You can’t handle the truth of these straps: https://www.alligatorjakes.com/guitar-straps/
Show us them sexy straps!
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JohnnyThul
Tele-Meister
I love straps! Lighting is bad today, but here is a selection that may qualify as being sexy
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bettyseldest
Friend of Leo's
I suppose that with fewer posts the DPP guitar might have been finished a few months earlier.I factored in typing time
Or maybe never!
Fiesta Red
Poster Extraordinaire
I bought the strap at Guitar Center 25 years ago…added the Schaller strap locks and conchos (?) shortly thereafter.
Understated with an element of Yee-Haw…kinda like me!
Let’s go with Blue on Black - Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Great song. I really had to look hard to see what I was looking at! I need another black Strat.
Are they mounted with a backing plate? They look cool, the conchos. Great looking Tele btw; I bet the P-90 sounds great. And you’re one of the few who leaves the ash tray on, or was that done for the pic?
Fiesta Red
Poster Extraordinaire
The conchos are mounted with a flathead screw in the back—hole punched in the leather strap and hardware installed, a dot of Loktite works fine.
The P-90 is fantabulous…it was a cheap Mighty Mite pickup I bought off eBay for $20 a decade and a half ago….I positioned it as far away from the neck as the (humbucker-sized) body routing would allow, to prevent bassy/boomy/muddy tone…this necessitated me cutting the pickguard myself, with a Dremel Tool.
I actually play with the ashtray in place; it works well with my fingerstyle technique…I also play my Stratcaster and Telecaster Deluxe with the (smaller) bridge cover(s) in place.
(Note ashtrays in place on the pics below)
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A friend of mine recently put a mini humbucker in his Tele, and a Twang King in the bridge position because he liked the one I had in my Richie Kotzen. I’m gonna show him what you did because it makes sense to space a hot pickup farther from the neck. Good thinking. Now, I’m gonna resume my search for conchos, because hey, why not?
cdb1961
TDPRI Member
mexicanyella
Friend of Leo's
@JohnnyThul , I really like that dark sort-of-paisley strap in your second pic, and check out that Fire(bird)caster with the Tele hardware and Charlie Christian neck pickup! That is wild!
JustABluesGuy
Friend of Leo's
Metal parts on straps look extremely cool, but have always scared me. I can’t help but picture them banging around on the guitar’s finish!
Chicago Matt
Friend of Leo's
Yes, they are a great value IMO. On Amazon (model is G-118) for $35.95. I have them for 3 of my guitars and bought the first several years back. The padding is what sold me. Very comfortable and they look great too.
JohnnyThul
Tele-Meister
That strap is of a German company calles Steyner. They just started a few years ago and have excellent quality and design, highly recommended.
That Telebird/Firecaster was just an experimental build I made to try out a few things.I had the neck and pickups lying around and decided to build a body for it and then it kind of went a little crazy with maple and ebony, epoxy resin and binding....
teletimetx
Doctor of Teleocity
...actually, what I can't handle is $250-$400 for a guitar strap, but they do look pretty good...
Frisco 57
Tele-Holic
It's kind of a mixed message but I've had this one for many years and used it on many guitars.
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Frisco 57
Tele-Holic
Years ago I found this lady's dress buckle in a tin of old buttons. I gave the buckle to leather crafter friend and he made this strap for my acoustic. You can see from the leather, it was more than a couple of years ago!
