This one for an art appreciatin' TTR member, who's good taste in the finer things is only exceeded by his uncanny abilities to make the ladies swoon
It was @Don who saw the last one, and tole me to "Gogh, Bradley Gogh-Gogh-Gogh!" in crafting one for hisself.
While the first one seemed to be a massive undertaking, the second one was a a fair bit easier mostly because the path had been traveled once before, and recently so.
Starry Night 2.0 is nearly done, all that remains is to neatsfoot oil it from the underside, pad 'er out, line it, sew it and punch some holes.
Heavy 9/10 oz. Veg-tan leather that isn't as stiff as you might think, fixed length at 54" long, These are shade pics, the colours are a bit softer than in real life
But I did achieve the goal of an overall slightly more "bluey" tone, than on the last one
The first one has already arrived in Florida to repeat customer Johnny Z, and he instantly declared it a home run.
He has it slinging a black and gold vintage Gretsch which to me was an unexpected choice, but I think it looks at home, even wondrous!
I have no idea what Don is going to put his on, but am interested to see. Here's the frontside
Upper shoulder and part of the back... and, I did get the moon proper this time LOL
This below would be the strap as it comes off the shoulder and down the back...
And finally the tail end.
Will be finishing it tonight, though it is a holiday weekend and cannot send until tuesday as it is a holiday weekend up here as well,
Would have finished it last night, but my wife took me out on a "date night" and we traveled to a local cidery that's pretty new to the area, open
for their first season... and I ended up getting myself little hammered, she had to drive us home. LOL...
We enjoyed some finger foods on an outdoor patio, a charcuterie board of various delights, some flatbread pizza kind of thing, and a basket of Mango/Habanero wings
which were rather good, though I expected a bit more kick. We tried Pineapple cider, (my wife's fave), Cranberry cider, Crisp Apple, and my favourite was a Grapefruit/Hops cider
which was super A-MAZING, but had a way higher alcohol content than expected. A couple pints of that brew was like four or five glasses of wine LOL
The sun was aglow over a new apple orchard just planted off the deck, there were a lot of people out, happy and laughing, and the only damper
on the evening was there were quite a lot of somewhat aggressive wasps flying about, but if you just ignored them, not much worry.
Anyway, it was real nice to get out for a change
