This Dragon Tail Is Available For Immediate Sale Over Here On My Etsy Shop. This Is An Unusual Occurrence,

This dragon tail is available for immediate sale over here on my Etsy shop. This is an unusual occurrence, so if you’d like it, grab it while you can! I can ship it immediately, so it can get to you by Halloween.

Made in anodized aluminum with red mottled stripes over a black background. It’s 35 inches long and weighs in at just under 3 pounds.

(This tail was a second copy of a tail made for a commissioner. The post office lost the package in Ohio, so I made a replacement to send to the commissioner. Then the original package was recovered and returned to me. So now it’s here for you!)

[edit] Sold! Thanks for playing!

A quick scale bracelet someone bought off my etsy page. I liked the color pattern, so I'm posting it up for people to see. 

So I heard about this Magic Meat Week going around, and immediately I’m like “This is relevant to several of my interests!!!” I have to contribute. But since I don’t draw, I figured I’d just have to make a real-life empowering outfit.

So I’ve been working on new things. Gonna try to finish them up in the next day or so and get some photos!

I’ve wanted to make a shark mask for some time. The question of why exactly is difficult to answer, but last night I sat down and pounded out a design for one. I did the design in 3D in Rhino, building on the experience of having done that plague doctor hood a couple months ago.

Here you can see the design in 3D, and all the pieces laid out and ready to laser cut. I’m going to attempt riveting it all together. The plague doctor hood was sewn together, which takes a really long time to assemble (like 8 hours of hand stitching), but is easy to design for and lay out and know that it’ll work. I’m less certain about the rivets working quite so smoothly, but we shall see. If it works, it’ll mean a vastly speedier assembly. 

I’ll be laser-cutting this out in 8 hours! I should get to bed.

Suggest some mask ideas!

Some context: The place I go to rent time on the laser cutter recently switched how they charge. They used to charge per minute of cutting time, which was convenient because I could pop over when someone bought something off Etsy, cut it out quickly, pay for the 3 minutes of cutting time, and be out the door within 10 minutes.

But they switched to charging according to time that you’re on the machine. Which would be fine, since I’m pretty practiced and efficient, except that the minimum time they’re charging for is $50 per half hour on the cutter.

So in order to not bleed money, any time I’m there cutting something for an order I need to pad out the half hour with cutting extra copies of something else. So far I’ve been cutting blanks of the small mask designs I’ve had for a while.

But this is also a fine opportunity to make some new more small- to medium-sized designs! Recently my most popular design has been this jackal mask. I should make some more designs like that.

So what sorts of animals would people be excited to see in fancy leather mask form? Let me know!!!!?

A hat band I made for a friend, which will be a gift to his father. Made of stainless steel rings in a European 4-in-1 pattern.