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AFAIC, the type of strap used has nothing to do with a guitar's balance. If the balance is off, it is off. Period. To change that, you will have to move the strap pins around. All a wide leather strap does is compensate for the imbalance by providing more friction against your shirt.
And even if the strap helps with that somewhat, a neck heavy guitar is still going to have balance issues - since it will want to pivot around the front strap pin, instead of just staying put.
Allow me to rephrase:
Yes, the RR1 is (to me) a tiny bit neck heavy. For me personally, using a wide leather strap will equalize this 100%, making the "package" perfecty balanced.
Unless i smeared vaseline on my naked body prior to wearing my Rhoads.. NAKED! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Originally posted by nonamemx: Just get a LEATHER strap and you'll have no problems.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In fact, I found a snakeskin leather strap that works perfect with straplocks.... Feels good and Looks good. Perfect Balance.
Originally posted by Sunbane: Bolt-on RR's are nosedivers. As for critical voices regarding the neck-thru ones; If I remember correctly, AlexL said that he didn't like the way the RR1 balanced, but that the RR1T and RR5 balanced fine. But that's the only one I can recall at the moment.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yup, that's exactly right. I'm a nylon-strap kind of guy, so my strap doesn't help hold the guitar in position. I didn't like the way my RR1 balanced (nose heavy), and so I traded it for an RR1T, which balances great. My RR5 is even more perfectly balanced than my RR1T.
And that's the way it is (for me).
- E.
Good Lord! The rod up that man's butt must have a rod up its butt!
So... RR1 balances better than RR3? I was in the shop, testing RR3, and it was extremely hard to balanced it - it nosedived! What about RR1? Is it true, neck-thru guitars nosedive less than bolt-on guitars [img]graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] ?
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