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Amfig

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Making Equipment & Toys

Anyone made any creative equipment? Here are instructions for some easily made, eawsily used safe restraint cords that I posted in another forum:

Here is one of the easiest ways of making some bondage restraints, especially if what you want to do is to tie up your honey speadeagle.

Materials

150' of 1/8" (about) cord
a ball of cotton household twine
a length of heavy thread
a small bottle of white glue

Tools

Scissors
A couple of wooden clothespins
A needle
An icepick, a phillips screwdriver or a big nail (optional)
a soldering iron or matches, a candle, a butane lighter.

About cord

Every hardware store, Mart store, Home Depot type store sells something called "utility cord." It's about 1/8" in diameter, (9/64" is about 1/8", 7/32" is closer to 1/4"), has a braided cover, is cotton covered or nylon covered over a core. It's sold in plastic bags that have handks in them of 45', 48' or 50' and costs about $2 or $3 per hank. That's good.

Craft and fabric stores sell some cord of about the same diameter, usually as a macrame cord, that can also be used. If that's what you get, it is usually sold by the foot. You want, in total, 12 strands at least 11' to 15' long. Fabric stores sometimes sell a small diameter silk covered cord for curtain tie backs etc. If you can get the silk or silk covered cord, that stuff is the best. It, too is sold by the foot.

Technique

Cut the cord into a total of 12 lengths of about 11' to 15' long. If the ends of the cord you bought are frayed, trim off the frayed ends. Put a dot of white glue on the cut ends so they will not continue to fray. If you have nylon, dacron or some other plastic cord, cut it with the soldering iron to heat fuse the ends, or cut with scissors and use matches, a candle, etc. to heat fuse the cut ends.

Middle 3 strands and hang them over your left hand, with the midpoint across the back of the left hand. About 1 foot below the midpoint, (on the side on the back of your hand) bind the three cords together with the clothespin.

Now start a simple three strand plait-the same one a little girl uses to plait her hair. Move the left cord over the middle cord and bury it. Now move the right cord over the middle cord and bury it. Keep this up until you have at least 6" to as much as 9" of plaiting. Bring the two ends of the plaiting together and bind the six cords together with the clothespin, flat.

Congatulations. You have now made an eye. The eye should be at least a big around as a quarter, and maybe as much as 3" in diameter.

Now start some six strand braiding. Take 4 cords in the left hand and two in the right. Take the leftmost strand and lay it over the other three, moving it to the right hand. You now have three cords in the right hand. Take the rightmost strand and lay it across the other two on the right, moving it to the left hand. You now have four cords in the left hand. Continue plaiting with the left over three and the righ over two for several turns. Take the clothespin off after you have passed six or seven complete plaits. Move the clothespin to the bottom of the six strand plaiting. Take your ice pick, screwdriver or nail and use it as a marlinspike to tighten up your six strand plaiting. Just pull down a little on each plait, working the slack downwards throught the plaiting.

Continue the six strand plaiting, tightening it up from time to time, until you have about 12" to 15" of six strand plait. Bind with the clothespin and determine which of the six strands is shortest. Contine the six strand until the shortest strand is in the far left position. Drop the shortest strand.

You now have five strands, three in the left hand, two in the right. Plaiit the left most strand over two, moving the leftmost strand to the lowest position in the right hand. You now have three strands in the right hand. Take the rightmost strand over two strand,s moving it to the lowest position in the left hand. This is five strand braiding. Keep it up until you have some 18" or so of five strand plaiting. Find the shortest strand and continue to plait until the shortest strand is in the far right position and drop it.

You now have four strands, three in the right hand and on in the left. Left outside strand goes over two and to the right. Far right strand goes over one and back to the left. Keep up making a four strand plait until your remaining cord is down to about 2 1/2 or 3 feet left. Find the shortest strand and when it become the strand farthest left, drop it.

You now have three strands left. Plait them as three strand braid, just as you did the eye, util one of them runs out. You now have two strands. Using a piece of twine, tie a simple overhand knot around the two strands, turn the plait over and tie another overhand knot on the other side of the two strands. Continue to tie overhand knots up the two strands back to the point at which you ran out of the third strand, flipping the work over and alternating the side on which you tie the overhand knot. If you want to be technical, this is called "West Country Whipping." Continuous overhand knots should not be required for more than about 1/2" to an inch. Tie a second overhand knot on top of the last overhand knot you tied. This will make either a reef knot or a granny knot. It really won't matter which you tied. Cut off the loose ends of the twine and put a dab of white glue on top of the knot you just tied to finish the "whipping."

Now turn the whole affair over. You have the three loose cords that you dropped dangling off the back. Using the needle and thread, stitch the loose cord to the cord above it with two or three stout stitches, then cut off the remainder of the dropped cord. Thos three dropped cords are scrap.

You have now made a rat tail "whip." Do it three more times and you have a set of four. They should be anywhere from 4 1/2 feet long to 5 1/2 feet long, depending on how tight you kept your plaiting and how long the cords you started with were.

I can whip out a set of four of these in an hour or so. It should not take you more than an evening in fron of tv, even if you have never done this sort of thing before, to braid up a set of four.

Using the whips for restraint.

Take a whip and place the eye on your bonde's wrist. Bring the tail up through the eye and pull down tight. Pass the tail under the strand behind the eye and back over the top of the eye. Pass the tail back through the eye and adjust for tightness and comfort. The tail can now be tied to any convenient bedpost. A clove hitch, cow hitch, or any simple, fairly secure knot can be used to ties to the bedpost. Do the same thing with the other wrist and both ankles.

These flat, ribbonlike bands are comfortable and won't chafe, cut or bind. They are cheap and quickly made. The part that goes around the bondee's extremities is nearly 3/4" wide and flat. They are pretty to look at. If tied simply to a bedpost they will be so easy and quick to untie that you likely will never need those trauma shears.
You might also wish to make your own

Spreader bars

These are especially convenient if your bed lacks a headboard of a foot board.

Materials

Six eyebolts with 1" eyes and 1 1/2" or longer bolts.

Six nuts.

Two broom handles.

Tools

Drill and 1/4" drill bit
wrench sized to your nuts

Drill three holes in each broom handle. Two holes go about 1 1/2" from each end, the third hole goes in the middle. The bolts are then placed in the holes, the two on the outside pointing in the same direction, the one in the middle pointing opposite the other two. Tighten the nuts onto the eyebolts.

Bondee's wrists and ankles are tied to the ends of the bars. A spare piece of rope or cord is tied to the boldt in the middle and the other end tied to any convenient attachment point, such as the bedframe.

Or you could palit up two more whips for the center eyes and attach them the same way you attached them to the bondee.

Enjoy.

Oh, and if any knotters are reading this board, the technique I have described for plaiting these whips is the simplest. I know how to make them prettier, such as doing the whole thing in French or English sinnet, but that is more complicated to decribe. So this is the easiest way, not the prettiest.
 
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oooh... sounds deliciously complicated. Just the chore to assign to the household sub on a rainy day. Do you have a picture?
 
I was just thinking the same thing, Nemo!

What a wonderful surprise that would be for Himself!:D
 
Amfig


Thank you for the post....I read it and immediately also thought..what a nice project for one of My toy boys to accomplish, naked at My feet!
Homeade equipment has a different ambience to it and can give Me an extra kick when it is made BY the one it is used on.
 
NemoAlia said:
oooh... sounds deliciously complicated. Just the chore to assign to the household sub on a rainy day. Do you have a picture?

I attempted to take some pictures, but this sort of stuff does not photograph real well. Drawings are clearer as far as technique of making, using. Could scan the drawings, but they would be too large for lit's attachment posting.
 
Y'know, somewhere on the How To board (I think) there's a thread that offers assistance to people who need to have pictures resized. Perhaps someone there could help you with it, so that you can help us with our cravings to see your artwork.
 
NemoAlia said:
Y'know, somewhere on the How To board (I think) there's a thread that offers assistance to people who need to have pictures resized. Perhaps someone there could help you with it, so that you can help us with our cravings to see your artwork.

Size is not the issue with photos. That I can do. Clarity, or my lack of skills as a photographer, is the issue with photos. The cord is white and the plaiting is tight, so the whole thing shows up in a digi-photo like a white rat-tailed tape with an eye in the end. I tried shooting one against a dark background (navy sheet) and got that effect. Tried photographing one on my wife's wrist. Still, no detail in the photo.

Scans of drawings are not only big for lit, but when resized become almost unreadable. Tried a Photoshop trick on them. Only thing I haven't tried is photgraphing against a medium contrast background and then using PShop to take it down to B&W. That might work. We'll see.
 
Ohhhh those bonds sound wonderful.

All I need is the house to myself to be able to plait and whip away.


Right now, I am trying to convert a few split rings and some chain into a hog tie and a harness for R to use as He thinks fit.
 
WillowPuss said:
Ohhhh those bonds sound wonderful.

All I need is the house to myself to be able to plait and whip away.


Right now, I am trying to convert a few split rings and some chain into a hog tie and a harness for R to use as He thinks fit.

How about a picture when it is completed?

Hi Willowpuss, glad to see you posting again.
 
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