[LadyDs_alex] The Jailbird Chronicles

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[LadyDs_alex] The Jailbird Chronicles

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It came. {And so now I guess I don't!} (5 weeks plus 5 days -- two days less than the advertised minimum time. Mature Metal, you are good and honorable people!)

I'm wearing it right now. It is freaking awesome in every way!

Ok, let me try to get a grip. This is a preamble. It is late, and I can't really start my journal properly right now. That will be tomorrow. But for now, just a few scattered thoughts. . .

My jailbird is beautiful! I haven't felt that about any of the plastic devices I've tried. They were clunky but maybe sort of workable once you figured out where the hell all the pins and half-rings and plastic straps and pegs went. The Bon-4 silicone was the worst in that regard; "slide rigid plastic strap-A into pliable silcone ring B, then insert peg C. . . "

Ok, maybe I'm being unfair to the Holy Trainer. That was just two pieces plus the magic locker. Kind of elegant, I guess. If you are going to go plastic, I would say go with the Trainer.

But this thing is so much less yet more! Stainless steel is just a much stronger material than plastic, and so you need so much less of it to make a sturdy device. As fine a design as the HT was, the nature of plastic still meant that the link between ring and cage had to be kind of massive. Big and sturdy.

My jailbird is two pieces and they connect at a little post at the top. They slide together with an incredibly secure feeling.

I have never had a chastity device that was quicker to get into! With a smiling and indulgent LadyD holding the waiting padlock, I ran upstairs to the shower, anticipating the usual fiddling, fussy, lube-soaked ordeal.

My balls were into the ring in moments, and then all I needed was a small touch of lube to slide my cock in after them. The cage went on smoothly. It is so much easier than an enclosed sleeve! You can poke through and push the skin down and get him properly situated.

When I came back downstairs, excited and ready to be locked, LadyD looked up in surprise, "You've gotten into it already?" she asked. She too was used to the fussy fiddly and time-consuming plastic devices.

Click! went the lock. It felt really good.

It's late. Like I said, this is a preamble. I'll get things said right tomorrow hopefully. Now I need to turn off the computer and go sleep beside my wife, locked up safe and secure.
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Re: [LadyDs_alex] The Jailbird Chronicles

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Congratulations, and welcome to the large group of very happy JB owners!

If you got the sizing right the first time, more congratulations are in order. If not, get it adjusted because there is NOTHING like a properly fitted MM product. As much as I loved my JB in the beginning, now that I have the fit right, it is soooo much better. And should you need to send it back for adjustment, I highly recommend getting it threaded for the security screw. It is so sleek without the lock. Using a lock is still an option if for some reason you so desire, but I have not used a padlock since I had mine threaded.
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I slept well. I put on a pair of thick cotton boxer-briefs before I went to bed. I didn't want to poke LadyD's shapely behind with the pointy edges of the padlock. (I usually spoon with her -- sometimes half-asleep and not even realizing I'm trying to do it.)

Woke in the wee hours and needed to pee. Went into the bathroom and looked at the open front of the cage, and saw that my cock seemed properly aligned, and so standing there I thought, "Go for it! Put out the fire and call in the dogs!"
Urine went off at a 45 degree angle and splashed all over the fresh roll of toilet paper. Oops! Clench, shut-down, cease firing! You have to actually tilt the cage up and look to be certain the end of your urethra has an unobstructed flow path. If the stream grazes one of the bars even slightly it is deflected. Newtonian physics.
Hell with it. Maybe I'll just mostly sit from now on. I'm not that proud. After all, I have requested of my wife that she lock a stainless steel cage on my junk because I can't control myself. So I guess I can deal with sitting down to pee.
Sitting there I remembered something I read once, somewhere on the internet. Supposedly in Germany, in public-but-single-person unisex rest rooms, there are signs ordering men to sit down when they piss, to cut down on splashing. "Sitzen-piztle!" the signs supposedly say, or something like that (my apologies to any German speakers, I am recalling this from memory. I somehow can't bring myself to try to Google this story).
I don't know if this story is true or just German-bashing. (Maybe an American tourist saw one such sign and assumed it was ubiquitous.)
Nevertheless the story provokes a fantasy as I sit there. Angela Merkle is standing on one side of me, Steffi Graf is on the other side, they are both dressed to the nines in equestrian dressage attire, and they each slap their open palm with a riding crop and growl, "Sitzen-piztle mein herr!" under their breath.

Indeed! :geek: I have a feeling these little scenarios that constantly bubble up from my libido are going to become problematical in the days ahead.

LadyD has to work this morning. I'm off the whole weekend, we made some plans, and I am doing the advance work. The Jailbird could not have come at a better time. Three whole days to get used to it.

I made morning coffee for my wife and myself. Sitting there, the issue of the emergency key nagged at me. I wasn't expecting my JB this soon, and hadn't gotten anything to use as an e-key secure container. So I was thinking I would just man up and ask LadyD to take both keys with her. But the thought of no e-key causes me anxiety. Damn, what to do?
My eyes fell on the discarded envelope from a certified letter, sitting on the kitchen table. Of course! So simple. I asked LadyD to set the spare key on the envelope, just under the serial number. I then covered the key with several layers of clear packing tape, making sure the tape covered the serial number as well.
Certified letters have unique 20 digit serial numbers. I will never be able to get at that key without leaving all kinds of visible evidence. Problem solved!

I quickly jotted the 20 digit number on a post-it and asked LadyD to check it for accuracy.
Rolling her eyes -- but also smiling -- she did so, then tucked the post-it and her own key into her purse.

We embraced for our morning goodbye kiss. She reached down and grabbed my cage through my bathrobe and gently goosed me up and down a few times. Then she bid her crazy-kinky husband goodbye and went off to work.

:) I feel very simply happy this morning.
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AAh, the joys of the seated pee !

Like the OP I have also attempted the standing pee in a JailBird, and like him have found the slightest mis-alignment results in an unpredictable splashing, though predictably the unused toilet roll is in the line of fire :roll:

I would suggest taking a file to the padlock - if it is the "Master" (how appropriate) brand, you can safely round off the corners by 1/8" and probably more, to reduce the pointy corner effect. Bear in mind the padlock is somewhat remote from your body, so will not be at body temperature, so impressing a cool block of metal on your wife's bottom is likely to result in sanctions!

We also use the "signed" envelope for the emergency key - any of the plastic devices can be defeated by a bit of twisting or simply getting a pair of cutters. The JailBird will need a Dremel or similar :shock:
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WifeIsVanilla wrote:Congratulations, and welcome to the large group of very happy JB owners!

If you got the sizing right the first time, more congratulations are in order. If not, get it adjusted because there is NOTHING like a properly fitted MM product. As much as I loved my JB in the beginning, now that I have the fit right, it is soooo much better. And should you need to send it back for adjustment, I highly recommend getting it threaded for the security screw. It is so sleek without the lock. Using a lock is still an option if for some reason you so desire, but I have not used a padlock since I had mine threaded.
Thank you!

The size feels good so far, but it has only been twelve hours. We shall see. . .

About those security screws, how easy do they go in? I have this thing -- my wife must be the one who makes the device secure. I can struggle into it on my own -- in fact I prefer to, because if my wife watches I either get worried that I am making her impatient and I try to hurry and I pinch myself, or, her watching turns me on and I start to get a hard-on.

But the final lock-up must be something she does herself. I don't want to snap the lock, or turn a screwdriver and then hand it over to her.

Click! And I'm hers. :D I can't imagine doing it any other way. So I don't know if I would like anything other than a padlock. They have such a quick finality to them. You are unlocked, and click! now you're locked!

Still I would be interested in a description of the security screw, from someone with experience. How quickly does it go in? Does it tend to be easy or fiddly? Part of what I love about chastity, and part of why it works so well for my wife (who like yours is also basically vanilla) is that it is an intense femdom thing she can do to me, with very little effort on her part.
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Houston, we have a problem.

I was sitting at the computer doing financial stuff, when I suddenly started feeling intense "my balls are being squeezed" pain.

The pain peaked and then subsided. One of my balls has pulled up and out of the ring.

Damn it, damn it, DAMN IT! :evil:

Ok, lets settle down. I was told they usually need adjustment. Foolish to think I would get it perfect the first time. (But damn it! :cry: :evil: :twisted: )

Any one have any thoughts on what causes ball withdrawal? I went for a half-inch gap. Maybe that was a mistake. I really think I've got the ring size right. I could just get one fingertip under it. And I ordered the sizing rings and used them before I ordered the JB. This size felt right. The next one down felt much to small.

I will e-mail the MM folks and get their advice. But feedback here would also be welcome.
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I feel your pain, or rather, I have felt that pain !

My left testicle is smaller than the right, so that's the one that escapes. In my case the gap is 3/8" according to the specification, but that is simply the height difference between ring and cage (if the device is sitting on a flat surface, ring down)

Because the ring is a different diameter to the cage, the actual separation is tangential and greater than the nominal gap. If the ring is oval, that increases the gap at the sides even more. So the actual available gap will depend upon the relative dimensions.

I found that with my JailBIrd, the rings were not exactly in the same plane, ie tilted and that made the gap narrower at the base, which gave me the "burning" sensation. A bit of force applied carefully sorted that out. I then noticed that the pillar was not quite "square" so I rectified that. Bearing in mind these devices are hand-built, it is fair to say the variations are minimal and are not a criticism. However, even small changes are important.

Finally, I found that the cage rotated on the pillar slightly, allowing the gap to shift towards one side or the other. This was down to the cage padlock hole being a little larger than the pillar hole (makes for an easier insertion of the hasp)

The combination of all these slight variations meant that I would occasionally lose one testicle via the gap, with the very painful result. By making the above alterations, and fitting a couple of small washers to the padlock hasp, the device is now pretty much squared and rigid and gives no hint of the possibility of escape.

So I would check your device for squareness and rigidity first, before thinking about re-sizing. Obviously I can't speak for the OP, but perhaps the 1/2" gap is simply too much - the gap should be enough for the scrotal flesh to go through without stressing the skin and causing the "burning" sensation.

The ring size will have an effect on the tangential gap, the smaller the diameter the nearer it will match the cage, bringing the metal-to-metal gap nearer to the nominal gap.

Why didn't I get MM to do this ? Because I'm in the UK and it costs $30 and weeks rather than days each way for transport. I'd like to make some small alterations regarding ring diameter and gap but am put off by the time and cost, although MM will do the job for a minimal charge - and I'm not going back to the CB6000s in the interim!
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_lj_ wrote:
So I would check your device for squareness and rigidity first, before thinking about re-sizing. Obviously I can't speak for the OP, but perhaps the 1/2" gap is simply too much - the gap should be enough for the scrotal flesh to go through without stressing the skin and causing the "burning" sensation.
Thank you _lj_. My JB looked and felt fairly square and rigid.

No, I think I just went way too big on the gap.

The clincher was when I got out my old Holy Trainer and did some measurements. The gap on the HT is a consistent half-inch all the way around between sleeve and ring. I experienced deja vu while doing this measurement, and remembered that I did this before I ordered my JB -- that gap size of the HT was what made me ask for a half-inch on my JB.

But the different nature of the JB means -- as you said -- that you end up with wider gap, especially at the bottom. The current gap at the bottom of my JB, between cage and ring, is about three-quarters of an inch. Just too wide. The boys pull through -- and damn does it hurt when they do that! :shock:

Long story short, I sent it back today for adjustment. I'm going all the way down to a quarter-inch. Lets trap those boys! I think that small will be ok. Because of the way the cage can slide on the ring-post, I was able to experiment this morning. I got back into the JB, and then I pushed the cage all the way down to simulate a much smaller gap. I think I will be good with just a quarter-inch.

:evil: More waiting!

LadyD had some volunteer work to do this morning. I kissed her goodbye, watched her pull out of the driveway, then ran to my computer, fired up some porn, and masturbated. I ran and did this, like instantly. :oops:

When I'm locked I'm happy. The decision has been taken out of my hands and given to my wife. But now that we are getting close, now that I really feel chastity will soon be a thing in our lives, I don't even try to have any self-control when I'm not locked.

If LadyD asks me if I "was naughty" when she gets back I am going to tell her the truth. No more lies. Hell, I guess we could break out the Holy Trainer in the meantime. I will suggest that to LadyD, if she is upset by my lack of self-control.
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It's back!

Six days -- I put it into the Post Mistress's hands six days ago -- and today I received it back from her. I like Mature Metal! (Fee was nominal, postage plus a little.)

So, are we good to go? I haven't told LadyD yet -- that it is back I mean. If it didn't feel right I didn't want to waste her time.

But I just put it on, and slipped a paperclip through the lock-hole to keep things in place.

Feels good so far. Balls seem much more secure with the narrow gap -- but not overly clamped.

LadyD is sleeping upstairs. I think when she wakes I shall present myself to her, and request that she lock me.

In an hour or three, maybe. I'll give it some time. Just to be sure. . . :)
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CLICK! :D

And all is right with the world.

We'll see how it goes. For now, I'm happy again.
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