Yesterday I finished almost all of the matched pair of bullwhips, all that is left is to give them a coat of shellac. I’ve got a morning gig, so the shellacing will have to wait until this afternoon. Louie http://bullwhips.org
Yesterday I finished almost all of the matched pair of bullwhips, all that is left is to give them a coat of shellac. I’ve got a morning gig, so the shellacing will have to wait until this afternoon. Louie http://bullwhips.org
Yesterday I started working on a matched pair of 5 foot bullwhips. These will be made in 8 plait red colored kangaroo. I just happened to have a 72 dm kangaroo skin which is more than enough for the two whips. This matched pair of bullwhips is for Curtis Carlyle who is a juggler. [...]
Heres the 16 foot bullwhip with the plaiting finished.
Well I’m still working on the 16 foot bullwhip. I’ve begun the overlay and what a chore that has been! With a long whip like this the strands are 24-28 feet long and each pull they get tangled up. One solution to plaiting with long strands it to tie them up into tamales. In the [...]
All the snake whips that I was working on last week are finished and waiting to be shipped off! These four whips are made from cowhide and have 4 plait overlays and kangaroo knots. Here’s a quick video of me test cracking them: Louie http://bullwhips.org
Today I got an email that Ubraidit was having a 10% off sale, and there were a couple of books that I’ve wanted for a while and this gave me a reason to order them. The books I ordered are: The sale is good until 8/29, just enter the promo code AUG2010 on Ubraidit’s website. [...]
This morning I’m shipping out a 6 foot Indy Bullwhip to Ireland: My current project is working on four snake whips. These will be six feet long and be four plait in cowhide. Last night I cut out six shot bags (I only need four), but the way the hide was I other two came [...]
Here’s the completed overlay of the six foot bullwhip that I’ve been working on: I made this bullwhip slightly differently from how I normally do them. I think this has a more “vintage morgan” look to it with a slimmer profile at the transition. I’ve made them like this in the past, but I went [...]
Today was an exciting day, right after I had started plaiting the overlay for a six foot bullwhip there were two huge booms that shook my condo! We didn’t know what they were, my wife thought someone had crashed a car into the building. We noticed a lot of neighbors milling around outside, so we [...]
Over the weekend I started work on a 6 foot 12 plait bullwhip. Currently I have all the insides finished: And the overlay cut out and ready to braid: I should have time to get a lot of the braiding done tomorrow. Oh, here’s a lunge whip that I picked up, I plan on redoing [...]