News — Straps

At Fretfunk we like to bring you accessories that add a bit of colour to your music.  This applies to our range of guitar straps, our coloured picks, our coloured guitar strings and also the subject of this post, our coloured guitar strap locks.     I've been using strap locks since the late 1980’s (seems like a long time when you put it like that!)  I can remember seeing videos of hair metal bands spinning their guitars around their necks, and I soon realised if I was going to try this then I’d have to get myself some strap...

We founded Fretfunk back in 2010 with the aim of bringing people new and interesting guitar accessory designs.  One of the obvious accessories that we’ve never got round to making – until now – is straps.  That’s not to say that straps haven’t been on our radar, more the fact that we hadn't found a reliable manufacturer to work with that shared our view of quality, colour and design.  When we visited the NAMM show at Anaheim this January we were able to talk to many guitar strap manufacturers from all over the world, but most of the time they...