DEM Iron Pipemare Yoke

Another from Dark Elf Manufacturing

Quality

The yoke is quite a ncie design, thin metal bars going from the collar to the wrists where two heavy duty cuffs are locked onto you.  Comes with a resizer built inf or good measure, so easy to fit. No colour change options (yet?) so its staying as black. best worn with lighter clothes unless you are going for that all black look

The cuff and collar design is fairly normal. Black iron wrapped around the neck and wrists with a ring hanging from the front for any possible leashes you may wish to clip on.

Good - Lightweeight design, easy to fit
Bad - Lack of customization

Function

You know the deal by now if your ead my reviews. For those that don't, the function starts from the top left of the menu.

Very first option? Expose. Always a nice one. If you hit it, you cannot turn ti back off however, and need help to get unlocked and unexposed. Next is help, gives the help NC, self explanitory. Then we have settings. You can update, resize, add an owner or turn on Yell alerts. I'm guessing yell alerts work by screaming the sim down when you break the rules in non-RLV.

Next is RLV, which is off by default. Once activated, you can choose to limit touch to close, turn touch off altogether, block interactions altogether or hit detail. Under detail you can further adjust it by picking specific things they can and cannot touch.

Next is timelock, with options ranging from adding 5 minutes.. to adding 6 months. Be careful with this. Theres also punishment, similar to timelock except it just adds sometime on. The person who tries to punish you can have anything from 2 minutes to 30 minutes added to the timelock.. and cna press the punish button more than once. This can be disabled however, for those that are cautious.

Theres lock and hide yoke next, both self explanitory. Then theres Arousal.. This menu involves Xcite and Sensations and has a full options. As I use neither of those systems, I can't accurately comment on how it works.

Good - lots of options, timelock
Bad - Punish looks kinda like just more timelock options

Scores

Quality - 6/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 349 is very resonable - 8/10

RF Scavengers Daughter and Ultra-brace

Yeah.. Wierd name. Anyway! Katies been chugging out gear lately, the yoke, and now these two restraints, the Scavengers Daughter and Ultra-brace/ The ultra brace and scavengers thingy seem to have exactly teh same functionality, so that saves me time.

Quality

Scavengers Daughter

This is quite hard to describe. Its all metal, and it does look well detailed as expected. To my surprise it fit perfectly out of the box, nearly making me think it was mesh. The metal looks like well.. Metal. Every rivet is in place, every bar connected properly as you'd expect, small padlocks on the cuffs.. What more is there to say than it looks really good?

You can freely recolour every section as well, each colour keeping the metallic look you'd expect. There is literally so many colour options in thsi that I'm not even gonna count em, it would take forever.

Theres also a resizer in here should it need some simple adjustment. Height can be adjusted seperatly as well.

The good - Well detailed, unique in SL, ton of customizaiton options
The bad - Will likely be difficult to fit for many people

Ultra Brace

This one I;m obviously biased about. Encasement and latex shinyness?  Yes please. 

Unlike teh daughter, I ahd to adjusta nd shrink this one down a bit to fit right. Its heavy duty. Thick rubber covering you from your neck down, tight straps running down your form, a strong metal frame holding you up.. All this of course leads to total immobilization.

Theres a small frame coming up from the top of the brace that has a small ball on it between two prongs, which conviently fits just where your mouth will be when locked inside as well. Like the Daughter, it has a half ton of colourization options. Same ones as the aforementioned restraint, just differant parts to be coloured.

My only complaints? It looks like a piece of bondage furniture, and may of worked better as one.. And the gags permanent.


The good - Very well detailed, shiny, looks as restrictive as it is
The bad - perma-gag, looks like furniture instead of worn restraint

Function

Going over it, its nto got much new to say for an RF restraint. The usual RF plugins for those little fun moments, leashing, RLV menu, and option to turn off style change.. An RLV relay and full RLV folder access as well.

You can get items out of it, Leash holders to be exact as normal. Post and one for each hand, and a help NC. Its exposable, blockable, has Verbose. Can be unbound to let you walk around freely with it hidden, always a handy thing and of course theres the ever important timelock.

Both restraints immobilize you, and the ultra brace gags you as well. No option to ungag sadly.. The ultra brace also is setup for alpha usage. Merely make a folder in yoru inventory called RF ultra-brace alpha, drop it in the RLV folder, and drop the alpha inside it.

The good - Simple menus, has everything they need in it.
The bad - Braces no ungag option (same as above)

Scores

Quality - Daughter - 7/10. Brace - 8/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 250 linden each - 9/10

RF Wooden Yoke

A new product from RF, released just tonight. Tad out of my area, not usually a yoke, or wood, person.

Quality

As you'd expect from RF, it looks good for what it is. A plank of wood, sawn in two with holes made in 3 locations that, when the wood clsoes together, lock your hands and head in place. Metal work added around the holes and around the outside of the wood to further strength it and help make sure that it holds the captive secure, all of this is of course highly detailed, right down to the many rivets.

Thats all I can really say. You can't adjust how it looks, so you have what I think is a red wood (I'm not good with wood types) with a silvery metal frame around it.

One thing though, it is possibly the first non-mesh product from RF that fits me right out of the box. However it DOES have clipping issues with certain AOs and your chin. A forced head pose might be handy in a future update. Pic below shows the issue.

Function

Starting from top left as always. You have the plugins menu. Inside you find the RF plugins and a leash, as well as RLV menu with full folder access, an always welcome addition. It also has a resizer, which is handy.

Moving onto the settings menu, you can get some items for leashing purposes. A leash holder for your left or right hand, a post, and a help NC. You can also adjust Verbose, whether the item can be blocked or not, update and reset it through this menu. You can also expose it if you really want to risk suddenly be locked up in it by the public, which can be fun at times.

It has a sub anim menu, with 39 included and the option to add mroe of your own, it has the ever welcome timelock, with two differant types. You can do the traditional timeloock and get free at end of timer, or timebound, which frees you form the restraint, but does not remove any sec owners or keyholders.

It has the RF Masterkey of course, and can (according to the NC) have 20 sec owners. As I have no intention of asking 20 people to line up for me to add due to the inherant risk, I won't be testing that.

You can of course walk around without it showing, and merely have to hit bind if you want to get locked up.

Scores

Quality - Its RF, so its well detailed. Not shiny, but its not like everythig can be latex - 8/10
Function - Does what a yoke needs ot, has some nice little extras - 8/10
Price - 250 linden. I can't complain about this - 9/10