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Help me identify Mike Gordon's strap!

DannDubblewe

DannDubblewe

Knob Wrangler
Apr 3, 2009
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This has been driving me crazy for such a long time that I've finally decided to start a thread and see if anyone can help me along. In my ongoing obsession with Mike Gordon and everything related to him I haven't been able to find out this bit of info! On wiki (ooh, yeah) it says that Mike has used Couch straps ( http://www.couchguitarstraps.com/ ), but they offer limited custom work.

I'm assuming it is a fully custom strap, but where was it created?

It's hard to find a photo from the back (I just found one!), but when I saw him I noticed that his strap is either non-adjustable or slightly adjustable, with a buckle instead of the loop, etc.

Here are some photo's of the front, one of the back:

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all images collected from http://www.flickr.com/photos/36045457@N08/
 
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That's what a good amount of the Red Monkey straps look like...I'm figuring he just did a custom build. El Dorado's are very nice, I bet if I sent any number of them the photos they would be able to at least make a close approximation to Mike's strap. Red Monkey seems to be the closest in stitching and color, however. Maybe he talked to them. I think I'll email them!

zombywoof5050 said:
Do you have a little trampoline too? :D
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DannDubblewe said:
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That's what a good amount of the Red Monkey straps look like...I'm figuring he just did a custom build. El Dorado's are very nice, I bet if I sent any number of them the photos they would be able to at least make a close approximation to Mike's strap. Red Monkey seems to be the closest in stitching and color, however. Maybe he talked to them. I think I'll email them!



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Doug at Red Monkey just made me two straps and I am sure they can make a strap exactly like the one you want.
 
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Kenny Allyn said:
Yeah I see how he is using it ...

But it's actually a kick drum mic made to capture sub lows from a kick drum, never seen one used on a bass rig :eek:

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But then again what do I know about bass speakers? :scowl:
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apparently a hell of a lot, mojo-sonic man! sorry, bro...i thought maybe you thought he had it up there for looks.

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