Overcoming Buckle rash

ESBlonde

NelsonP said:

One more suggestion

Getting that biting strat tone.

Keefy

If my guitars get buckle rash, so be it. Never puts me off when i'm buying. Anyway, you can do more damage with a plectrum.

cbakay

I would embrace it.

or...

(ew)

Freebird

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BigMonka

Keefy said:

If my guitars get buckle rash, so be it. Never puts me off when i'm buying. Anyway, you can do more damage with a plectrum.

Is that Emporer Palpatine playing???

Fretwired

Wear braces instead of a belt to hold up your trousers and don't wear jeans.

rico

It's part and parcel of playing guitar and I think it adds character. 

NelsonP

Plectrum

BigMonka said:

Keefy said:

If my guitars get buckle rash, so be it. Never puts me off when i'm buying. Anyway, you can do more damage with a plectrum.

Is that Emporer Palpatine playing???

You were close It's Willie Nelson.

AndyR

When I was young I used to worry about it. Back then I'd wrap a face-flannel or bar towel round my belt.

Nowadays, for my guitars, I really don't care. Things get scuffed, scratched, whatever, no matter how you try to protect them... there's bigger stuff to worry about.

Funnily enough, though, a guitar destroyed my favourite belt. I had one of the original Yamaha APX6 electro-acoustics, it had some sort of coating on the back. I was already over buckle-rash by then, so I didn't bother protecting it even though a scratch on it would have looked naff. However... it sanded down my metal belt buckle until the buckle fell apart. I hadn't even cottoned on to what was doing it until it was too late.

ICBM

In the 1980s I used to wear my belt with the buckle round to the left, over the pocket. It looks fine with chinos, but not so good with jeans. And since it's no longer the 80s, I don't really wear chinos now...

Phil_aka_Pip said:

I know a chap who tucks a cloth duster down the front of his trousers so that it hangs over his belt buckle.

I also did that once... and once only. Someone asked me if I was a Freemason or something! Never did it again.

NelsonP said:

I've played that guitar...

I kind of wish I hadn't seen the pic now .

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

In the 1980s I used to wear my belt with the buckle round to the left, over the pocket. It looks fine with chinos, but not so good with jeans. And since it's no longer the 80s, I don't really wear chinos now...

I started reading that and was all set to say nothing looks fine with chinos... but you dealt with it yourself.

Garthy

Keefy said:

If my guitars get buckle rash, so be it. Never puts me off when i'm buying. Anyway, you can do more damage with a plectrum.

Accurate picking....

NelsonP

ICBM said:

NelsonP said:

I've played that guitar...

I kind of wish I hadn't seen the pic now .

Wow. What's the story behind you playing it?