TVvoodoo's Straplab

LOL! @GrooVey my favorite part is when it builds to a peak, dude singing... "...no need to co-exist. When you... seize.... destiny.... by the... WRIST!!!
then there's this TOTAL S&M / bondage-looking strap coming right at ya. That's maybe a bit twisted, but I chuckle every time.

Anyway, some of that so-called "TV voodoo" in there for all y'alls. I've been out of that game since 2004, but it's nice to return to attempt it again, even with a bunch of still pics. These days all the basement video editors and youtubers have so many cool tools we never even dreamed of back then. We were just hardly starting to toy with aftereffects filters and all that neat stuff when I dropped out to take on other things.

I was more a Producer/Director at the end, working mostly on local commercials, hype videos... with the division of labour in the business, I directed in the field, picked the best shots, then sat in edit bays "overseeing" many hours a week, but never got to learn the buttons with the non-linear edit tools, graphics, etc.... so I ended up having to pick it up almost from scratch myself. Luckily, just like modern audio recording, us everyday dudes have incredible access to a lot of post software and imaging far beyond most of the tech I worked with as a pro twenty years ago - Today, to think of us all just walking around with hi-def video cameras stashed in our pockets seems nuts in retrospect.
 
new in the shop today is No Prisoners: "FAFO" - somewhere between 48" - 67" of full-on BADASS!

And look at that GORGEOUS brassy "tooled" buckle. Oh my! People are gonna ask you where you found this sling, likely covet it. YOU get to tell 'em "Tough luck, bud! It's the only one like it in the entire world!"

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"FAFO" is a simple leather weave strap, I think 13 strands but hard to count. Plenty strong 2-3/4" wide. It's a very open weave, that is, there's lots of space between each strand. Hold this up to your eyes and look right through it. That means it'll breathe like no other strap in existence. Naturally aerated! And, because of that I chose to NOT pad it. It feels a just tad rough on the inside though, not soft and luxurious like most of my stuff. You won't want this on your bare skin, or the thinnest of T-shirts. But, that roughness also adds a good amount of grip to it, will ably brake any neck diver guitar you have, I think.

I added black croc embossed leather nose and tail, reinforced too. You have about ten inches of adjustment travel up front, ten inches in the back.

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As a strapmaker, I have PLENTY of straps here for my own use. Roughly two for every guitar I own. But sometimes still, I'll make something once-in-awhile that the power of strap compels me to add to my collection. Yeah, like this beast. Somebody please buy it, while I'm still ready to let it run off into the wild! Thankfully, no black and gold guitars here, but this is one of those straps a dude buys BEFORE they buy the companion guitar. Seen it happen many times.

Have a great weekend my brothers, party like you were Artemis crew!
 
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