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EZ-EL Electric Guitar Strap

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EZ-EL Electric Guitar Strap

Written By: EZELWire

TOOLS:

Black Duct Taped)
Sewing needle (1)
Translucent Thread (1)
X-Acto knifed)

PARTS:

EZ-EL Red 25' Chasing Wire Kit (1)
Black Guitar Strap (1)
Pair of AA batteries (1)

SUMMARY

This guide will teach you how to awesomely decorate an ordinary guitar strap! For more
inspiration check out http://www.ez-el.com/tutorials

The EZ-EL Wire Kit you will need for this project can be purchased here .

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EZ-EL Electric Guitar Strap

Step 1 — EZ-EL Electric Guitar Strap

• This project is a guitar strap
decked out with EZ-EL Chasing
Wire sewn into music-themed
designs. It's a fun project, and you
end up with something that looks
really cool, especially for live
performances at low-lit venues.

• If you like tutorials like this, get
more inspiration at http://www.ez-
el.com/tutorials

Step 2

• Plan out your designs ahead of time, because they can end up being unexpectedly difficult
or tedious. Feel free to take creative license and do as you please, but below is the plan
for my designs should you choose to use them.

• The white dots indicate where the wire enters from the back of the strap, and the red dots
indicate where the wire exits and returns to the back of the strap.

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EZ-EL Electric Guitar Strap
Step 3

• For this step, you're going to use
the X-Acto Knife to cut the
necessary holes for the designs
you planned/created. Again, you
should plan out where the holes will
be cut before you actually start
working. The red and white dots on
the design in the previous step
represent the holes I cut for my
designs.

Step 4

• This is where you actually start to
sew your designs in place! Make
sure you finish each design before
you move on to the next one, and
make sure you weave all the wire
through the strap before you sew
your designs in place. That way,
there's no slack, and you can
literally see your guitar strap start
to take shape!

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EZ-EL Electric Guitar Strap

Step 5

• When you've finished your designs,
make sure you duct tape the back
of the guitar strap. Otherwise not
only will the back of the strap look
sloppy, but your stitching has a
higher chance of coming loose.

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EZ-EL Electric Guitar Strap
Step 6

• You're all finished, have fun with
the guitar strap! Put the AA
batteries into the inverter, and turn
off the lights.

• A few things to consider are that
you might have some excess wire,
depending on the intricacies of your
designs, so I decided to outline a
guitar with my excess chasing
wire. If you don't want to do this
you can simply cut the excess
wire.

• Also, when you're playing with the
guitar strap on, keep the inverter
away from the pickups of the
guitar. The inverter emits a small
buzzing noise, which is completely
normal, but the guitar will actually
pick up that noise and cause
feedback if the inverter is too close
to the pickups.

• I solved this by putting the inverter
in my left pocket, which keeps it
completely away from the pickups.

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