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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Sounds like back to work legislation happening possibly next week for the postal workers.
Meanwhile I'm still building, and readying packages to go out as soon as they can.
new in the inventory rack is another "SwaggerMan" in brown! Can't believe I found another one, but I've been looking a bit harder for them lately too.
converted from a heavy duty woven ladies belt, 3" wide, no padding. a little spring, lots of mojo!
I add extra leather for a tail strap, which is a back buckle, and shore up the ends to make sure they are plenty strong. One of my favorite straps I build. I own two of them, one in black, one in saddle brown.
Tony is back for another strap, maybe two... Picked up this plaintop 335, and my Dark Shadows series caught his eye... Just in the dying and clearcoating of the leather stage right now, should be able to complete this one Monday.
And finally a better shot of Insane Python... Which, (as expected) spurred the guy into action to answer my messages LOL! Sometimes sending a questionable strap to a guy who want ideas will spur them into action
Happy friday My brothers, sisters and folks in-between
Meanwhile I'm still building, and readying packages to go out as soon as they can.
new in the inventory rack is another "SwaggerMan" in brown! Can't believe I found another one, but I've been looking a bit harder for them lately too.
converted from a heavy duty woven ladies belt, 3" wide, no padding. a little spring, lots of mojo!
I add extra leather for a tail strap, which is a back buckle, and shore up the ends to make sure they are plenty strong. One of my favorite straps I build. I own two of them, one in black, one in saddle brown.
Tony is back for another strap, maybe two... Picked up this plaintop 335, and my Dark Shadows series caught his eye... Just in the dying and clearcoating of the leather stage right now, should be able to complete this one Monday.
And finally a better shot of Insane Python... Which, (as expected) spurred the guy into action to answer my messages LOL! Sometimes sending a questionable strap to a guy who want ideas will spur them into action
Happy friday My brothers, sisters and folks in-between
That one with the 335 would go quite nicely with my Viking.Sounds like back to work legislation happening possibly next week for the postal workers.
Meanwhile I'm still building, and readying packages to go out as soon as they can.
new in the inventory rack is another "SwaggerMan" in brown! Can't believe I found another one, but I've been looking a bit harder for them lately too.
converted from a heavy duty woven ladies belt, 3" wide, no padding. a little spring, lots of mojo!
I add extra leather for a tail strap, which is a back buckle, and shore up the ends to make sure they are plenty strong. One of my favorite straps I build. I own two of them, one in black, one in saddle brown.
Tony is back for another strap, maybe two... Picked up this plaintop 335, and my Dark Shadows series caught his eye... Just in the dying and clearcoating of the leather stage right now, should be able to complete this one Monday.
And finally a better shot of Insane Python... Which, (as expected) spurred the guy into action to answer my messages LOL! Sometimes sending a questionable strap to a guy who want ideas will spur them into action
Happy friday My brothers, sisters and folks in-between
ibmorjamn
Ambassador of Moar Jammin
All of those look good, ” swagger man” is something I would use.Sounds like back to work legislation happening possibly next week for the postal workers.
Meanwhile I'm still building, and readying packages to go out as soon as they can.
new in the inventory rack is another "SwaggerMan" in brown! Can't believe I found another one, but I've been looking a bit harder for them lately too.
converted from a heavy duty woven ladies belt, 3" wide, no padding. a little spring, lots of mojo!
I add extra leather for a tail strap, which is a back buckle, and shore up the ends to make sure they are plenty strong. One of my favorite straps I build. I own two of them, one in black, one in saddle brown.
Tony is back for another strap, maybe two... Picked up this plaintop 335, and my Dark Shadows series caught his eye... Just in the dying and clearcoating of the leather stage right now, should be able to complete this one Monday.
And finally a better shot of Insane Python... Which, (as expected) spurred the guy into action to answer my messages LOL! Sometimes sending a questionable strap to a guy who want ideas will spur them into action
Happy friday My brothers, sisters and folks in-between
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Yes it is, first mail truck outta town for over a month leaves today! Sorry I've been pre-occupied with another road trip to Edmonton with a follow up appt. for my mom's retina surgery... It's healing really well... a huge blessing and relief for our family.
Store only open for a few days though, I'll be traveling for the holidays
Store only open for a few days though, I'll be traveling for the holidays
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Merry Christmas!
REVERB STORE NOW AGAIN OPEN for a limited time, 'til Sunday night.
What's New and Happening?
Big picture is... Canada's Posties are (mostly) back to work, but there are rebel factions ignoring the government order. Apparently some union peeps actually welded the doors of a mail warehouse shut in BC... attempting to shut down delivery. I'm told many workers are cranky AF.
But basically the nut of it all, and how it affects you and me is... the past month of work stoppage basically destroyed the height of the Christmas retail season for up to 800,000 smaller online businesses. Particularly hardest hit are those situated in more remote/rural areas like myself.
As of this afternoon, mail is flowing out of my village, and I've processed orders and provided tracking numbers for almost a dozen orders since Tuesday. Canada Post says all guarantees of delivery are out the window at this time, as the system is rather backed-up. It is my hope most goods I have shipped off to the USA to arrive (fingers crossed), first week of 2025. Inside Canada, hopefully before the New Year.
After a month of this madness, I'm not destroyed. My bench has been busy with custom and also a nice amount of new work now in the store - you should go see! I'm super grateful to up to more than a half-dozen Well-Hung Warriors, including at least one TTR brother, who just went ahead and ordered custom work during the strike anyway, not being a hot hurry for speedy arrivals.
"It's a guitar strap," noted one, "NOT a kidney." LOL!
Longer term Ramifications
Another big deal happening over the past month is something I do see suddenly when listing new stuff. Without getting specifically into recent geo-political happenings, talk with regards to borders and trade between Canada and the USA has resulted a rather steep drop in value of the Canadian loonie against the US dollar.
Because I list my goods in CAD, this means the relative price of my work for USA brothers & sisters has dropped significantly,
as if everything in my Reverb store is now suddenly available at a discount. Decent!
I have NOT yet gone in to readjust prices my over 120 listings, I've got better things to do this time of year LOL! So in effect you may look at this as a time-limited sale, which I normally don't do. Please understand the suddenly-lower prices are not reflective of the work I continue to put into each strap, materials or any of that. I'm still building the best sling I know how, every day.
Fact of the matter is, if this dollar difference sustains over time, it absolutely inflates my costs for leather, thread, padding, various other strap-making supplies, food, time, my general life etc., so, coming up in 2025, (probably sooner for new listings and custom work) I'll be forced to re-balance prices. FOR NOW, and probably for first two weeks of 2024, I'm not touching 'em. I do now yet know how any proposed tariffs may affect me, if they will at all. My understanding is this is much more about big trainloads of steel, lumber, oil, or tanker loads of milk, maple syrup and hockey sticks and back bacon than it is about individual small person-to-person dealings.
I will be traveling over the holidays, so SUNDAY NIGHT I will again close my Reverb store, and hit the nog harder than I should. Also need to do a Costco run and pick up some new other supplies in the city. It's my plan to be back in the shop to re-open the store probably around Dec. 28th.
Anyhoo that's where I'm at. Lets look at some recent work now, because that's likely more why you're here and interested in this thread! The last strap I made this week, sent yesterday was a completely new design build.
About Ten years ago, I picked up a rather expensive 3 yards of Sari ribbon trip, to craft a guitar strap for myself, which I did (a rather crude one, admittedly my skills were not so developed at that time). I saw this crazy hand-beaded, hand-embroidered ribbon, and had to have it. It's been on a strap I made my main acoustic guitar, and has been camping at least once a year for the past decade, and as delicate as it looks, it has held up quite well
I also used up up one yard to make a strap for a former colleague. band-mate and treasured friend. One of those brothers another mother sort of situations, though he was an extremely bad influence on me, from which I never really recovered. that guy could make a pipe out of anything. dope mcguyver LOL
It was a regular 2.5" embroidered ribbon, but some dedicated artist LOADED it up with additional glass seed-beads, what looks like tiny shells, a whole bunch of copper wire stitching, and extremely detailed types of chain-stitching, I'm guessing almost all done by hand. Gotta be at least a hundred hours worth of extra work. It's just plain magnificent.
Tony in BC picked up a groovy shell pink strat, with mint pg. I pitched this final yard of material to him as kind of special, and he went all in.
To protect the beadwork better than how I made my own strap, I devised a way to wrap some buttery dark tan garment leather up around the edges and fold it over to frame the ribbon.
The edges ended up seeming kind of thick, was worried my machine might not sew through it, the padding I normally put in my straps, AND the lining,
but it my old Consew chewed through like a champ, and punched 'er down nice.
The resulting strap sits probably in the top three of 2025, and easily in my top ten of Well-Hung all time.
It's called "Far Out" and it really kinda is.
Once again, my heartfelt thanks to all you strapolics watching out there, the Well-Hung Reverb store is once again
open after a month-long closure, but will remain so only until Sunday night, before a Christmas break.
Go check out the fun new listings >> RIGHT HERE <<
REVERB STORE NOW AGAIN OPEN for a limited time, 'til Sunday night.
What's New and Happening?
Big picture is... Canada's Posties are (mostly) back to work, but there are rebel factions ignoring the government order. Apparently some union peeps actually welded the doors of a mail warehouse shut in BC... attempting to shut down delivery. I'm told many workers are cranky AF.
But basically the nut of it all, and how it affects you and me is... the past month of work stoppage basically destroyed the height of the Christmas retail season for up to 800,000 smaller online businesses. Particularly hardest hit are those situated in more remote/rural areas like myself.
As of this afternoon, mail is flowing out of my village, and I've processed orders and provided tracking numbers for almost a dozen orders since Tuesday. Canada Post says all guarantees of delivery are out the window at this time, as the system is rather backed-up. It is my hope most goods I have shipped off to the USA to arrive (fingers crossed), first week of 2025. Inside Canada, hopefully before the New Year.
After a month of this madness, I'm not destroyed. My bench has been busy with custom and also a nice amount of new work now in the store - you should go see! I'm super grateful to up to more than a half-dozen Well-Hung Warriors, including at least one TTR brother, who just went ahead and ordered custom work during the strike anyway, not being a hot hurry for speedy arrivals.
"It's a guitar strap," noted one, "NOT a kidney." LOL!
Longer term Ramifications
Another big deal happening over the past month is something I do see suddenly when listing new stuff. Without getting specifically into recent geo-political happenings, talk with regards to borders and trade between Canada and the USA has resulted a rather steep drop in value of the Canadian loonie against the US dollar.
Because I list my goods in CAD, this means the relative price of my work for USA brothers & sisters has dropped significantly,
as if everything in my Reverb store is now suddenly available at a discount. Decent!
I have NOT yet gone in to readjust prices my over 120 listings, I've got better things to do this time of year LOL! So in effect you may look at this as a time-limited sale, which I normally don't do. Please understand the suddenly-lower prices are not reflective of the work I continue to put into each strap, materials or any of that. I'm still building the best sling I know how, every day.
Fact of the matter is, if this dollar difference sustains over time, it absolutely inflates my costs for leather, thread, padding, various other strap-making supplies, food, time, my general life etc., so, coming up in 2025, (probably sooner for new listings and custom work) I'll be forced to re-balance prices. FOR NOW, and probably for first two weeks of 2024, I'm not touching 'em. I do now yet know how any proposed tariffs may affect me, if they will at all. My understanding is this is much more about big trainloads of steel, lumber, oil, or tanker loads of milk, maple syrup and hockey sticks and back bacon than it is about individual small person-to-person dealings.
I will be traveling over the holidays, so SUNDAY NIGHT I will again close my Reverb store, and hit the nog harder than I should. Also need to do a Costco run and pick up some new other supplies in the city. It's my plan to be back in the shop to re-open the store probably around Dec. 28th.
Anyhoo that's where I'm at. Lets look at some recent work now, because that's likely more why you're here and interested in this thread! The last strap I made this week, sent yesterday was a completely new design build.
About Ten years ago, I picked up a rather expensive 3 yards of Sari ribbon trip, to craft a guitar strap for myself, which I did (a rather crude one, admittedly my skills were not so developed at that time). I saw this crazy hand-beaded, hand-embroidered ribbon, and had to have it. It's been on a strap I made my main acoustic guitar, and has been camping at least once a year for the past decade, and as delicate as it looks, it has held up quite well
I also used up up one yard to make a strap for a former colleague. band-mate and treasured friend. One of those brothers another mother sort of situations, though he was an extremely bad influence on me, from which I never really recovered. that guy could make a pipe out of anything. dope mcguyver LOL
It was a regular 2.5" embroidered ribbon, but some dedicated artist LOADED it up with additional glass seed-beads, what looks like tiny shells, a whole bunch of copper wire stitching, and extremely detailed types of chain-stitching, I'm guessing almost all done by hand. Gotta be at least a hundred hours worth of extra work. It's just plain magnificent.
Tony in BC picked up a groovy shell pink strat, with mint pg. I pitched this final yard of material to him as kind of special, and he went all in.
To protect the beadwork better than how I made my own strap, I devised a way to wrap some buttery dark tan garment leather up around the edges and fold it over to frame the ribbon.
The edges ended up seeming kind of thick, was worried my machine might not sew through it, the padding I normally put in my straps, AND the lining,
but it my old Consew chewed through like a champ, and punched 'er down nice.
The resulting strap sits probably in the top three of 2025, and easily in my top ten of Well-Hung all time.
It's called "Far Out" and it really kinda is.
Once again, my heartfelt thanks to all you strapolics watching out there, the Well-Hung Reverb store is once again
open after a month-long closure, but will remain so only until Sunday night, before a Christmas break.
Go check out the fun new listings >> RIGHT HERE <<
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Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
It is difficult to sympathize with postal workers when they hold the country hostage a month before Christmas. Especially hard hit are small businesses, as pointed out, and that really is a shame.
Are you off the Edmonton, Brad? Have a good time, enjoy the nog and I will have a pint for you. We are off on the 26th to our friends in Alberta and I can take pics of their girls again, the good models. Fun times.
Cheers
Are you off the Edmonton, Brad? Have a good time, enjoy the nog and I will have a pint for you. We are off on the 26th to our friends in Alberta and I can take pics of their girls again, the good models. Fun times.
Cheers
OP
TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Central Alberta for us, the wife's parents. Looking forward to a break our kids from Edmonton will join.
You know, one of the lesser known bargaining points on the strike was about mail carriers and Ring Cams.
Apparently the union was highly against home footage of carriers to be able to be used for disciplinary hearings. There has been a steep rise in delivery personnel just signing a card saying "we missed you, come pick up your parcel at the depot", without actually attempting to deliver that parcel from right inside the truck!
Apparently this action repeated turned a 7 hour day into a 3 or four hour work day.... and many carriers were abusing it while still getting paid for a full day. People had this on video, many many times where customers were waiting home for that NGD or whatever, but the postie didn't even bother to attempt make a delivery... just dumped a card. And the union protects these lazy arseholes.
That scenario happens here, to me, regularly. I often schedule my shipping on packages that require a signature for my day off. I’ve chased the carrier down my street, on foot, the last two times.
OP
TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
I don't want to paint all workers with the same brush, but it was a big enough problem for
management to want a way to to maintain a base level of good service for customers,
and the Union fighting that?
Back in my twenties, I was a bit left of center, idealistic, even involved in a Radio and TV communications union
at the executive level, involved in a bit of bargaining for one contract term, but we never walked.
In fact, an old boss of mine told me to I should get involved in the union mgmt, because it was the shortest
path in the company to suddenly find yourself promoted into actual management LOL!
It worked.
management to want a way to to maintain a base level of good service for customers,
and the Union fighting that?
Back in my twenties, I was a bit left of center, idealistic, even involved in a Radio and TV communications union
at the executive level, involved in a bit of bargaining for one contract term, but we never walked.
In fact, an old boss of mine told me to I should get involved in the union mgmt, because it was the shortest
path in the company to suddenly find yourself promoted into actual management LOL!
It worked.
OP
TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Not real cool of me to show something here that's already on the way to it's new owner as of this morning,
but I think I'll have another similar in the new year, if all goes as planned.
Another "SwaggerMan" which are kind of rare! Made out of a certain kind of belt I find on the web,
and repurposed with some careful leatherwork. I own two of these babies myself, as they are just a really great strap.
This belt came to me a bit short n length, so I converted it into a ladderback style, now goes from 50"-60" and is slinky, huggy, and brutush black,
with some extra gunmetal bling added.
It was waiting as newer stock it in the Reverb store, to which I've been adding stock to over the past month, but re-opened it only a couple of days ago.
This morning it got grabbed up by Metal Matty in Manassas. It was sitting on display in F-book overnight, he'sa first time customer, so I suspect that's where it was discovered.
This is another case in point of putting my reverb store on watch for new stuff. if you have a hankering for something special that might come up... I don't promo absolutely everything in the gat forums in the same order I make it, actually I'm a little bit all over the place sometimes. The other option is to just order something custom, see what I can come up with.
I do have another of these gorgeous belts on the way, also in black so I expect I'll complete it early in the new year.
Once again, the Reverb store closes again Sunday, if you want something to be on the way that'll hit you early in the New Year,
NOW is the time to hit the Well-Hung strapateria - last shipping day for the season will be Monday morning.
Let's have some fun!
I know actual musicians are torn about AI, some see it as a toy, some see it as a tool, some see it as an existential threat.
Well, I've been foolin' with it, and as an amateur songwriter, arranger for decades I'm just having some fun. I know some people are
concerned about "ownership" and all that. Well, in my opinion, sometimes it's better NOT to own something LOL,
whether it's plugging in some dusty lyrics from my angry young buck days, or just whipping up a fun new thing for quick laffs.
From my heart, while this is really a gift I'd love to present to all y'alls more in-person, I guess a virtual version will have to
do today... just plug your nose and click
Anyway, here's >>> Crop Dustin' <<<
Maybe I'll make this an end of the work week StrapLab tradition... Happy Friday!
but I think I'll have another similar in the new year, if all goes as planned.
Another "SwaggerMan" which are kind of rare! Made out of a certain kind of belt I find on the web,
and repurposed with some careful leatherwork. I own two of these babies myself, as they are just a really great strap.
This belt came to me a bit short n length, so I converted it into a ladderback style, now goes from 50"-60" and is slinky, huggy, and brutush black,
with some extra gunmetal bling added.
It was waiting as newer stock it in the Reverb store, to which I've been adding stock to over the past month, but re-opened it only a couple of days ago.
This morning it got grabbed up by Metal Matty in Manassas. It was sitting on display in F-book overnight, he'sa first time customer, so I suspect that's where it was discovered.
This is another case in point of putting my reverb store on watch for new stuff. if you have a hankering for something special that might come up... I don't promo absolutely everything in the gat forums in the same order I make it, actually I'm a little bit all over the place sometimes. The other option is to just order something custom, see what I can come up with.
I do have another of these gorgeous belts on the way, also in black so I expect I'll complete it early in the new year.
Once again, the Reverb store closes again Sunday, if you want something to be on the way that'll hit you early in the New Year,
NOW is the time to hit the Well-Hung strapateria - last shipping day for the season will be Monday morning.
Let's have some fun!
I know actual musicians are torn about AI, some see it as a toy, some see it as a tool, some see it as an existential threat.
Well, I've been foolin' with it, and as an amateur songwriter, arranger for decades I'm just having some fun. I know some people are
concerned about "ownership" and all that. Well, in my opinion, sometimes it's better NOT to own something LOL,
whether it's plugging in some dusty lyrics from my angry young buck days, or just whipping up a fun new thing for quick laffs.
From my heart, while this is really a gift I'd love to present to all y'alls more in-person, I guess a virtual version will have to
do today... just plug your nose and click
Anyway, here's >>> Crop Dustin' <<<
Maybe I'll make this an end of the work week StrapLab tradition... Happy Friday!
OP
TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Hey, y'all, hope you all got your nog on good and hard, and didn't suffer to badly afterwards.
I've been traveling for the holidays, but now installed back in the mess of a workshop that I made over the past couple of months.
I'm going to take a day or two here to re-organize, get my bearings, and figure out what needs to be built. got a couple of customs that are half cued up,
but other than that some ideas of things I want to build to start the new year off with a bang.
But first, a forumbro sent in some pics and a really nice note by email about how he's become a Well-Hung devotee, posting a few pics here
he says he's got some more pics coming in the pipeline.
These all looked to me like legit pre-gig pics in the kind of dive bar venue most of us end up feeling too comfortable in, LOL!
But he's not allowing his preciouses to be any kind of closeted case queens, so he's got that going for him.
First off, a Well-Hung Classic I think I might build a couple more of this year, "Hammered" on this blingy Gretch
then, kind of an eclectic combo I probably wouldn't have thought of, but it works pretty ok with the roasted maple, and natural back....
a "MurkBeast" snakey strap on this purple Suhr
And finally, check out how the burntwood pops the tort on this vanilla and creme strat! YUM!
Anyway, just figured I'd check in and drop some nice pics, and from me, and the part time bikini model strap packaging team here at Well-Hung, wishing everyone a safe New Year celebration, and plenty of wise gear pickups for 2025. Can you believe it was 25 years ago we were all stocking up on bottled water and emergency food for Y2K? - Crazy!
Told my wife yesterday I'm aimin' to make up for the crappy party that got spoiled for the millennium, with the upcoming 2050 turnover.
That is, if I can actually hold out for it LOL!
I'm gonna be over eighty
Oh yeah, we gonna party like it's 2049
I've been traveling for the holidays, but now installed back in the mess of a workshop that I made over the past couple of months.
I'm going to take a day or two here to re-organize, get my bearings, and figure out what needs to be built. got a couple of customs that are half cued up,
but other than that some ideas of things I want to build to start the new year off with a bang.
But first, a forumbro sent in some pics and a really nice note by email about how he's become a Well-Hung devotee, posting a few pics here
he says he's got some more pics coming in the pipeline.
These all looked to me like legit pre-gig pics in the kind of dive bar venue most of us end up feeling too comfortable in, LOL!
But he's not allowing his preciouses to be any kind of closeted case queens, so he's got that going for him.
First off, a Well-Hung Classic I think I might build a couple more of this year, "Hammered" on this blingy Gretch
then, kind of an eclectic combo I probably wouldn't have thought of, but it works pretty ok with the roasted maple, and natural back....
a "MurkBeast" snakey strap on this purple Suhr
And finally, check out how the burntwood pops the tort on this vanilla and creme strat! YUM!
Anyway, just figured I'd check in and drop some nice pics, and from me, and the part time bikini model strap packaging team here at Well-Hung, wishing everyone a safe New Year celebration, and plenty of wise gear pickups for 2025. Can you believe it was 25 years ago we were all stocking up on bottled water and emergency food for Y2K? - Crazy!
Told my wife yesterday I'm aimin' to make up for the crappy party that got spoiled for the millennium, with the upcoming 2050 turnover.
That is, if I can actually hold out for it LOL!
I'm gonna be over eighty
Oh yeah, we gonna party like it's 2049
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OP
TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
One of the coolest and best things to come out of the StrapLab for 2024 was the "BeastMaster"
after some experimenting and player testing, I developed a way to craft an innovative comfort strap out
of a stretchy exercise apparatus called a "Booty Band" mostly found in the womens health clubs.
Everyone who tries 'em loves it. I sold two at an October guitar show (all I had for sale), to the first two people to try them. Many others tried the one for myself for my greenburst, but this one stays with me.
I believe as far as straps go it's a game-changer. Seriously, this, is from a dude who's worked for over a dozen years SPECIALIZING in the aim to craft better, more comfortable guitar straps. It's something totally new, and a lot of thought and prototyping has gone in to this design.
Sigh... As with many things I try to bring to market, I got sidetracked by other stuff, custom orders, the mail strike and I failed to give this new comfort design the push I feel it deserves, so I decided to bring a couple into my store, that will be fully for sale in a day or two at a reduced price so folks can try one. The only thing is, I will be asking for a detailed analysis/review from the buyers.
I was initially hoping guitarists would just order up custom versions for themselves, as I can do a lot as far as that goes with leathers I have on hand. The ones I showed had a lot of rivets n them, and I wonder if that kept folks away? So over the past couple days I made two more with panels that are sewn only, which will go into the store tomorrow and will be fully for sale.
Meet BeastMasters "Choco-Croco" and "Genocide Royale" - in walnut croc emboss, or Golden skull emboss
The booty band has a bit of elasticity to it, but it is NOT bow-wow-wow insane/crazy like other elastic straps you might know of. It only comes into play JUST A LITTLE BIT, like about an inch, an inch and a half, after about 8 or 8.5 lbs of weight, hardly noticeable or distracting - but these straps are made for nine, ten or even boat anchor weight guitars. The sewn leather panels are decorative, but still allow the strap to flex, and give these things a bit of extra badass style.
Inside there is also padding that also flexes. AND, if that weren't enough, they are lined with soft black lining that also stretches!
They are just over 3" wide, good heavy leather ends, with a stealth pick pocket. Both of these adjust between about 45" to 57" (most male guitarists fall in the 46-54 range).
An aggressive look, but a pure dream to wear, and if you have a heavy guitar you want to play more, for longer periods of time,
a Well-Hung BeastMaster could very well be what you need to to tame that heavy monster and bend it to your will!
after some experimenting and player testing, I developed a way to craft an innovative comfort strap out
of a stretchy exercise apparatus called a "Booty Band" mostly found in the womens health clubs.
Everyone who tries 'em loves it. I sold two at an October guitar show (all I had for sale), to the first two people to try them. Many others tried the one for myself for my greenburst, but this one stays with me.
I believe as far as straps go it's a game-changer. Seriously, this, is from a dude who's worked for over a dozen years SPECIALIZING in the aim to craft better, more comfortable guitar straps. It's something totally new, and a lot of thought and prototyping has gone in to this design.
Sigh... As with many things I try to bring to market, I got sidetracked by other stuff, custom orders, the mail strike and I failed to give this new comfort design the push I feel it deserves, so I decided to bring a couple into my store, that will be fully for sale in a day or two at a reduced price so folks can try one. The only thing is, I will be asking for a detailed analysis/review from the buyers.
I was initially hoping guitarists would just order up custom versions for themselves, as I can do a lot as far as that goes with leathers I have on hand. The ones I showed had a lot of rivets n them, and I wonder if that kept folks away? So over the past couple days I made two more with panels that are sewn only, which will go into the store tomorrow and will be fully for sale.
Meet BeastMasters "Choco-Croco" and "Genocide Royale" - in walnut croc emboss, or Golden skull emboss
The booty band has a bit of elasticity to it, but it is NOT bow-wow-wow insane/crazy like other elastic straps you might know of. It only comes into play JUST A LITTLE BIT, like about an inch, an inch and a half, after about 8 or 8.5 lbs of weight, hardly noticeable or distracting - but these straps are made for nine, ten or even boat anchor weight guitars. The sewn leather panels are decorative, but still allow the strap to flex, and give these things a bit of extra badass style.
Inside there is also padding that also flexes. AND, if that weren't enough, they are lined with soft black lining that also stretches!
They are just over 3" wide, good heavy leather ends, with a stealth pick pocket. Both of these adjust between about 45" to 57" (most male guitarists fall in the 46-54 range).
An aggressive look, but a pure dream to wear, and if you have a heavy guitar you want to play more, for longer periods of time,
a Well-Hung BeastMaster could very well be what you need to to tame that heavy monster and bend it to your will!
ibmorjamn
Ambassador of Moar Jammin
Maybe you should call it booty beast? lolOne of the coolest and best things to come out of the StrapLab for 2024 was the "BeastMaster"
after some experimenting and player testing, I developed a way to craft an innovative comfort strap out
of a stretchy exercise apparatus called a "Booty Band" mostly found in the womens health clubs.
Everyone who tries 'em loves it. I sold two at an October guitar show (all I had for sale), to the first two people to try them. Many others tried the one for myself for my greenburst, but this one stays with me.
I believe as far as straps go it's a game-changer. Seriously, this, is from a dude who's worked for over a dozen years SPECIALIZING in the aim to craft better, more comfortable guitar straps. It's something totally new, and a lot of thought and prototyping has gone in to this design.
Sigh... As with many things I try to bring to market, I got sidetracked by other stuff, custom orders, the mail strike and I failed to give this new comfort design the push I feel it deserves, so I decided to bring a couple into my store, that will be fully for sale in a day or two at a reduced price so folks can try one. The only thing is, I will be asking for a detailed analysis/review from the buyers.
I was initially hoping guitarists would just order up custom versions for themselves, as I can do a lot as far as that goes with leathers I have on hand. The ones I showed had a lot of rivets n them, and I wonder if that kept folks away? So over the past couple days I made two more with panels that are sewn only, which will go into the store tomorrow and will be fully for sale.
Meet BeastMasters "Choco-Croco" and "Genocide Royale" - in walnut croc emboss, or Golden skull emboss
The booty band has a bit of elasticity to it, but it is NOT bow-wow-wow insane/crazy like other elastic straps you might know of. It only comes into play JUST A LITTLE BIT, like about an inch, an inch and a half, after about 8 or 8.5 lbs of weight, hardly noticeable or distracting - but these straps are made for nine, ten or even boat anchor weight guitars. The sewn leather panels are decorative, but still allow the strap to flex, and give these things a bit of extra badass style.
Inside there is also padding that also flexes. AND, if that weren't enough, they are lined with soft black lining that also stretches!
They are just over 3" wide, good heavy leather ends, with a stealth pick pocket. Both of these adjust between about 45" to 57" (most male guitarists fall in the 46-54 range).
An aggressive look, but a pure dream to wear, and if you have a heavy guitar you want to play more, for longer periods of time,
a Well-Hung BeastMaster could very well be what you need to to tame that heavy monster and bend it to your will!
OP
TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Ending this week with a beginning. All last year I've been admiring a style of leather tooling/stamping called "geometric"
This is an example, on what looks to be a belt, not my work...
Anyway, I'm not real happy with the stamps I have in my collection to do this, but it's also
probably a lot about my own imagination and skill, and less so the stamps.
Here's my start on a guitar strap with a similar approach.
Phew! That was a lot of stamping!
This is prior to the antiquing process, which fills in all the nooks and crannies with dark to bring out the texture, but I'm off to a start on it.
Will resist coat it a few times over the weekend before I do that so I don't lose the fade.
should be able to finish this one early next week. Have a great weekend!
This is an example, on what looks to be a belt, not my work...
Anyway, I'm not real happy with the stamps I have in my collection to do this, but it's also
probably a lot about my own imagination and skill, and less so the stamps.
Here's my start on a guitar strap with a similar approach.
Phew! That was a lot of stamping!
This is prior to the antiquing process, which fills in all the nooks and crannies with dark to bring out the texture, but I'm off to a start on it.
Will resist coat it a few times over the weekend before I do that so I don't lose the fade.
should be able to finish this one early next week. Have a great weekend!