GrooVey
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These are looking rich. Classy.
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TVvoodoo
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Victoria Day Weekend up here. She ruled the British Empire for 60 years, had nine children and survived 8 assassination attempts.
Completely unrelated, this is my version of a simple little guitar security gadget many my age remember fondly.
Mike had never purchased anything from me before... but took a leap of faith ordering 16 pairs, eight in black, eight in various browns. Cleaned me out of the special hardware I keep on hand for these Old School Leather strap locks.
This weekend working on a belated spring cleaning of the shop. But early next week expect to see these completed, in the store
The fun in these is the open-endedness. What will they caution others against? Depends on the day, amirite?
This weekend we also get to celebrate another Well-Hung workingman guitarist...
Carlos just recently found me and is spreading the word. I LOVE when all you unsung guitar heroes send me great pics, though I did heavily doctor this one. Fun!
Completely unrelated, this is my version of a simple little guitar security gadget many my age remember fondly.
Mike had never purchased anything from me before... but took a leap of faith ordering 16 pairs, eight in black, eight in various browns. Cleaned me out of the special hardware I keep on hand for these Old School Leather strap locks.
This weekend working on a belated spring cleaning of the shop. But early next week expect to see these completed, in the store
The fun in these is the open-endedness. What will they caution others against? Depends on the day, amirite?
This weekend we also get to celebrate another Well-Hung workingman guitarist...
Carlos just recently found me and is spreading the word. I LOVE when all you unsung guitar heroes send me great pics, though I did heavily doctor this one. Fun!
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
New in the shop today, as promised... "Fair Warning"
There's two of them, reduced from my typical strap price as the main body is a nice auto vinyl that's a leather fooler, the nose, ladder and tail sections are reinforced cowhide. these go approx 44-60 and one think I should caution about them is they are so luxuriously padded, you may find yourself wondering why you have any other brand of strap in your stable!
Also new today... Another Stage King... "Pomegranite" just trying stuff.. this is a one-off. I like it! May be more in the pipeline later on. 3" wide hootenanny strap. built on a reinforced soft corduroy base. Heavy hardware, and padded too. 43"-60" plus works on these.
It's nice to add some colour to the store once in awhile!
There's two of them, reduced from my typical strap price as the main body is a nice auto vinyl that's a leather fooler, the nose, ladder and tail sections are reinforced cowhide. these go approx 44-60 and one think I should caution about them is they are so luxuriously padded, you may find yourself wondering why you have any other brand of strap in your stable!
Also new today... Another Stage King... "Pomegranite" just trying stuff.. this is a one-off. I like it! May be more in the pipeline later on. 3" wide hootenanny strap. built on a reinforced soft corduroy base. Heavy hardware, and padded too. 43"-60" plus works on these.
It's nice to add some colour to the store once in awhile!
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TVvoodoo
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Something new in the store I've been working on for a couple days here, called "Shred." Is this something you can do? I can noodle a pentatronic lick or three, but my skills fall short of anything anybody here'd even generously label as "shred."
But this leather came to me looking like it was put through a farm combine, spat out the back, jumped on for a while by a couple of hired-hands in heavy boots. Then, just for the Hell of it, ran through the combine for a second time. It's pretty awesome!
I get at least dozen asks a year for "distressed" leather, as if the Well-Hung custom shop (LOL!) has a whole lot of time for putting full leather hides through my uncle George's combine. It's a valid look, but I've tried to age leather with less than satisfactory results. The factories have ways.
Look at this beautiful natural honey colour! It's as if it was made to match both natural maple or baked maple necks. These neutral tones are going to look at home on most any guitar I can think of.
I made four of these, and I think they are some of the best straps I've made so far this year. Luxury padded, approx 42"-58" for length. Really good strong dark brown oil-tanned leather, nose tail and ladder. Wondering what I've been going on about for years here? Maybe you've been waiting for a proper, practical versatile Well-Hung strap for your guitarsenal, this would be a great first choice!
Now in the reverb store, which by the way now has over TWO HUNDRED listings! Happy hump day!
But this leather came to me looking like it was put through a farm combine, spat out the back, jumped on for a while by a couple of hired-hands in heavy boots. Then, just for the Hell of it, ran through the combine for a second time. It's pretty awesome!
I get at least dozen asks a year for "distressed" leather, as if the Well-Hung custom shop (LOL!) has a whole lot of time for putting full leather hides through my uncle George's combine. It's a valid look, but I've tried to age leather with less than satisfactory results. The factories have ways.
Look at this beautiful natural honey colour! It's as if it was made to match both natural maple or baked maple necks. These neutral tones are going to look at home on most any guitar I can think of.
I made four of these, and I think they are some of the best straps I've made so far this year. Luxury padded, approx 42"-58" for length. Really good strong dark brown oil-tanned leather, nose tail and ladder. Wondering what I've been going on about for years here? Maybe you've been waiting for a proper, practical versatile Well-Hung strap for your guitarsenal, this would be a great first choice!
Now in the reverb store, which by the way now has over TWO HUNDRED listings! Happy hump day!
GrooVey
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TVvoodoo
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@GrooVey you keep talking like that and I too will end up hiring a bunch of pissy lawyers and going after everyone who
copies well-hung. Oh wait, there's too much work in what I do... BIG strap doesn't have the stomach for it.
Happy Friday Warriors! It's finally greening up around these northern parts we have about another week afore the
mosquitos assert their territorial rights
New in the shop as of this morning a rare-ish black strap from the Well-Hung StrapLab.
"Ostrichized" is beautiful embossed cowhide in semi-gloss black. So much texture!
I got this hide in from Greece, very near Italian leather quality.
If there is one leather type that allows one to exude the whole "wealth 'n taste" vibe, it's a Well-Hung ostrich.
Pleased to meet you... hope you guessed my name... 'cause strappin' you is the naycher of my ga-ame!
One thing I like to do with my reverb store shots is show a pic from further off.... gives you an idea how it's going to read from further off.
These things are important. Just another thing I do different than the rest.
Speaking of ridiculously cool and un-boring black guitar straps, Steve picked up one of my Basket Case units, yet again pleased to the brim.
Honestly? Everybody needs a black leather strap in the guitarsenal. But if you're gonna get one, why not one that's wide, padded and has a little something extra visually over all the others?
Well-Hung is the way!
copies well-hung. Oh wait, there's too much work in what I do... BIG strap doesn't have the stomach for it.
Happy Friday Warriors! It's finally greening up around these northern parts we have about another week afore the
mosquitos assert their territorial rights
New in the shop as of this morning a rare-ish black strap from the Well-Hung StrapLab.
"Ostrichized" is beautiful embossed cowhide in semi-gloss black. So much texture!
I got this hide in from Greece, very near Italian leather quality.
If there is one leather type that allows one to exude the whole "wealth 'n taste" vibe, it's a Well-Hung ostrich.
Pleased to meet you... hope you guessed my name... 'cause strappin' you is the naycher of my ga-ame!
One thing I like to do with my reverb store shots is show a pic from further off.... gives you an idea how it's going to read from further off.
These things are important. Just another thing I do different than the rest.
Speaking of ridiculously cool and un-boring black guitar straps, Steve picked up one of my Basket Case units, yet again pleased to the brim.
Honestly? Everybody needs a black leather strap in the guitarsenal. But if you're gonna get one, why not one that's wide, padded and has a little something extra visually over all the others?
Well-Hung is the way!
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Meet Hunter, he's a local kid, a guitar phenom I'm told, and you can probably guess his personal guitar hero, just by his guitar choice. That's his dad on the right. Hunter got a W-H custom tooled strap for Christmas, see that a number of pages back. Now, it's dads turn.
Mom contacted me last week, told me pop is a forest fire fighter, has a nice Takamine acoustic, and needs a strap. She had a great idea of trying to create a forest fire type scene for his strap.
So, over the weekend we discussed and came up with something like this... Jacknife is the surname, rather large area family, well-known for business pursuits as well. Anyway, she liked the idea, and that's the goal here ,something along these lines. Never turns out exactly like the pitch mockup but it gives the general idea.
From the last time I learned if I'm going to do a burst type effect, it's better to try to get the meat of the burst FIRST before tooling, so that's what I did here again. At least with the black edges. I'm learning some tricks in my old age. Added a fallen tree just to make the front different than the scene on the back
After a whole bunch of tappedy-tap, I punched in the name with letter stamps. This is a stage where I gotta be careful with the spelling, or getting letters the right way up. I've caught myself several times having it wrong before committing.
Once all the lettering was done, I completed the dye burst with red, and more yellow to get orangy red, blending everything together with some real elbow grease. Looking pretty hot. If you hold your hands over it for too long, it's so intense you can actually feel it! LOL!
I'm letting this dry and will oil it before bed, buff it out then complete the black dye tomorrow painting it in with a brush.
It's a fair bit darker, than the pitch from the computer... more dramatic I think, and better for that Black-amine! To be continued...
Mom contacted me last week, told me pop is a forest fire fighter, has a nice Takamine acoustic, and needs a strap. She had a great idea of trying to create a forest fire type scene for his strap.
So, over the weekend we discussed and came up with something like this... Jacknife is the surname, rather large area family, well-known for business pursuits as well. Anyway, she liked the idea, and that's the goal here ,something along these lines. Never turns out exactly like the pitch mockup but it gives the general idea.
From the last time I learned if I'm going to do a burst type effect, it's better to try to get the meat of the burst FIRST before tooling, so that's what I did here again. At least with the black edges. I'm learning some tricks in my old age. Added a fallen tree just to make the front different than the scene on the back
After a whole bunch of tappedy-tap, I punched in the name with letter stamps. This is a stage where I gotta be careful with the spelling, or getting letters the right way up. I've caught myself several times having it wrong before committing.
Once all the lettering was done, I completed the dye burst with red, and more yellow to get orangy red, blending everything together with some real elbow grease. Looking pretty hot. If you hold your hands over it for too long, it's so intense you can actually feel it! LOL!
I'm letting this dry and will oil it before bed, buff it out then complete the black dye tomorrow painting it in with a brush.
It's a fair bit darker, than the pitch from the computer... more dramatic I think, and better for that Black-amine! To be continued...
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TVvoodoo
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Work continued on "Blaze" today...
dyed the surname stamped letters with dye and a brush. This is kind of stressful. one false move and YUCK!
Pick the wrong brush and the black spatters. Sometimes I'll put masking tape down as a bit of a safety, today I was feelin' lucky!
After I dyed the letters, it hit me it'd be fun and unique to try to give them "charcoal" texture with a modelling tool.
they're black, give them a reason to be! Just by pressing in real hard - small details add to the sum total.
There's a few small little errors, nothing that's going to be of any big consequence. This is an extreme close up! Y'know, tomorrow my personal odometer turns the big six-oh! I can feel I'm getting a tad shakier every year. Probably should start playing it safer a little more often.
Here it is after oiling with neatsfoot and buffed out - the oil helped blend the colour gradient. Not looking quite as hot as it was yesterday.
Still diggin' it
I elected to go over the trees one more time with the brushed dye after this photo. Yay! More stress! I'm letting that set for a few hours, oil and buff one more time after dinner, then first clearcoat goes on tonight before I hit the sack. get a few on tomorrow if I start early, sew tomorrow night, deliver Thursday - kind of a rush job. don't like 'em, it is what it is.
In between waiting for dye to dry and oil to soak in, I also completed a couple of new Snakies!
Passionate purposeful papa persistently prepared a proper pair of plucky purple pythons!
These are a bit less wide, at 2-3/4, and are VERY long. They start at 46 inches, go as long as 60.
Medium padded. They'll be in the store tonight if you are interested.
dyed the surname stamped letters with dye and a brush. This is kind of stressful. one false move and YUCK!
Pick the wrong brush and the black spatters. Sometimes I'll put masking tape down as a bit of a safety, today I was feelin' lucky!
After I dyed the letters, it hit me it'd be fun and unique to try to give them "charcoal" texture with a modelling tool.
they're black, give them a reason to be! Just by pressing in real hard - small details add to the sum total.
There's a few small little errors, nothing that's going to be of any big consequence. This is an extreme close up! Y'know, tomorrow my personal odometer turns the big six-oh! I can feel I'm getting a tad shakier every year. Probably should start playing it safer a little more often.
Here it is after oiling with neatsfoot and buffed out - the oil helped blend the colour gradient. Not looking quite as hot as it was yesterday.
Still diggin' it
I elected to go over the trees one more time with the brushed dye after this photo. Yay! More stress! I'm letting that set for a few hours, oil and buff one more time after dinner, then first clearcoat goes on tonight before I hit the sack. get a few on tomorrow if I start early, sew tomorrow night, deliver Thursday - kind of a rush job. don't like 'em, it is what it is.
In between waiting for dye to dry and oil to soak in, I also completed a couple of new Snakies!
Passionate purposeful papa persistently prepared a proper pair of plucky purple pythons!
These are a bit less wide, at 2-3/4, and are VERY long. They start at 46 inches, go as long as 60.
Medium padded. They'll be in the store tonight if you are interested.
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Old TTR friend Iron1 is now rockin' a few Well-Hung slings, after @LiveeviL2000 generously gifted him one a few years ago. This is him wearing his new "Crusader" during a recent big showcase gig his band put on... haven't seen much of him around these parts anymore, and he feels pictures are quite enough to tell the story
Pictures like that are GREAT, but sometimes some words are good too! Zach was one of my very first customers, even before I re-named my company Well-Hung, back around 2014. Used to be "Strap ATTACK!" It's real nice to hear back from the OG Warriors the things I built even over a decade ago are still going strong. He's a gigger too, not a bedroom warrior. This review came in last week.
Also, again another repeat customer... Dionisio in Colorado just recently found me. His experience shows even though my straps may seem to be priced a bit higher than many competitors, it doesn't take very long for customer/users to realize the "value for the money" proposition is solid.
And finally, (I promise no more today after this), this one came in just this morning...
New in the store is an experimental build sort of, but for a long-neglected series that at one point in time say six or seven years ago was a serious portion of my whole bread and butter! The return of "Brad's Paisleys" with a set of three called "Outtasite!"
How is it experimental? Mosey on into the Well-Hung store on Reverb to peruse the listing and it's all detailed right there. The result was a very light, and just slightly flexy strap, with all the paisley grooviness one could expect... in a strikingly detailed earthtoned scheme.
I made three of these, 3" wide, lightly padded, 38"-56" - Browns, olive green, fiesta red, tans.
Pictures like that are GREAT, but sometimes some words are good too! Zach was one of my very first customers, even before I re-named my company Well-Hung, back around 2014. Used to be "Strap ATTACK!" It's real nice to hear back from the OG Warriors the things I built even over a decade ago are still going strong. He's a gigger too, not a bedroom warrior. This review came in last week.
Also, again another repeat customer... Dionisio in Colorado just recently found me. His experience shows even though my straps may seem to be priced a bit higher than many competitors, it doesn't take very long for customer/users to realize the "value for the money" proposition is solid.
And finally, (I promise no more today after this), this one came in just this morning...
New in the store is an experimental build sort of, but for a long-neglected series that at one point in time say six or seven years ago was a serious portion of my whole bread and butter! The return of "Brad's Paisleys" with a set of three called "Outtasite!"
How is it experimental? Mosey on into the Well-Hung store on Reverb to peruse the listing and it's all detailed right there. The result was a very light, and just slightly flexy strap, with all the paisley grooviness one could expect... in a strikingly detailed earthtoned scheme.
I made three of these, 3" wide, lightly padded, 38"-56" - Browns, olive green, fiesta red, tans.
Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
First real shots with the Paul Stanley strap.
Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
It does. Outta focus but check out the bling! I love it!
GrooVey
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Love me some bling!
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TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
Amazing photos @Jethro Rocker was that from the big North Battleford gig you were talking about? Some video would have been cooolllll! Didn't built one strap today, but my hands and brain were busy on occupation health and safety!
For years I've been thinking I need to do something better with the StrapLab ventilation situation. I use a fair bit of contact cement, and I couldn't find anything that did what I needed it to do better. My dear wife has also been ridin' on me smarten up. It gets fair fumey in here. So, this year my b-day gift to myself was to get serious and address the issue.
We thought about changing out the basement window near my bench (it doesn't open) and rigging up some sort of fan system but I felt in the end while it would likely work ok, I didn't want to have to crack a window all winter, and some kind of strange hose-to-the-window system rigged up to it - I figured there's plenty of home ventilation products already available, just needed to figure out how to rig it.
I looked up into the joists above my basement bench, and saw a pretty clear path of seven feet or so straight to the outside... only problem was, the main fluorescent light above my bench needed to be moved as well as a 6" heat duct needed to be shorted by about three feet. Took a bit of figuring, but in the end, with the help of a trip to Home Despot for a 120 CFM bathroom fan, some insulated vent hose, a Wal-Mart collapsable wire and nylon laundry basket, plus various bits and pieces I'd stashed here in a largish electrical pack-rat box. but, in the end I think I figured out a pretty cool system.
The laundry basket below is inverted of course, I cut a square hole in the bottom so the fan fascia holds it secure and tight to the ceiling tile.
Hanging down, it ends up about eight or nine inches below my mouth and nose, effectively collecting the terrible vapors emitted from from both myself and my glue pot and pieces I'm working on before I can even get a whiff! And it's flexible too, so I'm not gonna be banging my head on it and seeing stars.
Had to move my main worklight to the side of a 7" bulkhead over the bench, and tied the fan to the same circuit but with a on/off switch right nearby, so I can coveniently and quickly activate the aeration suckification
And when I don't need the "collection hood" working, because it's spring-loaded, I can simply lift up
the sides and they hook high up top, so it's quickly and completely out of my way, and real easy drop it down when needed. It's probably not gonna stay pure white for too long though
You can see my previous sad attempt at shop ventilation behind, with the simple fan on the board. While it kinda/sorta worked, this new system is twenty times better. Hopefully over time this shop addition will give me a fair number more years at it before my brain damage gets any worse.
Anyway, I spent much of the day on this, and pretty pleased on how it worked out. Tomorrow will be the first real test.
For years I've been thinking I need to do something better with the StrapLab ventilation situation. I use a fair bit of contact cement, and I couldn't find anything that did what I needed it to do better. My dear wife has also been ridin' on me smarten up. It gets fair fumey in here. So, this year my b-day gift to myself was to get serious and address the issue.
We thought about changing out the basement window near my bench (it doesn't open) and rigging up some sort of fan system but I felt in the end while it would likely work ok, I didn't want to have to crack a window all winter, and some kind of strange hose-to-the-window system rigged up to it - I figured there's plenty of home ventilation products already available, just needed to figure out how to rig it.
I looked up into the joists above my basement bench, and saw a pretty clear path of seven feet or so straight to the outside... only problem was, the main fluorescent light above my bench needed to be moved as well as a 6" heat duct needed to be shorted by about three feet. Took a bit of figuring, but in the end, with the help of a trip to Home Despot for a 120 CFM bathroom fan, some insulated vent hose, a Wal-Mart collapsable wire and nylon laundry basket, plus various bits and pieces I'd stashed here in a largish electrical pack-rat box. but, in the end I think I figured out a pretty cool system.
The laundry basket below is inverted of course, I cut a square hole in the bottom so the fan fascia holds it secure and tight to the ceiling tile.
Hanging down, it ends up about eight or nine inches below my mouth and nose, effectively collecting the terrible vapors emitted from from both myself and my glue pot and pieces I'm working on before I can even get a whiff! And it's flexible too, so I'm not gonna be banging my head on it and seeing stars.
Had to move my main worklight to the side of a 7" bulkhead over the bench, and tied the fan to the same circuit but with a on/off switch right nearby, so I can coveniently and quickly activate the aeration suckification
And when I don't need the "collection hood" working, because it's spring-loaded, I can simply lift up
the sides and they hook high up top, so it's quickly and completely out of my way, and real easy drop it down when needed. It's probably not gonna stay pure white for too long though
You can see my previous sad attempt at shop ventilation behind, with the simple fan on the board. While it kinda/sorta worked, this new system is twenty times better. Hopefully over time this shop addition will give me a fair number more years at it before my brain damage gets any worse.
Anyway, I spent much of the day on this, and pretty pleased on how it worked out. Tomorrow will be the first real test.
Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
Twas. Video enroute. The 53 sounded friggin great onstage.
GrooVey
Well-Known Member
Outstanding ingenuity!