For as long as we all remember, there have been very few violet wand manufacturers.  Less than you could count on one hand.  Oh, there are plenty of re-sellers, and plenty of people selling things that LOOK like violet wands but are short-changing and even endangering the public... but to get to an actual manufacture with a safe and long-lasting manufacture one has to wade through all that B.S.

http://www.violet-wands.com/

We say goodbye to the end of an era.  The largest worldwide manufacturer, the only one with internal electrodes, the foremost authority on all things violet-wand-ish.  Evyerthing new in the violet wand world since 2000 and probably before that, came from EE and to our willing ears and hands.  And into endless copies and knock-offs of course, as competitors copy only the best..but in the end...they never can quite duplicate its quality or success. 

Aloha

I was actually working on a little mud pie chart to show which vw bigwigs over the years have been involved in mud either giving or receiving and then decided I wanted to change directions.  Cloak and dagger gets tiring. 

So instead I wanted to talk about violet wand Branding. 

When I think about VW branding my first thoughts are

Why dont more people do it?  You can make them temporary.

Why don't more people do it?  You can make them permanent.

For body modification artists, violetwand branding is easy, inexpensive, and there is far more room for error. If you f*u*c*k up one pass it doesn't matter and your next passes will almost overwrite the glitchy one.  (See the International Violet Wand Guild information about how to do violet wand branding and what is meant by 'passes' plus how to make a wand brand temporary or permanent.)

There were whole galleries on the guild site dedicated to branding and I'm looking forward to when they are moved over.

Lets say you wanted to set yourself up as a body mod artist.  Violet wand brands, unlike regular heat brands, can be delicate and intricate designs.  If you can draw a line on a piece of paper, you can brand it with a vw.  You don't need branding design irons.  Its calmer for both the client and the artist than a heat brand.  Its less expensive to do or to receive.  What's not to love about that?  Why don't more tattoo-ed, pierced and modded folks opt for a violet wand brand?  Why don't all the Gor-players actually get the beautiful initialled brands they play at?  VW branding is positively gentle compared to heat strike branding.  Its slow, relaxed, pumps endorphins into the receiver like crazy.  And it doesn't have to be permanent.  You can -try- it on for size, or come back and make it permanent later.

Imagine.   You are draped and laying on your divan, anticipating what's to come.   Your gor-master gives you an encouraging smile, then sets to work drawing on your flesh, a beautifully flowered and vined initial worked onto that inner thigh in eyebrow pencil.  He passes over it again with the pencil, correcting any errors.  Music plays in the distance, the torches burn low but the brazier burns brightly. Your slave silks lay over you barely covering your secrets.

He squeezes your shoulder.  You're His property and He has commanded this, to mark you as His.  No temporary collar is enough to show His true ownership.  Only His brand will suffice.

You hear Him turn on the device.  Its electrical sparking sizzles in the dim light like angry bees at honey harvest.  You squeeze your eyes shut, afraid to look. Your fists clench involuntarily, digging nails into the covering of the couch upon which you lay, while tears of abject submission squeeze from behind your eyelids.

His hand rests briefly upon your belly.  You can hear Him adjusting the device behind your self-imposed blindfold.  The crackles and sparks grow a bit quieter as He finds..as He always does..just the right level.

You tense, waiting for the first bite of contact.

When it comes, your body flinches, more reflex than pain.  It hurts and you catch your breath involuntarily as the sensation begins to follow His carefully-wrought design.  You hold yourself still and take pride in your training, as you know that if you move you may ruin His work and pride in it.  You take your breath in shallow pants and find yourself torn between focusing on the exquisite pain traveling on your delicate inner thigh and in wanting to close yourself off from it.  You catch the faintest, oh-so-faintest whiff of burning, not at all like when they brutally branded your slave-sister, kirai.  They held her down and took a heat brand to her at the moment she was sold.  Her screams echoed in  your ears and you begged whatever gods there were that you would find a less cruel master.

At that thought, waves of love and belonging wash over you that are stronger even than the sweet pain on your skin.  You imagine to yourself what it will look like when complete, as He asked for your thoughts on what the design should be.  His initial, yes of course, but He asked what you would like.  You asked for talendars, those tenacious but beautiful flowers clinging to life among the scree of the desert, to twine around His intial, just as you eventually found yourself twining around His heart. Without one, there is not the other.

The pain keeps moving, and you know he has started His second pass over the design. You can feel your body's natural mechanisms working as if you had been smoking the kanda leaf.  You let yourself go and float upon the tide of sensation, the endorphins carrying you as if on waves.

He speaks not, attentive to the task.  The waves of sensation carry you to euphoria and you hit the wall that you have only heard talk about.  And then, suddenly you open yourself totally, embracing the pain on your thigh, the floating, the release from your flesh.  Past the pain, past the wall, and on the other side only bliss and belonging.

At some point He stops, completed.  From somewhere far away you hear the buzzing stop.  When did you cease being aware of it?  He rearranges your silks.  He dries the tears of joy from your cheeks.  He rests His hand lightly upon your belly again, keeping the connection for just a moment longer.  When He gets up, suddenly the room is cold, but he returns quickly, and His skin touches yours again to warm your spirit.

"Open your eyes, girl," he says firmly but with a soft tone you do not recognize.  Reluctantly you do so.  He is holding a small hand-mirror above you.  In it you can see your white thigh where He has left His mark.  You blink to bring it into focus.  Your body is fluid and heavy as you move a bit to see it clearly. 

There, there..the red lines denoting his ownership.  Clear and stark against your skin.  It is done and there is no going back.  You are His and totally His, and all His, and He has claimed you so.  You never thought anyone, let alone your independent spirit, could know what it felt like to be this kind of slave, or that these feelings could possibly exist when you became one.  You realize with a fierce strength that flares up inside you like fire, that nothing, no power and no man and no circumstance, and no mere dying breath, could tear you from His side. 

And the best part is, you can make violet wand brands temporary.  Or permanent.  No exaggeration.

I have an update for the "Housewives of Wand County' followers.  Dr Clockwork has agreed to take down the pictures that are not his.  I wont say he was exactly apologetic, more justifying rationale about why it was ok for him to use them, than accepting of responsibility, but at least he's done it.

Oh the fur is a-flying.  Hate is a strong word to use, but more than once I've seen hate from a vw vendor.  ElectroJack was a big one for it-- the worse we've seen in our world-- and I hope we don't experience anything like that again.  He was indiscriminate in his hate for all the other sellers and manufacturers, and they all received his subversive tactics.  He'd focus on one for a while, spreading rumors and mud-slinging about them.  Then after a while he'd move on to another and his posts would be full of bad-mouthing and lies toward that one for another period of time.  He would fill guests books on the web with mud-slinging..and Im talking any guestbook he could find to post in, even clip art galleries and kayaking sites. Got so bad he was sending death threats to two smaller vendors.  That's the kind of stuff we hoped to put behind.  Mud is for pigs not people.

Angelfire still has a ghost of his old website.  http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/violetwands/entrance.html  Its good for a giggle when you remember that all websites once looked like that, and many still do.  He once owned the domain www.violetwands.com and the company Violetwands.com, Inc.  Here's his old contact info: http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/violetwands/contact.html.  He's not there anymore.

Id like to post more techniques, more info rather than gossip.  I've been told that I dont have a nice thing to say about anyone and its detracting from the information on the site. But my blog is my opinion and its a blog not a textbook, and the articles are elsewhere. I've also been told by some they like reading the 'cloak and dagger' stuff.  If there was no drama, there would be no drama to talk about.  Its keeping me busy and my viewers keep viewing.

What else is going on in the wand world, people?  Thanks to M.H. for clueing me into a few recent things.  I still cant quite put my finger on what's going on so big with wands out in Seattle.  The MSNBC article is just the tip of the iceberg from what Im hearing.  Talk to me!

On some summer nights when you go outside, the air is thick and heavy and you start listening for the far-off rumble because you just know a storm must be forming somewhere.  You feel a gust of warm wind and you start waiting for the temperature to drop as you know it must because you can just...tell...

I started this blog because the VW guild had shut down and it was showing no signs of coming back to life.  And to vent about that and filter out some information among all the gossip.  It was a heckuva thing to find out why it went dead, but I can't say I was 100% surprised.  I almost knew Mac would end up with some drama. 

I got a call from a guy I hadn't heard from in a while.  He's down in the Texas scene now and he said that he thought he saw the self-same fella in my picture here at #2 .  That would be a surprise, as I can't imagine we'd expect to see any hide or hair of Mac again anywhere.  I'm hoping to make it down to the Texas fetish ball again this year, maybe we'll cross paths. I like the Texas fetish ball.  I don't think there's another national fet event that actually has to sell their tickets through Ticketmaster.

Here's a piece from MSNBC on Seattle's scene

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22581503/ns/health-sexual_health/page/2/

I mention the interesting goings on in Seattle with violet wands somewhere else, wondering what's going on.  But...

I can't find my blog post about what's going on in Seattle.  But definitely, its big out there and wands are definitely big out there.  Seattle knows what its all about.

Another aside, Im turning over my review results from here to the Wand Guild.  They are a better clearing house for them. 

I get a LOT of feedback about this article. 

I'm amazed that many many people are hearing about the insertable electrode for the first time when they read this post of mine, when they say they've been playing with wands for a while.  The Guild has had that information for a long time.  JOIN.  The. Violet. Wand.  Guild.  You'll find out what you dont know. 

Where is Mjollnir Advanced Violet Wand Systems, you may wonder?  I have wondered as well, and I have asked.

I was told the patent for their system is still pending.  That's exciting at the same time its disappointing.  Any new violet wand product that has a potential patent is exciting indeed.  Any delay in such product, is disappointing to the extreme.  I am sure I will want one.  Or two.

A pox on red tape!