Lately I’ve been busy around the “shop” working on plaiting projects. My current bullwhip project is an 8 foot, 12 plait bullwhip. For this bullwhip I didn’t have a natural tan skin in stock that was big enough, so the inner belly was made from a whiskey colored roo skin and other belly and overlay is from the natural tan skin:
I probably could have gotten the whole whip from the natural tan skin, I like to have my skins for an 8 foot at about 62dm and this one was 59dm. I really didn’t want to run out of kangaroo a few inches short of an 8 foot whip.
Here are the cut out bellies:
The whiskey skin was 56dm, and I think I might use the leftover for a 5 foot 8 plait bullwhip. Here’s the 8 foot bullwhip as it is right now (with both bellies and bolsters completed):
And here’s the 12 plait overlay that has been stretched and split, but still needs to be pared:
I should be able to get the paring finished and plaiting started later today…depending on how I feel, I’ve got a bit of a cold and have to fake my way through a gig this afternoon.
Also a few months ago I started work on a 24 plait bosal and did a bit of work here and there. Well it’s finally finsihed:
And the other night I did some messing around with doing a ridge plait:
This bracelet was interesting, it’s 6 plait at the loop, then 14 plait at the main body and 12 plait at the end with the turkshead.
Louie
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