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Gift Guide: Best Guitar Strap for the Musician in Your Life
Buying gear for a guitarist is nerve-wracking. A guitar strap isn’t — here’s how to pick the right one for any musician on your list, from budget seatbelt straps to fully custom lightning bolts. -
Guitar Strap Width Guide: Why It Matters More Than You Think
Most players blame posture or their guitar for shoulder pain — it’s usually the strap. Here’s how width actually affects comfort, why wider isn’t always better, and which of our three widths (1″ slim, 2″ standard, 3″ padded) fits your guitar. -
How Long Are Your Guitar Straps? Everything you need to know about strap length.
We sometimes get messages wondering if our straps are long enough for some 6’7″ guy, or short enough for some 5’7″ guy (like us). The answer is: YES! Couch straps adjust about 6 inches longer than the average strap, which is 67″ fully extended from keyhole to keyhole. With the strap in its middle adjustment […] -
Do You Put Your Wallet In Front Or Back Pocket?
A lot of people ask us- a) does your wallet snap get in the way? b) are your wallets designed to be kept in your front or back pocket? The short answer is “no”, and “both” respectively. Pretty much everyone at Couch has a Couch Wallet- some of us use them in our front pocket, […] -
How To Attach A Banjo Strap
Attaching Banjo Straps- Banjo straps have very different ends than guitar straps. Basically guitars usually have “buttons” on each end that allows a strap-end with a keyhole shape to securely fit over each button. To attach a banjo strap, most banjos have only have brackets around the resonator/head area of the banjo so you need […] -
How To Install Schaller Strap Locks To Your Guitar Strap
If you’ve been wondering how to install Schaller Strap S Locks it’s a pretty easy installation. Nic here at Couch shows us how to install strap locks in a pretty quick 2 minute video. They work pretty well with Couch Guitar Straps, but on first installation, these wider strap locks tend to require a bit […] -
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 Free Beer With Every Straplock!?
This is well known in some circles and less in others, but did you know that the little red washers used on ceramic Grolsch Beer bottle tops work excellent as strap locks? We at Couch Guitar Straps like them because we’re not really that into drilling into our guitars, or for that matter spending the money […]