Vintage woven straps - high quality

dean111music

I love the look of these.

Ordered a soldier strap and was very disappointed. It was essentailly a pretty belt strap.

is there anyone who makes these types of strap that are wider and better quality!? 

lustycourtier

What you expecting? The business model is based on recycled seatbelts.

stickyfiddle

If you want a similar thing on a leather strap you can look at something like Copperpeace. But they cost twice as much as Souldier for a reason.

GavRichList

I just got a new Overdrive strap for my Jazzmaster; absolutely lovely, but as others have said, the majority are based on seatbelts. They also do leather backing at an up charge. 

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff193/guitarsforminnaars/3B57B6D5-F4FC-4D8E-8ED6-3A623BBC3867.jpg

Norwegian_Blue

I've recently been using the Gretsch ones, really good!

fretfinder

Personally I think the Souldier straps are great!

dean111music

do you find the straps comfortable? I was a bit quick in making the decision to send them back. 

Bridgehouse

Really comfy - even with a Bass. I like mine a lot.

fretfinder

dean111music said:

do you find the straps comfortable? I was a bit quick in making the decision to send them back. 

I find the Souldiers very comfortable to gig with. The only issue is if you have a neck-heavy guitar and then you can get some neck dive as the seatbelt material is smooth and slippy. But given that you can't play the guitar without actually holding onto the neck I didn't really find that a problem either, when I used to have a 339. I don't actually like straps that grip your shoulder too firmly, like rough suede, because I think it's much more comfortable if a bit of movement over the shoulder is possible when you're moving about.

zepp76

GavRichList said:

I just got a new Overdrive strap for my Jazzmaster; absolutely lovely, but as others have said, the majority are based on seatbelts. They also do leather backing at an up charge. 

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff193/guitarsforminnaars/3B57B6D5-F4FC-4D8E-8ED6-3A623BBC3867.jpg

@GavRichList  That's a great looking strap! What length do they adjust to please? I have to have longer than normal straps due to my size! Do you have a link to a U.K seller please? 

Some of the Levy's Hootenanny straps are good with interesting designs.

GavRichList

@zepp76 if you order direct they give you choices of length. Guitarbox.co.uk stock some but you can't customise; direct allows you to choose leather colour, hardware colour, length etc etc 

zepp76

GavRichList said:

@zepp76 if you order direct they give you choices of length. Guitarbox.co.uk stock some but you can't customise; direct allows you to choose leather colour, hardware colour, length etc etc 

Cool, I'll give them a look. Many thanks.

Xsmnmy

>Levy's Hootenanny straps are good
Mostly I use leather vintage style straps, but I have one of these - the design is a bit hippie-fied for me, but it's v comfortable and works well, it's leather backed but light and flexible and goes to 1.4m fully extended - sounding like an advert now! Victor Kyam, anyone?

Brize

I don't like the Souldier straps at all - they look great but the seatbelt material with no padding quickly gets uncomfortable. 

Gassage

I have to say, if I were a strap maker, I'd go to all the old US Airforce scrapyards and I'd brand the guit strap from the plane-

e.g. F18 Guitar Strap- with the plane's details on.
Or C130 Hercules- for the stouter man

Tell you, they'd sell.

bbill335

Air straps in the uk. Overdrive straps in Europe. Couch in US do wide options iirc. 

fretfinder

Brize said:

I don't like the Souldier straps at all - they look great but the seatbelt material with no padding quickly gets uncomfortable. 

I don't find that at all, but then all my guitars are pretty light in weight so maybe that's why.  

Moss

fretfinder said:

Brize said:

I don't like the Souldier straps at all - they look great but the seatbelt material with no padding quickly gets uncomfortable. 

I don't find that at all, but then all my guitars are pretty light in weight so maybe that's why.  

My super-heavy Gretsch remains comfortable for a long period of time with my Souldier strap

And, more importantly, it has owls on it...

Rocker

You pay >£1500 for a guitar.  Surely spending at least £50 on a strap is not going to stop the planet rotating.....

absolutpepper

Personally I use couch straps on all my guitars. Racer x model. Love them. They do more vintage ones as well but I love the fact that I have a different racer x for each guitar I own. Not the cheapest but brilliant quality

DaiCapp

As has been said, Copper Peace are lovely - I have 3 and they are beautifully made and very comfortable. limited choice though... I also have Souldier and they wear well and are comfortable too, just not as high quality as Copper Peace.


I've also seen woven straps by a Company called Original Fuzz which look great - never seen on in real life though...