Following on from my success with this and a recent conversation between another member I am going to post some of our conversation here with the hopes of providing others with some useful information should they wish to attempt this themselves.
I was sent a PM by another member enquiring about the procedure and if I had any advice to give. So here goes...
The first tie you perform needs to be done as close to the meatus as is possible. You need to release the frenulum from the 'top down' as it were. First tie close to the meatus and see how much freedom that gives you. Then if you want more freedom you tie the frenulum off further down your cockhead.
I have performed and completed one tie so far. I am going through the process of my second one. The first tie took 6-7 days to complete and then needed a weeks healing time before I could perform the second one.
My healing time was complicated by the creams I was using, however, so yours might heal faster.
To keep everything sterile I was using these antimicrobial handwipes and then germaloids cream. I figured these would be fine. The handwipes were designed for sensitive skin that can't cope with alcohol gel (yay covid) and the germaloids goes on your anus skin in copious quantities. Germaloids is basically a mild anaesthetic (so mild I can't feel it doing anything) and then a substance called zinc oxide + oil. The oil helps to moisturise and the zinc oxide has mild antibacterial properties. Turns out my skin had a bad reaction to one of the two and I ended up with the top layer of skin on the inside of my foreskin peeling off, same with the skin around the frenulum area on my cockhead. Not fun! As you can see from the picture I posted in the thread that's completely healed now so hurrah.
So my first bit of advice is to make sure that any gels/creams/ointments you're going to use are cockhead safe. I only noticed something was wrong after 3 days of using them. If you want to use a cream, to provide a protective layer, vs infection, over the tied area, you can always go with petroleum jelly. This isn't antibacterial but it will stop bacteria getting into the area. Alcohol/sanitising hand gel might dry skin but once it evaporates it's gone. So when you need to sterilise anything use this. After my bad experience I'd be wary of any lingering chemicals.
To make this as easy as possible you will want to use a proper hypodermic needle with a sharp tip. Some come with a blunt tip which are obviously useless for this. You want to make sure that the diameter of the hole within the needle is bigger than the thread you are going to use for the tie. The easy way to do this is to feed the thread into the needle so that it is almost poking out the end. You then push the needle through the frenulum. With the needle through the frenulum feed the thread further through the needle so that it is sticking out the pointy end. Hold onto the line sticking out the pointy end and then remove the needle. This removes the needle leaving the line threaded through the frenulum. Simple, easy, almost bloodless and not particularly painful.
Choosing where to tie. This is particularly important. A torch/flash light is very handy for this.
First of all you want to pull your frenulum away from you cockhead. This guy has a very tight frenulum so he doesn't need to pull it with his fingers but you get the point. Use your fingers to get the skin pulled out something like this. Maybe not as tight as this as that looks painful for him, but you get the idea, just pull it away from the cock.
When you are pulling the skin away this is when the torch comes in handy. If you shine the torch behind the frenulum it will shine through the skin and illuminate all the blood vessels. You do not want to put the needle through a blood vessel, either go above or below it.
With the torch shining if you pull the frenulum away from the cockhead too hard you will notice that the glans/cockheadtissue gets stretched away from the glans. This causes the area I've high lighted in red, below, to go dark vs the frenulum skin on its own. This is because the glans tissue is now blocking the light. You obviously do not want to put the needle through this. If you stop pulling as hard the dark area should disappear as the glans tissue retreats back into the glans. You only want to put the needle through frenulum tissue whilst avoiding blood vessels.
The image below highlights where I reckon would be good places for this guy to do his first tie.
Needle goes through the black dot and the tie gets tied around where the yellow line is. This will release the upper part of the frenulum and free the cockhead some. You want where the needle goes through to be as close to the glans as possible without actually going through glans tissue and the tie to do the same.
My last bit of advice is to practise what you're going to do without actually doing it. Get your hands used to holding the frenulum in line with the torch so you can see everything clearly. Remember you need to be able to hold the frenulum ready with one hand. You need your other hand to operate the needle. I did this by sitting on my bed with my legs apart and leaning back against pillows. I rested the torch on my balls and used one hand to hold my cock/frenulum and the other hand the needle. If you get the angles and things wrong you'll just shine the torch straight into your eyes, which is blinding rather than helpful
Unless you are prone to infection I really don't think you'll need to use any cream/ointment. Just wash under the foreskin twice a day with soap/hand wash. Rinse thoroughly, let it dry with the foreskin back but not touching anything, then pull your foreskin back into place and leave it there. Remember urine is sterile so even after you pee you don't strictly need to wash it, just dry the excess urine with tissue.
If you've read the start of the forum thread you'll know that the recommendation is to use a single strand of plastic thread for the tying. Fishing line, or that stretchy thread you can use for making bracelets. Just make sure the needles you buy are wide enough through the centre for the thread you buy to pass through. Research needle gauges before you buy.
Tie as tight as you can. Practise tying the thread around something like a pen/pencil to know how much you can pull on the stretchy stuff without it breaking. You don't want it to break. Fishing line is a lot stronger but isn't stretchy so you'll need to replace the tie part way through. I replaced my stretchy ties just to make sure everything was still tight but I don't think I would have needed to. Tweezers are very useful for holding the thread when trying to replace a tie.
I hope that was helpful! Do post in the thread with how you're getting on if you choose to do this. Oh and the first time I tied I used some anaesthetic spray on my frenulum the second time I didn't use any anaesthetic. It wasn't particularly painful but I would definitely recommend numbing the area for your first tie as your hands will be shaking and stuff as your body isn't engineered to want to slice itself up, any pain just adds to the stress/anxiety of the situation. Once you've done the first one doing the second one is a lot easier.