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How to Make Your Own Flogger
You will need:
leather - the heavier the leather, the more it stings. Suede is a good choice for your first flogger. The sensations with suede can range from sensual to stingy.
wooden dowel - This will be the handle of your flogger. Choose something smaller than you want the handle to be, as you will be wrapping thick leather around it.
leather glue - You will find this in the leather shop. You won't be able to find anything better to glue your leather with.
metal ruler - you will use this as a guide for cutting the leather, and for measuring
carpet knife or rotary blade - to slice the leather of course!
cutting surface - I bought a thick plastic cutting pad at Walmart. They keep them right where they keep the rotary blades, in the fabric section. The harder and smoother your cutting surface, the more accurate your cuts will be.
Let's Start!
First, choose a piece of leather carefully. Look at both sides and check for flaws. You don't want to get home and find there is a hole right in the middle of the hide. Often you will pay less for a hide with flaws, so you might be able to find a cheaper piece of leather that has a few minor flaws towards the edges.
See figure 1. Decide which side of the leather you would like to have facing out on the handle of your flogger. Put that side facing down, and lay the leather out on a flat surface (we won't be cutting yet). Decide how long you want your handle to be, and how long you want the tails to be. The rectangle that you are going to cut into the leather will have a length equal to the length of the handle plus the length of the tails. My flogger has a handle length of approx. 10 inches, and tails approx. 20 inches. This means, the length of my rectangle was 30 inches. Next, you will have to figure out the width of your rectangle. To do this, you need to decide how many tails you want your flogger to have. The less tails, the more sting. The more tails, the more thud. My flogger has approx. 30 tails, and it packs a lot of thud. I would suggest making each tail about a third of an inch wide, but this is mainly preference. Thinner tails are much more difficult to cut.
Take the length of tails plus the length of the handle for the length of your rectangle, and take the amount of tails you want multiplied by the individual width of each tail for the width of your rectangle. You should add about an inch to the length, and to the width to make slightly more room for the handle. Now take the length and width, and draw your rectangle onto your leather. Measure carefully and use your ruler.
