| Author | Message | ||
| toma_hawk01
Intermediate Member Username: toma_hawk01 Post Number: 150 Registered: 7-2009 |
No doubt here at the club, you will find the most beautifulest guitars on the Web. With all that beauty, what about the straps, which holds those masterpieces? What are your preferences on straps in general? I would love to see all the designs and patterns. (Pictures Please.) | ||
| crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 452 Registered: 6-2004 |
http://alembic.stores.yahoo.net/straps.html | ||
| crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 453 Registered: 6-2004 |
http://stores.myregisteredsite.com/user1410582/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PAS&Product_Code=ACC-3114-OS&Category_Code=STP (Message edited by CRobbins on August 30, 2009) | ||
| crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 454 Registered: 6-2004 |
http://stores.myregisteredsite.com/user1410582/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PAS&Product_Code=ACC-3107-SS&Category_Code=STP | ||
| crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 455 Registered: 6-2004 |
Here's a shot of the PRS Ostrich strap..  | ||
| crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 456 Registered: 6-2004 |
And here is a shot of the PRS Snakeskin stap..  | ||
| toma_hawk01
Intermediate Member Username: toma_hawk01 Post Number: 151 Registered: 7-2009 |
Crag, why do you recommend these straps? Are those the straps you have on your guitar(s)? Please provide some context... (what's the good, bad, and ugly?) Theme, color, studs, leather, cloth, padded, orthopedic etc...? Thank you much. | ||
| toma_hawk01
Intermediate Member Username: toma_hawk01 Post Number: 152 Registered: 7-2009 |
Home made - Unique straps out there? I would love to see them... | ||
| crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 457 Registered: 6-2004 |
Here's the Alembic strap..  | ||
| crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 458 Registered: 6-2004 |
I use the PRS straps on my guitars. They are very well made, and look awesome. I use the wider Alembic strap on my basses. Again very well made, and looks great... I think both of these brands of straps are some of the best ones out there. Imho.... | ||
| toma_hawk01
Intermediate Member Username: toma_hawk01 Post Number: 153 Registered: 7-2009 |
My Alembic "Bridle" or "Leash"... Here's my favorite Strap... custom all the way. I had this strap for 22 years as add medallions from the many places I visited. It's very soft now, but when I got from a leather tannery, this thing hard as a rock. But over the years, it nice on my shoulders. To match, I have these "leather strap locks" to keep metal ways away from wood, and it looks great and very natural too.  | ||
| crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 460 Registered: 6-2004 |
Nice..  | ||
| toma_hawk01
Intermediate Member Username: toma_hawk01 Post Number: 154 Registered: 7-2009 |
I have (2) LM Straps I absolutely love: http://www.lmproducts.com/LS322.htm | ||
| ajdover
Senior Member Username: ajdover Post Number: 739 Registered: 11-2003 |
I use and recommend Moody Straps ... http://www.moodyleather.com/. Alan | ||
| enzo
Intermediate Member Username: enzo Post Number: 114 Registered: 4-2009 |
I have one of these, the quality is excellent and the price is good. Sometimes you'll see great offers like buy one get one free ! http://www.italiastraps.com/ | ||
| toma_hawk01
Intermediate Member Username: toma_hawk01 Post Number: 155 Registered: 7-2009 |
This strap is going on my new Alembic...  http://csernistraps.com/customstraps.html | ||
| terryc
Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1026 Registered: 11-2004 |
toma hawk01..the 'Miles' book in the pic..a good read?? Do you recommend it?? I am halfway thru' Ron Wood's biography, an great read and makes me wish I was born about 10 -15 years earlier and in London!! Comfort strap for me 'cos 93MK weighs too much for my weedy frame but I like the ornamental decoration of your strap. | ||
| toma_hawk01
Intermediate Member Username: toma_hawk01 Post Number: 159 Registered: 7-2009 |
It's honest. It's Miles life as he see it. Miles is a very opinionated person, and this is what makes his book extremely hard to put down. I love it when people are real, and makes no apologies to having an opinion. Miles is no politician, that's for sure. He tell it like it is, weather he's wrong or right. This book is hard hitting on his own personal weaknesses as well, and personal triumphs. So, it pretty balanced. I laughed so hard, and cried with him too. This is one of those books, you can't put down, and before you do, you're halfway done. He goes through a who's who list in music and describes his very personal encounters with everybody and holds back nothing even offensive things about others, nor he was ever ashamed of telling his readers who he loved, couldn't stand... It gets pretty graphic. But what would you expect from Miles Davis anyway? This is not the Autobiography of "Lawrence Welk" by any stretch of your imagination... and he's cool too... I don't blame you on the straps... A light strap is a very good strap (that's for sure...). I have a Short Body and my newer bass is even smaller, so the extra weight of a strap, will not make much of a differences. I completely understand what you mean. I had a huge Omega body S1 in the 80's and it hurt so good... My back was numb after jams, but it sure did sound good. The short body was my answer, and now the New Toma_Hawk is a even better answer because its proportionally smaller than the original small body. But you know how wood is... density plays a huge roll. | ||
| terryc
Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1029 Registered: 11-2004 |
tomahawk01..could you supply ISBN number of the said book if it not too much trouble?? | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 550 Registered: 10-2006 |
Terry, it's 0671635042. Peter | ||
| toma_hawk01
Intermediate Member Username: toma_hawk01 Post Number: 160 Registered: 7-2009 |
I have 0-671-72582-3 $12.95 | ||
| terryc
Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1032 Registered: 11-2004 |
many thanks for that..I will see if I can get it here in the UK(most probably will) | ||
| toma_hawk01
Intermediate Member Username: toma_hawk01 Post Number: 162 Registered: 7-2009 |
You are welcome. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 8682 Registered: 5-2002 |
For what it's worth; I have Milestones by Jack Chambers and can highly recommend it. Relatedly, I also have Kind Of Blue by Ashley Kahn, and highly recommend it as well. | ||
| terryc
Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1033 Registered: 11-2004 |
thanks Dave, will look them up too. Already found toma hawk's book so will be ordering it tonight |
