Strap button location

[Guest mgoetting]

I find that archtops stay in place best with the button on the lowest part of the neck. But sometimes my thumb bumps into the strap, creating a small obstacle to high fret access.

 

Has anyone else noticed this?

[jazzrat]

I agree...they definately hang better there without the fall away you get when

the button is on the back but it sure mucks up the upper fret access.

[peacemaker]

I was afraid of the guitar falling forward if I put the button on the back, but the thought of that thing sticking out there on the heel of the neck gave me the heebie geebies . . . it would totally wreck upper fret access!! And I found that the guitar just doesn't fall forward with the button on the back the way I thought it would . . .

[jrfreed]

I have my archtops setup this way, but it doesnt bother me much. I just forgo the straplock on the front

[Guest mgoetting]

I have my archtops setup this way, but it doesnt bother me much. I just forgo the straplock on the front

 

Even the strap itself is a thumb bumper.

 

Any experience with lashing the headstock?

 

Going for that Roy Rogers look!