I Made A Couple More Kinky Pet Rocks! The Y Harness One Id Had Sitting Around For A While, And Now Its

I made a couple more kinky pet rocks! The Y harness one I’d had sitting around for a while, and now it’s joined by one in a bulldog harness and one that’s fully-suited!

I dunno man. I just think these are a lot of fun to make. I should get some photos of them being held so the size is more obvious, then I’ll post them up for sale. I’ll think of more innuendo to slather the description with then.

I’ve still got a few more nice-looking rocks, maybe suggest some more ideas for costumes for pet rocks?

These cuddling dragon tails are just here to advertise that I’m open for dragon tail commission requests! I’ll be closing the window for requests at the end of Thursday.

For full info, check my informational page here: http://armoreddragon.tumblr.com/tails And if you’d like a tail, fill out this form here: https://goo.gl/forms/n9rmkT8WcM14H0fB2

Been cranking out these tassels for a dragon tail commission. But man they go slow. I’m averaging like 1.5 per episode of anime. 11 down, 4 more to go, and then I can finally start building this tail. I’m happy with the binding I worked out for these, but if I end up offering these as a standard option I’m really going to need to invest in crimping equipment.

Oh and once my paycheck and rent checks clear I’m making a custom order for large anodized titanium scales, so I’m excited about that. But that also means I need to dig out like 5 conversations that I kinda dropped out on where people had asked about titanium for tails, so that’s a pile of mental energy I’m going to have to dredge up in the next couple days. 

And I also need to head in to laser cut in the next few days. I need to cut a single mask. So really that means I need to figure out what other stuff I can productively cut so it’s not quite such a wasted trip. 

Crafting can be tiresome sometimes. It sometimes feels like I do nothing but fall behind and try to catch up. And man I’m tired of having cash-flow problems.

I’m experimenting with adding floof into scale mail. Someone requested it, and it’s been in the back of my mind for a while, so I’m trying it!

I tried a few ways of bundling the artificial hair together into tassels. I did wire, thin thread and thick thread. The thick thread seems to be the easiest/most reliable of what I tried, but maybe I’ll still come up with something better. Something like a big metal crimp, that would go on quickly and hold tightly over time. Dunno. 

The two basic arrangements of tassels I wanted to try out were filled-in-on-the-back, and just-on-the-sides.

The filled in version was waaaaaay thicker than I expected. Like solid hair. Wow. It used tassels attached underneath scales in the weave on the sides, replacing the rear scale with a tassel, and leaving the front free. I’d definitely need to reduce the thickness of the tassels if I went with this option, because it’s kind of an overwhelming amount of floof.

The flat version is much less cramped to weave, and it moves much more freely. It just replaces the scales on the sides with tassels. I like it, but without the scales on top of the tassels it shows their bindings pretty clearly, and I don’t think there’s a good way to prevent that. (I guess the next step is to try the side-arrangement but with the scales still included.)

I still want to experiment a bit more with these tassels, but once I’ve got it in a final arrangement I’ll take some scissors and give it a haircut to smooth out the profile. Maybe I’ll even be able to feather the edge a bit so it doesn’t have too hard an edge. 

Once I’m happy with this floof tip design for this commissioner’s request, I want to do a tail for myself with a mohawk. Haven’t decided yet if I’ll just add it to my rainbow tail, or make a brand new one.

And the last dragon tail to upload today! It’s made primarily of blackened stainless steel. This one was a short one, only 24 inches long (though coming in at 3 lbs 2 oz, because steel is heavier than aluminum).

I think I need to edit the tip, though. The commissioner’s character had a specific pattern of blue on the tip. I didn’t want to use anodized aluminum there because it tends to get scratched by the steel. Also the commissioner wanted a light blue/teal, where the normal anodized aluminum blue is a deeper royal blue. So I suggested anodized titanium, which I had just enough of left over from a previous project. But the titanium turned out to have rather less contrast with the steel than I’d expected.

I had an idea for how to pad between the steel and the aluminum, so I think I’m going to build an alternate tip, see how it looks, check with the commissioner, and maybe swap it out.

On the upside, this may have been my fasted tail constructed ever. I started it after an early dinner yesterday, and I’d gotten it finished by about 1AM. The short size helped, of course, but man. This was the 5th tail I’d made in a month. I wonder if my speed has improved since the last time I carefully timed myself.

This is the first dragon tail commission this month! It’s made of anodized aluminum, primarily black with a purple underbelly. It’s got a full line of chrome spikes down the spine. It’s also got a lobster clasp at the tip to attach things to. It measures in at 37 inches long, and weighs 4 lbs 1 oz.

Tail #2 coming up shortly!