Mica, did you find any of these strap buttons?  I really love these!

Quote from: rv_bass on April 04, 2020, 10:11:02 AM
Mica, did you find any of these strap buttons?  I really love these!

No, those are much older than our previous couple of moves. But I have seen some new ones being made, I just can't recall the manufacturer at the moment.

Thanks, Mica, I'll poke around for them

I have the same strap buttons on my 78 Series bass and really like them.

RV and Mica, Here they are now made by Kluson.

https://www.kluson.com/kluson-california-custom-strap-button-set-of-2-details.html

Thanks, KR, just ordered some!

Quote from: KR on April 04, 2020, 06:01:13 PM
RV and Mica, Here they are now made by Kluson.

Thanks! When I was replying I was trying to search for th em, and I knew there was a K and a U in the name but I couldn't make it into Kluson LOL!

What material are those made of? 

Metal, but not brass. I have purchased them and used them.

Thinking if there is some downtime in the machine shop that those could be a fun project to make. 
Rob's picture looks like the "head" is slightly larger than 'normal' buttons.

Rob/ Stephen if either of you are handy with a micrometer or vernier it would be appreciated if you could e-mail some dimensions my way.  Currently I have Straplock buttons on my Distillate, somewhere I have the originals laying around and could dimension those and then play around with increasing the head size.

Pauldo, [size=78%]I don't have any calipers, but the attached photos might help![/size]

I don't have a micrometer either and had to look up what a vernier was despite being pretty sure I didn't have one. Are you going to try and make strap buttons out of brass?

Quote from: StephenR on April 05, 2020, 05:06:22 PM
I don't have a micrometer either and had to look up what a vernier was despite being pretty sure I didn't have one. Are you going to try and make strap buttons out of brass?

That is what I was thinking, we also have some 'standard' 1018 steel, although the brass should hold up well if one is not using a 'straplock' type system where it has contact with something hard. 

Maybe make some prototypes out of aluminum for checking fit.

The key here is 'downtime in the machine shop', currently one of the machinists is out because he is in the high risk category.  So we are pretty busy right now, but "government jobs" usually get snuck in here and there.   


Rob thanks for the pics, that will give me a good ballpark.  My current strap locks are about 3mm smaller on the head part.

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Stanley
Stanley EV
Mark King #1
Mark King #2
Bunny Brunel

Mark King # 1 appears to be missing the price