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TopekaDom
Here is a Quicky Flogger:
While looking at dowels in Lowe's
I found an 7 inch replacement leg for furniture
Don't really know what the wood is (Birch, maybe?)
But it was a good feel and thought it would take stain fairly well
My own real question was how to attach the falls to it
So I came up with this idea:
I removed the screw and used a hole saw to cut in a grove to set a chunk of my copper pipe in
Simple wood glue adhered the inch or so pipe to the handle
I then stained the handle with a new waterbased walnut mimwax.
the birch, or whatever, took the stain fairly well:
I wanted some brown falls to go with the color of the handle, so I chose a piece of what is
probably fake leather and stripped it down
More than likely being vinyl, the falls are very light and don't see
to have much impact
But time will tell when I get someone to test it out
We are a fairly tight bunch here on The Cage.
We have people we like, those we lust after, those we despise with great passion.
But we are a community.
Now I get it: People come and go. Sometimes we all need time away from the lifestyle or just the online presence.
But still. There are a few who's name, when it appears on the screen, just brings a smile to our lips.
There is one I miss seeing. Someone who I would never stand a chance with but brings a glow to everything they write.
I looked for their profile and can not find it. I can't find any of my (very few) messages we exchanged.
Now the blog rules say I can't mention their name, but we all know them.
I mean, they did mention they baked.
Alot, it would seem.
If anyone is in contact with them, please tell them they are missed.
Here are the My latest works:
The Twins
Black Pain (Top) is a 1.5 inch Hardwood handle with my yak hide falls
Scarlet Sting (Bottom) is a 1.25 inch Oak handle with buckskin falls
Just got done putting the
Heat Shrink top on the handle
of my purple flogger.
So going to let it set a couple of hours
before putting it a stress test
So, I took some time off
from making things to go to
a local toy fair
Picked up this bad boy
for a total sum of
$10
Nice heft
Solid impact
Well, my Leather order finally showed:
So I spent this morning cutting out some falls:
That shit was tiring
Going to wait awhile til I start the gluing
Then I get to do it all over again with the scarlet
Oh joy
I hit Lowe's yesterday and found this:
Four feet of 2 inch Hardwood
Coolest thing is, it only cost me 10 bucks!
But, as I was afraid of, it was a bit too big for me to take
At least, in my grip
The good news is: I do have a lathe!
So this morning I set off to see what I can do
I cut off a hunk :
And turned it for a bit
(Sorry! I was so interested in working on it, I forgot to take pics)
After cutting the cap off and sanding it
This is the result:
My problem is now how to stain it.
The original idea was to use a solid black stain with a built-in polyurethane but now I am thinking of using a medium brown stain I use for my cutting boards
Then, what color falls?
With the black stain, I was going to use the new red Buckskin I have coming in
But with the brown stain, I wonder if the Black Elk would not be a better choice
What do you all think?
For the width of a flogger handle, that is.
The ones I got going now are 1.25 (or one and a quarter) inches. I think the next one(s) I want to try will be either 1.5 (inch and a half) or a full blown 2 inches.
Problem is I am not sure people can get their hands around 2 inches and feel comfortable. Guess a trip to Lowe's is in order tomorrow.
