So could anyone consider posing such a question anywhere else but here..

If you posted this question to a guitarist's forum there would be mental breakdowns happening.... Drummers seem to deal with this creative inspiration stuff so much better..

First thing I thought of was the small cupboard door handles too.. another thing would be some decent leather from an old belt or boot leather.. Washers and rivets will fix these to the case.

Or just permanently rivet the straps themselves to the case at appropriate positions

Cheers

John

Laughing H Laughing H

I think the first ones were leather.

Like on my old cases.

Those guides are easy to repair. Buy a leather belt wide enough to replace the side of the guide. Cut Belt into about 3 1/2 pieces. Remove the old Rivets from case and replace them with new steel ones. These are sold in any hardware and replace rivets with Rivet gun. there are tool need. Make sure you get steel rivets the also come in aluminum and you do not want these

That's a good suggestion, thanks. I think instead of using rivets and a rivet gun, I will use small screws and nuts in the existing rivet holes. I'm going to check my local thrift store for a good, wide leather belt I can use.