Archive for March 17th, 2025

More progress on the slave shackle project!

I didn’t take a lot of pictures early on but I am quite impressed with what I’ve been able to do with the material. It’s one of those cases where you don’t want to know how the sausage is made I guess. It’s just weird that it looks so good for what it is.

I included the very first version of the material, which looked very “meh”. I’m usually bad with the “true color” of things and tend to make them a little too gray or black.

Super happy with the distressed look, the wear, and all the little dents that are covering the outer edges. I tried adding a concave bevel around the edge; A bit like a grinder would leave behind, but anything I do to that edge seems to make the cuffs look slimmer, and also removes most of the dents, so I’m going to leave it as is. I also made a version with a simpler interlocking hinge design, not sure which one to include in the final model. The simpler version makes “more” sense for this design but obviously doesn’t look as intricate.

Finally, I’m coding some sort of generic “auction” system. I’m not sure what I’m going to use it for yet, it’s just a prototype. I’ve spent most of my time on this little project trying to generate “pretty” bidding intervals.