Re: The best mandolin straps?
I'm with renoyd, I still like the embroidered cloth Souldier strap I bought years ago. ( https://www.souldier.us/MANDOLINSTRAP.aspx ) It is soft, comfortable, attractive, and the cloth provides good traction on your shirt or jacket so the strap doesn't slip. The only gotcha is the metal loop for adjusting the strap length. Don't let it slam down on your mando when putting it back in the case. I just curl a loop of the strap fabric around the ring to keep from having metal-to-wood contact.
My travel mandolin has a 20 year old cheapo 25¢ cloth sleeping bag strap from the Army-Navy Store in Anchorage.
Rob Ross
Apple Valley, Minne-SOH-tah
1996 Flatiron A5-Performer, 1915 Gibson F-2 (loaned to me by a friend), 2008 Kentucky Master KM-505 A-Model
1925 Bacon Peerless tenor banjo (Irish tuning), 1985 Lloyd Laplant F-5, 2021 Ibanez PFT2 Tenor Guitar (GDAE)
and of course, the 1970 Suzuki-Violin-Sha Bowl Back Taterbug
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