Depends on the leather. But you have to know your leather a little bit. Goes onto your strap super easy? It can come off with little effort as well.
Loose pin hardware is not really an issue, unless you let it go, once it starts wiggling a bit, and goes unaddressed, it gets worse and worse. You may tighten it up finally, but because it wiggled around while you weren't watching, you've lost wood inside the hole. If you find yourself retightening, you end up eventually doing doing the old "toothpick and gluethery" routine. A good solid wide strap button and anchoring screw will head all that nonsense off.
Also many don't understand you can wobble the supplied screw around inside the shaft of most strap buttons - screws are too small, and there is hardly any shaft. This is NOT GOOD! I designed mine to super tight tolerances screw/shaft, no wiggle or wobble, as I'm sure you can figure out why. Plus on mine the screw is longer and larger, which is a mod most serious guitar players or their techs do anyway. Higher end factory straps might get up to 7/8 oz. thick on the ends. I try to make mine typically around 9/10 oz or better. There is a big difference. But also watch. Buffalo leather can be 10 oz thick, but it's very supple and stretchy, can pull off a pin real easy if you make a regular sized hole. I have used it a few times and make sure that I make the button hole a size smaller, and that helps a lot.
It's like putting 1/4" plywood on a floor, vs. 3/8, 1/2 or best, 3/4 inch. Stability.
Have a look at your straps, if the ends flop all over, and go on the buttons really easy, suggest you be very careful.
Last edited: Oct 10, 2020
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