How To Attach A Guitar Strap To An Acoustic Guitar
We get a lot of questions about whether our guitar straps will work with acoustic guitars, and the answer is yes, Couch Vegan Guitar Straps, any guitar straps for that matter work with acoustic guitars. The question arises because many acoustics have only one "button" on the back side of the guitar to attach to a strap, but none on the the front side.
Basically all you need is a piece of string, a shoe string works fine, and you use this to connect the front of your strap the the headstock of your beautiful new Taylor Guitar (or our old junky Fender solid top we keep around the office pictured here) and you're ready to go.
If you buy a strap from us, and you need to attach it to an acoustic, just put in the comments section at time of order that you need the "acoustic string" and we'll try to throw one in for you for free.
In any event, here's some quick pics to go with a more detailed explanation on how to do this. Yes it's really easy:-)
Start by taking your string, about 25 to 30 inches works will give you extra, and running through the keyhole on the front of your strap. Tie a knot close to the hole.
run your string through the front tab and tie a knot just below.
Next run one side of this string through the headstock of your guitar and tie a knot on the other side.
run one side of the string through the headstock of your acoustic guitar
Using this length of string you may have extra at the end of your knot here, feel free to cut that part off, we like to leave just about an inch or so from the knot....
After tying attaching the string under the headstock of your acoustic guitar, you can cut off some of the excess string if you'd like.
That's about it, you can see from the image below what it looks like.
Once this is done. basically just attach the back to the back button on the guitar and you're ready to go. Again we use a special waxed string often used in making beaded necklaces, but any thing will do as long as it's thin enough to fit under your strings at the headstock. Easy!
P.S. We've seen a lot of **in our opinion** over-engineered doodads from other guitar strap makers and music suppliers to replicate this process bands with snaps etc and really we feel there's no need or benefit from having more junk on your guitar when this simple process has worked great for decades. Trust us we could develop something to sell you or include as an added value item too, but at Couch we are committed to designing and selling only items we as guitar players feel are needed. In this case the simplest waxed string is superior and we include it free with any strap purchase on request. Rock! Couch.