Acrylic String Flogger

Project 3

 

Acrylic String Flogger -  From Scooby Strings!! It stings like crazy!!  Makes an amazing whooooshyratttattatle sound :D And left my arse looking like I'd sat on a back of kittens.

20 - 30 mins.

20 scooby strings (Acrylic strings the length of shoe laces really) we used 5 red and 5 black.

Beads that have largish holes.

Have you ever done hair wrapping before?  If you haven't this video gives you a clue how, it's the technique I used for the handle of the flogger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIa3AqCiydM

Bunch the strings together take one strand and start by tying, securing the bunch with it. Then fold the end over a little fo give a loop, while you start wrapping the strand you used to tie it all with around all the other strings. Using the same technique as displayed in the video, keep wrapping the strings around the rest of them untill you have a handle that is suitable length for you.

OK that sounds boring, to make it a little more interesting, you can try alternating colours - choose a new strand  from the bunch and place the old one you were wrapping with back into the bunch, start wrapping with the new one. To create the criss-cross pattern, leave out two strings on one colour, and use one string of the other colour to wrap the rest of the bunch (obviously not the two you are leaving out!). For example: I was wrapping with red, so I left out two blacks and continued wrapping with red while the two blacks were just waiting. Because it is important that the flogger ends are roughly the same length and I didnt want anyone of the scooby strings to get too short, I changed strings even when I didn't change colours.  Once I have a red surface that I think is big enough, about 12 cm in this case, I take the two blacks and start wrapping them over the red - much looser this time, crossing them over each other once at the "back" once at the "front"....I repeated this - I have four Xs on the handle. Then I held the two blacks together with the rest and wrapped the bunch with the red. Straight forward?

You can create a very nice pattern by wrapping two strings of two different colours at once too. Or if you know how to properly "scooby string" (a technique I have yet to learn!) you could make a really cool handle by doing that.

Then you tie off the wrapping by slipping the end of the string through the loop, before you pull the wrap tight....a kind of knott? Either way,  I recommend that your first flogger end be a plait that includes the last wrapping string - this will hold the knott in place!

Ok a simple plait: use tree strings and weave them together: under one, over the other, then under with the next one and over the next one etc.....just incase that wasn't clear enough: http://www.ehow.com/how_13449_braid-string.html

Another of our flogger ends is just a series of knotts tied one after the other, along the string, each roughly 1 cm apart from the other.

Another  idea is tie knots on a few of the strings together.

Or if you have big enough holed beads (we didn't): thread them on and secure them with knotts.

That's it really.

It's great having a variety of flogger ends on your scooby flogger, you can use them all together or you can isolate one or more and hold the rest together with the handle as you play.

Enjoy!!