adjustable from 105 to 150 cm

 

Edited June 17, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[nilorius]

16 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

Pretty much where I got my strap adjusted to as well.

 

To hang at about the same height as if I was playing sitting down without a strap.

 

And this is the strap in question:

 

The Harley Benton 85mm wide black suede strap with 6mm memory foam padding, and the length adjustable from 105 to 150 cm

 

As a brand i think it's 10 from 10. It has 3 positions to connect at any times. Looks very good, but must be a big money as well.

[Baloney Balderdash]

34 minutes ago, nilorius said:

As a brand i think it's 10 from 10. It has 3 positions to connect at any times. Looks very good, but must be a big money as well.

 

It is indeed a really great strap, feels extremely comfortable, even with heavy basses, and it has a relatively good grip as well, making it great at dealing with neck diving basses.

 

And while you can get cheaper straps, and that it is one of the more expensive ones Harley Benton offers, it's not really expensive, in fact rather cheap for what it is.

 

Harley Benton is a budget brand after all.

 

It is 29£/34 Euro.

 

Only issue I really have with it is that the memory foam doesn't seem to be covered/draped with another layer of leather or even just cloth, which I got a suspicion potentially could cause the foam to deteriorate over time being exposed to sweat and eventually crumble away.

 

I assume though, and it does seem like it, that the memory foam at least has been treated with a thin protective film/layer of some kind.

 

Edited June 17, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[Agent 00Soul]

On 26/05/2023 at 10:28, NancyJohnson said:

At 6'4" and predominantly using Thunderbirds, I favour a Levy's extra long strap; there's certainly times where the strap has been too long and photographic evidence show me in a square-shouldered Herman Munster poise, just to raise the bass to a more comfortable playing position.

 

 

They are beasts.

[Chienmortbb]

On 24/05/2023 at 23:03, LowB_FTW said:

Reading this thread, realised it was time for a brew, went downstairs and put the kettle on, measured my strap … 51".

 

Mark

What is that in real money?