Planning First Guitar Strap

[chancey77]

I don't dye the backsides. The Dyes I use don't seep through. I use R.O.C dyes NOT FEIBINGS!

Also DO NOT put foam in there it gets sweaty and starts to grow a super funk inside! Then it will really start to stink! Guitars are not so heavy that they need a foam on the inside. I always HATED big fat padded straps...... add the sweat funk smell into the mix and it just really sucks!

Edited December 28, 2012 by chancey77

[IngleGunLeather]

For lining I use a 2/3 very soft veg tan from Springfield Leather, I also use his 2/3 pigskin. What I like about lining with Veg is that it burnishes. I tried suede and it burnished.......okay I guess. But not like veg tan. Also being a guitar player for many years, I prefer my strap to slide, so suede is not my choice of lining. But then again you do what the customer wants. If you use suede, burnish with paraffin only, this seems to work well. Try a sample piece all glued together before you attempt the strap.

Very good info to know. Never tried anything with suede, just saw it was highly advertised by some of the big names. I'd prefer veg tan for the ability to burnish then. I just started playing myself. I learned 3 chords today. Woohoo!

[Bluesman]

Very good info to know. Never tried anything with suede, just saw it was highly advertised by some of the big names. I'd prefer veg tan for the ability to burnish then. I just started playing myself. I learned 3 chords today. Woohoo!

Keep playing and learning. Music is wonderful therapy. And when you get frustrated, several months down the road, try this. Turn the guitar around and try to play with the opposite hand. Can't do it ............eh. Well that's where you were when you started. So you can see your own improvement, even though it is small.

[IngleGunLeather]

Keep playing and learning. Music is wonderful therapy. And when you get frustrated, several months down the road, try this. Turn the guitar around and try to play with the opposite hand. Can't do it ............eh. Well that's where you were when you started. So you can see your own improvement, even though it is small.

Haha. That's awesome. I love music, especially blues and old school country.

[Bluesman]

Haha. That's awesome. I love music, especially blues and old school country.

Learn the C major which also A minor Pena tonic scales. Play a C chord over the pattern that start on the 5th fret, then play an Am over the same pattern. Works....eh. These patterns give you the functional building blocks for all blues and country licks. Blues is minor and country is major. Unless your BB King who mixes the two. Listen to one of his tunes. When the song sounds sad he's playing minor scales. then it gets happy.....boom Major scales. Practice the 5th fret position until you can't stand it anymore. Play so slow that you wouldn't let your friends hear you play. Then add some bends, pull offs and add your own style. before you know it you be rockin' Hint, move the same pattern to the 12th fret and you got E minor and G Major. Here's a link

http://www.i-love-guitar.com/pentatonic-guitar-scales.html

[chancey77]

http://www.i-love-gu...tar-scales.html

THAT IS GOOD STUFF!!!!