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You get bragging rights over the TTR rock trivia fanatic, if that's of any value to ya!
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New to the Reverb boutique this morning Sauguerties embroidery, The Devil's Leash "Triple Damn" version. Real beautiful if I do say so myself.
Buttery grey/brown leather, alternate patterned vintagey ribbon. Interesting how this strap seems to go with so many guitars easily but not look "matchy/matchy" with any.
Also look for "Grey Ray" just having photos processed, maybe up in the store later tonight. Black leather, grey stingray pattern/texture on top.
Be a cool silverburst kind of strap I think.
Buttery grey/brown leather, alternate patterned vintagey ribbon. Interesting how this strap seems to go with so many guitars easily but not look "matchy/matchy" with any.
Also look for "Grey Ray" just having photos processed, maybe up in the store later tonight. Black leather, grey stingray pattern/texture on top.
Be a cool silverburst kind of strap I think.
So Brad, your Deep Purple and a purple snake skin one I saw on Reverb, got me to thinking. I’m working on a project I named Purple Haze, so a purple something nice strap would be a great addition. Have ya done one or have a theme that would ooze purple haze?
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TVvoodoo
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'Scuse me, while I kiss the sky... purple is a tough one, kind of like green straps, don't make them to often because they aren't strong sellers, thinking in the background on this. What kind of guitar, a strat, lefty for righty or something? can you add a link to this thread for me to visit? pics etc?
It’s a righty strat. I don’t have all the parts yet, but when I do, I’ll do a build thread. Here’s a teaser pick of the quilted blue and purple body.
Thanks, that’s,what I had in mind was to plant a seed and get the ideas flowing. I’m in no hurry.
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In my past I have completed a couple of guitar "builds" from parts, and also a number of guitar "renovations", or refinishes. The hobby of creating cool and unique looking instruments mashed my "gotta be me" buttons hard, and was a serious life distraction for me for a number of years. In fact it was what led to me beginning to craft my own custom straps to match these guitars. Soon enough, I started being asked to make custom straps for the completed projects of other forumites, and well, it all led to what I have going now, with Well-Hung. Haven't done one for a couple of years, dropping back from finishing guitars partly for the going strap concern and because I felt I was doing quite a bit too much spraying with quite a bit too little protective equipment. I was starting to see a number of older fellows on the forums with serious health issues partly because of unsafe spraying practices.
But... @Don O shows me the guitar project he's working on and I couldn't stop thinking starting another last night, Had no shortage of ideas floating around in my head for my next project, just been a little to busy trying to keep the strap game on the rails. Last night I got one of those creative idea bugs crawling around in my head, and laid awake for must have been an hour trying to figure out how to do it, and thankfully it will have a minimum of spraying chems involved, and I believe I have mostly enough parts in the parts bin to complete it... probably should get some nice locking tuners.
This morning I pulled out this sealed tele body been sitting patiently way behind a bunch of other stuff in my shop, and set to getting it ready for this project. It has a few strange green stains on it, so firmly a painter. Traded it for something years ago, it's been sitting wrapped in foam in a box. Also grabbed up this a beefy orange lacquered SX neck, fits this pocket like it was meant to be. Hand sanded the front of the body with 200 grit to give it some tooth.
The top is going to be the showpiece of this project, but it needs to get readyfied. I'll probably just use a tinted clear on the back, keep it mostly natural-looking.
Pretty sure I have a hardtail bridge somewhere in the parts stash.
Outside, the leaves are coming down like crazy today, so it was quite the challenge. But we got the top sprayed safely, with two mist coats, three light coats, and one
not so light coat. Went pretty smooth, maybe too smooth.
Sprayed it with something called "Krylon Crafters' Silver" - can which was probably about ten years old, sitting in my spray bomb cupboard.
Shook the hell out of it, laid it in some hot water for fifteen minutes, sprayed perfect. I fact where I'm going , some orange peel would have been preferable, but it is what it is.
Pleased as punch with myself, I'm jauntily carrying my freshly sprayed body down the stairs to my workshop, paint stick in one hand, camera in the other. Missed that last step kinda funny and dammit if I didn't
fall down onto a desk, but still somehow managed to keep the guitar safe. But crap if I didn't turn my ankle real bad. Had to get the frozen corn out.
Such is life.
Anyway, limped the body over to hang it safe in my shop rafters. I need to order some art materials for it, so don't expect any updates until there is maybe snow on the ground up here.
This project is going to maybe my most ambitious reno, something fresh and fun, could be months in the making, but I think will bring nice variety to this straplab thread along the way.
In the meantime I have to make some templates as per the nutty ideas I had swimming all around in my head all last night.
But... @Don O shows me the guitar project he's working on and I couldn't stop thinking starting another last night, Had no shortage of ideas floating around in my head for my next project, just been a little to busy trying to keep the strap game on the rails. Last night I got one of those creative idea bugs crawling around in my head, and laid awake for must have been an hour trying to figure out how to do it, and thankfully it will have a minimum of spraying chems involved, and I believe I have mostly enough parts in the parts bin to complete it... probably should get some nice locking tuners.
This morning I pulled out this sealed tele body been sitting patiently way behind a bunch of other stuff in my shop, and set to getting it ready for this project. It has a few strange green stains on it, so firmly a painter. Traded it for something years ago, it's been sitting wrapped in foam in a box. Also grabbed up this a beefy orange lacquered SX neck, fits this pocket like it was meant to be. Hand sanded the front of the body with 200 grit to give it some tooth.
The top is going to be the showpiece of this project, but it needs to get readyfied. I'll probably just use a tinted clear on the back, keep it mostly natural-looking.
Pretty sure I have a hardtail bridge somewhere in the parts stash.
Outside, the leaves are coming down like crazy today, so it was quite the challenge. But we got the top sprayed safely, with two mist coats, three light coats, and one
not so light coat. Went pretty smooth, maybe too smooth.
Sprayed it with something called "Krylon Crafters' Silver" - can which was probably about ten years old, sitting in my spray bomb cupboard.
Shook the hell out of it, laid it in some hot water for fifteen minutes, sprayed perfect. I fact where I'm going , some orange peel would have been preferable, but it is what it is.
Pleased as punch with myself, I'm jauntily carrying my freshly sprayed body down the stairs to my workshop, paint stick in one hand, camera in the other. Missed that last step kinda funny and dammit if I didn't
fall down onto a desk, but still somehow managed to keep the guitar safe. But crap if I didn't turn my ankle real bad. Had to get the frozen corn out.
Such is life.
Anyway, limped the body over to hang it safe in my shop rafters. I need to order some art materials for it, so don't expect any updates until there is maybe snow on the ground up here.
This project is going to maybe my most ambitious reno, something fresh and fun, could be months in the making, but I think will bring nice variety to this straplab thread along the way.
In the meantime I have to make some templates as per the nutty ideas I had swimming all around in my head all last night.
. Start a build thread for it. Does it have a name yet? We can help with that:dood:
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TVvoodoo
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It does have a name, but that would be giving too much away at this point.
Ok, a 'speriment
What happens if you drop some lacquer on a piece of acrylic lexan or whatever from under the bench, from some old project.
Then, while that lacquer is still wet... commence to sprinkle a whole bunch of gold flake on it and let it dry for a few hours?
this...
Man, that's sure lumpy and bumpy, kinda ugly ain't it? Hmmmm. Wonder what happens when you take it out into the sun and flip that thing over?
Smooth as glass, and in the words of Rain Man, definitely very sparkly. Had a hunch it would be, but didn't take genius thinking to predict such an outcome.
This knowledge? I think I can use.
Ok, a 'speriment
What happens if you drop some lacquer on a piece of acrylic lexan or whatever from under the bench, from some old project.
Then, while that lacquer is still wet... commence to sprinkle a whole bunch of gold flake on it and let it dry for a few hours?
this...
Man, that's sure lumpy and bumpy, kinda ugly ain't it? Hmmmm. Wonder what happens when you take it out into the sun and flip that thing over?
Smooth as glass, and in the words of Rain Man, definitely very sparkly. Had a hunch it would be, but didn't take genius thinking to predict such an outcome.
This knowledge? I think I can use.
RVA
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Wow!!!
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TVvoodoo
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Interesting...
I thought I had a rather heavyweight cotton in my tickle trunk, took me a bit of digging to find it. I'm not sure how to use it. Could just make a whole strap out of it,
use it like a ribbon down the centre of a leather strap, or even use it as a strap lining.
Oh, blue and purple, that could work!
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Might not remember your name. Maybe not even your great tone and that killer performance. But dang if they ain't never gonna forget the crazy dude with the polka-dot strap!
No need to get your eyes checked. You are definitely seeing spots. Go lay down for awhile, they will just disappear like magic.
No need to get your eyes checked. You are definitely seeing spots. Go lay down for awhile, they will just disappear like magic.