Yesterday UPS delivered a side of Red Latigo: This side of Red Latigo is huge! I was going to try to make some 4 plait bullwhips out of it. If I do that I’ll probably have to thin it down a bit, it’s pretty thick. Yesterday I also finished making an 8 foot budget bullwhip: [...]
I found this little interview with Terry Yahr, who is a whip maker in Tennessee. Below is both the video and article: Retiree from ORNL a whiz with whipsEngineer inspired by cowboy films By Morgan Simmons Sunday, January 31, 2010 OAK RIDGE – In the action-adventure film, “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the hero, Indiana [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday I was traveling through the Tulalip Indian Reservation (about 40 mins north or Seattle) and drove by Tulalip Tanning. I stopped in to see what they had (mostly deer and elk), but after chatting with the lady there I noticed a couple of whips on the wall. There was a bullwhip and two stockwhips, [...]
Yesterday I made 1 1/4 of a pair so stockwhips. These 5 foot 3 inch 8 plait stockwhip with full plait handles I’m making for myself. In addition to the finished stock whip I also have the belly finished and all the layers cut out for the other stockwhip. This stock whip is basically the [...]
Over the weekend I didn’t get much work on whips done (except for a bit Sunday) because I took my daughter out camping. We did some fossil digging and fishing, it was both of our first times doing both and it was a ton of fun. I got home sunday afternoon and finished an 7ish [...]
On Tuesday I was down in the Portland OR / Vancouver WA area performing and Kyle and I met up for a little while and swung around some bullwhips. It was supposed to rain that day, but it stayed dry. Kyle makes a lot of his own bullwhips and here’s the pile of them (I [...]