Removing a strap button???

[power chord hack]

Hi all -

Long time lurker - gotta question...

So ya know how Guild used those strap buttons that are not held on in the typical screw-in-the-center manor?

What's the trick to removing those things?
There must be a more elegant solution that grabbing it with pliers (and scratching the hell out of it)...

Thanks

 

[taabru45]

You need a hole drill bit, but smaller than the ones they use to install door knobs...... :shock: ...no no no....so sorry for that image..... are you talking at bottom of guitar or on or near the neck block...Steffan

 

[power chord hack]

On the bottom.

 

[taabru45]

Plastic peg...throw a little piece of leather over it to protect the plastic and use a pair of pliers, those with the long handles work well..grip and gently rotate a little...they are a tapered friction fit, and some people use a wee drop of glue on them...should be some info on frets.com....Steffan

 

[power chord hack]

this one is metal...

 

[taabru45]

Ok, so is it a jack for a pickup, does it have a hole to plug in the cord....If its an acoustic guitar with a sound hole...when you have the strings off reach inside to feel if its threaded and there is a nut there.... a picture would be handy, to see what we are dealing with , or you could always take it to a trusted Luthier, which I'm thinking might be a good idea...Steffan

 

[power chord hack]

nope - no jack.
This is just a regular strap button on a solid body (s100).
I'm just trying to get the thing off so I can install strap locks.

 

[taabru45]

Have someone do it...that has done it...Steffan....at least I think that's what I might do....

 

[GAD]

Mine have always just fallen out! That's how I got introduced to Straplocks back in the early 80s.

 

[hideglue]

As GAD says, some ( a lot) just fall out. Typically at fault is the installer cut the pin too short (at full length the pin would not seat all the way in... kind of a Catch-22)

Anyway, wrap the end with cloth and give it a good tug, or and use the pliers over the cloth.

 

[danerectal]

If you anticipate staying around LTG for a while, it may not be a bad idea to acquire this.

I've got one, and they're pretty neat for any type of knob pulling you can do on a guitar unless your EVH. They're a bit costly, but so are the parts they save (try replacing a Guild knob that got chewed up when you sprayed out the pots on your next vintage Guild).

 

[power chord hack]

OK...

wrapped it in a rag , grabbed it with pliers, and it came right out.

I had NO idea those things were just swedged in there!!
Who thought that was a good way to secure a strap button?? ?!?!?!?

 

[beinhard]

Who thought that was a good way to secure a strap button?? ?!?!?!?

Good question. Guild used it over a long period of time so someone must have had a reason.
Replacing with Schaller straplocks is the one modification I always do.

beinhard

 

[Qvart]

nope - no jack.
This is just a regular strap button on a solid body (s100).
I'm just trying to get the thing off so I can install strap locks.

You have an S-100? More details and pics, please!

Welcome!