(Don't Fear) TVvoodoo's Insanitarium

[rrobbone]

Complete with Barry White referring to himself in the third person. How do you get better than that?

Man, I gots ta step up my product photo game. You got it down.

[UrenragK]

There's 2 Shock & Awe 72's?

[TVvoodoo]

Dark times call for dark measures. Get it just in time for Hallowe'en




Set of two, one "normal" version, the other a Hack 'n Slash version. Might hack and slash the normal one two, if the wounded one sells first.
Still working on how to get 'em to spew green vomit on anyone attempting to exorcise the inner demons. The power of Christ compels thee!
As a kid one of my pastimes for a was trying to mimic Hollywood horror effects. Anyone else remember Fangoria Magazine? Good times!

Also, "Warhorse" flexes and belittles factory straps until they cry. Chadpower forever!



Coming soon..."The Huntsman" - outdoorsy class, elegance, sort of a Browning Rifle-wear sort of theme, but without the camo

[Chocol8]

The huntsman has a British aristocratic fox hunt vibe. Probably too classy for me to pull off, but dayem I like it!

I would definitely pass on the blood oozing strap. Wouldn’t want to give my wife any ideas.

[TVvoodoo]

Been a bit slower in the lab this week, but I did get a few done, here's "Opry" guaranteed to tighten up your nasal twang and speed your yodelling power by 32%



"Heaviest Metal" is ongoing, but coming along nicely - I even made up a Viking Proverb for it, and then totally runed it.



And, much of the week has been spent splitting three cords of mixed poplar, spruce and tamarack. Finished Wednesday, and wore clean through a pair of leather work gloves!



So now that I got my wood in, winters on, battery charged, and the shovel ready, all that doggone prepping for winter got me in the mood for some over-the-top Canadian Content in regards to a new guitar strap series.

New "Canucklehead" series, will be four or five only, in red/black lumberjackin' plaid, warm, strong and long as a Lodgepole Spruce.



Hey, here's an idea! Why not test your Canadianity potential by naming maybe a dozen other rather hoser-ish items the here photo above?
And have a decent day, eh? Beauty!

Bonus shot of my concrete birdbath in the back



Have a great weekend AGF bros

[TVvoodoo]

There's 2 Shock & Awe 72's?

I just saw this... really? you have one and its different than the one in the video?
That's a first! Maybe I got mixed up. that's funny!

[Chocol8]

I think I know who needs a Canucklehead…

[UrenragK]

There's 2 Shock & Awe 72's?

I just saw this... really? you have one and its different than the one in the video?
That's a first! Maybe I got mixed up. that's funny!

Yep, Mine’s not the one in the vid

[nomadh]

New strap thread to pile on.
https://www.mylespaul.com/threads/best- ... 820/page-2

[TVvoodoo]

New strap thread to pile on.
https://www.mylespaul.com/threads/best- ... 820/page-2

Appreciate what you said Damon, you are a great wingman sir! balloted!

[TVvoodoo]

I think I know who needs a Canucklehead…

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Not sure if you know, but Steve Smith, (red green actor) and his wife are accomplished musicians/entertainers... before red green, they had a music/comedy/variety show on canadian TV called Smith & Smith,...

[Chocol8]

Looks like he is using a fairly comfortable strap! Wide but not padded.

[TVvoodoo]

New series I am calling "Licks"



The above strap was airbrushed with red and yellow dye. Non-airbrushed version below.
Theoretically could make the flames in purple, green, blue or whatever a fella wanted, if he was to want something to match



Inspired by the recent ZZ Top Doc



Blackbeard



And, a couple of custom orders recently builded




Desert Stalker coming soon to the store

[tobijohn]

I've got to say, the past several months you've been operating on some kind of ethereal plain of creativity. I'm thinking Santa might be bringing me a couple more straps for Christmas. Decisions, decisions....

[TVvoodoo]

@tobijohn thank you Johnny! Just trying to not be bored, or boring LOL!

[TVvoodoo]

Finally figured out some stuff, and got off my ass on the "Paisley Royale" tele finishing project.



The goal here is a traditional sort of paisley, in pinks, greens, silver glitter... but for maximum cheese and showiness,
finished entirely in teeny-tiny glass gemstones.



A few pics here, but I'll be posting more on F-book if you wish to follow along there





I also had a recent NUGD, and it's a pretty nice one, by my own standards.
Just doing some minor mods to it. Can't play it much... I had an issue with my fretting hand, but it's
improving somewhat, I think another few days can get behind it.

[TVvoodoo]

First off, happy Thanksgiving to my American Brothers and sisters.



Sparkle vid!!!



Also want to give a quick shout-out to my brother Rob over at Vintage Music in Lloydminster, Alberta. I took some wares of what I do over to him last week, he was interested! Actually, the last round he picked up from me, says he done pretty good on 'em, so was kinda eager to look at more. One of the fellows works there talks up the one he bought all the time too, so he tells me. His store is only one of three stores featured my work in person, along with Stang Guitars in Edmonton, and 5 Star music in Cold Lake, Alberta



Anyway, Ol' Robbie had a time picking out some of what I brought, but left four off to the side. Said business was a little slow for him to take any more. That was when I spied a real attractive something-something hanging on the wall way in the back of the store. He also noticed the hypnotic GAS affect it had on me, and well, let's just say I left the store with a Korean Hamer DC sunburst, a small profit and a great big smile. He's gains some unique local handmade stock for Xmas he can make some dough on, everybody happy!

Makes sense to me to give a nice deal to these Mom + Pop fellas, so there's some meat on the bone for them to make a profit. I get a bit more exposure to shopping musicians for my handmade goods. Got too much stock right now anyway, should be paring it down. Anyway, if you are ever in the area, go meet Robert and check out his shop... he's got good taste in gear, leaning towards to the aggressive side, if you know what I mean.

[TVvoodoo]

Got a couple hours on it today. General progress shots.



So far I have not yet suffered the involuntary giggling like a 13 year-old girl, but a slight giddiness has been detected more than once.

Another key concern is probably soon the Tone Police are gonna get wind of this operation.



Probably can expect some guitar forum do-gooder will be squeal on me.... "How can that tonewood even breathe under all those rocks and goop?" He'll exclaim on the National Tone Abuse Hotline

"It's a dang guitar TRAVESTY! He's slowly smothering that poor thing to DEATH! This here is a telecaster outrage and this man MUST BE STOPPED!"

Soon, the battering ram at the door, search and seizure warrant cease / desist order, maybe even the dreaded cuffs and leg-irons.



Frankly right now, I see this as a race against time, but I might just be a little paranoid.

[TVvoodoo]

All the paisley shapes are filled. I'm waiting for my white diamond gems to come in. Thinking about adding some more decor elements to the big paisleys, to "busy" it up a bit more, and... eat up more space so I'll need fewer diamonds. Gonna think on that for a bit though.



Rough sanded and painted the headstock on this spare stratty neck I had kicking around. I'm sure many here will remember the old SX LTD series dipped and coated in that much-loved thick orange goop ? Yep, one of those. It's not one one of the extreme flame versions, unfortunately. Can't hardly remember how I got it. I'll need to scotchbrite the backside, but it's gonna to be kind of cool on this body. Just did a quick paint coat with a small brush. Too damn cold to spray up here now. Good 'nough.



Then, I sort of designed a logo for it, playing around with extra waterslide paper. Back when I was more serious about refinishing guitars, making logos for other folks on AGF and other places, I bought like fifty sheets of this waterslide paper. Anyway, over the past number of years I've somehow forgotten the super secret proper print settings so I've been having trouble getting a good crisp ink drop on the substrate. Could be my printer is getting pretty long in the tooth. At one time I had it all down. Maybe I took notes somewhere, should look for that.

Obvs, these look like poo resolution wise, but certainly good enough for sizing/placement purposes. I'll get it figured out soon enough. Still got a lot of gems to place here anyways. The "fun" part is going to be getting a level surface where I want to drop waterslides. That might take some doing, but it has to be. Placing gems around the post washers is a super PITA. Don't get me started.



Dug through my parts drawer and came up with a rogue set of gold string trees I think I ordered once by accident, so... BONUS! Already picked up a gold neck plate last year with the pickguard. Mixing gold and nickel hardware will be fun I think. I took care to add some brassy gems into the paisley design to play off the saddles on the frontside of the guitar



Now considering staining the sides and back sort of a darker trans red, leaning a bit towards magenta maybe. That's a ways off though.

You know, placing these tiny gems is kind of like basket-weaving or, maybe knitting or something. Somehow bit therapeutic. Put on some good tunes, crack a beer and just go at 'er. A supportive fellow asked me on another forum about how all these stones, and the UV glue might affect tone, and if it will probably create any kind of controversy. Like I asked him, have YOU ever heard of the magic of vibrating crystals? Yeah, I think you have. Freaky-deaky stuff.

Could be when this is thing is done, may have to make myself a special kind of strap to keep it from gettin' away from me what with a whole bunch of potential paranormal frequency waves shooting out of 'er. Just a theory in my head anyway. You can be damn sure I'm going to be super careful when I first plug it in. I'm not crazy-foolish enough to not be wary about messing with the supernatural. Best be prepared for something unexpected things happening, might open up some sort of portal to lord-knows-where, sterilize my nuts, or something worse.

Matrika custom strap sent out this morning. I don't make them in the hootenanny style much anymore, but this was by special request.

Also going to we working on a new custom ACE of Spades custom tooling job starting Monday for a super sexy Dean V.
Anyone looking to be Well-Hung for Christmas, probably should get in touch soon, I'd love to hear from you.

[TVvoodoo]

Working on a project for a forum brother today, which makes this post extra fun!
Leather was cut yesterday, and "cased" overnight.... (moisturized) This is the first strap out of a brand new vegtan hide I purchased
a month or so ago... I can say that is it taking impressions superbly! Not all hides are equal.



Sorry for blurry pic... this is along the sides of the back and of the strap where the adjustment slots will go...
I call this kind of stuff "Cowboy border" stamping, it adds nice texture / interest in the end product



Grey is a funny colour to make with vegtan... because the underlying colour is not white but more skin colour, so it's kind of touchy.

This is after three applications of very diluted black dye. I stopped here, because it will get darker with the leather finish and didn't
want it to end up no contrast. I hope I didn't go too far! The step before this, it was still a little pinky brown.



I'm more worried about the jagged stripe here, not the spades which will be black in the end.
Also for the first time in this series, I did skullz on the tail strap, see how that looks in the end.

Also over the weekend I made three different design straps out of something I call "Loserhide."
If you remember the 80's patch leather, it's quite awesome to work with, feels great, and I think it looks super retro/awesome.
These straps turned out really great.



We have a "Small Time Loser" which is a 2.5" wide long hootenanny style strap (far right)
"Typical Average Loser" which is based on my most common strap design (far left)
and "Major Loser" which is in the style of higher end straps, but with a double D-ring adustment, (middle).

I am going to give all three of these beauties away early in the New Year with my annual Well-Hung Endorserment Draw.
If you purchased a Well-Hung strap from me, this past year, or even before then, you may have earned a ballot in the draw.

Instructions on how to get ballots were provided with the strap you purchased.
You still have time to get in the draw! AGF people always figure in the winners because you have most of my straps!
So far not that many ballots in it this year, so my suggestion is get at it before the end of December if you would like to win a Well-Hung strap or other cool swag I will be giving away.

[TVvoodoo]

Got Ace of Spades #5 dyed, and painted the skulls metallic silver.
Will be adding padding, lining, final finishing today



Also Shock & Awe #81 is out of basic and ready for deployment. Can you believe I'm at #81?
I think the first fifteen or so weren't even numbered.



The Christmas Season is upon us, got the lights up outside, tree up in the living room.
May good spirits be plentiful in your household through the holidays

[redman]

I've got to say, the past several months you've been operating on some kind of ethereal plain of creativity. I'm thinking Santa might be bringing me a couple more straps for Christmas. Decisions, decisions....

I've got to buy two more straps myself @tobijohn but I'm going to wait until the first of next year, The trouble with these straps is that when you buy your 1st one nothing else will do you.

[TVvoodoo]

Got some great photos in!

Welcoming a new Shock & Awe Militia Member "Patsy" slinging a superhot Schecter Cali Custom Elite. It's an unfortunate squad name the militia voted on, but Matt C., (the C standing for Cline, well, it is what it is).



Marcus on TGP showed off his sweet pair of Well-Hungs too, just recently picking up the 1969 series Paisley



And Jack is building quite the collection himself, already owning one of those, but recently grabbed the awesome 2X4 leather weave in the middle
No idea how it stuck in the store so long. Just after he bought it, I picked up the perfect guitar for it myself. Way she goes, b'yes. Way she goes.



Not resting on the laurels of what came and went in so far 2021, we are ending the year with some interesting Reverb additions.

The brand new, short run " Truckin' " series is made of heavy duty truck seat covers, in a tweedy saddle blanket material. These will match pretty much any guitar, and the racing stripe is suggested to add up to 27% more speed to your wheedly-wheedlies. I was able to make four of these.



Also new in store is 1969 one-off "Suspicious Minds" in a steely/pelham blue and black leather.



And finally, love / hate, laugh at, or with the dude, the fully customizable Romeo Rose signature is now available.

My hope for all my guitarist friends in 2022 is you will in no way to end up as a LARPing human trainwreck like Romeo, unless you actively wish to pursue that end. But I also fully understand Rock Stars just gotta Rock Star, it's what they do. Damn the torpedoes, suffer the shame, regret and possible jail time later. There are many roads to fame and/or infamy, I suggest musicianship, hard work and ethical behavior, but a strap with your name carved into it probably can't hurt you either way. Plus, there's a good chance it'll never get stole on you, and if you have any trouble remembering your name on stage, this will help A LOT.



Pick me to make yours in the text and leather colours, font, and border style your choice, just so you don't actually find yourself getting confused with the notorious Romeo Rose. You don't want that.

[TVvoodoo]

Recent NUGD. For a number of years I've been wanting some sort of warm burst guitar for strap modeling, and have had my eyes on Hamer DC's.
Well opportunity knocked, and I got a new strap model! But not only that, after having it for a couple months now, I do believe it is giving my number one a run for it's money, and I haven't even taken the time to do a nice set up on it yet. Soon, probably this week. A 2002-ish, I believe, MIK. Just a nicely balanced instrument, comfy neck, that feels like I should have paid double what I did.



As far as straps go, I wanted to start 2022 with a ROAR! First in the Well-Hung Reverb Strapateria will be "Baby Leo," a fresh one outta my Wild Things series I think this is possibly the first-ever leopard print floating pad strap available, which should be of interest to all you guitar safari wildmen out there.



Here you got realistically printed hair-on cowhide, good 'n sturdy with a mini leopard print. Plus my own design where the strap goes THROUGH the pad, for a way sleeker look and feel, with extra grip so it don't slide all around on you. In no way resembling fakey fun fur, this hide is as convincing as probably legally gettable.



Easy-to-adjust back buckle, range from about 46" all the way to a whopping 62" \m/ Ultra cool, unique, comfy and sturdy too! I made two with black leather ends, two with saddle brown. Many more pics / info on Reverb.



Get 'em while they's hot early in 2022.

V * V * V * V - Reverb Link Below - V * V * V * V

[ILuvTeles]

Nice looking guitar model! The switch placement caught my eye, don't think I have seen that before.