Guitar strap query

Placidcasual79

You know on a new guitar strap - whats the point of those little extra strings you get attached at one end? Do you know the ones I mean?

EricTheWeary

Aren't they for going around the headstock on an acoustic ?

Nitefly

I think it stems from the olden days when there were no strap buttons at the heel - you used the little extra bit to fasten around the neck just behind the nut.

Bloody awkward to play, though... I always felt the guitar was trying to escape from me!

Rabs

To attach to an acoustic that has no front strap pin?

Nitefly

I think we have a consensus, gentlemen!  

Voxman

You're all wrong...its a spare shoe lace thats a safety feature. If your shoe lace bust at a gig your shoe gets loose and you can fall and bust the headstock of your guitar...but with the spare shoe lace your shoe is back to factory specs in a jiffy, you don't trip over, and a headstock breakage is prevented.

Simples! 

Placidcasual79

Wait - is there a really obvious answer and I just don't know about it? My honest question appears to have resulted in an almost atypical level of sarcasm! 

Rabs

Placidcasual79 said:

Wait - is there a really obvious answer and I just don't know about it? My honest question appears to have resulted in an almost atypical level of sarcasm! 

What do you mean.. You've had the answer...??

Its only that last one that was sarcastic cos several of us have already said whats its for...

Voxman

 C'mon @Placidcasual79 ;;;;;;;...No, it wasn't sarcasm in any way - merely a bit of friendly fun to raise a chuckle ...chill dudes!  I thought it was darned imaginative actually... especially at this time of night!  

 Hold on, no .... I've just checked on the internet...I'm right, it IS a spare shoe lace, for tiny shoes...well I'll be jiggered! 

http://www.tdpri.com/threads/shoelace-on-strap.101778/
  

Sassafras

You can garrote the drummer with it. 

ICBM

It's for attaching a massive counterweight at the tail end of the strap when you're playing a Firebird or an SG.

TonyR

It's to bemuse people like yourself and to give you a question to ask on online forums such as this.

Placidcasual79

@voxman + @Rabs.  

You misunderstand me - no need to worry - I am not the sensitive type. I just didn't realise I'd already had the answer! I am not averse to a bit of sarcasm/p*ss taking at all - its one of the best things about this forum.