Here’s a 4 foot 12 plait signal whip that I just shipped out: I’ve been thinking of making another signal whip or snake whip before I make some more bullwhips…but I’ve have a 12 plait bullwhip with a 24 plait handle in my head for a little while and I’ve got great kangaroo skin for [...]
Right now I’m working on a 12 plait signal whip that’ll be 4 feet long. I’ve got about 18 inches of the overlay plaited and with a bit of luck I’ll find some time tomorrow to finish it. I’ve been thinking of making a couple of signal whips when the order for this one came [...]
Well my mind is made up kip sucks for whipmaking! For the first couple feet of the kip bullwhip that I was making it was doing alright, but once the strands started to taper and weren’t 8mm wide they were breaking like crazy. I was breaking a strand every 6-9 inches. I wasn’t pulling very [...]
Yesterday I was cleaning up and found two kip bellies and a core that I had cut out a while ago. So yesterday I plaited them and I’m making a 9 foot bullwhip. I also cut out the 12 plait overlay and sometime today I’ll probably do all the strand prep for it. It’s been [...]
My buddie and fellow whipmaker Steve Huntress is hiking some of the Applachian Trail to raise money for Cancer research. If you donate $25 or more he’ll put your name in a drawing to win a whip. For more info and to donate visit http://neawhips.com/hikeforcancer.aspx Steve makes great nylon whips, I have a pair of [...]
Here’s the almost finished stockwhip: This stock whip is 5 1/2 feet and the thong is 12 pliat. The stockwhip’s handle starts as a 12 plait and finished as a 24 plait at the heel knot. I gave it a few test throws on my deck and it’s not cracking quite right. I’m going to [...]
After trying out some of the knots in the Turkshead Cookbook with kangaroo, I have some opinions about the book and tool. These might change after doing more knots with it. This book has tons and tons of turkshead knots and it’s a great resource to have around. The main thing for me is that [...]
For the last two days I’ve been working on making a stockwhip handle. It starts as a 12 plait at the keeper end and ends at a 24 plait at the butt end. I’ve got the overlay finished and just need to tie the knots on the handle…oh then I need to do make the [...]
I just got three kangaroo skins in the mail from Paul Nolan. I don’t know what I’m going to do with them…yet… Louie http://bullwhips.org
This is the first bullwhip I’ve made in a while that I’m not proud of…it’s not a bad whip, but I’m not going to enter it into any contest either. I did take it out and it cracks fine…so at least it’s got one thing going for it (the most important thing!). This was my [...]