TVvoodoo's Straplab

Been busy here in the background but first a bit of a victory roll KD out east got his "Outlaw" and was rather pleased! Matches that shirt real nice!

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Also in the monochrome theme, a custom that went out yesterday to Rebecca, who secretly ordered a custom for her man..
(Gee, I hope he's not watching!). She had this leather sent to me from an Etsy seller... and it was beautiful stuff.

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I've had my head down trying to put some new "Wild Things" inventory in my store, but wanted to do something a bit different.
This new wildcat pattern seems closest to Ocelot, as far as I can tell, but it's beautiful plush stuff.
With it, I made a bunch of 3" wide PADDED hootenanny sliding buckle straps that go near to 65" long.. that's lonnnnng! or as little as 45"

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This is a rare thing to find, a 3" wide sliding buckle strap. Nevermind that it's also super nicely padded and a cool cat besides.
It's my opinion everyone needs at least one wildcat theme strap in the collection. It gives a fella a little extra "RAWWWRRR!"
factor for the stage presence and/or attitude, and wilds up the guitarsenal a little bit. These turned out really beautiful.
 
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New in the store today is "Gator Wrangler" - Imagine the splashin' and hollerin' as spurs meet horny hide,
the wild cacophony echoing through the mossy cyprus. Might even get your hat wet.

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Even the Swamp People and the Hillbilly Handfishers'll have to take a break to watch.

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five large bright conchos bravely ride upon emerald green gator emboss... it all sits on an ultra padded 3" wide base. 3" wide, heavy leather ends, yadda yadda. This is a cool one!

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Also got the Wild Things "Ocelot Lite" listing up... the dark version will be up tomorrow.
3" wide, padded hootenanny strap with a strong upholstery cloth backing.
No metal loops or rivets to put your guitar at risk. Supreme comfort.

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Oh, and did I mention this strap goes near to 66" long? That's CRAZY long. Seriously, wanna throw sexy stage shapes?
Can't be done with a shorty-pants strap. Try it alone, if you need a laugh
 
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Wow! Wassup there? Seems sudden again....
 
Today I stealthily added regular Ocelot to the Depot...

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Most rock guitarists will appreciate a jungle beast guitar strap of significant comfort / robustness in the guitarmory. Have a super weekend all you wonderfully sick TTR guitarsonist bros
 
This Canadian Thanksgiving weekend I'll allow you to roll your eyes, shake your heads in disappointment, while I jump on the stupid repeating autumn trend like your average fully desperate marketeer

Punkin' Spice Python is here, and ready to make your vintage/tobacco burst pop with wicked glory!

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It's a bit shorter, and a little less wide than my normal offerings, but still ultra-padded with heavy black leather ends. This is cowhide, not real scales BTW

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Now in the store, and ready to rock
 
Retro-Active is new in the shop today... a kooky upholstery fabric I found, has a vintage art-deco sort of thing going on... the red bits are very close match to fiesta, the black bits are raised velvet.

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I don't know exactly why, but this pattern makes me think of the Flintstones for some reason

Yabba-Dabba Doooooooo!
 
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A Well-Hung facebook follower alerted me to a little douchbaggery going on with my brand... Thanks Collin
I mean I want to respect your hustle Tusar, but c'mon don't be a ca-ca head

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Don't know how often this happens but now I know exactly how Yves Saint Laurent feels... violated! And, a lot poorer too.....
Not even ONE hot supermodel handy around here in my mega-luxury villa estate to distract me from all my troubles

Let this be a reminder to only play, and wear authentic! Don't get conned by brand piracy.

Justin W is doing it right... Unlike me, and probably some of you, people will actually gather to sit and listen to his guitar playing, while also enjoying his choice in fine strappages!

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Two new ones in the store today, already up is The Devil's Leash "Dark" edition, which is not 100% real leather, (the body part anyway)...

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Hopefully before dinnertime, I aim to get all the pics ready and list "Surf Python," which is genuine leather....

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Happy Monday, can't trust that day.
 
Bad publicity is still free publicity.
You might set some search hits from the DB using your brand.
Rest assured; they're probably not raking in a fortune schlepping fake hoodies at $35.
 
I looked at the policy page for the website he is using... it looked like too much trouble to get into.
Dirtbags gonna dirtbag

I agree with fitz on this, maybe a bit of extra brand awareness won't hurt, but he's targeting my f-book
follows, I just dont' want anyone to get duped or scammed. If he is offering a real product, it would have
baseline bro to ask permission, I'd even be happy with a couple bucks a purchase, he's making probably
a hundred points.

When they start counterfeiting my straps, that's a whole different story
 
Started this one a few days ago, finally finished it today, plus a whole bunch of yardwork, putting patio/deck stuff away etc...
Winterizing the RV... Beautiful autumn day up here, don't have many of those left before we're not raking leaves, but shoveling.

New in the store is "Desert Python" a rare-ish floating pad strap fresh from the StrapLab bench.

I've probably mentioned how it took me until just a few years ago to warm up to this style of strap. Never bonded with the one I tried many years ago, it just felt neither trusty, nor comfy. Plus the pads on those sort of want to be slipping up or down all over the place. But, you know, I started to get requests... and I figured I'd best try to tackle building a better floater for my offerings, and survival LOL!

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The main thing for me was a wider pad, at 2-3/4" that features four layers of padding inside for a tangible comfort boost,
and a lining that's a bit grippier so it don't slip all over. After that, I build up more robust skinny straps with heavier-duty ends.

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In this case, the skinny strap goes right through the pad, for a far cleaner look, and less slippy-aroundy-ness

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With a sturdy Conway buckle adjustment on the backside, it's easy to make 'er go real long, up to 63" in this case.
Anyway, that's my take on it, and I'm rather proud of how it all works together. Others seem to love 'em!

I keep wondering when Jack in the 416 is gonna to run out of guitars to strap! Never seems to though! Dude's a machine!

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I've posted about this work in progress before, and the first four are now for sale in the reverb shoppe Axe Warrior V1 (brown leather) is ready for deployment

I want to thank a few people, Stanley of Midnight Crow out Wisconsin way, M. Pinter of Pinter guitars and J. Jordan of the CAF, with his boots on the ground expertise. He showed me this and our discussion helped spur some ideas. He continues to field test the prototype I sent him, and the others mentioned as well. One thing we decided we didn't need was a quick break-away mechanism, so you don't have to put your arms up high when trying to be stealthy under fire when removing it LOL!

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Anyway, The first batch is in brown and brass, and brutishly handsome. Much like Donny Dagger was in his prime, before all the problems

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I mention more about this revolutionary design in the Reverb listing, but what I'm most excited about is how it works in a truly innovative way. Floating pad straps are famous for floating exactly where you DON'T want them to go, as you move your guitar, even a little. Axe Warrior is built so you enjoy about nine or ten inches of skinny strap travel, sliding right through the pad while it stays locked in place on your shoulder. It's really something. Takes but a few minutes practice to learn how it works, but once you latch onto this system, you won't even have to think about it anymore. It just works.

Double D-rings, both sides, the heavier the pull, the tighter they grip. And the whole thing is built with heavy duty Aussie military surplus cotton/nylon Cordura, and heavy duty oil-tanned leather ends. It's battle-ready to heft either a rocket launcher, or your guitar. Plus the 14" long, 3-1/4 wide ULTRA-padded and suede leather lined shoulder pad is going to make gigs and rehearsals fly by. No pressure points will be pounded via this system. It's your next favorite guitar strap, I'm loving the one I'm keeping for myself.

Anyway, it's brand new, and I think it's pretty cool. Seems to look pretty at home on most any guitar.
Some black leather ones will be coming next week. Quite exciting!

Dropping Midnight Crow's recent video, Stan on vox and guitar is quite the fellow I can tell you that! Both guitarists are using Well-Hung, stanley's "Zen Master" gets lots of screen time. It's his daily driver and has been for over a year now.

 
TVvoodoo said:
I've posted about this work in progress before, and the first four are now for sale in the reverb shoppe Axe Warrior V1 (brown leather) is ready for deployment

I want to thank a few people, Stanley of Midnight Crow out Wisconsin way, M. Pinter of Pinter guitars and J. Jordan of the CAF, with his boots on the ground expertise. He showed me this and our discussion helped spur some ideas. He continues to field test the prototype I sent him, and the others mentioned as well. One thing we decided we didn't need was a quick break-away mechanism, so you don't have to put your arms up high when trying to be stealthy under fire when removing it LOL!

kaxX9iHz_o.jpg


Anyway, The first batch is in brown and brass, and brutishly handsome. Much like Donny Dagger was in his prime, before all the problems

RbEcTzKJ_o.jpg


I mention more about this revolutionary design in the Reverb listing, but what I'm most excited about is how it works in a truly innovative way. Floating pad straps are famous for floating exactly where you DON'T want them to go, as you move your guitar, even a little. Axe Warrior is built so you enjoy about nine or ten inches of skinny strap travel, sliding right through the pad while it stays locked in place on your shoulder. It's really something. Takes but a few minutes practice to learn how it works, but once you latch onto this system, you won't even have to think about it anymore. It just works.

Double D-rings, both sides, the heavier the pull, the tighter they grip. And the whole thing is built with heavy duty Aussie military surplus cotton/nylon Cordura, and heavy duty oil-tanned leather ends. It's battle-ready to heft either a rocket launcher, or your guitar. Plus the 14" long, 3-1/4 wide ULTRA-padded and suede leather lined shoulder pad is going to make gigs and rehearsals fly by. No pressure points will be pounded via this system. It's your next favorite guitar strap, I'm loving the one I'm keeping for myself.

Anyway, it's brand new, and I think it's pretty cool. Seems to look pretty at home on most any guitar.
Some black leather ones will be coming next week. Quite exciting!

Dropping Midnight Crow's recent video, Stan on vox and guitar is quite the fellow I can tell you that! Both guitarists are using Well-Hung, stanley's "Zen Master" gets lots of screen time. It's his daily driver and has been for over a year now.

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Diggin’ it….
 
Wow. All Four "Axe Warriors" sold out in a couple days. I wonder if I'm onto something?
If you are interested, some black leather ones are coming this week.

OK... new in-store right now "Stormcloud Python"

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Genocide Maelstrom

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Rattler Wrangler

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Three pretty Badass straps, if I do say so myself. In fact, let's put it to a vote? Which of the above is MORE badass in your opinion.
I'd love to hear your thoughts

For the Wrangler one, it's plenty plenty long! For me, before I started making straps, they were always 2 inches NOT ENOUGH! Drove me nuts!
There you are sitting on the last loop, strap ready to surprise tear away at any given moment, you tryin' to look all cool, but still too short!

Makes a dude feel like a clown. OK maybe one who's with a little bit of cool, but of a gated kind. "Rattle Wrangler" is not going burden you with any clowny vibes. Black leather, big shiny conchos, 3" wide, padded like your second-favorite aunty. 44"-60"

It's gonna make you want swagger around with a little kick-step, like that singer dude in the movie "Rock Star." By the way, for the moment, it's still 100% legal to do this while wearing a strap such as any of the above, but not everyone can pull it off proper while NOT wearing something that exudes a high magnitude of machismo.

All I'm saying is remember that 51" maximum length strap all those other guys sell when your wallet is out. An extra four or five inches is huge.

OH, some of you might know I made a song. It's not recorded mixed or mastered well, because I am but a fledgling recordist. Not played well either, but has conviction! I barely have DAW skillz, but this is one of those things that is a "learn to do by doing" thing, so I feel I'm going to try to do more recording. I'm also incubating a new forum-wide "game" right now that might put the spurs to a bunch of us in that regard, but it's going to be way different from Game of Toanz, and there won't even be a boss of the game... well, the participants are, I guess.

Anyway, the song concept is dark in kind of a fun way and maybe hits a certain zeitgest, so I pooped it out so everyone can admire the stank, and put it in the applicable forum section. Is it wrong of me to drop it here too? Just ignore if you've suffered through it already keep scrolling.
There are a couple of unnecessary F-bombs in it, so if you have sensitive ears I don't want to hurt your feelings.

https://soundcloud.com/id%3Dtvvoodoo%252Fgo-bag%3Btrack_id%3D1640376003

Oh and member @Sapient did a beefier mix of it, in the original Concert Hall "members performances" thread.
 
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