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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
New "1969 Series" design and this coming soon, the more tried and true traditional example, four now under construction.
A quick side note.... there does seem to be some movements on with the whole tariff/duty situation, I'm watching with great interest as decisions and counter-decisions start working their way through the systems. I'm hoping on the possibility of re-opening to the US market April 1st. To prepare, I figure maybe it's time I got the store ready with some new versions of a few of my "greatest hits" over the next month or so.
These are what one customer once dubbed a "Big Boy" version of a hootenanny *appearing* vintage style strap. What I do is take a beautifully padded 3" wide base with softly rolled edges, (in this case in black garment leather,) then stitch that 2" wide ribbon down the center, effectively giving you the old school "look" but one providing amazing comfort and weight distribution footprint far and above that of your typical Ace style ribbon strap. My Well-Hung ribbon-on-leather design is also visually elegant and the ribbon does offer some additonal strength too. It's quite strong!
I also reasoned that it might be nice to have a plainer black and white strap offering in the store, and I should be able to complete these four tomorrow, in black and white only for now.
I purchased this monochrome vintage style 2" embroidered web ribbon a couple of years ago as a bright idea, figuring it might solve a problem. You see, I've spend hundreds, (yes hundreds) of dollars on ribbon material similar. Many hours shopping for it too, 'cause there's thousands of types of this stuff available, especially in less than 2" wide. However, because of where much of it comes from, those cultures often have wildly different colour sensibilities than those of the Western world.
Usually, from those available at any given time, you can choose between pinks with green or oranges and blues quite often, or purple mixed with red, etc.... just some clashy/crazy combos - at least to MY eye. When you do happen to stumble across and purchase what you saw was an ideal selection... Often it'll arrive looking a fair bit different than the photos, which can be quite disappointing. So, because I need to shop with guitar finish-matching in mind, this limits the choices drastically and steers me to think more carefully about the risks of grabbing up thirty yards of something that's poor mover, or I might not even be able to use.
Imagine my joy when I found the above plain-Jane black and white version of this ribbon. In my head, endless possibilities of tinting it with leather dye to basically any colour I wanted danced through my noggin. This roll of ribbon has been sitting my StrapLab ribbon cupboard for over a year and a half, so today I attempted a bit of a test with three different dye dips. Because the material is made from a synthetics, it won't accept dye with quite the colour saturation I was hoping, but it does take. Look forward to some fun colours coming up with this ribbon, and of course, custom work too. However, due to my process, it can only one colour at a time, but I'll probably try some green ones and some maybe in purple too. Of the dye versions above I think I like the olde creme one best, but the dirty amber and blue steel will work nicely as well.
A quick side note.... there does seem to be some movements on with the whole tariff/duty situation, I'm watching with great interest as decisions and counter-decisions start working their way through the systems. I'm hoping on the possibility of re-opening to the US market April 1st. To prepare, I figure maybe it's time I got the store ready with some new versions of a few of my "greatest hits" over the next month or so.
These are what one customer once dubbed a "Big Boy" version of a hootenanny *appearing* vintage style strap. What I do is take a beautifully padded 3" wide base with softly rolled edges, (in this case in black garment leather,) then stitch that 2" wide ribbon down the center, effectively giving you the old school "look" but one providing amazing comfort and weight distribution footprint far and above that of your typical Ace style ribbon strap. My Well-Hung ribbon-on-leather design is also visually elegant and the ribbon does offer some additonal strength too. It's quite strong!
I also reasoned that it might be nice to have a plainer black and white strap offering in the store, and I should be able to complete these four tomorrow, in black and white only for now.
I purchased this monochrome vintage style 2" embroidered web ribbon a couple of years ago as a bright idea, figuring it might solve a problem. You see, I've spend hundreds, (yes hundreds) of dollars on ribbon material similar. Many hours shopping for it too, 'cause there's thousands of types of this stuff available, especially in less than 2" wide. However, because of where much of it comes from, those cultures often have wildly different colour sensibilities than those of the Western world.
Usually, from those available at any given time, you can choose between pinks with green or oranges and blues quite often, or purple mixed with red, etc.... just some clashy/crazy combos - at least to MY eye. When you do happen to stumble across and purchase what you saw was an ideal selection... Often it'll arrive looking a fair bit different than the photos, which can be quite disappointing. So, because I need to shop with guitar finish-matching in mind, this limits the choices drastically and steers me to think more carefully about the risks of grabbing up thirty yards of something that's poor mover, or I might not even be able to use.
Imagine my joy when I found the above plain-Jane black and white version of this ribbon. In my head, endless possibilities of tinting it with leather dye to basically any colour I wanted danced through my noggin. This roll of ribbon has been sitting my StrapLab ribbon cupboard for over a year and a half, so today I attempted a bit of a test with three different dye dips. Because the material is made from a synthetics, it won't accept dye with quite the colour saturation I was hoping, but it does take. Look forward to some fun colours coming up with this ribbon, and of course, custom work too. However, due to my process, it can only one colour at a time, but I'll probably try some green ones and some maybe in purple too. Of the dye versions above I think I like the olde creme one best, but the dirty amber and blue steel will work nicely as well.
Do lounges still exist?
