| A few weeks ago, we did an update that featured Aurora Parker tied in an unusual way (see the prewiew of the April 24 update in the blog). Besides some fancy ropework that secured her arms, we also include a ‘claw tie’ on the fingers of her right hand. By no means can we take credit for thinking up this tie. We first saw it done during a presentation by the Two Knotty Boys at a ShibariCon event a few years ago. They have also include a description of it their second book “Back on the Ropes”. However, they show it done with a box knot while we do it with a single strand coin knot (see photo 1). Regrdless of the development, we thought you might want to see some more detailed pics on how the tie was done. The claw part of the tie starts with a single strand coin knot (photo 1), which produces several nice loops. Note this is a single strand coin knot, not the more comon double coin. You can Google coin knot (or Chinese coin knot or double coin knot) to see some demos on how it is tied. Initially tie the knot without tightening up the loops such that the 3 loops are large enough to fit a finger through. Next place the 3 loops over the 3 middle fingers from the back side of the hand (photo 2) with the center loop going over the middle finger and the outer loops going over each adjacent finger. Tighten the loops up. This will require some playing with the two ends to pull them tighter (photo 3). The 2 running ends can now be used to pull the fingers (and thus the entire hand) back. With Aurora, we simply incorporated the running ends into the rope harness that was securing her left hand behind her. The Two Knotty Boys show the running ends being used to secure the folding of the elbow, where we used a different rope for that. There are numberous ways this could be modified or used depending on the situation. Surprisingly, this simple tie is quite effective at limiting mobility of the hand and it makes using one’s fingers to do something like untying a knot almost impossible 🙂 If you used smaller diameter rope or string, you could use the coin knot in a similar fasion on the 3 middle toes and tie the running ends down to the shin area. This would effectively prevent flexing of the foot and might be a devious way to tie someone if you intended to do some foot tickling – but beware of foot cramping with the foot flexed that way! |
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 Photo 1 – Structure of the coin knot |
 Photo 2 – how it goes over the fingers |
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 Photo 3 – tighten up the loops |
 Aurora Parker – the claw tie done fancy! |
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Category Archives: Rants and Ramblings
Sabrina Hernandez BTS Video
Last night (well, more like early this morning as it was close to 2 am), we put up another gallery of Sabrina Hernandez. It contains another 15 minutes of BTS video with this beautiful young lady. That makes close to 2 hours of video of Sabrina in the BTS section, which is the most of any girl we have worked with since Giana Gray and Lana Loss. At that got us to thinking we should probably consider doing a BTS compilation video of Sabrina at some point. Some of that footage is amongst the best BTS video we have done.
Marie LaVey resurfaces!
We were on the computer the other day, and an IM beeped in. Well lo and behold, it was Marie LaVey, who we haven’t heard from in at least 5 or 6 years. The IM conversation led to a phone call, and as it turns out she is actually back in Las Vegas, married, homeowner, etc.! Earlier this evening we stopped by her house to say hi in person, and we had a very nice visit with her and her husband. Marie looked great, far healthier and happier than she was when we last saw her, which made us very pleased. She even asked about working again, so hopefully we will be able to get something scheduled soon.
Weekend Plans
Aurora Parker will be arriving later tonight for another weekend shoot. We are quite excited as it has been several months since we last saw Aurora and we really love working with her. She will be staying with us until Sunday. And on Saturday, Molly Bronte should by stopping by on her way back to California. She drove through Vegas on Monday night and we had dinner with her. If she gets here at a good time on Saturday, we will all go out again. As she is just driving through, we will not be shooting with her, but it will still be great to see her twice in one week. We keep telling her we are going to visit her again and all go back to Disneyland, but our weekends keep filling up!
DVD Sale Ends the 15th
Just a reminder that our DVD sale ends on April 15th. All DVDs are currently on sale for at least 25% off.
Some people are just low lifes – so we could use your help
While setting up the new downloadable site, we looked at clips4sale to see what others were doing, charging, etc. To our surprise, we saw the name ‘Imago Studios’ listed. Funny since we never opened a clips4sale site. It turns out some fucking prick has been taking videos from our members’ area and posting them to a clips4sale store. He even took our background image and banner to make it look authentic. Clips4sale did remove the site immediately. Not sure how stupid you can be though, since clips4sale had his name, contact info, bank information, etc. At least it that will make our attorney’s job easier. Assholes like that really piss u off, so this one I’m going to pay our attorney to go after with both barrels. But the balls some people have when it comes to stealing content is amazing!
However, we do know that in addition to all the dishonest pricks out there, there are many honest people who hate seeing producers get ripped off because in the long run it hurts the producers and models whose work they enjoy. And we could use a little help from all you honest people. The web is huge and it hard for us to keep on top of it all. So if you see our material on any site other than one of ours, please let us know as we do not market or post our material to any other sites.