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Craftsmanship => Accoutrements => Topic started by: W. Welshman on October 30, 2009, 12:13:53 PM

Title: Starting a New Strap
Post by: W. Welshman on October 30, 2009, 12:13:53 PM
I have just finished wrapping the loom and this is how it looks before I start weaving.I have already wrap my design into the strap,when I finish this today I'll post the finish strap.This strap is for "ME" my first strap of my own.Also this strap is going to be 3in wide a first for me.Beaverman is making a longhunter bag for this strap.OK see you all later, Time to weave.
                              Squatter
(http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad117/SHORTARM1/DSC_0001startoflynnstrap.jpg)
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Post by: Bigsmoke on October 30, 2009, 12:16:51 PM
Aw, man, you're just "stringing" us along.
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Post by: W. Welshman on October 30, 2009, 12:22:52 PM
John, I can't get nothing pass you ?
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Post by: BEAVERMAN on October 30, 2009, 12:25:02 PM
I thought it was a haversack? now its a longhunter?
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Post by: W. Welshman on October 30, 2009, 12:46:23 PM
I'm a weaver not the leather guy,back to work your making the thing what do I know. OK, Have it your way.
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Post by: W. Welshman on October 30, 2009, 01:17:01 PM
Here it is,Beaverman back to work ,This one is DONE    "NOT"
 (http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad117/SHORTARM1/DSC_0002SMALL-1.jpg)
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Post by: BEAVERMAN on October 30, 2009, 01:32:54 PM
Thats terrible, finish it up and just throw it in the bag with the others your sending and start another for yourself!
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Post by: Uncle Russ on October 30, 2009, 03:17:21 PM
3" wide?  :shock:

What is it, a tow strap?

Ol' dummy here would like to know; Is it possible to weave a strap that is larger, or wider, on one end or the maybe the middle, than it is on the other end(s)?

(Keep in mind I don't know "squat" about what you're doing, or how you really do it...although I have watched you work that loom  before...and, one time Lady Smith even tried to show me a little bit on her small hand loom but her fingers were to fast for these old eyes.... I suspect I was just to amazed at the finished product to grasp the entire procedure.
That, plus the fact that anymore I have the attention span of a big ol' Grasshopper.)

Uncle Russ...
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Post by: W. Welshman on October 30, 2009, 04:09:11 PM
Uncle Russ ,It is a tow strap.I put on another 20lbs.And to answer your ?,Yes you can
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Post by: BEAVERMAN on October 30, 2009, 04:26:00 PM
Quote from: "Squatter"
Uncle Russ ,It is a tow strap.I put on another 20lbs.And to answer your ?,Yes you can


Thats so Dorothy can tow him away from the dinner table! :rotf  :rotf  :rotf  :Doh!  :lol sign  :lol sign
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Post by: Bigsmoke on October 30, 2009, 05:22:22 PM
Sure that 5" strap isn't a brace for dunlap disease?  You know, where your belly dun lapped over your belt.
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Post by: BEAVERMAN on October 30, 2009, 06:44:54 PM
Quote from: "bigsmoke"
Sure that 5" strap isn't a brace for dunlap disease?  You know, where your belly dun lapped over your belt.


Need a 10" for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:
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Post by: W. Welshman on November 03, 2009, 10:46:42 AM
HERE IS THE OTHER ONE JIM,
(http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad117/SHORTARM1/DSC_0009MY.jpg)
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Post by: Bigsmoke on November 03, 2009, 11:37:00 AM
That's just pure impressive, it is.  Good job.
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Post by: W. Welshman on November 03, 2009, 11:42:59 AM
Thanks John,These are the only straps I have made for me.Jim is making me two bags so I may show them off.The one on the left is 2 3/4 wide never again to hard on my hands. Was fun need to get back to weaving,If Jim see me up here ??????????? Thanks again John.OK JIM I'm working
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Post by: Wife ofTheWeavingWelshman on November 03, 2009, 09:55:51 PM
Beaverman Wrote:
Thats so Dorothy can tow him away from the dinner table!  :rotf     :rotf  :rotf  :rotf  

ARE YOU KIDDING!  Lynn is the best cook I know!  I'm not taking him away from the table!    No-sir-ree, my mamma didn't raise any fools!  :P