Fender Strap Blocks Black Red

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I'm a pro musican of 30 years playing bass, double bass, guitar.

I picked these up to try out, as I usually use strap locks on all my gear. (BTW just moved from Shcaller's to Harley Benton's version after many many years, they're great & 1/3 rd the price!)

I've found these to be nice, & have put then on my daughter's strap.

I'm not going to swop over to these for me however as I move around quite vigorously at times and have been able to pop these off. I was purposely trying to do this BTW to see if I could.

To summarise
- I think these would do you fine if you're no to full-on when playing.
- If you are a bit of a rocker I'd recommend Harley Benton's Strap Locks, extremely good value.

The Fender Strap-Blocks are exactly the size of the rubber-rings you usually get with a bottle of Flensburger beer.

Many guitar-players have been using this rubber-rings for years to lock their guitar-strap tightly to their guitar. This works very well and doesn't need any modifications, neither to the guitar, nor to the strap.

The Fender Strap Blocks are cheaper, then the most other strap-lock-system. Although you can get the same amount of rubber-rings (4) + 4 bottles of beer for the same price.

On the plus-side the Fender blocks have a Fender-logo, which improves the look a little bit. And did I mention, that black beerbottle-rubberrings are hard to find?

I bought the strap blocks because I already had had an accident with a guitar falling from a worn out strap. These blocks do a good job preventing that. Since they´re made of rubber, it does good not letting the leather holes of the strap slip along the metal of the guitar blots. If there is a defect, is on the durability. I have to take part of the fault since I do change straps quite a lot, whenever you remove the blockers and install them again it does some damage to them. So one of the ones I bought has a little crack already, but still doing its job as long as I leave it. So maybe, if you plan on using more than one guitar, better to let them alone once placed on the guitar. This way I think they can last pretty long. They are good for the price so you can get two for each guitar you have. Also a good thing about the material is that it fits into every type of standard guitar, whatsoever the thickness of the strap.