What is the best gift idea for dad? Something he’ll use, love, and that will make him feel great?
Surprise your dad, husband, grandpa, or dad-friend with a gift that will make them smile, then laugh, then drop their jaw. BEST gift for dads- leather, made for the guitar, black. What could be better?
Here’s our top 5 best ideas for dad all handmade from recycled leather:
These are gifts which your dad will love. These gifts will make him light up, and make him feel like a million bucks.
We’d be happy to include FREE gift wrap and a personalized note for Fathers’ day. Make him feel special!
Wallpusher adjustable straps have been designed to solve a single problem inherent in every other strap they’ve used: the ability to vary the height of the instrument up AND down during a musicalperformance.
Product Features
* Our guitar straps offer easy one-handed adjustments in seconds!
* 2″-wide guitar strap
* Classic look comes in black, red, yellow, and green to suit your personal style.
* Provides a comfortable fit while you’re playing guitar
* Color: Black
* FREE Shipping
Sometimes a certain section demands more technical work and we would like the instrument to be higher on the body while other times we like the instruments to rest lower and more relaxed. The guitar straps Wallpusher has designed function QUICKLY and EASILY to allow a player to raise or lower the instrument almost instantaneously.
* Organic Leather
* Perfect tool for solo gigs and all musicians
* Made in MA, USA
* Wipe with damp cloth
* Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
This guitar strap is so simple, so basic – yet so perfect. The price is perfect too. This guitar strap is like no other in that it is adjustable and can be altered during play. Musicians everywhere love the ability to effortlessly adjust the guitar or bass higher to solo and then drop down easily on stage. Light, beautiful, easy to clean, easy to store, not big and bulky.
Sometime you just have to get back to the basics. Sometimes, it’s the simplest design that works the best. Sometimes, all those fancy, additional features offered are just not worth it.
Each strap comes with a tag stating the number in the series, date of creation, and my signature. As always, being a handmade strap each one is unique, and the color and cut may vary slightly.
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IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, dreams, designs, shipping concerns,
or comments of any kind, always feel free to email us
info [!at] wallpusher.com and we’ll do anything we can to help.
*** Everything found in this shop is handmade by Wallpusher from our original copyrighted patterns. Please do not attempt to copy them or ask anyone else to do it for you. ***
Yes, it’s that time again, everybody’s graduating!! One of our interns just graduated from High School, we are so proud of his work at Wallpusher, and excited for his future.
What do you do after high school? If making things is in your blood, art school might be the place to hone those skills on your way to making a career in the many fields. As guitar makers, we give internships to highschool and college students in the local schools to give back to the community, and help students get concrete experience in fields that they may become leaders in one day. As artists and creative people, we are so excited about all the options available to students in our area. Who knows what the future creative professionals will come up with, when their starting point is as wonderful as it is! We have interns interested in continuing their careers as sculptors, guitar makers, leather workers, furniture makers, and even as professionals in Pixar and animation!
Local Art Colleges abound for people with interest in the creative field. The study of art is a growing focus for many students. These students interested in art have a collage of different schools to choose from in the Massachusetts area. Montserrat College of Art, in Beverly MA, was in fact started by a group of artists in the Boston area in the 1960’s. Montserrat College offers an extensive curriculum, collaboration with other artists and a community of artists all developing their talents.
MassArt is located in the heart of Boston, founded in 1873. This school offers one undergraduatedegree and three graduate degrees. Mass Art holds the mission of providing experience with the community, creating a diverse perspective on art, establishing value for this artistic work and the incorporation of art with the economy.
The SMFA, in Boston, provides a wide range of education in art. Founded in 1876, education here includes the study of ceramics, drawing, film/animation, glass, metals, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, sound, image of art and video.
Gordon, founded in 1889, is located in Wenham, MA. Artists here can develop their skill in design, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and art education. Gordon’s art major is focused on traditional artistic skills. This college proves to be well-known among other Christian art colleges. The education in art is forever endless.
of items that shoppers on Etsy have thought are worth sharing and putting in categories!
The writer of this treasury was focusing on the wonderful world of leather, and all its uses, and itcluded our straps!!
So whether you’re shopping for Mom, mother’s day, a birthday, an upcoming gig, or you just need something that will make your life easier, check out our straps!
Finding your style is crucial to becoming a musician. Every musician sends a message visually which can complement on accentuate the message your music sends to your fans. From grunge to metal to disco glam to hip hop, style has been a crucial factor for every musician that has made it. Your your guitar strap, style of dress, your guitar, everything on stage sends a message. Some parts of your style are functional too, your guitar may produce exactly that sound that you’re looking for, but not look the way you want it to. Wallpusher guitar straps look great, and work great too- so you don’t have to choose style or function, they have both. Now you can use the adjustable guitar strap to raise and lower the guitar effortlessly, to change heights while playing or soloing. Wallpusher Guitar Straps are a great price, find them at Etsy.
AND since today IS EARTH DAY celebrate the planet with great goods made of recycled wood–
Wallpusher guitars are made ofwood that would have been thrown into a landfill. Every guitar is hand made with pieces that were salvaged from churches, schools, homes, storms, and more. It’s always great to know that the instument that you express yourself on stage with is not only great style, and sound, but also a great message of saving the planet and an example of making beautiful things with already existing materials.
Yeay for earth day!
As spring draws to a close and internships wind down, we are so proud of all the hardworking students who have devoted their time to learning a new skill at Wallpusher.
Leatherworking is an ancient art, and our interns have worked hard to master sewing, die cutting, riveting, and more. Working with our brand new vinyl strap design, available on Etsy for $29, interns worked to integrate the two materials seamlessly and create a beautiful affordable product.
We’ve had students apply to our internships from Massart, Montserrat, Gordon College, and more. You can find our postings at the links below.
Wallpusher is a private business offering solutions for musicians. If you are interested in attaining the skills to create things you think should exist, then Wallpusher is the place to look. The intern will be assisting in several tasks at Wallpusher that will help them to learn the more refined elements of leatherworking including preparation of the leather, basic cutting and sanding, shaping with a plane and chisels, etc. On-site, intern will work with the master woodworker on prototypes, assist with the setup and dismantle of projects; create designs, and complete tasks as assigned. The purpose of this leatherworking internship is to acquaint the individual with the coordination and implementation of certain aspects of leatherworking and product design and fabrication through experience with a professional leather
worker and guitar maker at Wallpusher in Ipswich, MA.
Matthew Rogers has taught at the MFA, MassArt, and Gordon College. His guitar making classes are of the highest quality. Matthew has collaborated with world-renowned guitar makers on innovative designs. Alongside the creative solutions that Rogers has introduced in his design company are prototypes for guitars that unleash the potential in every instrument. For more information visit www.wallpusher.com. Please email info@wallpusher.com with your resume and cover letter if you are interested, please be sure to put “Wallpusher Internship”.
Wallpusher is a private business offering solutions for musicians. If you are interested in attaining the skills to create things you think should exist, then Wallpusher is the place to look. The intern will be assisting in several tasks at Wallpusher that will help them to learn the more refined elements of leather working including preparation of the leather, basic cutting and sanding, shaping with a plane and chisels, etc. On-site, intern will work with the master leather worker on prototypes, assist with the setup and dismantle of projects; create designs, and complete tasks as assigned. The purpose of this leather working internship is to acquaint the individual with the coordination and implementation of certain aspects of leather working and through experience with a professional leather worker at Wallpusher in Ipswich, MA. Matthew Rogers has taught at the MFA, MassArt, and Gordon College. His leather working classes are of the highest quality. Matthew has collaborated with world-renowned designers and tailors on innovative designs. Alongside the creative solutions that Rogers has introduced in his design company are prototypes for leather products that unleash its potential. For more information visit www.wallpusher.com. Please email info@wallpusher.com with your resume and cover letter if you are interested, please be sure to put “Wallpusher Internship”.
Business
Wallpusher is a private business offering solutions for musicians. If you are interested in attaining the skills to to market and advertise things you think should exist, then Wallpusher is the place to look. T
In this 12-week internship program you will be offered an opportunity to be involved in meaningful work/projects; be exposed to daily operations; attend informational sessions; participate in networking activities with professionals, and business leaders. You’ll learn from the best minds in the industry and have a unique opportunity to use your Marketing knowledge and skills in an environment dedicated to maintaining industry superiority. You will be introduced to useful tools and resources that will help you grow both professionally and personally throughout the program. So why wait, APPLY NOW!
he intern will be assisting in several tasks at Wallpusher that will help them to learn the more refined elements of marketing a product line in the arts and entertainment industry. On-site, intern will work with the marketing head on networking projects; create designs for advertising, and complete tasks as assigned. The purpose of this marketing internship is to acquaint the individual with the coordination and implementation of certain aspects of marketing and through experience in marketing the products sold by Wallpusher in Ipswich, MA. For more information visit www.wallpusher.com. Please email info@wallpusher.com with your resume and cover letter if you are interested, please be sure to put “Wallpusher Internship”.
This is an ongoing internship, we are looking for people to begin as soon as possible.
Have you heard about the Wallpusher Intern Program?
Wallpusher is a private business offering solutions for musicians. Our interns come to us from multiple sources, from Art Schools such as Montserrat, the MFA and MassArt, traditional colleges such as Gordon College and Endicott, and the occasional highly motivated highschool student. Many other professionals take time out of their week to learn the skills that are offered at Wallpusher. All of our interns are motivated, enthusiastic, and work hard. So far in the Wallpusher Intern to Learn Program, we have been focusing on the ancient woodworking and guitar working techniques of making guitars and guitar straps. We are interested in branching out in other directions, and seeking individuals with basic electrical guitar wiring skills who would like to experiment in creating new possibilities for wiring and tone options. Email info@wallpusher.com if you or someone you know is interested in this opportunity
If you are interested in attaining the skills to create things you think should exist, then Wallpusher is the place to look.
The interns assist in several tasks at Wallpusher that will teach them the more refined elements of wood and leather working including preparation of the wood or leather, basic cutting and sanding, shaping with dies, etc. On-site, interns work with the master woodworker or leatherworker on prototypes, assist with the setup
and dismantle of projects; create designs, and complete tasks as assigned. The purpose of this leather working internship is to acquaint the individual with the coordination and implementation of certain aspects of leather working and through experience with a professional leather worker at Wallpusher in Ipswich, MA. M
Woodworking Interns
atthew Rogers has taught at the MFA, MassArt, and Gordon College. His guitar making classes are of the highest quality. Matthew has collaborated with world-renowned designers and tailors on innovative designs. Alongside the creative so
Wallpusher leather interns
lutions that Rogers has introduced in his design company are prototypes for leather products that unleash its potential. For more information visit interntolearn.wordpress.com.
Emaiil info@wallpusher.com with your resume and cover letter if you are interested, please be sure to put “Wallpusher Internship”.
Here are a few more photos of the interns hard at work. Enjoy!
Our guitar straps have gone INTERNATIONAL!! Just recently, they were reviewed by Guitar Wink, where he described their innovative function and the ease with which they can help the player to change the height of the instument effortlessly!!
Just so you remember, these straps are featured TODAY on Etsy, so if you have a minute, we’d love it if you could go and heart our guitar straps, tell you friends, or order one.
So how do they work?
Wallpusher adjustable straps have been designed to solve a single problem inherent in every other strap they’ve used: the ability to vary the
height of the instrument up AND down during a musical performance. Sometimes a certain section demands more technical work and we would like the instrument to be higher on the body while other times we like the instruments to rest lower and more relaxed. The guitar straps Wallpusher has designed function QUICKLY and EASILY to allow a player to raise or lower the instrument almost instantaneously.
They’re so basic and easy to use!!
So how do we make them?
Depending on the type, we make sewn, riveted and chain mail models, the construction could take anywhere from 8 hours to 24. The sewn straps are made on our refurbished Singer 3115. A leather sewer from the 1800s, we refinished it with gold leaf and tractor paint and now it is used by several interns and employees to create the straps.
Of course the first step is to choose the leather, which is tricky because it has to be stretchy, but not so much that it’ll fall off the guitar, and tight, but soft enough to be comfortable. Once the leather is chosen at the local store, or reclaimed from recycled goods, it is cut with dies made custom out of cast iron to make the shapes necessary for the strap.
Determining the perfect functional components of the strap took years, but now that we have the size of the rings, the type of material, and other factors under our belts, we have to sew!
Rivets are best hammered together on an anvil, and the chainmail is made by hand from recycled metal.
AMAZING SALE: 50% off our Guitar Straps!!
Previously $80, the straps are now only $33 through March 14th!
Product Features
* Our guitar straps offer easy one-handed adjustments in seconds!
* 2″-wide guitar strap
* Classic look comes in black, red, yellow, and green to suit your personal style.
* Provides a comfortable fit while you’re playing guitar
* Colors Available: Dark Red, yellow, black, brown, green, cow
* Organic Leather
* Perfect tool for solo gigs and all musicians
* Made in MA, USA
* Wipe with damp cloth
* Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
This guitar strap is so simple, so basic – yet so perfect. The price is perfect too. This guitar strap is like no other in that it is adjustable and can be altered during play. Musicians everywhere love the ability to effortlessly adjust the guitar or bass higher to solo and then drop down easily on stage. Light, beautiful, easy to clean, easy to store, not big and bulky.
Sometime you just have to get back to the basics. Sometimes, it’s the simplest design that works the best. Sometimes, all those fancy, additional features offered are just not worth it.
Each strap comes with a tag stating the number in the series, date of creation, and my signature. As always, being a handmade strap each one is unique, and the color and cut may vary slightly.
If you have any questions about how to make guitar straps, or would like to order one, please contact us at info@wallpusher.com or contact us via our Etsy Shop. We’re happy to create custom or wholesale staps, just let us know what you’re interested in!
Love is in the air….and Valentine’s day around the corner.
I heard that 2010 is the year of the tiger, but this Valentine’s day it seems to be the year of the guitar. They’re all over the cards, saying
“you rock” and other messages, and this year the #1 gift is the heart shaped guitar hero guitar. Who knew.
We love cards and gifts too, so decided to give our cards away for free! Feel free to grab our free valentine’s day card with the unique Wallpusher Bass featured. We’ll be making a monthly card, all you have to do is click on it to grab the full size image, and then send it to your friends!
Valentine’s day is definitely a holiday where the rubber hits the road, and if love is in the air, it’s time to show it! Whether you happen to hate pink like me, or Valentine’s is your favorite holiday, the day is still on its way. Come the 14th I can’t help remembering Valentine’s day candies with their pastel chalky messages, and cutting out victorian valentines with bare bottom cherubs and very delicate doilies. Maybe like me you’ve been hounded since childhood by memories of the pressure of creating a valentine for everyone you knew, and hoping that someone didn’t (or did) have a crush on you, and feeling very confused all together by the occasion.
Heart Guitar Hero
What does your crush, spouse, date, or otherwise intended really want this Valentine’s day? Yeah sure so the Heart Guitar Hero is a nice gift, not #1 on my list, but cool, so the question is what do they really want? Very few times a year are we able to show that special someone how we feel, and guess what…here’s a day set aside for it!
I’ve always kind of shied away from the subject, but it’s staring me in the face nonetheless. What would I love to receive? What can I give that will make my special one feel as special as they are, and honestly, my mind keeps wandering back to music. I remember getting my first guitar, and how excited and happy and special I felt, as though it were a sign that somebody believed in me, that, although
Wallpusher Adjustable Guitar Strap
I had no idea how to make music, that I would, and FINALLY I had the tools to do it.
Wallpusher adjustable guitar straps are not only an affordable, handmade, one of a kind gift, but also a great solution for musicians that’s never been offered publicly before, that will revolutionize their playing! Check them out at the Etsy Shop. Your sweetheart would LOVE these.
If your loved one would love an instrument, strap, case, or other tool, check out adjustable guitar straps. You could also find a song or album,grooveshark is a great resource for all kinds of music, or if you play guitar About.com has a great resource for tabs and lyrics to great love songs. They offer a great range of songs for everyone.
tar Tab and Lyrics. If you’re not instrumentally inclined, call in to the radio and dedicate a song in the cheezy old fashioned way, or just play it for them on your computer
.
So if you’re lost for ideas this Valentines day, think music.
Wallpusher Guitars look great on paper, in photos and videos; but there’s nothing like holding one in your hand.
Here we’ll be adding to a long list of testimonials about how it feels to hold and play a Wallpusher. If you or anyone you know has something to say about Wallpusher, we’d love to hear it.
We’ll be compiling a list of testimonials not only about Wallpusher Guitars, but also the furniture, home theaters and home remodeling, fine art, and other products and services that Wallpusher has offered over the years. We strive to provide quality in every area, and it’s always good to hear that we’re achieving that quality from the source.
TESTIMONIALS:
“…adjustable guitar straps offer one handed adjustments in seconds!”
We don’t usually give in to the Facebook crazes, but we thought last week’s was kind of neat, so here it is:
Wallpusher’s definition in the urban dictionary is: really awesome striped Bass guitar. Light, ergonomic bass guitars that offer more options for the musician. Wallpusher: made by musicians for musicians.
So why all the Tshirts? A great band is looking for a new shirt design, so we pulled out all the stops and designed some Wallpusher Design shirts that give a pretty full range of different options– all in classic Black and White.
So– there you go. IF anyone else you know needs tshirts, we got ideas. Send people here for ideas.
Have you heard about Caspian? Check them out, they’re a postrock band from the Boston area local to Wallpusher who have been making a big splash all over the music scene lately. We’ve been fortunate to see them in Boston/Cambridge, but in March they’ll be touring all over the country, and then international, so I’ve heard.
The reviews and testimonials on their Myspace page are quite compelling. Passionate- lots in common with Wallpusher. Here’s a quick taste of why they’re worth listening to, quoted from their Myspace.
“This batch of songs is anchored by brilliant, restless songwriting. No boring twenty-minute crescendos here. Tertia i
s full of surprises… There’s scarcely a better post-rock record on the horizon. 9/10″
- PREFIXMAG
“Tertia” is just as effective when it sparkles as when it storms. Caspian has the instrumental firepower to make a big noise when it feels like it. But the melodies, timbres and harmonics are so fully realized that “Tertia” would be mighty, even without its climaxes.”
- THE WASHINGTON POST
“A dense work of post-rock with purpose.”
- RHAPSODY
They are a great bunch of guys, and we thoroughly encourage you to buy their new album, Tertia. It’s awesome.
Word about the t-shirt template: all the credit for the template of girl/guy shirt goes to Madnessism from Deviant Art, thanks so much for putting it online to share!!
It’s an interview or special article on an Creative Colleague of ours who deserves attention.Whether an artist, craftsman, musician or designer– our Creative Colleagues are all people with acommon drive, a similar spark that inspires them to create. Contact us if you or other creatives would like to be presented in a cameo!
Walter Stanul is an incredibly famous guitar maker and inventor of the archtop– a jewel who has lived andworked in the Boston area for decades. The work he has done inventing the Archtop Guitar has innovated the way that acoustic guitars are conceived and made.
Walter Matthew and Beautiful Guitar
We Love Walter as a friend, respect him as a great artist, and an innovative teacher. Matthew first met Walter teaching at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, MA where Walter taught guitar making. When Matthew entered the SMFA Diploma Program in 2000, THE oldest fine arts degree in the country, he introduced himself to Walter and showed him the guitars that he had been making since childhood in New Jersey. Walter was amazed, and hired Matthew to help him teach guitar making.
Walter and Matthew share a similar spirit, their friendship is an intuitive one– they speak the same way, passionate about every subject from their art, to their teaching, to the flow of a shop. Everything is exciting to Walter, who says “I don’t know how much time I’ve got left” but is constantly working to innovate beautiful instruments and share his skills through teaching at renowned universities. His teaching talents are praised Continue reading
We don’t really care what you call it, Wallblogger, or Blogpusher, or that Cool Striped Bass blog…the old cliche is true: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”….and it would be sweet if you share our blog with friends…get the word out about this project, and keep an eye out as we post more events, pictures, projects and adventures that you will definitely want to take [art in. As always, thanks guys for reading!
Now without further ado…
It’s official! We’ve entered a new decade, and Wallpusher has many hopes for the musical innovations we’ve been working on since the LAST decade, and intends to share them this year in 2010.
I guess you could call that a resolution, right? To share our innovations with as many as possible, online and in person? There are just too many people out there who have been facing the same frustrations we’ve been facing when it comes to playing the electric bass and the electric guitar; let’s all get together and do something about it!!
Have you ever been on stage, or even just playing alone in your room and realize that your instrument is holding you back? That its shape is not right for what you’re trying to do? Of course! There is a certain point for every musician where you just hit a wall because your hands are doing the right things, and tripping over the controls, or the shape of the body, or the neck. Even worse, there isn’t any guitar or bass YOU CAN BUY that will solve your problem. It just doesn’t exist.
When we got to this point, we said, That’s enough, we played and tinkered and invented and dreamed and built and tested and perfected, and FINALLY found solutions to our problems, and we’ve been making basses and guitars ever since. We are resolving for 2010 to get these solutions out there, because we all need solutions, we all need community and an open forum where we can find the tools to help us play the best we can.
What are your music resolutions for 2010? Are they technical playing goals or general networking and performing goals? We’d love to hear about them, here on the blog or emailed to info@wallpusher.com
We’re developing a video post that will detail the steps that we take to make our handmade guitars from recycled wood.
Here is one critical step: designing the laminates before we glue them together so that hard and soft woods will be integrated together to produce the durability and sound quality that you need in a real quality bass.
Offering prototype tables for everyday use, storage and teaching options. Event better than art to hangs on the wall is an art surface that can be used daily—a great way to maximize your space efficiency and give your house, studio, classroom character.
Of course we use ours for surfaces from rendering art materials, to installing electronics in our guitars, to sewing guitar straps! The best products are really those that someone decided to make because they didn’t exist…and these tables are exactly that! If you don’t have any space on the wall, or move a lot, these light, beautiful tables are really just what you need to be more efficient and productive.
We have been making furniture, guitars and other artwork for 18 years. Don’t spend any more time wishing your house, classroom, or other spaces were more space efficient, order an AFFORDABLE table from us! Made intentionally with attention to ergonomics and space efficiency. We have designed several tables with different artistic sensibilities, and can create one customized to a design you give us. Or we can make them to fit into any color scheme. These tables are going fast, and the price will not be low for long! Please contact us at info@wallpusher.com
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