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Finally found the cable for the camera!
Here you can see some of the cast rubber paw pads I've been working on.
Top left is the feline animal-style ones, to the right canid-style. Bottom left are the set of 10 large fingerpads.
The canid ones are about 3.5" wide.
They're impregnated into a fabric backing which won't fray. It means you can sew pads on rather than glue them and risk glue peeling.
They're cast from a PU elastomer with a Shore A hardness of 60, or about that used on fridge-door seals. I may go down to Shore 40 with the next order, which is about rubber-band softness.
The anthro-style versions are almost ready too, which will be bads for the ball of the hand and bridge in similar canine and feline styles, as well as smaller fingerpads.
I'll be making up a stock number of each in black, pink and probably one of each other base colour I have, then opening them up for sales. If anyone wants custom colour blends like my claws, let me know. The casting rubber doesn't have a long shelflife, so I intend to buy in and use up right away to save wasting it. So custom orders will be done at the same time as standard stock.
One thing to note is that the rubber isn't designed for extended skin contact. It's just a polyurethane rubber so there shouldn't be any issue, but my supplier advises that there should be a fabric boundary between them and skin. A simple piece of cotton would be fine, as since these are for paws, cotton inspection gloves would seem ideal (as well as providing protection from chaffing on fur backing fabric).
I need to do some recalculation on supplies used, but prices will probably be £15-20 for main pads and fingerpads.
Watch this space! :3
Here you can see some of the cast rubber paw pads I've been working on.
Top left is the feline animal-style ones, to the right canid-style. Bottom left are the set of 10 large fingerpads.
The canid ones are about 3.5" wide.
They're impregnated into a fabric backing which won't fray. It means you can sew pads on rather than glue them and risk glue peeling.
They're cast from a PU elastomer with a Shore A hardness of 60, or about that used on fridge-door seals. I may go down to Shore 40 with the next order, which is about rubber-band softness.
The anthro-style versions are almost ready too, which will be bads for the ball of the hand and bridge in similar canine and feline styles, as well as smaller fingerpads.
I'll be making up a stock number of each in black, pink and probably one of each other base colour I have, then opening them up for sales. If anyone wants custom colour blends like my claws, let me know. The casting rubber doesn't have a long shelflife, so I intend to buy in and use up right away to save wasting it. So custom orders will be done at the same time as standard stock.
One thing to note is that the rubber isn't designed for extended skin contact. It's just a polyurethane rubber so there shouldn't be any issue, but my supplier advises that there should be a fabric boundary between them and skin. A simple piece of cotton would be fine, as since these are for paws, cotton inspection gloves would seem ideal (as well as providing protection from chaffing on fur backing fabric).
I need to do some recalculation on supplies used, but prices will probably be £15-20 for main pads and fingerpads.
Watch this space! :3
Category Photography / Still Life
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File Size 159.8 kB
Oh NICE! I stopped using rubber pawpads because I could not find ANY glue that really worked on them, but this is a much better idea! I may get a few sets. I wish the exchange rate didn't suck so much though, I'm in the USA, so they're going to be fairly expensive for me. :(
I was thinking of ordering one set each of the feline, canine, and anthro. Just to try them out, and then see if I want to get more from there. I have an upcoming canine project in particular that could use them. Right this second though I need to wait for some payments to clear through before I have anything at all to spend on them. It's been a lean month.
Well, I *definitely* want an anthro set in black, or dark grey, either one would be perfect for a particular project I have coming up soon. I probably wouldn't use bright colors much, I'd have to order those specifically on a one-at-a-time basis as I need them, which isn't often. I've done maybe two sets of green and two of blue in all the time I've been doing suits, that I can remember. Pink and black I can use all the time though, either pink pink or a more peach/fleshtone pink. Black is what I use the very most often, definitely.
Got an example of the pink ones now: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3440052/
and: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3440061/
and: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3440061/
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