Nawa Kenshin

I had always been somewhat fascinated by the vertical beam that you tie a person to. One video that I watched that really made me want to explore this hashira tying happens to be one that Master Yagami did in one of his JAV videos. It was so masterful, so restrictive and so alluring.

Anyways, add it to some instructional online videos and from more kink sex video, I decided to build one for myself.

BUT!
1. I did not want to drill anymore into my ceiling. It will be messy and then I did not want to patch the holes back when I return my rental unit back to the landlord.

2. It had to be moveable. Since I am intending to do photoshoots around my studio, it would be great to be able to move it around for different backgrounds.

3. Definitely it has to be DAMN stable. For me, the beam has to be able to take both vertical and lateral swing forces. Just in case I decide to do silly crazy swinging on the beam.

4. It has to be easily mounted and dismounted and bottom heavy (Of course!)

So after multiple drawings, and testing, with my limited pole dancing background, it dawned to me that I can actually use the pressure mounting system of a pole dancing pole! Given the logic that the pole dancer is able to swing, spin and whatever on the pole that is pressure mounted. Vertical and lateral forces – checked. And these poles are easily mounted/dismounted with a turn of a screw .. quite literally.

So with that in mind, I designed a wooden structure with a hollow center. to be able to fit the pole. and hence the following picture

Considerations:
1. The hollow center, if your carpenter can bore a circular hole and to that depth with a solid piece of wood, that would be the best ideal. Else, they will have to piece it up and you will ultimately get a square hollow middle. works fine anyways. Tell the carpenter that you need it to be structurally sound, if they are intending to piece multiple pieces together. The locking and joints will be a lot sturdier. I did one ‘wrong’ one because I gave the carpenter wrong dimensions; and I tried to break mine by using the pole as a lever and never got to expand / move the joints, not even by 1mm.

2. Get as light a wood as possible. Pinewood still warps over time, given that it is softwood. But Russian Pinewood is going to give you some extra years of runway for it. Balu or Kapur works but you might be compromising the strength from the pressure mounting. It is heavy and the steel pole pressure mounting might be too stressed from it.

3. Given the pole dance pole comes in various extension/lengths, you can pretty much add/remove the extensions to fit your ceiling. or just shorten the internal base of the wood structure.

4. Get those ‘lousier’ 3rd party pole dance pole or those that extends from THE TOP. You basically can not adjust if the extension is from the bottom. So X-pole is out of the question. Even if you use your X-Pole in the reverse, you will realise the top is going to be extra heavy. Not a good idea.