Rev. T Sweeney

Sometimes you go looking for inspiration and sometimes inspiration finds you. At the 2008 winter NAMM Show I met Tom Sweeney lead guitarist for Shoot The Moon. Tom had been having a problem with straps blowing out. His energetic stage presence caused a lot of wear and tear on his straps. I took this as a challenge, to build a strap to hold up to even the worst abuse.

The Rev. T. Sweeney Signature Series is the result. But the strap is not a signature strap because of any design or look that would be associated with an artist. But that we all sharpen are wits upon each other, and that some like the Rev. Tom Sweeney always strive for excellence. Thank you Tom. This strap well be of the highest quality and strength. The button holes have been reinforced, and the Sam Brown button has been strengthened. The improvements will be on going.

The Rev. Tom Sweeney well be offered in any of the styles currently on this web site.

The Rev. T. Sweeney Signature Series

What we have done with this strap is to strengthen the button holes. The button holes have a washer made of rubber inserted in the straps. Also to add more strength I have hand stitched the slits of button holes. The strap in the pictures below were played on stag for about 3 hours of hard play. We may change the washer to a washer that well accept leather cement a little better. The current setup has had some delimitation issues. But they have held up well. Take a look at the picture below, and any comments please send to bod@slithergs.com. Keep in mind that this is an on going project and Tom and I will not stop until we produce the strongest strap available.

As you can see the tail strap has a lot of hand stitching. This is to hold the washer in place and to add to the over all strength of the tail button. This stitching is the same stitching used in horse tack and is very strong, even if a stitch is broken it well not unravel and the integrity of the stitching is not compromised.