Trying Out A Horned Crown Concept. Like The Horned Mask Designs I've Been Toying With, But Without Interfering

Trying out a horned crown concept. Like the horned mask designs I've been toying with, but without interfering with glasses. So people who don't like stuff on their face can be happy.

Also tried making horns with cut-out details. Was going for a spiraling look. I'm not sure it conveys that exactly, but I think it looks good nonetheless.

And, this just barely fits into the shipping boxes I have. Hooray! So in the next couple of days I'll take some better photos and put this up for sale in my Etsy shop.

This is an edit and remake of a mini top hat I made last spring. The adjustments to the design made it quicker to construct, and more tidy once assembled. It's also slightly smaller, so it fails to fit on people's heads a bit better.

It's up for sale on my Etsy page, too! And I'm pretty happy with the design, so I think I'll leave it up as a product that I can always make!

I've had this visual pun in my head for some time. It's a pet rock.

I can't really say that BDSM is my thing, but still this entertains me greatly. I had originally wanted to do an X harness, but this rock wasn't quite the right shape for that. The Y configuration fit much better.

I just now finished this; I'll take some nicer photos of it when it's not past midnight and I can get some better lighting. But I figured I'd post a construction progression, because I remembered to photograph the end part.

I designed this black ram mask for a friend to wear in a LARP. There were only a couple days between when he was given the character and when the game started, so I had to design and produce it pretty quickly. So I was happy that the horns worked in the way I had thought they would without having to adjust them and make more copies.

Not an especially complicated design, but it is the largest mask I've made so far. I'll need to get bigger shipping boxes if I want to sell more copies of it.

He swears his character is not the Devil. Nobody believes him.

Wooden scale maille bracelet I just made. I've been meaning to do this for years, but the arrival of the clear plastic scales finally goaded me into CADing up the dimensions and laser cutting the wood.

This wood is .8 mm thick plywood, so it's actually a good deal stronger than you'd expect. This first batch of scales I just cut quickly out of a scrap piece the laser shop had lying around. The next time I do it I'll be finishing the wood before I cut it, probably using tung oil. It'll deepen the color a bit, draw out the grain, make it a bit more lustrous, and help it avoid getting dirty.

I'm seriously contemplating making something big like a shirt out of wooden scales, and doing stuff like varying the size and shape of the scales along the piece to give it different textures. I may also look into getting veneers of fancy woods to laminate onto the wood before I cut it. (I need plywood because I don't trust planks of hardwoods not to split in the direction of the grain.)

Oh, and you can follow the link at the beginning to find this on my Etsy store!

Dragon Tail commission info

I spent some time and updated my overview of options for the scale maille dragon tails I make, to post it here on Tumblr. It's over here: http://armoreddragon.tumblr.com/tails I may end up posting some sets of photos from slightly older tails to show some examples of different patterns and materials.

I'm mostly liking this theme, except that it kind of hides pages like that behind a little drop-down menu button at the top-left of the blog's main page. Maybe that's OK though.