WASTELAND MANDIBLE

The Ornate Mandible is an augmentation worn by the Sect of the Undark , a small but fearsome group found in the Wastelands. Their belief is that radium is a holy element and use it to adorn themselves. This part of their religious doctrine seems to have originated from a short period of time before the Final War when radium was used in commercial products to make glowing elements on products; years of misinterpretation and confusion forming their current holy writ. The Ornate Mandible is used to replace or hide the loss of teeth and the entire jaw itself (the result of radium exposure),  the cult members using technology traded with Wasteland techno-priests to install these elegantly carved and polished prosthetics."

This jaw was sculpted in clay and cast in a slightly flexible urethane- it can be heat shaped to fit your face- i used metal wire to go over my ears and it works ok but buyer may want to replace. There is a sculpted piece using sugru on the under-chin to help it move better with my jaw- buyer may need to remove or repair for a better fit. Selling as is! I will probably not make these again.

Each finished jaw will come with elastic string that can be attached with hot glue. It is impossible for me to attach the string and have it fit everyone the same way so the buyer must custom fit the attachments. This mask is not guaranteed to fit all faces.

1) Hold the mask up to your face and mark where the top and bottom of your ear's "cup" sits. The top of the jaw should be in front of your ear, near your temple.

2) Use hot glue ( or your preferred glue) to attach one string to the top mark and one string to the bottom mark.

3) Tie the two attached strings behind your ear. Make it tight enough so that the jaw's chin will be firmly pressed to your own chin so that it will move with your own chin when you move your jaw. You should be able to remove the jaw by looping the tied string from around the back of your ear or simply untie the elastic.

Because of the delicate nature of this sculpt, the jaw should be stored in a way so that it does not sag under it's own weight. If it does warp, the jaw is very easily put back into place with gentle pressure or by heating it gently with a hair dryer and leaving in the desired shape to cool.