Bear's Leather

Okay so Bear's Leather is a site that specialises in producing really nice handcrafted leather, either in stock designs or apparently custom stuff.  They include a rather fine selection of collars including some awesome BDSM Collars with dropped O's at the front as well as some frankly beautiful and robust looking small posture collars / thick contoured collars as well as more emphasised V-shaped contours going to buckles V-shaped contours going to buckles .

They also do some really interesting stuff that caught my eye.  Wear a day-to-day turian collar and want a more substantially thick leather collar for play?  Well here's a first, a leather collar designed to clip to one.  Oh and all their stuff comes with locking roller buckles as well for keeping them on.

JSWMetalWorks - Infinity Chainmail Collar

Oh wow, over on Etsy I've just seen an awesome collar.  The Infinity Collar from JSW Metal Works.  Just the sheer closeness of it, the way it hugs the neck with a tight metal weave is quite nice looking.  But what really makes it is the the infinity symbol that rests over the throat, giving two light attachments points and also a really nice looking bit of symbology :)

Kittens Toy Room: Adjustable Posture Collar

Okay, from Kitten's Toy Room (who make a variety of reasonable looking leather buckle collars) I found this really rather interesting thing.  An Adjustable Posture Collar.  Yup, thats right, its slightly industrial/medical looking but that works for some people :)  By all accounts it has 4 settings to give a variety of strictness to neck posture, 4" to 6" apparently.  Not sure its that much my bag but really, I've never seen anything like it.

Tribal Hollywood: Barcode

Okay so Tribal Hollywood stock a reasonable number of more robust looking chains in styles that more masculine types may find attractive, mostly made from silver and look like they'd work for being day Collars.

However one thing that caught my eye in particular was their Barcode Necklace, a black rubber coated length of something (steel wire I'm guessing) with a series of beads at the front in stainless steel to give the effect of creating a barcode.

A really nice idea I think, while the item itself looks awesome it more got me wondering about subtle ways to encode information like SLRNs in barcodes like this to make them available and in plain sight, but hidden.

Sincerely Yours Gifts: Bow tie choker

Okay so perhaps it wasn't intended as a collar, but I found a place on artfire called  Sincerely Yours Gifts who do a few things (including leather cuffs) but what caught my eye was this classy object, a bow-tie choker which I think would make an excellent, unusual and rather dapper day collar :)

BDbySM Daily Wear

BDbySM do a whole range of custom made collars, mostly from silver as far as I can tell, what really attracted me to this was the subtle nature of the Affirmation collars, a series of silver rings that can be inscribed with any words you want, its not a robust play collar but a rather classy looking day-wear Collar.

Steel Collar Review from faete31

Okay as a quick break from the endless postings of nice collars I thought I'd link to this interesting youtube video in which someone who wears a solid steel turian style collar constantly:  Steel Collar Review.  This is posted by faete31 who appears to be mainly based out of The Sub Mission