topcat -> RE: Make or buy them? (1/22/2005 5:53:51 PM)
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M. Fangs- Wow- a command performance- I am flattered, especially by the company I find my self in! OK- Make then or buy them? I mostly make them. When I started doing this stuff, you couldn't buy a flogger, even in San Francisco, so alot of the tools in my quiver are homemade, either by myself or by friends. Some are 'found items' or 'prevertables, but I only own two store bought floggers- my Big Heavy Elkhide, and a terrible little one I won as a door prize. I make collars and cuffs- though my everyday working cuffs were bought at NYC Leathermen in '88 or so. I was looking at the cuffs, and wanted a pair but they were all too big- I asked if they made them smaller and the big heavy leather bear behind the counter turned to the other and said "oh- he wants girl cuffs!" distainfully. they threw a box on the conter, and sure enough, it was marked 'girl'. The first thing I made was a blindfold- soft yummy suede and black- I almost cleared it once, but decided that having it marked by twenty years of tears was too cool to clean<g>. I have made some whips of nylon- small snakes and one long (fourteen foot) bullwhip. they suck, but the little ones are handy. I still use my first two floogers regually (they are the light colored ones- oil tanned elk (very versitile). the rest are made of Nylon cord (gutted or knotted or doubled) vynal lace, or leather thong. I am sort of a minimalist- but I can work quite a scene with these, and get any effect I want. I like having made them and having had them so long. Stay warm, Lawrence [image]local://upfiles/14032/0C26DB1C44CF47F290284744072AE6D8.jpg[/image]
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