Ukulele Strap

After making the banjo strap there's time to make something for myself... better to say for my uke.

I had an old strap which didn't hold securely, it fell out from the screw. I wanted to throw it out and make a brand new one, but I was told to recycle it.

I tried to press patterns in this wet leather, but it is so bad that it doesn't hold anything. Just my old tries with flowers are still noticeable, but you must watch really close to spot anything.
Pyrography came into my mind. I was looking for inspiration, I thought feathers might do, but then I remembered the tatoo from Divergence and I started with birds.

The leather has one imperfection which was used as a wire for sitting swallow.

Birds are orientated to be upwards at each half of the strap and in the middle, owl connects both sides. One end has a hummingbird and the other a parrot.

I made a few loose stitches at the slit, pulled it over and fastened them, so that my ukulele will never fall of the strap again.

Here it is, ready for new adventures.

Apatit in the Cage

I bought an apatit as an amulet and I was looking for a way to wear it.

I twisted a wire, inserting a toothpick every few turns. I flattened it with a pair of round pliers. The same I did with the rest of the wire which would make the cage.

However, the wire was then fragile and I had like five messed tries before it finally didn't crack. 

I couldn't flatten the wire around the upper eyelet and at the ends that connect the cage wire toghether. These were the words places where it always broke during shaping.

The apatit necklace for good communication :-)