I Should Try To Be Better About Showing The Small Things I Make. So Here's A Bracelet Someone Bought

I should try to be better about showing the small things I make. So here's a bracelet someone bought from my Etsy last week. Both scales and rings are stainless steel. I do a bunch of different colors with scale mail because people like them, but I gotta say, stainless steel is still probably my favorite material to work with. It's just straightforward and satisfying. And of course, here's the link to it up on my Etsy.

Leather dragon costume! Matching set of head and tail! I’m very excited, this project was many months in the making. 

Aesthetically I was aiming for something sort of halfway in between a fursuit and kink gear. I think the black leather and rivets pull the image pretty strongly towards the latter, giving it a sleek and somewhat sinister vibe.

It’s a hollow shell, not built on a resin or foam base. The leather used is a somewhat firm but flexible chrome re-tanned one, with a very clean semi-glossy finish.

The head has enough space to be worn over glasses! You can see mine in some of the photos. The eyes are clear acrylic, giving a pretty good unobstructed field of vision. The horns are birch plywood laminated together into a solid form. The head opens in the back and laces closed with nylon paracord. The tail is stuffed with poly-fill, and held on with a pair of belt loops.

I designed everything in 3D in Rhino. Because the pieces were pretty big I actually hand-cut all the leather pieces rather than laser-cutting them as I often do. (The plywood for the horns was laser-cut.) You can see some of that process here.

And of utmost importance, this is up for sale! Here’s the Etsy link! If it sells I’ll get to make a new one and try out more new ideas!

Someone asked for a version of my buckled hatchwork bracelet, but sized as a collar. So here it is!

Back when I was frantically prepping to vend at Arisia in January, I put some time in to make glasses-compatible versions of more of my mask designs. They all sold, so I'll have to make new copies in order to get usable photos of them that I can put up on Etsy, but in the meantime here's the selfies I grabbed.

Tested out some new gold leather dye on a codpiece! I like it! Though it’s a little bit hard to get totally smooth and consistent, it tends to show the brush marks from applying it to the leather.

Apparently I should put more energy into codpieces, they were my best-selling item in 2018. I need to think of new design ideas that I like.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/236154791/overlapping-plates-codpiece

This seems annoyingly prescient.

Nice Tumblr ya got there...would be a shame if something were to happen to it.