I started making collars back in the late 1990's
when my friend Dreamer asked me to help
him design and
fabricate a Gorean type slave
collar, specifically one made out of 3/8 inch
round steel.
There were flat collars available to
the followers of "The Chronicles of Gor"
but none in the round Turian style mentioned in that popular book
series by John Norman.
Dreamer had the inspiration at a hardware store while looking at rods for another project.
Discussing
his idea in my shop, we came up
with this elegantly simple and original design.
At first Dreamer
was involved in the fabricating
of these collars. I started by hand bending
the rods and
then machining the two halves,
Dreamer took over to do the final finishing.
Those early
collars were for his personal use or
he gave them as gifts to his many friends.
There was so much interest in this Turian type collar that in 1999,
Dreamer decided to
create "Dreamstrike" and more specifically "The Bazaar" to sell
them over the Internet.
It was a
very short step to make a
smaller version of these collars and sell them as cuffs.
We were never very aggressive with our sales approach, in fact I was
not involved at all.
Things have
changes since those early days, while
I still make items for "Dreamstrike",
Dreamer has helped
set up "Ring of Steel", so that I
can sell my creations on my own.
Out of respect for John Norman, who is the original creator of the
Gorean Turian collar,
I always referred to
them as Turian Style
collars. Now you know
"the rest of the story"
and
can be secure in the
knowledge you are purchasing an original.
