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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

You mention knots several times - how is that even supposed to work without the ability to inflate/increase in size*? Or is that something I'm better off not knowing?

* and, critically, decrease in size

Nooner posted:

well, i was looking at an electrician apprenticeship program, but now I think i might be more interested in freaky dildo smith apprenticeship....

I think they're called fucksmiths. (NSFW!)

The Lone Badger fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Aug 10, 2016

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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Dildomancer posted:

Most dildos you get in sex shops are made of cheap rubber and are slightly toxic. I don't know if anyone's died from one. Good silicone isn't porous and you'd have a tough time getting any appreciable amount of poison to stick to the surface. Now if you embedded some Polonium...

Polonium's an alpha emitter, it'd just make the dong self-warming. You'd want to use a gamma emitter as a core.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

How does a new fantasy-dildo begin? Do you sit there with a sketchpad "Hmmm, what if I made one with a knob here and a series of ridges here...
Do anatomical research into locations of nerve clusters and experiment with prototype dongs and a fleshlight to determine optimum angle?
Receive detailed sketches from a commissioner of exactly what it should look like?

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Why is it called Dragonskin? Did they know people were going to be using it to make dragondongers?

On that subject, what would you say was your most popular/common dildo type?

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Do there tend to be significant differences in the design of dildos designed for vaginal and rectal use? Or is it pretty much 'one size fits all holes'?

The Lone Badger fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Aug 12, 2016

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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Pile of Kittens posted:

Hah! Reminds me of a conversation I had with a supplier at my old work. I worked at a rope factory where we processed hemp rope into nice soft oiled de-fuzzed bondage rope for weirdos like me to tie each other up with. We also spun small amounts of rope from yarn of various materials (mostly rayon and silk). I was given the task, as the most fiber-literate person on staff, to trace a spool of yarn's life back to the supplier and see if they would cut us a deal on larger quantities of it as our retail supply wasn't able to cope with our demand. After three phone calls, I got the number of the people who presumably manufactured this cone of yarn and called them up.

Supplier Rep :haw: : Thanks for calling, how can I help you?
Me :v: : Hey, I have here a cone of [blah blah blah technical stuff] yarn here that I'd like to order more of.
:haw: : Sure, that's one of our products, though it's a special order item, we only make it when we have large enough orders to justify setting up a mill for it.
:v: : Oh, I'm not sure we're going to make a big enough order to justify that, is there a way to piggyback onto another order?
:haw: : Well I guess, technically you could, but each order is different. What did you say your company does?
:v: : We, er, hand produce artisanal rope. Mostly we process hemp rope, but we also use traditional techniques to produce [technical description] rope in small lengths.
:haw: : Alright, well, to better help you find a product in our line that suits your needs, what are the tensile and frictional parameters you're aiming for?
:v: : Uh, no particular tensile requirements, but low friction and high luster are definitely the qualities our customers look for.
:raise: : Umm, (probably at this point becoming nervous about selling yarn to a ropemaker who claims to not care about how strong it is), what is the purpose of the rope?
:v: : Well...
:raise: : Like, what is your customer using it for?
:v: : Well, it's for hobbies mostly.
:raise: : ...hobbies. What kind of hobbies?
:v: : ....adult hobbies.
:raise: : [long pause]
:v: : [more long pause as I wait for him to figure it out]
:hawaaaafap: : I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!!!
:v: : We actually have several instructional videos on our website which do not contain any nudity, if your questions are about the end users.
:haw: : Hahahahahahaha yeah I guess that wouldn't be very professional of me.
:v: : So you can see why the aesthetic qualities of rayon, like the frictional parameters and the luster, are far more important than the tensile strength, as our users are cautioned to not use our handspun rope for any load-bearing... activities.

That job was so fun. I miss it sometimes.

Are you going to post a thread too? I'm interested in hearing about the ins-and-outs of exactly what specialised ropes and ropelike-materials this involves, and the associated Drama.

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