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NickInSLC -> RE: Flogger materials and handle construction. (8/10/2005 1:09:00 PM)
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Hey Broken.
What Andrew is talking about is rolling up just what fits into the tubing that you use, then wrapping the remainder around the outside. We start off by wrapping all the tails around the tail and holding them in place with a piece of tape. Then hanging a baggie off the other end of the handle and putting lead into the baggie until we get the balance we are looking for.
Use some sort of glue to hold the buttplug together while you work on it. Once it's rolled and cut so it fits into the tube, I like to shove it in the tube and let the glue dry for five or ten minutes just to make the rest of the process easier. After the glue is dried, I drill a hole through the plug being careful to aim so I catch both ends of the strip that was rolled. Then I use a needle to run a length of artificial sinew around the plug and through the hole in a figure 8 pattern. After you've gone two or three times around, spiral around the sinew that's on the outside. This tightens the whole thing up very nicely. I make a point to do this donut knot as close to the top of the plug as possible so I can run screws into the plug without hitting the donut knot. If you skip the donut knot, your flogger tails will come out from the middle. It's really embarassing.
Once your plug is shoved into the handle, wrap the rest of the tails around the outside of the handle (glue them if you wish), then drill through the outer set of tails and into the tubing. After that, you're ready to run screws. You want counterhead screws and make sure they are long enough to go well into the plug.
I prefer to attach my tails after everything else on the handle is finished. Then all that's left is the knot covering the bulge. If you mount your tails this way, you will usually need to build up your bulge a tad more by wrapping a peice of leather around it to give your knot something to grab. I'm attaching a picture of a finished flogger that's done this way.
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ORIGINAL: brokenhallelujah
Hey guys.
I have built quite a few floggers in the last couple of years, and have a very good leather wholesaler here in town. The problem I have right now has more to do with handle construction and finishing work. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations.
For handles, I usually leave about eight inches of uncut leather at one end of the cutting, and then wrap that around a dowel or some other core material. The problem I am having is that I tend to work in heavier leathers -- elk, bullhide -- and produce floggers with a higher number of tresses. This causes some trouble, as the diameter of the handle can quickly become unmanageable in thickness, and not particularly comfortable for some people with smaller hands.
Can anyone recommend another method of attaching the falls to some kind of handle material? I took apart a higher-quality professionally made flogger, and found they were doing it pretty much the same way described above...
I am at a loss, and have a beautiful skin I would like to turn into something really special.
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, ya'll.
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