Professional photographer Matthew Swaggart spent years travelling the world with his gear, he grew tired of the stock standard nylon straps that come with even the higher-end modern cameras and decided to do something about it.
He spent time in his Oklahoma workshop developing a strong, versatile camera strap made of leather, canvas and micro-fiber suede. He made it 2.3 inches wide to evenly distribute weight and he added two front pockets to stash your credit cards, ID, cash, and memory cards.
Ben has had his work featured on CNN, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, and many more.
Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with millions of readers around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
My friend Adam Lesley, whom I had previously built a Sportster 1200 Hooligan racer for, approached me with interest in building a flat track “framer” – a framer is a motorcycle with a lightweight frame designed for dirt track racing…
The Alsta Nautoscaph Superautomatic is by far the Swiss watch company’s most famous watch, largely because an example was worn prominently by Richard Dreyfuss…
