How would it feel to be branded

[Jennielee]

I am trying to wright out a long time fantasy of mine involving a first time master with a new untrained slave. In one scene he has to brand her after she tries to run away.

While a lot of times it is fun to act out a scene in a story to figure out the details, I don't think I'll be acting this one out for obvious reasons.

Could anybody give me a description of the pain that one would feel while being branded. The more specific the better.

Thanks.

 

[goodnplenty2011]

it is extremely painful, the worst I've ever felt. It makes your eyes waters and makes you want to pass out. And thats just when it hits your skin. the days after it feels like the worst sun burn of your life, especially if it is getting slapped.

 

[Que]

my "brands" were all unintentional...young and "little guy with a chip on his shoulder" macho. I worked with hot steel and often would forgo protection that a sane person would employ.

Red steel is about 1200 degrees if memory serves. My contacts of course were a bit more like quick contact with a hot stove, one doesn't leave a body part there.

Even glancing contact, the hair in the area evaporates, and the flesh cooks in a leathery-meaty smell. Slag smells that way to me anyway but it might be by association.

The oddest thing is how indistinguishable it is from cold. You feel pain, but its confusing in that the nerves fire off in ways that don't seem "hot"...just ow.

afterwards, it is just like any other very sharp pain, be it a cut or a burn...but burns even when they look dry feel like they are weeping fluid.

 

[Shankara20]

*lurking*

Have not been branded, yet.

Helped drum at several branding rituals.

 

[MsShelbyann]

My husband has discussed my getting a brand. Its tempting but I am quite fearful.

 

[goodnplenty2011]

With your husband my be a good idea, mine is now a permanent mark of the mistakes of my youth

 

[Dyslexicea]

With your husband my be a good idea, mine is now a permanent mark of the mistakes of my youth

Husbands can be a mistake also, considering fifty percent of first marriages, around sixty five percent of second marriages and seventy four percent of third marriages, end in divorce according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

 

[goodnplenty2011]

Husbands can be a mistake also, considering fifty percent of first marriages, around sixty five percent of second marriages and seventy four percent of third marriages, end in divorce according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Very true, I should have said someone you really trust.

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

Branding

I am not an expert when it comes to branding, but several years ago I was considering having my slave branded and did some research. Here is what I remember.

If you are thinking of branding is the same as you see in the western movies where they heat a large brand in a camp fire hold you down for a moment, brand you with the hot iron, you are wrong. Animals and even different people scar very differently. A brand like that on a person will eventually heal and scar into an unrecognizable blob of scar tissue.

Typically Asians and blacks scar differently than Caucasians, that doesn’t mean all do just most have worse scars from similar trauma to the tissue.

So if someone says I have a branding iron or a piece of bent coat hanger, we’ll heat it on the stove and brand you, run…run like hell and don’t look back.

When I was looking, this gentleman Fakir Musafar, was one of the premier branders in the U.S. I think he has retired from physical branding and tattooing, but still teaches classes on how to in the San Francisco area.

What he used to do was look at the proposed design then hand make several small metal strikers with which to do the branding. The person to be branded was tied down and supported in position with sand bags, the sand bags were also used to prevent even small movements which could destroy the look of the brand.

He would pick up individual strikers, lock them in a pair of vice grips, heat it to the proper temperature then press it against the flesh. One of his brands would take several individual strikes to complete the brand depending on the size and how intricate it was.

I really cant speak to the pain level, but I think it would be much like having a lit Cigarette pressed against your skin for a second then a few seconds or so later another red hot coal pressed down for another second, rinse, lather repeat for 30 or more times.

One of the other things I remember is you don’t just let the burn heal, once is scabs over the scabs should be picked off time after time to ensure fairly even scaring.

Again most of this is from perhaps 8 year old memory , although I doubt much has changed.

Remember Google can be your friend. I’d try Branding+ BDSM or Branding + San Francisco. The later will get you a tattoo and branding shop where the brander was trained by Fakir Musafar. I don’t know what they will tell you but it may be worth asking if they have information they will share.

Hopefully you will find this somewhat useful. BTW Stella lives in the San Francisco area and has a boat load of BDSM experience, she may be willing to help if you ask.

I just looked on Google and found this which may totally negate everything I wrote above. The shop mentioned has a web site with examples of their branding work.

“Idexa has been branding for 13 years. After experimenting with it on her own, she took a class with Fakir Musafar in 1998 at his branding school.

Idexa became an instructor at the school, and taught there for several years. Presently she offers branding at Black and Blue Tattoo. After mastering a couple of different skin branding techniques, she chose to offer electrocautery branding professionally.

The electrocautery method uses a pen-like tool containing a red-hot, exchangeable tip. This technique has a higher accuracy: One traces the design over a stencil, similarly to tattooing. This technique is the most exact, and offers the most control, to do a consistent depth and width of burn.”

Mike

 

[Shankara20]

When I was looking, this gentleman Fakir Musafar...



“Idexa has been branding for 13 years. After experimenting with it on her own, she took a class with Fakir Musafar in 1998 at his branding school.

Fakir did the branding I did drum support for and I carry a great deal of body ink done by Idexa at Black & Blue Tattoo in SF.

I trust them and their work without hesitation.

The account in your post of how Fakir does his craft is accurate.

Thanks for that.

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

Thank you Shankara20, I am pleased my memory is a lot better than my wife thinks it is. (G)

On Black & Blue's site they have several pics of the work done by Idexa. I am quite impressed with her work with the electrocautery device. I just wonder if the subject has to still pick at the scabs afterwards.

Mike

 

[rexhame317]

I have 2 brands, both done with cautery(sp) pens. The first I did on a whim, so the person freehanded it. It did not take long and the lines were smooth.

The second was done as I was her demo bottom for a class. She kept stopping/starting, so she could explain things, answer questions.

It feels to me like tattooing (which I have 2)but with a little more pressure. Oh and burnt skin smell.