Thanks for the shout-out daddy dog.
I don't want to ruffle any feathers by spamming this community - but if any of my customers do it for me, apparently that is ok.
I have been in discussion with the forum owners regarding becoming a vendor here, but I'm not sure if I like the advice they gave me,
when it was revealed to them I'm not really a "business" more a small hobby shop.
This is serious stuff. I have a workshop thread on another guitar forum where I spent weeks trying/inventing all kinds of new strap lock/holder solutions
with various degrees of success. All kinds of strange and crazy madnesses went on there. Metal sewing bobbins, suction pads and finishing washers, fishing tackle,
you name it, I tried it. (search TVvoodoo's Insanitarium, if this sort of thing interests you).
I eventually unveiled a new strap button I thought was totally, completely *fail safe* (which I still have installed on several guitars) but, as it turned out,
they weren't quite as wonderful as I thought, because folks didn't seem to want to read install directions. So I discontinued them.
I didn't want to play the blame guy for other peoples' errors and crashed guitars. There are probably a hundred sets still out there with no complaints,
but ONE guy didn't get it right, so I felt compelled to kill it dead.
He did prove they weren't as foolproof as I thought.
You want a cool BIGGER strong button, that is cheap? Get a pair of jeans from the thrift shop with a nice sturdy waist button. (They are NOT all the same)
They will be typically about 50% bigger than a regular button, and no built in ramp to help your strap slide off.
Add a felt washer, stick a good screw in there, (Robertson FTW BTW), VERY solid solution.
I am actually working on a new/improved strap button prototype right now with some Chinese engineering outfit. Kind of like the oblong planet waves one, but more better. I guess I'm just kind of obsessed with this whole subject a little bit.
The pan-head screw with a washer shown above is also a GREAT solution, I used to include that sort of hardware get-up with every strap
I sold for a few years. But a lot of guys still want to take straps on and off guitars, and that is a more permanent sort of solution.