Info on a special strap

[gitman]

This is a bit trivial , yes but please bear with me , I need to know :
Does anyone have an idea who made this strap that Charlie Sexton has on his Collings guitar ? So far I have not found any other picture now info so my guess is that it's a custom piece by some
maker, probably in or around Texas where the man resides ... It's such a cool piece, bling-y but not over the top and just what I need for my suit + tie gigs !

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

Much too thin for my taste. Will hurt the muscle on top of your shoulder. Just my 2 cents no one asked for.

[gitman]

Your shoulder might not like it but that's besides the point here - I KNOW a comfortable strap for my heavier guitars and wouldn't use my banjo without the neoprene Sadowsky strap but NOW I want this one. I'm pretty sure it has a small pad , it's just not visible in that photo ....

[DawgBone]

Much too thin for my taste. Will hurt the muscle on top of your shoulder. Just my 2 cents no one asked for.

I'we been using a 3/4" leather strap for about 8 years over my right shoulder. Hundreds of gigs. My shoulder feels great but the strap button holes are getting wallered out a bit now. My future strap plans are getting a chunk of 9oz vegetable tanned leather 3/4" wide and just matching the holes up to the current one and using that. Should be the last strap I need.

No idea about who made Charlie's strap. Though it does look nice it's too wide for my tastes and too wide to fit easily into a Gibson ES case with all the other gig necessities.

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

[...] over my right shoulder. [...]

You mean like this?



I have started doing this a while ago find it very practical and it leads to a more natural hand posture IMO, but if I use a not so wide strap they always slip off easily.

But that is also maybe because your and Freddie's shoulders are wider than mine hahaha.

[Brian859]

Its fairly narrow. My first guitar strap was actually one I made from an old belt. And that one looks about that narrow too. My best guess is it was made from something that was not a guitar strap to begin with. But who knows.

[DawgBone]

You mean like this?



I have started doing this a while ago find it very practical and it leads to a more natural hand posture IMO, but if I use a not so wide strap they always slip off easily.

But that is also maybe because your and Freddie's shoulders are wider than mine hahaha.

YES!!! The "mailbag" carry.

The modest slippage makes me think about my licks and let my playing breathe a little more instead of just playing notes though it's not a big issue for me. You kinda gotta get used to it. I don't mind a wide strap, Freddie used those too, but I don't like when they start digging into my neck. And they don't fit in the case easily. I also like that if you wear a hat, you aren't knocking your brim around or screwing up the carefully placed tilt when you grab your guitar.

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

[...] I also like that if you wear a hat, you aren't knocking your brim around or screwing up the carefully placed tilt when you grab your guitar.

Haha. Exactly that. I am wearing flat cap and the carefully placed tilt is very important.

[DawgBone]

Haha. Exactly that. I am wearing flat cap and the carefully placed tilt is very important.

I like a nice beaver fur finished long hair homburg and agree!!!

[DawgBone]

I remember Albert Collins always called it the “gunslinger” carry.

Another of my TX blues favorites! I cover several Albert Collins and Freddie King tunes.

[DawgBone]

I have loved Albert Collins since I was a kid. One of the greats. “Frostbite”, “Ice Pickin’ “, and the album “Showdown” with Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland has some of the best blues playing ever. I regret I didn’t get a chance to see him live before he passed.

He was definitely one of the greats! Johnny Copeland as well. I got the chance to have one of Johnny's old touring drummers at a Houston gig one night. Dude showed up with leather drumming gloves on and hit like an absolute beast. That was definitely one of my blues adventure highlights!

I always dug this video-lesson of Albert demonstrating his technique. That rhythm!!!

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

^^^^
Showdown = monster combo

Love it since I discovered it in the early 90ies when I was almost a grown-up.

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

I remember Albert Collins always called it the “gunslinger” carry.

I was actually surprised that Dawgbone calls it "mailbag" because I always had the gun association. I thought it might also have to do something with Black Power and Black Panther. (BTW it took me decades to realize what Michael Jackson's glove was about.)

You can nicely let the axe hang down with the neck pointing to the ground when making announcements.

[Brian859]

Albert Collins was a great player. He must have played down at ricks in east lansing 6 or 7 times in the years I worked there. Everyone on alligator played there back then. One story that always stuck with me is albert had that 200 ft long guitar cable. And he would walk through the crowd jamming. Ricks was downstairs off abott right across from msu. There was a flight of a dozen stairs, a landing then 8 or so more. There was always a line for him and he would go up the stair jamming, then out the door onto the street and jam for the people up on abbot. I would often walk with him as he did that just to make sure. One time he started up, the door was shut, we went up and out the door. There was not a person or even a car in sight. It was dead out there. We both looked at each other, shrugged and started laugh. Then, after a minute, just back down the stairs and he continued the show. Ok, one more quick one. So the band was playing and albert was playing, and he just seemed off little off. He was messing with the knobs on his amp, which if I remember was a fender twin or deluxe at that time. They played a couple more songs and all of a sudden, albert starts pounding on the top of the amp. Probably a dozen times. He started playing again, began to smile and the amp startd to scream. That show was great.

[Woody Sound]

He has a facebook page and instagram acct, maybe you can contact him or his rep there.

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

[...] Imitating a local legend, it was nothing more nor nothing less.

Now that I'm halfway through Art Taylor's “Notes and Tones”, I wouldn't be so sure. I think jazz and blues were much more subversive than you might think at first glance.

Of course T-Bone had a lot of influence. He influenced Kenny Burrell as well.

[Cunamara]

Well, that diverted quickly...

At least HiFi answered the question.

[pauln]

I use mandolin straps!

nice leathers
3/4 inch wide
no metal parts
no plastic parts
two tone reversible
no adjustment buckle
perfect length 4 feet long
diameter 4 inch coil rolled up

If you run a strap out over the corner edge of your shoulder
it can't depress the muscle beside your neck even a little bit.

[Brian859]

A mandoline strap is the one I found that was the closest to that pattern, and its really not even close. It a needle in a haystack search.

[stevo58]

RE the gunslinger carry: you jazz guys don’t have a clue. Theres a very simple, practical reason for it: you can quickly play behind your head. With a normal carry, you have to get it off your head first. The girls love it. Well, not when you do it with a banjo (just my experience).

[Brian859]

The tuba/banjo jam session. Very popular with the dutch hop crowd.

[stevo58]

The tuba/banjo jam session. Very popular with the dutch hop crowd.

Possibly. But this is a killer record (sorry for the off-topic):

https://www.amazon.com/Moan-You-Moan...5e5f579&nodl=1

[Brian859]

I watched a couple live videos. The one guy is kind of avant-garde with the tuba. Interesting.