Tele, thanks for the tip. I tried it that way a few times but I must have the strap too loose. I have it holding the guitar out far enough to almost touch the ground when leaning over (leaves about 4 inches). Anyway, it slings out of control with it just around my neck. It randomly does one of these: comes loose from my neck, strap disconnects, strangles me, or hits the ceiling.

There are really only 3 problems when i try it with the strap in its normal place:

1. The strap comes loose and the guitar takes off into a wall.
2. I can't get the right trajectory to form a smooth circle and come back around, so there's too much force at a point and it loses momentum and ends up behind me.
3. The strap is sometimes cohesive to my shirt.

Obviously, problem 1 and 3 can be solved by a new strap, but I have a feeling that I'm going to break something trying to figure out #2.

Straplocks... good idea. I'm probably just going to get a new strap with integrated locks. Thanks for the tip.


-nastrum

[Edited by nastrum on 11-29-2003 at 11:54 PM]