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An eclectic amalgamation of Electro-Psy-Funk-DnB-Disco-Trance-Metal
05/29/2025
Leather cuff now available for purchase ($35 CAD)!
Top-grain 3-4oz leather, 9 1/2” x 3” (will comfortably fit 7”-8” wrists, going by circumference).
Designed and hand-crafted entirely by yours truly.
Artwork inspired by the giant photo book of crop circles I’d perused at length during a 30-some-hour road trip down to Burning Man a decade and a harf ago.
Get at me ASAP if want!
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05/27/2025
Available for purchase! ($45 CAD)
5-6oz top-grain veg-tan leather, 9 1/2” x 3” (comfortably fits 7”-8” wrists, if you go by circumference)
Designed and hand-crafted in its entirety by yours truly. Really jazzed on how this one turned out.
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05/18/2025
Tried something a lil’ more compact and detailed. Spent the morning experimenting with pattern designs in Illustrator, with the overlapping spikies very much inspired by the Daedric style from The Elder Scrolls. 🤓
In high school I used to doodle things like this instead of taking written notes in class, and could actually remember the lecture content when looking at any individual curve or object within said doodle. Same with other similar drawn art pieces I would make later — I could recall the specific song or even podcast conversation I was listening to while drawing a particular shape. Brains are weird.
Behold! My fledgling leather-crafty process.
Woke up on Sunday morning with some ideas for an abstract design and an overwhelming itch to leather-craft. Fired up Adobe Illustrator, spent a couple of hours mucking about with the pen tool, exported a couple of variants, took some time experimenting with the right engraving settings on m'loaf Bex' fancy laser cutter/engraver tool, dialled 'em in, and made a couple of wrist cuffs, which turned out pretty neat!
Some context:
When a handful of my friends / former band members and I travelled to Burning Man in 2009 in a rented RV, one of them had brought along this incredible, large-format book of aerially photographed crop circles, which I'd perused at great length during our 30-some-hour-long drive down to Nevada. I recall being utterly mesmerized by a particular crop circle that'd featured three chevrons aligned in perfect triangular symmetry; so mesmerized, in fact, that I'd made a vaguely similar design (also in Illustrator) and had it tattooed on my right upper arm fourteen years ago... although the artist kinda goofed and the one-smaller-tri-chevron-inside-a-larger-one ended up inadvertently resembling the Triforce from Zelda, buuut that's another tale altogether, ha.
The design on these cuffs features a variation of that tri-chevron within a circle, along with some more chevrons loosely shaped into an "A" (somewhat ironically being surrounded by copied-and-pasted sides of the "A" from my Alyag logo -- they're the upward/sideward pointing spikies).
This particular set is sized to an 9" wrist, but -- should the interest arise -- I could easily custom-craft one for a smaller wrist circumference. (does want? let know!)
I also haven't tried seeing how these designs would pan out on black leather yet, but I do have some material on hand, so... 🤔
04/26/2025
Pfsh, as if I needed yet another creative obsession…
BEHOLD! Couple of my early attempts at . Mad props to for the inspo to delve into the craft, and to .portals for the dopesauce engraving design and for letting me use their fancy .official laser machine for said engraving. The bottle holster serves as a token of my gratitude.
Sooo many ideas, and not nearly ‘nuff time… now pls2scuse me while I get to tinkering. 🤓
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