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UncleNasty -> RE: Experience Shipping Bondage Furniture? (7/18/2008 9:29:21 PM)
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Interesting comments, especially from my perspective.
I make very high quality dungeon furnishings and equipment. One of the reasons I started was that most of the gear I saw in dungeons was not of the best quality, and often times safety was compomised as a result. Another reason was that I already had been working as a furniture maker (vanilla furniture) for a number of years and had the full workshop, tools and skills to do so pretty easily.
Steel, your comments about safety are legitimate. I've not seen dungeon gear that breaks down easily that I have considered to be as safe as I insist on it being. And frequently the many pieces and parts required to make it so also make it a real cluster to assemble, adjust and to disassemble.
All of this being said, utilizing superior materials (my walnut crosses are made of walnut, not a lesser wood that has been stained) and craftsmanship it is possible to design and construct pieces that have some degree of portability while still maintaining the solidity and safety most of us prefer.
Certainly the last thing I want during a scene is to have say "Hold on honey, I just need to reattach this piece here so...." Talk about a flow stopper. Worse would be to have a catastrophic failure, and accident.
Uncle Nasty
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