Heads Up strap

[Death by Uberschall]

http://www.headsupstrap.com/index.html

not a bad idea at for those who need it.

 

[Cagey]

Not a bad idea. I guess if the guitar is light enough that you've got neck dive problems, you probably wouldn't suffer for the added weight in the strap.

 

[JaySwear]

thats cool. i like this solution much more than throwing weights into the guitar's control cavity. might try these for my tele deluxe, i've had a bit of a problem playing it while standing. plus it looks like it could easily be made into a normal strap by just popping the weights back out of it

 

[back2thefutre]

a strap made of grippy material does the trick too

 

[crash]

Yep, just get a suede strap.

 

[Kadmium]

Pardon me for saying so, but this seems like an incredibly dumb way to solve this problem. The example they use is the SG, which, in my opinion, has a body that's slightly overweight but not as bad as most guitars, and a neck that's massively overweight. So their solution is to make the body massively overweight in order to compensate. That's like losing a foot in an accident and then cutting the other one off to cure the ensuing limp.

 

[ledzepplin6914]

Pardon me for saying so, but this seems like an incredibly dumb way to solve this problem. The example they use is the SG, which, in my opinion, has a body that's slightly overweight but not as bad as most guitars, and a neck that's massively overweight. So their solution is to make the body massively overweight in order to compensate. That's like losing a foot in an accident and then cutting the other one off to cure the ensuing limp.

+1

 

[B3Guy]

yeah. tie a couple helium balloons to your headstock and call it good.  :icon_jokercolor:

seriously, though . . .

 

[Klark]

I've been doing this for years.  Just take an old trem block and gaff tape it to that part of your strap.  It looks a little road dogish, but it works!

Another trick that works is putting a Dunlop strap lock on, because where the strap attaches is farther away from the body than a typical strap button or Schaller type strap lock.  You'd be very surprised to see how much that extra 1/2" of extension helps with balancing a guitar, especially a tele.  And you can't use two Dunlops, because it'll just balance out.  You have to use one Schaller on the butt, and then one Dunlop closest to the headstock.