Edward
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feltfan said:I am also nearly desperate to have a strap for it,
if anyone knows a source of a decent quality leather strap
with a vintage look.
I'm sure I read that Dr Jones' leather strap (which replaced the issue canvas strap) on his Mk VIII Gas Mask bag that he carried on adventures was a military issue leatherr rifle sling.... shouldn't be hard to find one of those from a re-enactment company, and probably cheaper than buying one specifically for a briefcase. If that is on the narrow side / you want to carry pretty heavy stuff, you might also try one of these:
Vintage (1950s) style leather guitar straps. These are from Fender, though you can usually also find unbranded ones which are just as good but cheaper and without any logo. Typically, you can find them in the two colours in the picture, plus a deep-mid brown (think milk chocolate or Coca-Cola rather than cognac). You might need to shorten one of these, depending on how high you want to wear your bag, or if you don'tg tend to wear it with the strap across the body, but they would be easily modified with a sharp knife or scissors and a hole punch. The beauty of these is the shoulder pad, which allows for a narrow strap that doesn't get in the way elsewhere, yet spread the weight on your shoulder so that a hefty solid body guitar doesn't give you a pain. I can stand with one of these on for an hour or two, and that's with an ash-bodied Telecaster hanging off it....