News — Shoulder Strap

The orders for shoulder straps keep rolling in.  I really appreciate the ones that allow me to be at least a little bit creative. =)  I suspect there's probably a story behind this particular order but if so I can't say I caught it.

It's only Tuesday and I've already knocked out three orders.  To be fair, none of them were particularly intensive though I did wind up clocking some "overtime".  I could've finished up the scarf slides tomorrow easily enough but I might have a big order starting tomorrow and wanted to clear the bench in case the client hits the purchase button.  If not then I can work on the map case. The first two orders were a couple more shoulder straps (making a lot of those lately!) though one of them had the novelty of being mahogany brown instead of medium...

This guy'd had the bright idea of having two straps for his bag: one for going over his shoulder and a much shorter one to go around the handle of his wheeled luggage.  And since the straps are 1.75" and beveled on both sides they probably won't need much in the way of a shoulder pad.  We'd wanted to go for 2" wide straps initially but apparently there's no such thing as a brass buckle that's 2" wide, or if there are they're not trivial to locate.  So I'm glad I was able to get some brass buckles at 1.75"...

These are the two orders that were finalized while we were overseas and they both had a deadline of next week.  Mostly I'd given myself some wiggle room since I wasn't sure how many orders might come in or what other funny business would pop up.  Though as it happens both orders are already finished and I'm shipping them out this morning.  The Klingon Pouch'll be going to a fellow back in the UK (oh don't we wish I could've shipped that one while we were in Oxford >_<) and the shoulder strap (with a custom spec up to 72"...