Mandolin #502 ON HOLD (Pete)

A smashing and bloody nice strap made with two pieces of vintage English leather. This is a heavy duty one and will easily last thru your musical career and someone else’s as well. A nice piece of eye candy for your new custom built Apitius Grand Classic F-style.

$115.00 Plus Shipping

Features:

Status Available
Shoulder Piece Size 9” long by 1 3/8” wide.
Shoulder Piece Leather Beautiful English pebble leather, thick and butter soft.
Shoulder Piece Stitching Artificial sinew, hand stitched into hand punched needle holes.
Shoulder Piece Distressed Level Medium/low. Well used and well cared for in a previous life.
Shoulder Piece Notables Dressed and burnished edges all around and lined with new suede leather on the bottom.
Strap Style English leather hand laced rein.
Strap Width 5/8"
Strap Leather Soft and supple English leather. This is a heavy duty strap and still capable of stopping a horse, should one stampede thru your jam. The loop leather has been skived thin enough to pass around a scroll opening if necessary but the rest of the braided strap is all original.
Strap Distressed Level Medium/low. Well aged but well cared for. Broken in soft and supple.
Strap Notables Includes a full setup to your specs for length and choice of standard or pickup end buttonholes. The headstock or scroll loop is held closed with a leather thong which could be opened to slide under the strings or under the fretboard extension on an A style if needed. English reins are much shorter than western reins and the maximum length I could finish this one would be about 48”, measured from the very end of the loop.