Alembic Guitars Club
Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: iriegnome on August 25, 2021, 02:44:09 PM
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Since I am really late to this Alembic party, can anyone tell me about the strap buttons? Are they Schaller strap lock or are they just regular buttons? I use Dunlop's on all my other basses and guitars, so I am definitely going to change mine out, but I was hoping to find out about the originals.
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What year was your instrument made. I have a 1978 bass with regular brass strap buttons, not sure strap lock was even an option back then. My 2016 bass has gold Schaller strap locks. Not sure it makes a difference what type you use unless you are restoring the instrument to original specs.
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Since I am really late to this Alembic party, can anyone tell me about the strap buttons? Are they Schaller strap lock or are they just regular buttons? I use Dunlop's on all my other basses and guitars, so I am definitely going to change mine out, but I was hoping to find out about the originals.
The vintage alembics used these which are available now https://www.kluson.com/kluson-california-custom-strap-button-set-of-2-details.html
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Or if you knew a machinist who has access to a lathe…. You could get custom made ones.
Paul (unemployed machinist with no lathe… but I do have a dimensional sketch!)
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FWIW, My '77 Series I came with what I assume were original, regular brass(ish) strap buttons in the case, but the bass actually had these weird cylindrical buttons afixed to the body. These buttons weren't designed to be used with a regular strap, and had a locking mechanism similar to the Dunlop design, but I don't think they were Dunlops.
Some years later, I installed the best available locking system, which at that time was the Schaller.
Some more years later I realized that nearly all my basses, except my Alembic, had the Dunlop Dual-Designs, so I caved and installed the Dunlop Dual Designs. At this point I've probably clocked more stage/performance time with the Dunlop Dual Design than any other locking system.
As substantial as Alembics are, I definitely recommend strap-locks. The long, meandering tale above is just to illustrate that after a few side-trips, I wound up doing what you intend with your newly acquired Alembic i.e. installing Dunlops. 8)