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Hello!

Just finished my first day as a Guitar Center Repair tech, I got a stripped out strap button to fix tomorrow and was thinking of using ebony dust and titebond filler... or getting a dowel and drilling out the hole a bit larger but not larger than the stap button footprint and gluing in the dowel....

what would you do?

Thanks, John

If it were me, I would go the dowel route. Given the stress on those buttons, I wouldn't rely on glue and sawdust to hold it in place. You should be buy or make a dowel that is barely the diameter of the outer thread marks, thus taking up no more of a footprint than the threads of the screw.

Ken

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I always plug 'em with a wooden dowel. You don't know the guy your doing it for(at least most times), and if he's fond of Pete Townshend and likes to spin it around his neck, or other such nonsense, those little strap buttons can take force from a lot of different angles, lol. My motto is better safe than sorry.

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Mike

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thanks for the advice, i ended up using wood glue and dust, wanted to do the dowel but my store manager couldnt find the dowels..... but it did seem to work well

thanks again