I made a set just like that for St. Paddy's Day to go with my SWK Irish National.

I can understand the guys with larger calves dislike of the elastic digging in but did you guys try a larger length? The adjustable ones are more a "Universal" devise designed to adjust to Average sizes. If your lags are larger than that or the elastic is stretched out so far that it's becoming uncomfortable, why not just get longer ones?