TVvoodoo's Straplab
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Astral Traveler
Ambassador of Both Time and Space
Hej!
Yeah, I am a creature of the night and I don't need a lot of sleep, fortunately
There is a bit of a time difference though, 7-8 hours maybe? I think there's a 9 hour difference between here and Vancouver.
Astral Traveler
Ambassador of Both Time and Space
Yeah, I can imagine. I spent a winter in northern Spain, they should be inbthe same time zone as the UK but they aren't they're an hour ahead, Madrid time. The sun didn't rise until 9.30 am, it felt weird.
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
This morning I am finishing up on a couple of the graphite python floatin' pad straps. Just starting making these maybe 2 months ago, but they seem to sell pretty good, and it's a great way to use up scrap cuttings - so, here's a couple more on the bench mostly done. These are my fourth and fifth.
Hefted my pair of buckets 'o buckles up on the bench to sift through my hardware collection for this set, at first I was thinking gunmetal or black...
Job one was find some likely candidates with the right bar width for belt securement and pass-thru, this skinny strap is about 1-1/4 inch
These four made the short list... A couple of things I like about used buckles in that they already have a little mojo, and they sure don't seem to make them like they used to. A lot of newer buckles I find, the tooth is really thin and flimsy... so you go to change it out and can't bend the metal... it just busts off... made of some pot metal or somesuch, and I'm guessing the frame is the same damn stuff. The two buckles on the left made the final cut, the one on top is gunmetal in colour, the one below just kind of struck me as interesting, though it had a bit of a weird tooth or prong shape in a slot rather than a hole. Easy to deal with. I do like how it has center pin, gives the frame a built in-keeper to push the pass-thru down. The gunmetal roller will need a keeper loop, so we can hold any extra belt close to the tail strap, keep it from flappin' all around.
Securement to the lower tail strap via a couple of Chicago screws... I could sew it together, but maybe later on a guy wants to change out the buckle, so I hardware it. One is probably plenty, but redundancy is a good policy here for the little cost involved. And... all attached, prong slots punched. That buckle looks like it kidna belongs to me.
Don't really know if this is the standard way others do it, but my instinct says put the buckle on the tail strap so the pass through falls down via good 'ol gravity. If you put the buckle on the main strap, then you got a chunk of tail flapping around up high and to me that's no good. So, probably another half hour to get the other buckle on, make a matching keeper loop for it and rivet it in place... punch some strap button holes for both, burnish the ends, and maybe shine up the buckle a little bit... then she's photo time.
Hefted my pair of buckets 'o buckles up on the bench to sift through my hardware collection for this set, at first I was thinking gunmetal or black...
Job one was find some likely candidates with the right bar width for belt securement and pass-thru, this skinny strap is about 1-1/4 inch
These four made the short list... A couple of things I like about used buckles in that they already have a little mojo, and they sure don't seem to make them like they used to. A lot of newer buckles I find, the tooth is really thin and flimsy... so you go to change it out and can't bend the metal... it just busts off... made of some pot metal or somesuch, and I'm guessing the frame is the same damn stuff. The two buckles on the left made the final cut, the one on top is gunmetal in colour, the one below just kind of struck me as interesting, though it had a bit of a weird tooth or prong shape in a slot rather than a hole. Easy to deal with. I do like how it has center pin, gives the frame a built in-keeper to push the pass-thru down. The gunmetal roller will need a keeper loop, so we can hold any extra belt close to the tail strap, keep it from flappin' all around.
Securement to the lower tail strap via a couple of Chicago screws... I could sew it together, but maybe later on a guy wants to change out the buckle, so I hardware it. One is probably plenty, but redundancy is a good policy here for the little cost involved. And... all attached, prong slots punched. That buckle looks like it kidna belongs to me.
Don't really know if this is the standard way others do it, but my instinct says put the buckle on the tail strap so the pass through falls down via good 'ol gravity. If you put the buckle on the main strap, then you got a chunk of tail flapping around up high and to me that's no good. So, probably another half hour to get the other buckle on, make a matching keeper loop for it and rivet it in place... punch some strap button holes for both, burnish the ends, and maybe shine up the buckle a little bit... then she's photo time.
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Yes, quite popular.. I think they help bring out a little of the inner badass inside us all.
This is not real python scales... its cowhide which has been embossed then printed and finished. Real snake is cool, but it can get brittle too fast and look shabby once scales start coming off. This stuff is way lower maintenance.
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Thank you @JohnnyGoo - personally I am not convinced this style is the "best" kind of strap, but lots of dudes sure seem to love this floating pad vintage type. One fellow told me he liked this style most because he felt he could look down and see his guitar neck faster/better. If you got a lot of fancy cowboy shirts or whatever, this kind of get up will allow you to show that off more. Pad on those is 3" wide about 14" long, amply padded. About 43" to 57" for adjustimication.
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Over last week I was busy creating more Shock & Awe's, these are pre-relic'd in progress..... should have a couple done and ready to go tomorrow.
But today I was driven by my creative engine to head down a different road. Actually, the idea came to me in a dream last night... after almost ten years at this yesterday I realized I'd never attempted the ever-popular lighting bolt motif strap before. Now, it's kind of a thing for me to not just don't like doing what's been done before, unless I can switch it up a bit, make it my very own in a special way.
So... today, right here, right now.... witness the Well-Hung ZAP! in shmexy, glittery Fender grill becoming bornded - She's a little tricky sewing around all those sharp corners, but we got 'er OK.
Almost as shocking as the old two prong plugs at that rainy gig, or perhaps forgetting to dump those caps before rolling up the sleeves and digging deep under the hood.
Kind of a fun one, black leather, silvery grill cloth, I think someone will want this one when she's done. Might do another with marshall salt and papper grill as well. See how that goes.
But today I was driven by my creative engine to head down a different road. Actually, the idea came to me in a dream last night... after almost ten years at this yesterday I realized I'd never attempted the ever-popular lighting bolt motif strap before. Now, it's kind of a thing for me to not just don't like doing what's been done before, unless I can switch it up a bit, make it my very own in a special way.
So... today, right here, right now.... witness the Well-Hung ZAP! in shmexy, glittery Fender grill becoming bornded - She's a little tricky sewing around all those sharp corners, but we got 'er OK.
Almost as shocking as the old two prong plugs at that rainy gig, or perhaps forgetting to dump those caps before rolling up the sleeves and digging deep under the hood.
Kind of a fun one, black leather, silvery grill cloth, I think someone will want this one when she's done. Might do another with marshall salt and papper grill as well. See how that goes.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
ACEFrehley "ish"---- needs a Washburn ACE guitar to go with it ---Over last week I was busy creating more Shock & Awe's, these are pre-relic'd in progress..... should have a couple done and ready to go tomorrow.
But today I was driven by my creative engine to head down a different road. Actually, the idea came to me in a dream last night... after almost ten years at this yesterday I realized I'd never attempted the ever-popular lighting bolt motif strap before. Now, it's kind of a thing for me to not just don't like doing what's been done before, unless I can switch it up a bit, make it my very own in a special way.
So... today, right here, right now.... witness the Well-Hung ZAP! in shmexy, glittery Fender grill becoming bornded - She's a little tricky sewing around all those sharp corners, but we got 'er OK.
Almost as shocking as the old two prong plugs at that rainy gig, or perhaps forgetting to dump those caps before rolling up the sleeves and digging deep under the hood.
Kind of a fun one, black leather, silvery grill cloth, I think someone will want this one when she's done. Might do another with marshall salt and papper grill as well. See how that goes.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
I can HONESTLY say I have never watched even 1 episode--- not even a partial episode---
1 we LIVE IN A ZOO so -- the "shine" is off that apple -- the smelly ugly side of it is a daily battle--
Plus-- #2. (thankfully) --NO CABLE TV on the farm --- praise the Godz of all things NOT SOUL SUCKING --
Ya'll enjoy your devil machines and soldering now ya hear
LAUGH PEOPLE ITS A JOKE -- dont make me ban myself!
no really my stress levels declined 30 points when i cancelled that crap-- and I have yet to sit SCREAMING at the ignorance on the BOOB TUBE since I cut off the feed.....Shannon and I have not had one "difference of opinion" over a program or a SHOW -- or game result-- so totally refreshing --
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
As much nonsense as it was, it had some cringey twists and turns that was kind of like passing by an accident scene. New narrative format, we see it more and more both fact and fiction these days confirming the decline of Western society: no protagonists, all antagonists.
Sp8ctre
Ambassador of Steel
Over last week I was busy creating more Shock & Awe's, these are pre-relic'd in progress..... should have a couple done and ready to go tomorrow.
That patch above the 65 looks familiar!
CabanaBoy
Ambassador of Electric Mayhem
The wife really likes those...