A customers wishis our command, or something like that and this particular customer hasbeen making a few requests lately and we're more than happy to try andaccommodate. A couple of theses requests are shown here as a bit of asneaky preview...

First up is something that is called a 'DevilsFork' or a 'Heretics Fork'.  Strangely, something that none of us hadcome across before but a couple of photos later and we were soon away. 

Turns out that this is a two pronged, double ended fork with quitesharp spikes.  This is fitted to the neck with the head tilted a longway back and then the wearer is unable to tilt the head back forwards tothe normal position and because of the spikes, it is too uncomfortableto rest the head on the forks.  The head is therefore kept in a mostuncomfortable position for as long as deemed necessary.

This hasbeen made a little differently to any images that we've seen as having astraight bar pressing into the throat is quite remarkably painful itturns out! To get around this, the retaining ring has been bent in themiddle and this will then sit against the throat, the middle bar of thefork then sits on top of the ring and is kept in place by having acouple of small grooves in the ring.

The end result so far is below, just the retaining strap to sort out now....


 

Next up is something that we really should have thought to do ourselvesas it is so obvious and we think a great idea - a wall mounted collar. Just how much fun could you have with that!!

Not much to sayabout this as it's all a bit straight forward really.  The collar onthese will be made from 50 x 5 mm steel to try and lessen any impact onthe throat by spreading the load a bit more and I think we might as somehalf links to allow the hand to be attached as that will prevent thesubject from being able to turn around.

We've gone for 10" on this first one, but when this becomes a live product then I suspect that we'll add a few length options.

The one pictured has had an 11st guinea pig hanging (by the hands, notthe neck!) from it so the design is quite adequate which is good as it'srelatively simple to make so should keep the cost down.

 

So that is some of what we've been doing this week.  This customerseems to be full of ideas so be expecting some more interestingdevelopments in the very near future.