dAndrea Ace Stained GlassVintage Strap

Utilizo esta cinta con guitarra eléctrica, acústica, bajo eléctrico y bajo acústico, y hasta ahora se ha adaptado a los distintos instrumentos a la perfección; tanto a las distintas longitudes cómo a los distintos pesos.

Pros:
-Suficientemente larga cómo para adaptarse a un bajo acústico
-Acabado de calidad a un buen precio
-No he instalado Straplock y hasta ahora no se me ha soltado el instrumento ni una vez.

Contras:
-Ahora mis antigüas cintas de más de 40 euros hacen que me sienta cómo un derrochador

Tenía una correa con un diseño de mosaico muy parecido pero en negro y al verla en blanco sabía que tenía que comprarla. A este precio solo con la estética me tenía ganado, así que viendo que también es cómoda, se quedará anclada a mi guitarra acústica para siempre. Por sacarle un pero, sospecho que con un instrumento pesado podría dar guerra en el hombro, ya que no tiene acolchado de ningún tipo y para instrumentos eléctricos suelo valorar más este aspecto. También es cierto que es algo cortita, así que avisada queda la gente alta.

Like the other patterns available, dAndrea have done a brilliant job bringing back the "Ace" straps from the dead, far better than other imitators. The quality and accuracy are exactly where they should be.

This might be a slightly less famous pattern than the X&O Ace strap, and perhaps a little harder to "pair" with all guitar colours aesthetically, but it's just as classic, and again dAndrea get everything right. The cotton weave is scaled and coloured correctly, and it's also soft to the touch. Unlike some reissues and replicas, the backing to the woven strap is white leather as per the original, not black or tan, or even worse, stiff nylon webbing. The leather is also soft and flexible, and that makes for comfortable wearing.

What the picture does not show, which is true for the strap I received as is true for the originals in this and the other lighter colourways, is that the strap ends are also white leather. Why the image shows black ones I don't know, I can only suppose it was an earlier run or prototype and has since been "corrected" - the darker coloured options have black strap ends as per their original designs too.

It's a very good strap for the money, quality and appearance wise, worth spending a little more than for a more basic strap, especially if you want to channel that 60s/70s image. Accurate enough to look at home on a genuine vintage guitar, as well as reproduction/replica vintage guitars or even just timeless designs.

It doesn't match everything though. From experiment, in this colour and style, do pair with:
+ white, natural, and light/pastel finishes, including light sunbursts, and mid toned dyed woods.
+ vintage / retro / traditional guitars
+ S-style and T-style electric, 70s or earlier bass, and acoustic shapes

Avoid pairing with:
- dark or black finishes (the blue and white strap just looks... odd)
- tobacco or red-heavy sunburst finishes (as above)
- neon colours (just a clash of two eras of colours)
- 80s era (PRS-style) / superstrats / "progressive" / metal guitars
- "modern" basses

Obviously, aesthetics are always subjective but this perhaps gives a good flavour of how the strap "feels" to the wearer, at least this wearer.