New straps from a friend

Danny_T · Post by **Danny_T** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:41 pm

Just in today are these 3 cool straps from a buddy of mine and fellow WIS who started making his own straps not long ago after we discussed that it would be cool to try our hand at it. As you can guess, I didn't get very far. I bought all the tools but with no time because of the wife and 2 young kids and rennos, work, life yadda yadda, I've made excuses not to start and he went full speed ahead.

I know one of the 3 straps Chris (shorty) is gonna love

Anyhow here they are.

My fav of course if the yellow ostrich leg strap. Colour and texture is fantastic. I love it. Too bold under DWC standards but hey, it's Danny_T we're talking about here!

Second is what I call the 'filet mignon'. It's the dark choc brown one and is a top grain calf leather and is BUTTER SOFT and superbly flexible. This one will definitely be a joy to wear for sure.

Third is a goat leather with pigskin suede backing. This is a leather my buddy experimented with and the colour was achieved using a dye. It comes tanned and he just mixed a ton of reducer with some brown and a little grey to wash over it to get rid of the 'peachy' natural colour it comes in.

So I'm making progress. 2 earthtones and 1 bold colour. Last year it would have been the opposite lol

Enjoy the slideshow

HapaHapa · Post by **HapaHapa** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 12:26 am

I need these skills.
The ostrich leg is in your face big bird vibe.

Post by **CGSshorty** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:21 am

Nice work for a guy who just started. That DaLuca clown can't stitch that well after years of making straps. No comment on the dog urine yellow ostrich.

YOHOHO · Post by **YOHOHO** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:15 am

CGSshorty wrote:Nice work for a guy who just started. That DaLuca clown can't stitch that well after years of making straps. No comment on the dog urine yellow ostrich.

haha..so true. I really need to check out DaLuca's store in SD.

Danny_T · Post by **Danny_T** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:23 pm

The brown ones look nice on the B+M

Filet Mignon

Goat

Post by **toxicavenger** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:19 pm

he did a great job on those straps, congrats

deepcdvr · Post by **deepcdvr** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:26 pm

Straps are cool, but those watches are hot!

ChaseCJ7 · Post by **ChaseCJ7** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:40 pm

Thanks

I'm going to copyright dog piss yellow ostrich if that's cool

Danny_T · Post by **Danny_T** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:53 am

ChaseCJ7 wrote:Thanks

I'm going to copyright dog piss yellow ostrich if that's cool

Hey Aaron! Glad you joined!

Make sure to do an intro thread

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Don't worry about Chris, he hasn't admitted to loving colours that excrete from the bodies of animals lol

He prefers turquoise.

it's the official colour of DWC

ChaseCJ7 · Post by **ChaseCJ7** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:00 pm

Danny_T wrote: He prefers turquoise. it's the official colour of DWC

Actually, there was some turquoise ostrich at the leather store when I was there on friday

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