bbobb the toymaking elf

As I mentioned in my first post, I'm an amateur woodworker and I've started making some of my own toys. It's my theory that there's nothing in this world that can't be perverted if you try hard enough. For evidence supporting this idea see my wife's blog entry Hubby is trying to make me dislike the spanker in which Horton Hears a Who and children's toys are put to perverted uses.

Anyway back to the subject of toys. I thought some of my loyal readers - all two of you (thanks Kasey and Mom [Please note that the reference to my mother was meant in jest and I'm pretty sure she knows nothing about my sex life.]) - would like to see some of the toys.

So I started off with a paddle. I had a nice piece of African Paduak about the right size to make a decent sized paddle. It was 3/4" thick though so I resawed it down into two pieces, one about 3/8" and the other a little less than 3/8". WooHoo! Now I had enough for one big paddle and two ruler paddles like this one. The big paddle was the first toy I completed.

Next I made a spreader bar. Kasey has a bad habit of not always keeping the proper position with her legs adequately spread, so I decided she needed a little help. The first one was a little over two feet and it wasn't quite long enough, so I made a second one that's right around three feet wide and that one works pretty well. These were made from purpleheart and could really use a few coats of polyurethane to bring out the beautiful purple color.

Next up were some nipple clamps similar to these. Mine are a little beefier on one side and use hanger bolts so that the bolts only show on the side where you attach the wingnuts. They were made out of some lovely figured cherry and unfortunately my nipple model is unavailable, so I can't share a picture of them today. Once she is available again, I'll get a picture and post it.

After all of those toys, I finally got around to making that ruler paddle that Kasey originally asked about. It was also from the orange paduak that the big paddle was from.

Recently, I've also started learning leather working so I could make even more toys. My first, and only so far, completed leather project is a locking cuff. This the first of a set of wrist, ankle, thigh, waist and neck cuffs. Personally, I think black leather is bit clichéd, so I'm working with tan leather. Fortunately, my hand model was available.

Well that's what I've made so far. I'll be finishing up the set of cuffs next and then moving onto a bit gag and a couple of leather slappers - one with a braided handle so a whole new skill for me to learn.

Hope you're all getting as lucky as you want to be,

bbobb