A Goth-punk Set Of Spiked Collar And Armbands I Made For A Themed Party/LARP. They're Made Of 1 Inch

A goth-punk set of spiked collar and armbands I made for a themed party/LARP. They're made of 1 inch wide leather bands, stained black, with mirror-finish nickel-plated spikes, buckles and rivets. The cone spikes are sized at 1 inch, 1/2 inch, and short.

I think they look cool, but I don't really know if I'll have much chance to wear them. I should maybe convince some friends to all mob to a goth club or something.

I enjoyed making them, but I think I likely won't work very hard to sell them or similar pieces. They aren't very much in genre with most of my other stuff, and they're not super original or anything. I feel like there isn't much reason for someone to go to me to make these rather than just going to Hot Topic or wherever. Of course, I could be convinced otherwise. And I might play around with more inventive designs in this sort of vein.

Here's the most recent tail commission I completed. Brown (anodized aluminum) background with black (anodized aluminum) mottled stripes, and standard silvery aluminum on the underside. It measures 32 inches long, and has a lobster clasp at the tip for attaching things to.

I decided to take some progress photos of this as I was building it, so I have a nice sequence that I'll be uploading soon. It won't be a full tutorial, but maybe it'll be some help for people who keep asking me for instructions.

For more information on these dragon tails I make, check out my commission info page.

I made a batch of the glasses-compatible masks that I recently designed. The first one was just cut by hand late one night, but I CADed the design up and laser-cut these all in a batch.

I'm thinking about some more complex designs that could be adapted to this template, but I'm happy with this for what it is. There's world definitely has a need for a standard-issue domino mask that people who wear glasses can wear.

This is a scale harness that I'll be bringing to Nauticon in a couple weeks.

Nauticon is a convention that I'm excited to be selling things at. And if I don't come back from it with entertaining stories, something will be very wrong. It is a 3-day long, 21-plus, viking themed fandom convention in P-Town. (For people not from the Boston area, Provincetown is a very gay resort town at the tip of Cape Cod.) I expect it to be glorious. If you're free May 2-4, I heartily encourage you to attend.

I have a couple more harnesses that I'll probably be posting pictures of in the next couple days. Once the convention is over I'll probably put them up for order on my Etsy page. (I'm waiting because if I posted them now and they sold immediately, I would really want to remake them before the convention.)

Just showing off a new color that I found. I've been using some interference acrylic paints to get an iridescent sort of color on certain pieces. (The paint is made with tiny flecks of mica in it.) I have a green and a blue version of it, and they work nicely painted over black. (I primarily use it on the bubble-wave cuff I make, because I think of it as an oceanic sort of design.)

I've not been super excited about the paint when used over blue or green, though. But last time I was making a big pile of bracelets for a craft fair I decided to try the interference blue over purple. And it was fantastic.

So I'm going to start offering this as a standard color. Iridescent purple.

An update of a steampunk respirator mask I designed as a commission. The first iteration turned out substantially larger than intended, so I redid the sizing. I think this one works well.

The commissioner asked for a gold-colored chain to hold it on instead of the leather cord I normally use. So I did that in anodized aluminum with stretchy white rubber rings. I think it's a bit more awkward and fiddly to put on, but it does look good with this aesthetic.