TVvoodoo's Straplab

@Robert Herndon the Nevermore tooled iommi strap video featuring the extra crunchy and dark "Under Water" riffage by you and Keli "The Bass Monster" is now up on the Well-Hung Facebook page.
Uploading to youtube later tonight. Thank you for that bitchy riff, and I hope my little edits to the tune don't stand out too much or make you or Keli angry. Don't want to piss off anyone beyond the grave,
especially somebody into Sabbath. It's an 8 minute epic, but I only needed one minute LOL!

if I ever call out for more cool riffage for my strap videos, I know TTR can deliver! Or maybe I could get off my arse and record something myownself :dance:
But it's nice to feature and expose those tracks that are sitting on hard drives not doing anything.

I know many people have them.
 
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TVvoodoo said:
@Robert Herndon the Nevermore tooled iommi strap video featuring the extra crunchy and dark "Under Water" riffage by you and Keli "The Bass Monster" is now up on the Well-Hung Facebook page.
Uploading to youtube later tonight. Thank you for that bitchy riff, and I hope my little edits to the tune don't stand out too much or make you or Keli angry. Don't want to piss off anyone beyond the grave,
especially somebody into Sabbath. It's an 8 minute epic, but I only needed one minute LOL!

if I ever call out for more cool riffage for my strap videos, I know TTR can deliver! Or maybe I could get off my arse and record something myownself :dance:
But it's nice to feature and expose those tracks that are sitting on hard drives not doing anything.

I know many people have them.
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Excellent!!! Keli Wilde lives on!!!
 
New off the StrapLab bench this morning "The Bully" - 3" wide, black suede loaded with rivet studs, black garment leather lining, supremely padded.
Features a HEAVY brass buckle on the front chest. How's your T level? Strap is looking for a sexy LP custom to pair with.

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Good morning TTR! Not such a great morning for me . Sometime yesterday somebody must have knocked over a glue pot on my workbench and the lid wasn't fully closed. Then stuff got laid on top of that, so I never saw what was going on. What an awful mess to clean up. I considered firing the worker who done that, but he's just too damn handsome, and he even buys me beer sometimes.

Thanks to Rocco Crocco and his riffs to test out of some Helix gear tones on MLP, we have another video ex-strap-a-ganza for "Vrikdarok"

 
Subscribed to Youtube channel; I need to make another Facebook account.
I was able to Like you page though.
 
So I promised Johnny Shineboots that I'd update progress pics, but I am gettin a little behind because of other things going on in the background.

This strap is an outlaw style strap... modeled loosely on a western style holster sort of. There will be western hardware, bullet loops, carved initials, and some Sheridan style western tooling which I am not fully experienced in, but have done some, roses, lots of rose leaves, and a couple of skulls. Some progress pics, though these are a bit behind where it's at right now.

Cutting the 9 oz. vegtan, making sure the tail strap is the right width and length.

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Rolled 'er up like the ol' lasso, stuck it in the coffee can with a wet sponge over a day and a half to get it nice and moist...
brought it out to press in stitching lines, and also gives me a width to make my pattern to

This meet-up at the end is harder than you might think!

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Put it back in the coffee can for another night.... got on the computer and come up with a design... I make it to about 44" then cut it into
four pieces .... this was then printed out onto a couple of sheets of paper.

Then, I trace the pattern onto a couple of letter-sized sheets of clear acetate, and trim the acetate into four 3" by 10" ish... chunks,
and put the 4 foot long puzzle back together again with clear tape.

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Brung the leather back out, clamped that acetate down on the leather, and proceeded to press the pattern into the vegtan
with a stylus tool. It doesn't leave deep marks... just enough to see for the actual carving part... which will be the next step.
It will look better than my tracing... guaranteed LOL!

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She's all marked out now, back in the coffee can for another day, I hope to cut into this one tonight or tomorrow morning,
then it will get real, fun I reckon.

Wanted to do it this afternoon, got invited for a round lookin' for my ball this afternoon by an old friend and couldn't turn it down.
Don't hurt for that leather to keep soaking up moisture for easier carving and tooling...
To be continued.

Also, new in the boutique this morning... Dancing Eagle. Cowboys and Indians in the same post. Dang, that's kind of cool!
I am sensitive to the term "indigenous peoples" but, couldn't resist. Where I live I'm practically surrounded by Cree First Nations communities.
In fact my forefathers who settled up here less than a hundred years ago would have probably starved and/or froze to death if it wasn't for the local natives.

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Moccasin suede, bone hair-pipe beads, a seed-beaded rosette, primitive stitching, magpie feathers, a hidden "medicine" pocket and enough fringe to make both Elvis and Ozzy want to return from the dead.
 
So I finally got it together enough to review my strap ! It's the House Stark strap. Very comfy I used it so far for a practice and 1 track in studio. I am hetting a few more too!
Long enough for a half assed lower slung LP! I will likely keep using this one with the burst.

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