Build Your Own Dream (Nightmare?) Dungeon
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A book reviewer I’m not. But I’ll do what I can.
Douglas Kent’s The Better Built Bondage Book’s large-sized 398 pages are thoroughgoing to say the least.
It ranges from warnings about, say, using an electric flyswatter in BDSM play to - well let me outline:
Some are just ideas where you don’t need details: want a ball and chain. Why not fill a basketball with a little concrete.
Others are simple plans for making floggers, to more intermediate one for making all sorts of cuffs.
And there are the elaborate projects like building a full-service spanking bench with all the trimmings.
The first part of the book could easily be published on its own as a guide to using tools and buying bits and pieces at a hardware store.
Ever looked at a how to book where all the parts are diagrams and then gone to the store to buy those parts? Drawings never match reality. Douglas has included photos of all the screws, nuts, bolts, handles so that you’ll know exactly what the parts you are looking for look like.
Any BDSM handyman could easily spent a year building the various projects, save a bit of cash and customize them to his (or her) taste.
If you should use it to build a few toys I hope you’ll let me know how it went.
Maybe a future edition will include some ideas for building inexpensive cages.
Comments
I spent quite a bit of time in this book as well. I must say virtually all of the projects were well above my skill level (which is approximately zero), but it was so well written that I still found it very interesting and felt that I was learning stuff.
I would imagine this book would be a goldmine for anyone who has experience with building things and is into BDSM, and would totally recommend it to anyone who falls in this category. The instructions are so detailed that I would imagine you could have a lot of success with it, and the ideas are clever and clearly workable.
Really an awe-inspiring book!
Posted by: Alexandra | October 27, 2005 8:32 PM
Kent’s book contains much useful information, but many important pieces are too expensive for my budget and consequently the book doesn’t - can’t - really answer an important question. So I’d like comment on what’s the FIRST piece of furniture should one buy opr build built taking into account cost and overall utility. I realize thata there always - or nearly always = short cuts or substitution but as a general observation many of the substitutes are too painful (I know, but a joke is a joke) or don’t permit the bottom to be fully restrained, etc. For example, almost any normally put together bottom will find being tied to a table more painful than the actual beating.
Posted by: goodloe | December 13, 2007 10:42 AM
I don’t have any particular expertise, but if I wanted a one-piece dungeon, I’d probably start with an old-fashioned twin bedstead, like this one maybe.
If you put it in the middle of the room, you can tie someone down to it in a number of positions, OR tie them to the outside of the headboard, also in a variety of ways. And it’d be reasonably comfy.
But it all depends on what you like doing.
Posted by: Dev | December 13, 2007 12:46 PM
I imagine popping four eye-bolts into the bottom of the legs of a saw-horse would work pretty well. The bottom’s limbs could be cuffed to those eye-bolts, and the torso would be parallel to and on top of the top beam of the horse. Of course, padding the top would be a good idea……or just toss a couple pillows on there.
Posted by: roo-roo | December 13, 2007 9:20 PM