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RE: home made equipment - 1/8/2008 9:08:55 AM

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Check out my website www.kinkycrafts.info

It's still under construction, but you're welcome to snoop around. We have instructions for making stocks and some other portable furniture.

Last night, I made a leather covered ring gag for $1.50 and it looks/feels great. I've also made my own corsets, a latex spanking skirt (that sells for $125 on line, and I made it for about $8.00, latex hoods, a latex catsuit, shoelace gags, floggers, bodkins with bells...I could go on and on...but you get the picture- I am a kinky craftster!

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RE: home made equipment - 1/8/2008 1:03:55 PM

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To date I have made a latex hose flogger, a rubber string (from inside a bungee cord) flogger, a penis-shaped gag (old dildo, small leather belt and a little "tool-dip"), a spreader bar, spanking bench, paddle.... I think that is it thus far.

Most toys you see on the 'net can be made for a lot less. Just takes some imagination, a few tools and a little patience.

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RE: home made equipment - 1/8/2008 2:42:44 PM

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Home Depot is an amazing store. I did a triple take one time when I was in there when I discovered "cable cuffs". They're designed for collecting together cabling from a TV or computer or something to neaten it up, but they clearly look like a half a handcuff. Two of those + a couple of cable ties yield an extremely secure (albeit uncomfortable) set of handcuffs for < $6. When I shop at the Home Depot, they ask me for a job code and I give them "BD5M" if I'm buying craft equipment.

There are a couple of books on the subject. Kinkycrafts was okay. The projects varied from silly and overly simple to beyond my level of abilities at the time. The Better Built Bondage Book is very nice (their vacuum bed works quite quite well and was < $30 vs $300+ to buy one professionally made), but a little expensive. I'd recommend at least looking at both books. If the projects catch your interest, then they're well worth the investment. If not, they'll still give you ideas.

Wanting to build my own gear is what finally got me into carpentry and woodworking a few months back. It's something I'd thought about doing for years, but never had the space or money before; or a good clear reason. But now I've snapped up PVC pipe parts and lumber and am having a grand old time. Currently built items include a vacuum bed, "toy box" (for the girl, not equipment), basic platform, over the door restraints, and stockade.

A drill and a circular saw get you started. As you progress (if you enjoy it), a jigsaw, miter saw, router, and table saw are good to pick up (among other things that I haven't gotten to yet). Honestly, it's really amazed me how simple it is to build your own equipment. Admittedly, I'm nowhere near professional level yet, but I'm just starting out. And in just a few months of dinking around I've gotten the hang of an awful lot awfully quickly.

Once you've gotten some basic materials and plans and tried things out to get a little comfortable, the best thing I've found is just to go walk through your local hardware stores. Go up and down every aisle. It's amazing what you can pervert in all different sections. Plumbing, electrical, lumber, tools, and so on. All of it can be used for nasty purposes.

And as soon as you know how to use your tools and are looking at the raw materials with an eye towards kink, the ideas just start flowing. Right now I'm stuck not building anything since my workshop is in my unheated garage, but as soon as spring hits I've drawn up my own plans for a better toy box, suspension rig (well, 3 different suspension rigs), shower stall, spanking bench, coffin, and a few other things that I'm sure I'm forgetting right now. Most of those all I need to buy are screws and lumber and should all be pretty cheap and easy to assemble.

heh, my girl told me about the time she went into farm & fleet and bought a few riding crops + a lot of heavy rope + a few other questionable items along those lines. The cashier did give her a few curious looks.

Tying it back to your requests about CBT equipment, those cable cuffs I'd mentioned could work well (they even come in various sizes, you can string 'em together for a homemade gates of hell), you can buy metal O and D rings easily enough at a lot of hardware stores. A few small pieces of wood + some long screws and butterfly nuts and you end up with a crusher. Appropriately sized PVC pipe angled downward and you have a chastity device.

Seriously, go walk up and down every aisle in your local hardware store and look at everything while thinking "Okay, how can I put my dick in this/be bound up in it/injure myself with that." Once you change your mindset, the ideas should really start flowing.

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RE: home made equipment - 1/8/2008 3:39:27 PM

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I agree RoughFN, that The Better Built Bondage Book is better than 20th Century Kinky Crafts (both of which we own and have reviews of on our website). The Kinky Crafts book has some good ideas, but they are not well explained. The BBBB assumes you have no carpentry skills and he basically talks to you as if he's your kinky dad- explains how to read plans, use tools, etc. We have made several of his projects, and they have inspired us to design our own.

Also...would you agree that the drawing of the dude in 20th Century Kinky Crafts with the "tongue condom" is creepy looking? LOL!

BTW: Our site is called kinkycrafts.info but is in no way connected to or affiliated with the book.

Also, in my opinion, Ace Hardware is even kinkier than Home Depot, because you can sometimes find more obscure stuff like grommet setting dies and tools and leather crafting stuff.

Another favorite place of mine to pick up stuff is furniture stores...ask them for their swatches of leather. Although the swatches are small, you can still make plenty of great toys. The soft leather can be used to wrap metal rings to make an o-ring gag, or you can make pussy floggers, or hogtie attachment points and even lovely soft collars.

Raid the thrift store for genuine leather belts, shoes that you can take the roller buckles off of, suede and leather skirts to shred for floggers or cut up and re-sew into kinkier outfits or to cover corsets, old furniture that you can convert into bondage furniture...

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RE: home made equipment - 1/9/2008 7:33:55 PM

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I personally build all our furniture and paddles though I do get inspiration from some comercial websites. we even helped a pro Domme rebuild her dungeon after a relocation. We are considering going commercial at some point or taking commissions but haven't taken the plunge yet. A basic understanding of carpentry and some imagination can go a long way when building furniture. Of course we are both professional carpenters withe xstensive training.

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RE: home made equipment - 1/12/2008 11:14:06 AM

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I agree home depot is a wonderful place! I also enjoy radio shack for electrical experiment supplies. Thank you to everyone for the links I like either building my own items, or having them made. It gives a more personal touch I believe, plus they can look much more menacing

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RE: home made equipment - 1/13/2008 5:39:37 AM

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I was given a gag ball for xmas - I have asthma and am afraid of them... but a simple rope through a a practice golf ball - the kind with holes, and voila!... also, i have a dog toy that I use as a gag ball as well and it has the added bonus of lighting up when I bite down on it. Simple but fun.

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RE: home made equipment - 1/15/2008 7:57:03 PM

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I just had pretty good success in wally-world and home depot. I walked through each store hoping to find some of the things you are in search of. From home depot I picked up 3 wooden dowels and all of the necessary hardware to make some nice spreader bars. I plan on staining these a nice ebony stain later on this week. To the ends of each dowel im attacking eye-hooks and chain to make them adjustable and strong. Total cost for the 3 spreaders was about 20 bucks excluding the staining materials.

Before I went in to HD i had a pretty eloborate plan laid out for a restrain system for one of the empty rooms in my apartment. Simply making a grid of 2x4s screwed in to studs and a nice selection of eye-hooks and diffrerent length chains will allow me to do pretty much everything i want in every position one i get my "utility cart" made. (the plans alone i am very proud of). Using 2x4s and other pieces of wood bracing allows me to skip mounting anything to the ceiling which in an apt is not a good idea. However being interested in hanging things and being an engineer this is something I had to get around. Using light to medium duty chains across the room and studs i was able to create a sturdy hanging support/mounting place. in the middle I made an o-ring that can accept severall quick release attachments. They are quick release because my mistress is short. For the time being I have a pulley attachment and a large hoop attachment. Im still workign on the spreader bar attachments. From the pulleys my mistress likes to attach weights to my balls and beads. I also self made the weights with a bolt on hook and several washers. Not as simple as fishing weights but I got the idea in home depot so why not. Next week im planning on putting up a piece of pegboard to display/hang of all our toys next to the work place.

I made this room from 10 2x4x8' studs alot of chain, alot of eye bolts, quick release hooks, carribeaners and wood screws for about 80-90 bucks. I havent had all of my weight on it for a long period of time but its holding so far.

Soft nylon rope at the HD is cheap! 3/16" balsa wood dowels make great canes. Bulk packs of latex gloves are cheap. Surprisingly i was able to get wax blocks from HD, i dont know if they sell them anymore but. Get it in bulk from them on the cheap and buy a candle making kit. Ive made my own candles and various insertables on the cheap. Saftey webbing with some scrap dowel and some careful stitching makes for a great over the door restraint kit. Buckets, clothespins, duct tape are all things we got from HD that we have used more often than not. Depending on how kinky you are able to get outdoors, they also sell these large "lawn screws" literaly a giant screw that you screw in to the ground normally used to keep a dog in the yard on a leash. Put in doggy style with a pair of these I was restrain by my mistress for the afternoon in her backyard. We could play with the garden hose and get as messy as we wanted, plus the chance to experience something very different in a new atmosphere was very exciting! I almost came from hearing the echo of my spankings across the trees.

I also thought about making the spreader bars from PVC pipe or electrical conduit. Speaking of electical theres gotta be some sort of electical toy you could make out of copper pipe. OK ill stop rambling.

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RE: home made equipment - 1/16/2008 3:09:30 PM

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Hi Jon, and welcome to the forums!

Thanks for sharing your ideas for the ceiling suspension alternative. Keep us posted on how it holds up. I love getting caned, so I'll have to pick up a thin piece of doweling next time I'm at Kinky Depot.

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RE: home made equipment - 1/16/2008 3:19:51 PM

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Thanks for the welcome, very glad to be here. Your site also looks quite informative, thinking about a homemade flogger now to replace our crappy 15" one.

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