Draw-String Wrist Cuffs

***WARNING: This Instructable has a (gentle) BDSM slant to it. If for some reason you are intolerant of or bigoted against BDSM, you should probably not read this. I accept no responsibility if you read this and get squeamish about the idea of cuffing someone up.***

My motivation for making these draw-string wrist cuffs is simple - I needed some way to restrain my lovely sub girl who had unfortunately bust my cheap cuffs when she fell over (I also have a strong sturdy pair of old-time Derby handcuffs, but they are heavy, and worse, slow to get her in and out of). Since more decent restraint gear can be expensive to get a hold of, I decided to make my own.

I was inspired by cuff/bracelets made by member Fungus Amungus, link here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Leather-Bracelets-from-Recycled-Belts/

but I couldn't get snaps to fit through the leather belt that I was cannnabilizing. So I bust out my long-serving eyeletting kit and put eyelets through instead, so I could tighten or loosen the cuffs as desired (also gave me an excuse to include something rainbow-ey in it). Another good thing about these cuffs is that you can put a length of rope between them and so adjust the distance the hands can move to (or indeed whether or not to attach the hand in question to the other hand at all)

Naturally, these have other uses too, such as tying up bad men once you have defeated them on your nightly superhero(ine) escapades and leaving them for the baffled police to find.

I hope that these are made by someone else and enjoyed.
NB: pverviously I asked that people be gentle with criticism, but that actually seems counterproductive now that I think about it. Please just be constructive if nothing else.

You will need:
Ingredients:
a belt to cut up (any colour you like)
some eyelets and washers (enough for four eyelets and a few more in case of mistakes)
some shoelaces or similar
some rope (optional)

Tools:
A scalpel (or X-acto knife)
An eyeletting device and hammer, or eyelet pliers
A steel rule (helpful)
a robotic helper (optional)
A measuring tape for wrists (though you could manage with approximate measurements with a ruler)
Some manly muscles

Step 1 Measure your wrists or those of whom the cuffs are for

My wrists are 16cm ( about 6 1/2 inches) around. I decided to leave a little more room too, so I am going to cut a 20 cm (about 8in ) section from the belt. This is actually not very important as the cuffs are very adjustable

I measured my own wrists because my lovely sub girl was in Canadia at the time of making these.

Once the length was cut I cut off the corners using the help of the squares on my cutting mat, don't really know why though, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. You don't have to if you don't want to.

Comments

[masterochicken]

How have I not seen this before? Very nice.