Combination of lycra + boy = win. Under Armour definitely know how to sell stuff.
New Posture Collar
I just bought a couple of new things from Top To Bottom Leathers and I can’t recommend them enough – pretty prompt turnaround for some lovely made-to-order gear, and the leather looks and smells lovely.
I’ve yet to use the suspension cuffs, but the posture collar works great with my Master U hood. It’s nice and simple unlike a lot of the over-engineered ones out there!
German leather gear
Sailor-front leather trousers you say? Why is it I lust after all things Germanic and leather? *
On building a playroom
We’ve just finished building out our new playspace so I thought I’d write up some good vendors and materials in case it’s of use to anyone else thinking of building their own.
We had a pretty limited area to work in but wanted something to replace our sling frame with something a bit more versatile for rope work (bars to tie to and strong enough to suspend from) but also still able to hang the Master U sling from. The room isn’t particularly big and a door is inconveniently located in the middle of one wall but what we’ve ended up with actually takes up less room than the sling frame.
We settled on a metal tube/clamp system – this looks like scaffolding but is actually designed for permanent installs of things like guardrails and ramps. There are a few suppliers of the stuff (see the list at the end) and most will cut the tube to length for you – the clamp fittings themselves come in various shapes so you can build out whatever structure you like and all just slots together with an allen key and grub screws.
We’re using 42mm OD steel tube which seems more than strong for our purposes but you may want to use larger diameter to span longer distances (but you can’t easily mix-and-match diameters).
Don’t underestimate how heavy this stuff is though especially when working at height, you’re probably going to need a couple of people to put it up. A mistake we made (although it’s worked out fine in the end) is that we tried to get all of the tubes in the same plane, i.e. the extra bondage bars inside the outer frame are joined with T-pieces. In hindsight it would have been a lot easier to use offset clamps so that the bondage bars could have been added on separately from the rest – as it was it took quite a lot of jiggling and tweaking to get all the ends in simultaneously.
We also put up some mini stage lighting in the top corners that uses PAR-16 cans with barndoors, and remote controllable coloured LED 240v GU10s.
Suppliers
Tube clamp – The Metal Store
Rubber flooring – Easimat
PAR-16 cans & barndoors – Thomann
LED lighting – LED Hut
Shibari ring – Puppy Cages
Please be careful when using tube clamp for a bondage frame and over design where necessary, especially if intending to suspend people from it.
Vertical sleepsack bondage
(Sorry for the crappy spur-of-the-moment picture!)
Rubber gimp
A hugely enjoyable day of rope bondage followed by full rubber coverage. Great start to the new playroom!
Birthday Suit
As seems to have become tradition, I bought Sir some rubber gear for his birthday this year. We’ve had a lovely switchy weekend ending in Sir being tied up and teased. His new suit looks fantastic. Grrr.
Duct tape time
What happens when the boy you’re tying is too big for your sleepsack? Use duct tape, lots of duct tape.
Sling Frame For Sale – SOLD!
SOLD!
We’re about to redevelop our playroom so we’re looking to dispose of our sling frame. Originally bought from The Hog Works it’s a pretty sturdy piece of kit and includes a crossbar for 5-point slings, or for a spot of CBT.
As we have a Master U sling we’re keeping, I’m afraid this is just the frame only with fours chains and mini-carabiners (no sling), but I’ll include 30ft of my amazing hemp bondage rope instead.
I’m looking for somewhere in the region of £200 (it was £350 new) but make me an offer. Easiest for collection in London but if you’re desperate we can try and work out delivery within the UK.
Leave a comment, tweet me or email me if you’d like to know more.
On social media and profile sites
I’ve recently had a bit of emotional turmoil in my life, nothing major, but it got me thinking about how I use profile sites and social media in general: tumblr in particular became a bit of a time-sucking-blackhole.
I’ve nuked a whole swathe of profile sites including Grindr, OK Cupid, Gearfetish, Slaveboys, Pup Zone, Informed Consent and Gaydar as I just didn’t check them that often, and those that I occasionally did, I rarely met anyone from. I have kept my Recon and Fetlife presence as I find those useful enough. I’m sorry if you don’t use either of those – you can always email me direct though.
Although I’d had a brief hiatus from Twitter & Tumblr too I’m going to start using them again as well. Twitter’s very social and has lots of meatspace friends on it and I don’t want to lose touch with them. Tumblr’s a different beast but I’m going to use it a bit more carefully, limiting time spent on it and trying to add more original content than simple re-blogs.
See you about!
