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My tele is quite heavy but I love it.
After the comfiest strap money can buy basically. Need lots of padding around the shoulder to negate the weight of 4 hours gig time. I usually have a pretty sore shoulder/upper neck by the end.
Would be more into thinner type straps too if possible, but I realise the wider the strap the better, probably.
What do you suggest?

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Leather and wide. No slippy, no hurty. Guitarstuff used to have some Levis leather straps that were pretty decent. 2c

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3" leather job should see you right! Some decent stuff on trademe :)
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I am really happy with the leather couch straps I bought. They do 3" straps too https://www.couchguitarstraps.com/

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I have 2 of these and I swear by them for heavy guitars.

https://monocreators.com/products/betty ... hort-black
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I have a wide padded leather strap somewhere that I have only used with a heavy LP. Don't have the LP anymore though. You mentioned you prefer a thinner type strap, did you mean narrower? If so, perhaps it's worth checking out those Fender vintage straps which are mostly narrow except for the shoulder bit?

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Thanks guys, will check out what you recommend.
Yes codedog, meant narrower. Being overall narrow except for the shoulder bit is probably what I'm after tbh, so cheers!

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Soft wide Neoprene straps are pretty comfy with a heavy guitar.

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griff7628 wrote:Thanks guys, will check out what you recommend.
Yes codedog, meant narrower. Being overall narrow except for the shoulder bit is probably what I'm after tbh, so cheers!
I have one of these jobbies I still use

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Guitar ... 2401479641

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rickenbackerkid wrote:Soft wide Neoprene straps are pretty comfy with a heavy guitar.
Yep, Neotech and Mono straps are very comfortable.
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codedog wrote:
griff7628 wrote:Thanks guys, will check out what you recommend.
Yes codedog, meant narrower. Being overall narrow except for the shoulder bit is probably what I'm after tbh, so cheers!
I have one of these jobbies I still use

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Guitar ... 2401479641
Is it pretty cosy?

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griff7628 wrote:
codedog wrote:
griff7628 wrote:Thanks guys, will check out what you recommend.
Yes codedog, meant narrower. Being overall narrow except for the shoulder bit is probably what I'm after tbh, so cheers!
I have one of these jobbies I still use

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Guitar ... 2401479641
Is it pretty cosy?
What does "cosy" mean in this context? :)

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Ha.. same as comfy

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Post by codedog »

Ah, I see. It's comfy but grippy, if you like that sort of thing. I was used to straps that could slide over my shoulder. Other than that, I do like the narrow bits.

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