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today I was driven by my creative engine to head down a different road. Actually, the idea came to me in a dream last night... after almost ten years at this yesterday I realized I'd never attempted the ever-popular lighting bolt motif strap before. Now, it's kind of a thing for me to not just don't like doing what's been done before, unless I can switch it up a bit, make it my very own in a special way.

So... today, right here, right now.... witness the Well-Hung ZAP! in shmexy, glittery Fender grill becoming bornded - She's a little tricky sewing around all those sharp corners, but we got 'er OK.

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Almost as shocking as the old two prong plugs at that rainy gig, or perhaps forgetting to dump those caps before rolling up the sleeves and digging deep under the hood.

Kind of a fun one, black leather, silvery grill cloth, I think someone will want this one when she's done. Might do another with marshall salt and papper grill as well. See how that goes.

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ZAP! #1 complete!
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Today I was cleaning up the bench a bit and saw a pair of black leather lighting bolt cutouts kind of floating around in the tools and junk, wondering mightily where they had come from. "Hmmmmm..." sez that little crazy guy that lives in my brain "...I wonder?"

Hauled out my tickle trunk of saved fabric (I'm a bit of a pack rat that way). After digging around a bit, came up with some glittery gold stuff. That'll do. Today we're making a couple of straps in my long-running "Star Power" series, which I have let lapse without replenishment for too damn long. Star Powers are glittery, showy straps crafted to explode with pure awesomeness under hot stage lighting for positively pimpin' presence purposes.

While working on them, came up with an appropriate name... meet "None More Glam"

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A few hours later, the first one completed modeled by a Hamer DC in Golden Wolf finish

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Definitely very sparkly.
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Today we have a short detour for excellent TVvoodoo Family news. My son Alex who is graduating high school this year (yeah, what a rip job they got), was named Valedictorian, which he was gunning hard for. He is just finishing up calc and chem via correspondence when most of his classmates just took the marks that were offered when school closed in late March due to the Wuhan Flu. We all agreed it was best he make sure to get his full courses done because he was offered an academic scholarship by the Engineering program at the University of Alberta next fall, and he will probably need that stuff under his belt. For kids going to college there are a lot of question marks floatin' around right now, but we shall see what comes of it.

So, very proud father of a super smart young man. Thank god the kid only got my good looks, not my brains. I was looking at his calculus work the other day. That shadizzle is way beyond me, but I was never a real mathy guy. Anyway, just busting my buttons over here.

This morning I completed another in the Well-Hung Star Power theme, when I was going through fabrics yesterday I found this sparkly copper stuff I had saved from way back, and figured I should do something with it... "Copper Top" was the result. Another showy strap with some bling, built with beefy strong black leather front & back, and luxuriously padded for ultimate comfort.

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TVvoodoo wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:45 pm Today I was cleaning up the bench a bit and saw a pair of black leather lighting bolt cutouts kind of floating around in the tools and junk, wondering mightily where they had come from. "Hmmmmm..." sez that little crazy guy that lives in my brain "...I wonder?"

Hauled out my tickle trunk of saved fabric (I'm a bit of a pack rat that way). After digging around a bit, came up with some glittery gold stuff. That'll do. Today we're making a couple of straps in my long-running "Star Power" series, which I have let lapse without replenishment for too damn long. Star Powers are glittery, showy straps crafted to explode with pure awesomeness under hot stage lighting for positively pimpin' presence purposes.

While working on them, came up with an appropriate name... meet "None More Glam"

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A few hours later, the first one completed modeled by a Hamer DC in Golden Wolf finish

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Definitely very sparkly.
Liked for the Ticle Trunk reference.
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TVvoodoo wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:58 pm Today we have a short detour for excellent TVvoodoo Family news. My son Alex who is graduating high school this year (yeah, what a rip job they got), was named Valedictorian, which he was gunning hard for. He is just finishing up calc and chem via correspondence when most of his classmates just took the marks that were offered when school closed in late March due to the Wuhan Flu. We all agreed it was best he make sure to get his full courses done because he was offered an academic scholarship by the Engineering program at the University of Alberta next fall, and he will probably need that stuff under his belt. For kids going to college there are a lot of question marks floatin' around right now, but we shall see what comes of it.

So, very proud father of a super smart young man. Thank god the kid only got my good looks, not my brains. I was looking at his calculus work the other day. That shadizzle is way beyond me, but I was never a real mathy guy. Anyway, just busting my buttons over here.

This morning I completed another in the Well-Hung Star Power theme, when I was going through fabrics yesterday I found this sparkly copper stuff I had saved from way back, and figured I should do something with it... "Copper Top" was the result. Another showy strap with some bling, built with beefy strong black leather front & back, and luxuriously padded for ultimate comfort.

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Congrats to your son! He should be proud that all of the hard work he put in to meet that goal, and I'm sure he will continue to put in to meet his future goals.
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Congrats to your son, he's a powerhouse! I'm the middle of three generations of engineers in my family. I'm 41 years in and still like to work, most of the time at least.

Those straps are awesome - you are a maniac! Really crankin' 'em out!

I went back and downloaded all of my old posts - copy and paste. Took a long time and ended up being several hundred pages. Man, you really need to grab what you can of your old posts - that's what got me drawn into AGF to begin with. Really memorable stuff.
I'm bitter about the unnecessary loss of the original AGF. I appreciate the man or men that are making this site work. The warm vibe and high level of discourse is what make this community different from those other dog-butt sites out there.
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I got my Mofo notice yesterday. Done.
While my first instinct was to keep all my threads up on the new shit platform as free advertising, I realized I had hundreds of private messages that had emails, PayPal, and mailing addresses of dozens of my AGF brothers in my account. So, hopefully now they are all done and deleted for good as requested.
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Today I am working on finishing up a couple of graphite pythons which sold out a month ago, figured why not attempt a really dark "ZAP!" with some leftover scary distressed nickel genocide stuff. All those should be ready to go this afternoon.

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Also pleased to report we have a new Shock & Awe Recruit from Great Britain! Local member [mention]UrenragK[/mention] is also in officer training about to be deployed in the militia as well. Yesterday I just sent a half-dozen Well-Hung Pro-Pins, (oversize strap buttons) all the way to Germany! Worldwide baby! [mention]zisme[/mention] also picked up another set of pro-pins recently, along with a cool sea creature strap for a special build he is being somewhat cryptic about.

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Looking forward to being well hung - to go with all that cheap Cialis I scored earlier!!! :lol:

Thanks Brad, couldn't have asked for a better experience in dealing with you Sir!!

First class!
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Being Well-Hung and loaded up on cheap cialis may void your non-existent warranty! :D
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TGIF my guitar-addicted compadres! Yesterday was Thursday, tomorrow will be Saturday. Ah... the sheer genius of it.



This morning I am packing a few things but before I sent these away, wanted to lay in a quick photo, first one of these on the NEW AGF.

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Guy ordered a couple pairs for himself, asked me if I could try to match his straps. Then, he added a plain black set for a gift to his guitar instructor. Thoughtful! Probably only the only guys who remember these have some grey hair happening, like me. Secure convenient time-tested alternative to clunky plastic or metal gadgetry. Don't think anybody else is doing these. Well-Hung Old School strap locks, baby!

Also, yesterday started a replenishment of a popular one, hoping to complete a few this weekend. The Well-Hung "Tweedly Wheedly" is a highly evolved heavy genuine tweed fabric strap, (not plasticky junk), with high quality ends, 3" wide, padded generously. I took one to a Stang Guitars in Edmonton once, laid it down beside a big name factory off-the-rack version. It was pure comedy. Though to be fair, mine are NOT $22 LOL! There are a few of these out with the local AGFers, you guys cleaned me out, not complaining!

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Gonna finish packing boxes, hit the post office then my son and I are gonna to see if we can go hit some balls into the slough.

Happy Friday!
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She reminds me of Taylor Swift. :(
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Up with the chickens this morning, had to box up a Devil's Leash, send to BC. Also wanted to finish the tooling on this one... So it can sit for a day....heading to the lake later for a little family picnic thing.

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At this point I'm are calling the carving/tooling 90% done. Now we have to bring the moisture content way DOWN on these pieces prior to dying the leather, so it soaks in real good. It's outside blowing in the morning sun and gentle breeze as I write this. We are going to try for a modified colour version from the original, a cherry sunburst sort of effect.

Happy Fourth of July my 'Merican friends, don't let the bastards get you down.
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Incredible work Brad!

Hoping Shock and Awe 72 arrives soon! 👌🏻
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You should make one out of hemp and call it Weedly Weedly.
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#5 Well-Hung loose replica of the Allman Mountain strap continues.

Lotta staining and painting, waiting for dry times over the past few days. Plus, dealing with some sudden medical stuff going on with my mother a little bit has slowed things down, but I am pleased to report we have summited! Dark parts have been filled with stain, the stars and moon painted with a few coats. Now we condition and treat 'er for a long beautiful life. First oil it carefully with two thin coats, help replenish and preserve the natural oils in the leather. This changes the colour just a little bit, but as it soaks into all the fibers and cells, it'll lighten up in colour over time.

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The original version is not padded. I try to make the Well-Hung version as comfortable as possible, and add lining and padding, and carefully stitch it all together with heavy duty poly upholstery thread.

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Burnish the edges, punch strap holes in the front and back end for strap attachmentification, punch some more holes for the feature brass ring, held in by a couple flap-overs and a pair of brass Chicago Screws. Use a dab of white glue inside the threads, so the owner can still take it apart if they wish, but it minimizes the chance they will loosen under normal use.

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Two coats of satin sheen, which locks everything down, dye etc. The a coat of mink oil/silicone boot treatment. .... Done!
Every one of these turns out a bit different, this strap is destined for a quilted Knaggs (I believe) tele in similar burst as the acoustic below.

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Wow Brad, that is truly incredible!!
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UrenragK wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:29 pm Wow Brad, that is truly incredible!!
He does incredible at regular intervals. :)
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:lol: :lol: LOL guys, thank you for the ego boost, like I need it. Hey if anyone wants to do some positive trolling, some dude on TGP is wondering what kind of guitar strap to purchase. Maybe some of you have some good ideas for that poor fella :idea:

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index ... t-30829521
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Callooh! Callay! The fiercely snicker-snacking Jabberwock has been slayed!

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I was blessed with some of the hide - four fierce straps were constructed to commemorate this Frabjous Day!
(ok, it's really just some extra cool cowhide). Spot on strap to tie in with your tort pickguard, 3" wide nicely padded.
Corduroy lining to defeat neck dip.

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New in the Well-Hung reverb store... 1969 "Time of the Season."

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Beautiful metallic embroidered paisley on black leather. Padded, 3" wide. Two of them is all there will ever be.
If you have a sudden Reverb aversion, there may be another way. I'll let you figure it out. But do go there for many more photos and
a wealth of information on this strap, many others and how others are handling being suddenly Well-Hung.
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No new strappin's for a bit sorry!! Enjoying a family roadtrip through the Banff Jasper Parkway in Alberta... snapped this after a hike into Moose Lake this morning

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Should be back to regular business in a couple days.
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Banff was beautiful as I recall.
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Banff is more "world class" beautiful I think, but so busy and roped-off or commercialized. Jasper directly north seems more "wild" and has more surprises if you are willing to seek them. I know Banff better, visited over a dozen times, really enjoying Jasper right now. Plus, for peak season it's super quiet due to "the situation" and there's hardly any traffic on the trails.
But boy am I finding I'm out of shape!
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TVvoodoo wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:08 pm Banff is more "world class" beautiful I think, but so busy and roped-off or commercialized. Jasper directly north seems more "wild" and has more surprises if you are willing to seek them. I know Banff better, visited over a dozen times, really enjoying Jasper right now. Plus, for peak season it's super quiet due to "the situation" and there's hardly any traffic on the trails.
But boy am I finding I'm out of shape!
Based only upon your picture, it looks too f''ing COLD for me!
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