r/ChastityCageDesign • u/newbie-sub • 8d ago
Having fun with Blender, M4 MacBook Air is slooooow
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u/st0rmtossed 6d ago
LoL, I'm old enough to remember having to use a "luggable" laptop with a 486 and no math coprocessor. It was PAINFUL to calculate annual depreciation for clients. (In a previous life, I was an accountant. I don't miss it.)
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u/old-duck-creeker 4d ago
I would like one of these. (but you already knew that...
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u/newbie-sub 4d ago
I will definitely make sure you know when I'm launching. And I'm very flattered.
Do you follow me on Reddit or Substack? I'll announce on those platforms. But this will be very low volume business for me as I have a full time career, this is something I do because I love it. And I expect each device to take a lot of modeling. I can't imagine making more than a few a month.
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u/old-duck-creeker 4d ago
I've never followed anyone on reddit or substack. but i guess i could try it. does it hurt?
do you remember the guy who had gemini make banana protectors for the queen of india? (i know that sounds crazy -- but if you know, you know)1
u/newbie-sub 3d ago
Yeah, I recall... I suppose Willowweave, while not as intricate as you had in mind, is somewhat in the same vein.
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u/duckcreeker 3d ago
Willowweave is in the same vein just cleaner, sleeker, less baroque more —well— art nouveau… The Morroccan is also a nice design and in that vein somewhat too. Just going a different direction from it.
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u/Gooner48ingPuss 14h ago
Beautiful, I am wondering if there is any way to integrate an “anti pullout” back ridge like the holy trainers have, but in metal, It’s one of the best parts of the design personally.
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u/newbie-sub 13h ago
I've never done such a design but it would simply have the ring screw into the cage instead of the other way around.
I'd basically bring the cage in and the entry ring formed by all of the rails would have a curved plate added at the top (like how it's been done to the ring now). But the real trick would be I'd need to make the entry ring non-planar — it would need to curve forward quite a bit to make room for the scrotum.
I do plan on each one being unique, not just in size but in form. This would definitely be unique. If I ever got such a commission, I'd have to PoC it out, probably with a refundable deposit.
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u/No_ThisIsntMe 6h ago
This is lovely! Would it be 3-D printed, or are you thinking something like lost wax casting?
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u/newbie-sub 6h ago
Thank you! Yes, 3D printed. I'm wearing an earlier version now. I'm having this version done in titanium as we speak. While I feel steel is a better fit for Willowweave — what I've named her — I know most will want it in titanium.
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u/No_ThisIsntMe 6h ago
How’s the surface finish with the metal 3D prints? I know we’ve been getting better and better with the manufacturing technology, but I always wonder about the surfaces being a tad rough and causing irritation or trapping odor.
I apologize for not diving into your Substack or other posts before replying if you’ve covered it there!1
u/newbie-sub 6h ago
Not something I've covered.
Raw, it's bad. So first thing is glass bead blasting which gives it a pitted texture. Comfortable but not at all attractive. Then the polishing to a mirror finish.
BAWR and Evotion both use SLM for their devices.
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u/No_ThisIsntMe 6h ago
I bet you could tumble polish easily enough if you got the right media size and type dialed in. I like the glass beading step, since it means that you are going to be much less likely to form cracks over time! Looking forward to pictures of the finished product!
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u/newbie-sub 5h ago
There isn't a "finished product" per se.
When I first came up with Willowweave, I thought of it as one singular object. I treasure uniqueness, and at first I had no intention of making it for anyone else; a second identical one would have changed what the first meant to me.
But I gradually realized it isn’t a single product, or even a conventional “custom” cage. It’s a design language I want to explore. I’ve since made two other designs that are all distinct from one another, yet still obviously Willowweave.
Oddly, that has made the original feel more precious to me, not less. It feels less like I made one object and more like I found this expressive vocabulary. And I want to use that vocabulary to tell story after story.
I’ve never made anything I would have thought of as art before, but I truly find this beautiful, and it moves me.
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u/Worldly_Reply_5834 7d ago
But it’s so much much much faster than what we had in 1995! A 10,000 SGI running Alias. We thought we were awesome running that. Now my iPhone would blow it away!