Guitar strap for a friend

[DwightT]

A friend of mine is going through treatment for Multiple Myeloma and having a pretty rough time of it right now.  One of the things that helps him cope is playing the guitar, so I decided to make a new guitar strap for him.  I've seen a couple of other projects on here that used the Sergey Neskromniy dragon scale stamps and I really liked that, so I decided to give that a try here.  Maybe it will help him to slay this particular dragon.

    /dwight

[PastorBob]

Love the dye job and patterning here.  Almost looks like snakeskin.  Nice Job!  Really enjoy stories of folks reaching out to those in need.  Definitely an outreach here.  Praying for your friend.

[Tugadude]

What a nice thing to do for a friend.  I pray he has a full recovery and that the cancer never returns.

[Bert03241]

Beautiful strap your friend will love it. Nice work

[TomE]

Lovely combination of stitches and stamps.  What is the hardware for attaching to the guitar?

[DwightT]

4 hours ago, PastorBob said:

Love the dye job and patterning here.  Almost looks like snakeskin.  Nice Job!  Really enjoy stories of folks reaching out to those in need.  Definitely an outreach here.  Praying for your friend.

Thanks.  I was going for a dragon skin look.  I had actually considered stamping the 'skin' on a separate piece of leather, then doing an actual inlay.  But I decided that would have made the strap too heavy and stiff to be useful, so I went with the faux inlay look instead.  Still need to work on that technique some more to really pull it off.

4 hours ago, Tugadude said:

What a nice thing to do for a friend.  I pray he has a full recovery and that the cancer never returns.

Thanks.  Dealing with cancer can really suck.

 

3 hours ago, Bert03241 said:

Beautiful strap your friend will love it. Nice work

Thank you.

3 minutes ago, TomE said:

Lovely combination of stitches and stamps.  What is the hardware for attaching to the guitar?

Those are "Ernie Ball" strap locks: https://www.ernieball.com/guitar-accessories/strap-locks#

He uses those on his current strap, so I got him a set for this strap too so that he can easily switch between straps if he wants.

    /dwight

[GrampaJoel]

Very attractive!
It look nice and  light. 
I never have cared for heavy guitar straps adding to the weight on the shoulder.

I hope your friend makes a complete recovery.

[Hags]

Nice work. 

[Fraulein]

Woah that's incredible work! The faux inlay is genius and very well executed. I hope it brightens your friends life. Sending thoughts and prayers his way.

[DwightT]

18 hours ago, GrampaJoel said:

Very attractive!
It look nice and  light. 
I never have cared for heavy guitar straps adding to the weight on the shoulder.

I hope your friend makes a complete recovery.

Thanks.  Just for grins I went and weighed it.  With the strap locks it comes in at 8.3 oz.  I'm not a guitar player so I have no idea if that is heavy or not, but doesn't seem too bad to me.

16 hours ago, Hags said:

Nice work. 

Thank you.

12 hours ago, Fraulein said:

Woah that's incredible work! The faux inlay is genius and very well executed. I hope it brightens your friends life. Sending thoughts and prayers his way.

Thanks.  The faux part is OK, but I've seen better.  Next time I think I'll need to make the beveling deeper between the border and the "inlay".

    /dwight