INVENTED IN MEXICO.
REFINED IN JAPAN.
MADE IN USA.

Welcome to Omega Masks! I’ve been a wrestling fan since I was about 8, growing up in the middle of North Carolina during the heyday of Jim Crockett Promotions and the NWA. One of my favourite aspects of pro wrestling was the mysterious masks. Maskmaking has been a hobby of mine since I was in college around 1987, when a friend producing a Spanish language play asked me to make some lucha masks for his show. When I graduated college, I wore a mask while accepting my diploma, but not before whipping it off to reveal an even more striking mask underneath.

EVOLUTION

After grad school (where I wrote my Master’s thesis on pro wrestling), I moved to rural North Carolina and started working as an announcer/commentator/graphic designer at the start of a small wrestling promotion (The East Coast Wrestling Federation) which would eventually morph into the New Frontier Wrestling Alliance before finally acquiring the name by which it’s known today, OMEGA. Starting in the early days of the ECWF, several of the wrestlers asked me to make them tights or masks. Examples of the characters I made masks for were Enigma, El Hijo Del Fuego, The Desperado, and Willow tha Whisp. (And yes, that’s the way it was spelled back in the day!)

REACHING FOR THE STARS

In those days, there were no resources for learning how to make masks. I just bought a couple of masks at flea markets or out of the backs of wrestling magazines, and then adapted their shapes into patterns which I sewed as best I could. After our OMEGA wrestlers made it to the bigtime, I stopped making masks for many years. A few years after YouTube came along, I stumbled across a video showing how the professionals made masks. The patterns were similar to the ones I had created, but the method was vastly different. I studied these videos extensively, and got the maskmaking bug again. Since then, I’ve shared with and learned from a number of maskmakers, and have had the honour of studying with master mascarero Mister Cacao in Japan. Now I make masks for my old friends and occasionally for new ones.

Dr. Omega

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