Workshop description Flogging Build & Leatherworking There are some beautiful floggers out there, but sometimes what you find in the shops, online or Kinky Flea Markets just isn’t ~quite~ right.  Sometimes it’s a matter of length, weight, size, or sometimes you would just like to gift your dominant or protégé with something you’ve crafted with your own two hands.  There’s something deliciously deviant about crafting your own instruments of torment. In this workshop our instructor will go over different hide types and qualities, noting which ones are best for which applications and how and where to purchase.  We’ll also go over tools used for leatherworking including suitable substitutions you might already have at home in your kitchen, workroom or sewing room. The highlight of this workshop however is all about making floggers!  Our instructor will demonstrate the basics for making a simple wrapped flogger, and then take that one step further with a braided handle with Turks head knots.  This is really where you can get creative with your floggers, and make something soar from basic to beautiful! For those of you who wish to work along with our instructor, there will be a small number of kits (available pre-purchased in advance only) so you too can braid along with hands-on instruction to finish your project at home.   After this workshop, you should be able to begin making floggers that range from light and sensual to heavy and menacing to add to or complete your growing toy collections.  Perhaps after being inspired by the recent Florentine Flogging workshop you’ll be itching to make a matched set of floggers for yourself or your play partner. In this workshop you’ll also gain other leather working skills that can transfer over with additional study or practice into paddles, restraints, whips, and other tools of the trade. In addition, the Calgary Kinky Book Club will be bringing an assortment of leather-working and flogging books to inspire you.   If you would like to take a book out from the lending library of the Book Club, please contact them in advance. For those of you who wish to make this a hands-on workshop please bring: A rotary cutting mat and rotary cutter (available at sewing stores) Metal ruler (square preferred) (available at drafting and home-supply stores) Leather-suitable glue Rubber bands (you may also like to bring clothespins or rubber-coated clamps.  Coloured plastic-coated paper clips may also be valuable.) Sharp scissors (you may also like to bring a leather hole punch if you own one) Pencil, pen, or chalk for marking (keeping in mind that chalk will brush off, while pencil or pen may not) Plastic or canvas drop cloth (or large plastic garbage bags) to protect your work surface Plastic cards (like old hotel room keys or membership cards – any firm material will suit for evenly spreading the glue) Latex/vinyl/nitrile gloves Small plastic tub (like a cleaned yoghurt tub) Plastic bags Wear older clothing or an apron, and please tie long hair back. Your leather kit ticket OR leather suitable to make a flogger AND a length of dowel already cut to length for your handle (we will not be cutting dowel in class). Please note that there is NO colour/variety/weight choice with the flogger kits, and kits will make ONE flogger.  Our instructor will be purchasing the best quality for the best price shortly before the workshop.  If you wish to choose your own leather, please bring your own leather with you, otherwise we suggest you consider the kit to be your “learning materials” and a good step before you purchase leather in the variety/weight/colour of your choice for future projects. Additionally please note that there is a time restraint we are working with for this workshop.  It is unlikely that you will be able to finish your entire flogger in this workshop.  Keeping on track, arriving well on time with all of your necessary supplies and avoiding distractions will help a great deal to complete as much as possible, however you should still be prepared to finish your project at home.   This workshop will take place October 28, 2009 and will be taught by Kirk.  Doors will open for ticket-taking and your personal workspace set up at 6:45pm and the workshop will begin at 7pm.  Tickets for this workshop will be 10$ per person, and flogger kits will be 25$ per person.  Workshop tickets are available in advance through our organizers, via snail mail with a cheque, or via paypal (plus a 1$ per person surcharge to cover what paypal charges us).  Flogger kits are available in advance only through the same routes (please add a 2$ surcharge if paying by paypal).  Workshop tickets will also be available at the door if any tickets remain unsold.  Please email p3gatherings @ gmail. com to be added to the “door” list if you would like to purchase tickets at the door and we will email you the address and a map shortly before the event.