I just timed myself while cutting out a 12 plait overlay for a 6 foot bullwhip. It took me just over 26 minutes to cut the overlay and that’s with all the distractions like answering the door and pouring beers included in the time. I think my first bullwhip’s overlay took all day to cut [...]
Here are some pictures of a 4 foot bullwhip that I made a while ago and has been hanging on a hook: and here are a couple pictures of the 8 foot whip I made a few days ago, I don’t remember if I posted them: I made it back from the accountant better than [...]
Today or tomorrow I should have some spring steel rods showing up. I’m very excited to try them out, but they may have to wait a bit. I have a 6 foot bullwhip in the works and then I plan on doing a copy or my 6 foot morgan bullwhip. So the spring steel may [...]
I did my gig today that was near David Morgan’s shop and popped by to see him. He’s getting around well after his fall and really I wouldn’t have noticed any difference in him if I hadn’t heard about it. Today he invited me into the back of his workshop and from visiting joe strain I didn’t [...]
Today I’ve got a busy performing day, but one of my gigs is about 4 blocks from David Morgan’s shop. So I’ll pop by and see if he’s there and how he’s doing. I’m bringing a few whips that I’ve made to show him if he’s there. I really would like him to see the [...]
I’ve got a coat of shellac on the 8 foot bullwhip drying right now and once that is done it’s finished! I’ve very happy with this whip, it’s got a great weight to it. I’m getting the weight and taper to how I like it. Taking apart that Morgan really helped me with my filler [...]
The 8 foot bullwhip that I’m working on has about 7 feet of the plaiting finished, but I noticed that the taper was to sharp at my 10 plait to 8 plait drop. I really should have fixed it when I noticed it shortly after I did the strand drop. But anyway it needs to [...]
Lately I’ve emailed with a couple of makers who use “lead foil tape” to load the butts of thier whips. I’ve never used the lead foil, but from what I can tell it’s pretty thin, so you have to wrap it around the butt a lot to build up bulk and weight. I may [...]
Last night I cut out and pared the overlay on the 8 foot bullwhip I’m working on. So today with a bit of luck I’ll be able to get 1/2 of the bullwhips 12 plait overlay finished. Then tomorrow I’ll finish the other half and do the knots sometime over the weekend and have it [...]
This afternoon I made it to the park and got to do some cracking with my bullwhips. I continued my work on two handed cracking. I’m getting the Queensland Crossover figured out, and today I started monkeying with Breakaways. One thing that I picked up recently was volley’s with both hands in balanced time. I [...]