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. [...]
Yesterday I got in a bit more plaiting on the 16 foot bullwhip. It’s just past the 10 foot mark: The untangling of the strands has gotten much easier now that I’m way past the halfway point. However if I ever end up making another whip this long, it’s going to have to figure in [...]
Last night I finally finished reading the Luis Ortega book, and it was an interesting read. It’s a biography, not a technical book however every now and then if you read between the lines there are some tips on working with rawhide. If you don’t know about Ortega he was/is considered on of the best [...]
Yesterday I finally had a chance to plait the Peter Jack stockwhip that’s been kicking around for a little while. I haven’t made a ton of stockwhips, so this was an interesting project for me to do. There was some interesting things about how he makes his stockwhips…like how he adds lead to the handle. [...]
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 [...]
It seems like I’ve seen a lot of whip cracking this summer that I wasn’t expecting. It could be that I’ve been semi-seeking it out in most cases, however to day it came a as complete surprise when I was heading to a gig at the Tacoma Maritime Festival and ran into a guy cracking [...]
Currenly I’m working on four snake whips. I’ve done a little work on each so that I could show the progression of how I”m making these and then have one picture with all the layers. Currently I have two of these finished and the next two should be finished today! Louie http://bullwhips.org
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 [...]
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 [...]