The Better Built Bondage Book: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Sex Toys, Furniture and BDSM Equipment [Paperback]

Douglas Kent (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 25, 2004

Tired of overpriced, poorly made sex toys? Can your wallet not keep up with your desires?

The Better Built Bondage Book is the only guide you'll ever need to create high-quality sex toys yourself. You'll learn how to make toys by following easy-to-understand directions that let you succeed the first time. And all toys use only easy-to-find parts.

If you can tie a knot, you can already make many of the 100+ toys. But not all the toys are basic! From simple designs you can make in a few minutes to portable furniture you can build in an afternoon, you'll be making toys that could turn seasoned experts green with envy!

Douglas Kent's clear, casual writing style makes learning the skills and techniques easy. And it's loaded with pictures, too! Where other books boast of having a few hundred images, The Better Built Bondage Book packs an astonishing 1,400+ sexy photos, images, and professionally drawn illustrations into its 400 pages.

If there's a special toy that you've been dreaming of, The Better Built Bondage Book lets you make it better, cheaper, and quicker.

Make it today. Use it tonight.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"An excellent, useful, and highly readable guide to making your own BDSM toys." --Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101 and many other books

"The absolute encyclopedia of everything one could ever imagine as a kinky play toy... and yes, you can build it yourself! Easy-to-follow instructions make this book a kink lover's DIY dream. From floggers to erotic knots to bondage furniture, you ll be able to turn your spare room into a play room in no time... and at a fraction of the cost!" --Chanta Rose, author of Bondage for Sex, bondage rigger, model, producer

"An excellent, useful, and highly readable guide to making your own BDSM toys." --Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101 and many other books

"The absolute encyclopedia of everything one could ever imagine as a kinky play toy... and yes, you can build it yourself! Easy-to-follow instructions make this book a kink lover's DIY dream. From floggers to erotic knots to bondage furniture, you ll be able to turn your spare room into a play room in no time... and at a fraction of the cost!" --Chanta Rose, author of Bondage for Sex, bondage rigger, model, producer

"An excellent, useful, and highly readable guide to making your own BDSM toys." --Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101 and many other books

"The absolute encyclopedia of everything one could ever imagine as a kinky play toy... and yes, you can build it yourself! Easy-to-follow instructions make this book a kink lover's DIY dream. From floggers to erotic knots to bondage furniture, you ll be able to turn your spare room into a play room in no time... and at a fraction of the cost!" --Chanta Rose, author of Bondage for Sex, bondage rigger, model, producer

"An excellent, useful, and highly readable guide to making your own BDSM toys." --Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101 and many other books

"The absolute encyclopedia of everything one could ever imagine as a kinky play toy... and yes, you can build it yourself! Easy-to-follow instructions make this book a kink lover's DIY dream. From floggers to erotic knots to bondage furniture, you ll be able to turn your spare room into a play room in no time... and at a fraction of the cost!" --Chanta Rose, author of Bondage for Sex, bondage rigger, model, producer

"A totally wonderful DIY guide for the happy kinky home adventurer. This book is great! I love it; --Midori, author of The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage and Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink;An excellent, useful, and highly readable guide to making your own BDSM toys; --Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101 and many other books ;The absolute encyclopedia of everything one could ever imagine as a kinky play toy... and yes, you can build it yourself! Easy-to-follow instructions make this book a kink lover's DIY dream. From floggers to erotic knots to bondage furniture, you ll be able to turn your spare room into a play room in no time... and at a fraction of the cost!--Chanta Rose, author of Bondage for Sex, bondage rigger, model, producer;The ultimate BDSM do it yourself book Kayla Cuffs, The Dom's View ezine, March 2005;The ultimate BDSM do it yourself book --Kayla Cuffs, The Dom's View ezine, March;The ultimate BDSM do it yourself book --Kayla Cuffs, The Dom's View ezine, March 2005

"An excellent, useful, and highly readable guide to making your own BDSM toys." --Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101 and many other books

"The absolute encyclopedia of everything one could ever imagine as a kinky play toy... and yes, you can build it yourself! Easy-to-follow instructions make this book a kink lover's DIY dream. From floggers to erotic knots to bondage furniture, you ll be able to turn your spare room into a play room in no time... and at a fraction of the cost!" --Chanta Rose, author of Bondage for Sex, bondage rigger, model, producer

About the Author

Douglas Kent has been interested in bondage and BDSM since he was too young to realize that most others didn t think rope was so neat. He is an obsessive-compulsive researcher of things that interest him. He has worked at a number of engineering and high-tech companies in Canada. He enjoys weightlifting, wall climbing, roller blading and movies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Mental Gears Publishing (November 25, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0973668806
• ISBN-13: 978-0973668803
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

74 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's got everything; highly recommended, October 10, 2005

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Ken - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Better Built Bondage Book: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Sex Toys, Furniture and BDSM Equipment (Paperback)

I thought I'd write an opposing viewpoint, because - with the greatest respect to Mr. Edmundson - I don't agree with the previous review at all.

Firstly, I'm a complete toy addict; I make a point of visiting fetish shops whenever I'm in a new city, and have seen the best that Paris, New York, Boston, Montreal and Toronto have to offer, and I can honestly say that with the exception of *giant* furniture (like cages and thrones), there just isn't that much out there that this book doesn't cover... from the small but highly useful items (cuffs, blindfolds, collars) right up to a bench and St. Andrew's Cross that are both collapsible/portable and probably the cleverest designs I've seen.

Secondly, I did some page counting: pages 205-238 are devoted to instructions for making some rather nice floggers, and 145-161 to making the Turk's Head knots that go on the end of the more expensive ones, but pages 239-248, 257-280, and 287-396 contain plans on making the bench, the cross, suspension cuffs, manacles, a sling, a vacuum bed, harnesses, canes, gags, cbt toys, and a myriad of other things. Given that the book is 398 pages total, according to my abacus that's 8.2% floggers, 4% Turk's Heads, and 35.4% other projects; and the first third of the book covers all the techniques you might possibly need to build everything (and then some). I've no idea what more Mr. Edmundson was looking for, and suspect that Demonia, LeatherMan, Eros Boutique, Il Bolero, and NorthBound Leather wouldn't know either, but perhaps he just wants help remodelling his kitchen. :-)

Personally, I thought the book was fantastic. As mentioned above, it's encyclopedic, and coming from a toy conoisseur like me, that's saying something. About the only criticism I can think of is that there's SO much stuff in there that, despite a reasonably clear layout, it feels a bit overwhelming. If you have any interest in bondage toys, though, and (like me) covet BDSM gear beyond what your wallet can keep up with, you should definitely try this book.

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clear and Concise, October 22, 2006

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J. Hancock (indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Better Built Bondage Book: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Sex Toys, Furniture and BDSM Equipment (Paperback)

I am always looking for plans and "how to" information when it comes to BDSM equipment and technique this is one of the most thurough books I have seen out there. For the price, there is certainly a lot of information crammed into 398 pages.

One individual commented on the lack of constuction technique; and all I can say here is, this is a just a concise book of "How to" not a guide on wood working or leather craft. There are books and videos on the market that delv into those areas and I sincerely do not think the intent of the book is to teach the finer points of construction but rather a simplistic guide to building what you need. There are so many trade skills involved in building BDSM equipment that you simply can not cram all of that knowledge into one book.

I am very inpressed with what is presented and how it is layed out in the this book.

Play Safe

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book yet., August 8, 2006

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Fox (Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Better Built Bondage Book: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Sex Toys, Furniture and BDSM Equipment (Paperback)

I've poured through many books similar to this one but none come even close to the information provided inside. The instructions are easy to follow and very thorough. The designs are smart and the pictures quite good. If you want to make your own equipment you just can't go wrong with this book.