Placement of strapbutton on the Professional Bob Weir model

[Jörgen A (Jorgen)]

 Hello Jeff  

I wonder about something...

I own a Bob Weir Standard model without the vine inlays. I have noticed that the placement of the strapbutton seems to be different on the same type of guitar. I have seen some BW Standards with the strapbutton on the neckheel, and some that have it placed at the upper horn.  
The neckheel also seem to be different on this model, with both smooth neckheels and the "Les Paul" style type.  

My own BW Standard has a smooth neckheel and the strapbutton placed on it. The guitar is made in November of 1977.  

I wonder if you know why this different placement of the strapbutton occured within the same production model?  

I have wondered about it personally wether it was structurally unsound to have it on the neckheel, or wether it was shown to be more "unpopular" from a players view and therefore changed?  

I have come to the conclusion that it cant have been structurally unsound considering that the Gibson SG has had the strapbutton placed on the neckheel for many decades now, and not been changed. And that other brands of guitars use the same placement when manufacturing guitars today.  

Are my thoughts wrong on this subject and what are your views on this, and the variations of the strapbutton placement described above?  

Regards  

/Jörgen

[Jeff Hasselberger (Jhasse]

 Strapbuttons?

“I like it on the cutaway.”
“I think it balances better when it’s on the heel.”
“But it gets in my way on the heel.”
“Play around it. What are you, a cripple?”
“No, but my strap is too short to reach the heel.”
“So get a longer strap.”

And so on.

We used to have these little arguments all the time. We’d often make a small change to shut the complainer up – then go back when they weren’t looking and change it again.  

There was a lot of thought put into most everything that we did – even little things like strap button placement. What we lacked was firm decision-making skills. We were pretty wishy washy on issues like this.  

But you all know this by now, don’t you?

[Jörgen A (Jorgen)]

 Thanks for your reply. I figured the reason for the variations of the placement was something like that. There are lots of different opinions on a thing like this Im sure.

Regards

/Jörgen

[JohnS]

 JeffL

No decision-making process? Why didn't you do like the Fortune 500? Flip a coin!