You can buy professionally made stocks from
Rupert Huse & Sons or from Toys 4 Lust (
Style 1 or
Style 2). Be prepared to pay a pretty penny, though, like you would for any handmade furniture.
Yes, you can make them without wood - or at least without woodworking. It's a bit of a MacGuyver, but it can work.
Basically stocks are just a sort of clamp that prevent you from pulling your feet or hands back from something. Here's one way to make something like that.
Go to a hardware or lumber store and get the following items:
- 2 sturdy wooden dowels 1" in diameter and 3 feet long (or one dowel 6 feet long - ask them to cut it in half for you)
- 2 lengths of foam pipe insulation with a 1" internal diameter, each at least 2 feet long
- Electrical tape
- 4 truck tie-down straps or similar rachet-buckle straps
If some of that made no sense to you, don't worry - the folks at the hardware store will know what you mean if you bring them this list.
Once you get your goodies home, wrap each dowel in foam insulation so that about 6" on either end of the dowel is left uncovered.
Wrap electrical tape tightly around each end of the insulation, and again in the middle, to hold it securely to the dowels.
Place a wrapped dowel above and below your victim's ankles, with their legs outstretched and however far apart you want them. Now wrap the four tie-down straps around both dowels, two of them on either side of each ankle. Tighten the straps carefully until your victim's ankles are securely trapped between the padded dowels.
Ideally this setup will include some means of preventing your victim from pulling their ankles back. Some possible means of doing this include tying the dowels to the foot of the bed, putting your victim's ankles through the back of a chair before applying the dowels (so the chairback prevents them being withdrawn), or even sitting between your victim's legs so the dowels go across your body.
It's a makeshift, but it will work until you can have a proper set of stocks made. And it's portable.
