WIDE guitar strap

[TomSwede]

I got totally free hands with this one. It was ordered by end users mom for his birthday. She couldn't provide me much info his prefs so had to guess on dimensions and such. It is 4"+ wide (12 cm). Tha adjusting strap has some additional trickery with a neat but not so fast adjustment by string solution and blinged with a Tandy iron cross/skull concho. I made one row with the triweave stamp wich gives almost a little spine structure I think and brushed off my old tecnique with antique color on a red bottom. This time I decided to try it with eco-flo black antique and previously I use Tandys mahogany for this effect. Sealed with some leathersheen from Fiebings. The main strap is Fiebings pro oil black with a rich coat of Fiebings Aussie leather conditioner and two topcoats of Fiebings leather balm. It's the first time I try both techniques on the same item but think it works fine since I clearly wanted the smaller strap to complement the main strap in it's own style. Owner loved it...phew. Just gunna replace the adjustment strap with a longer one, apperently he likes to play the guitar on his knees!!!

What else?? Dunno...just too darn tired..oh I had a hard time to keep it totally free from scratches...soo big and had to flip it over several times, punching lots of holes, measuring, setting eyelets...phew. Lowered the price some to compensate for it. There are some really big scratches to the side of adjustment strap...those are big scars. I love scerred leather, makes it look like the live material it is and with heavy metal customers you won't hear many complaints abut it..promise!!!

The skull was painted with diluted black dye to create shadows. Very hard to get it even.

Comment and criticize...The best way to learn!!!

Thanks for looking!

Tom

Edited December 8, 2009 by TomSwede

[Storm]

Very nice Tommy..... your carving is really looking very good. Love the skull!!

Storm

[ClayB]

That's pretty awesome looking Tom!! I like the color, and the way the adjusting strap looks and the skull is pretty cool too.

[ETW Grumpy]

That's very cool Tom. The tri weave does give it a spine-ish look.

[TomSwede]

Thank you very much Storm and ClayB!!!!

Glad you liked the skull. I found it in a tattoo flash art magazine and fell in love immedietly. Erik allways has a cap that is similar to this cap and off course long hair and loves skulls so it was just sooo fitting.

Natural leather looks very nice against black. I try to convince my heavy metal brothers to buy this solution instead of white on black but they just go...-no no no!!

Hope this can change some minds. Would save me some agony with acrylics and spare some money on customers pocket (for future orders, lol).

Tom

[TomSwede]

Thanks ETW!!!!

Yeah I thought the tri-weave had a spine-ish look too so perfect for anything with skulls and bones!!!

Tom

[dscott]

great work love the design and the color great job know he will love it

David

[sodapop]

tom

Just gunna replace the adjustment strap with a longer one, apperently he likes to play the guitar on his knees!!!

kinda like johnny ramone or something...he always rocked his guitar hella low...

looks schweeeeet brudda!!

[Luke Hatley]

YOU ARE THE MAN..........FINE WORK..still proud to know you.......

[particle]

Yeah, that's pretty flippin' awesome! Love the coloring on the narrow strap. And the adjustment feature is way cool - nicely done!!