Looking for an acoustic bass guitar

[adriaan]

I thought straps for acoustics came with a shoelace in one end, that you can tie to the headstock?

[cozmik_cowboy]

I recently got a Micheael Kelly acoustic bass guitar but it only has the one strap button at the end of the body. I have a gig coming up next month with an acoustic band and would need to use a strap. Where is the best place for the other strap button to be. I have seen some pictures of where the strap button is fitted in different places on the base of the neck where it joins the body some on top some in the curve of the neck and others on the underside of the neck. I only want to drill one hole so where is the best place to put it for proper balance and playability.

If you're not going to tie it at the nut as Adriaan suggests (pretty much all my straps have come with ties, but I tend to use leather bootlaces), here's what the great Dan Erelwine says (by way of Stew-Mac)


Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

I had a pretty cheap factory second Johnson bass guitar, that sounded absolutely fantastic played acoustically with some black tapewound strings. The Belcat (sp.?) electronics it came with weren't especially great, but were reliable. And it was a big, unwieldy thing to play casually on the couch. I loaned it to a buddy at work who's taken an interest in playing, but not yet ready to spring for a nice bass or amp. I hear mostly good reports on the Michael Kelly ABG's...

+1 for Dan Erlewine.