Here’s the completed overlay of the six foot bullwhip that I’ve been working on: I made this bullwhip slightly differently from how I normally do them. I think this has a more “vintage morgan” look to it with a slimmer profile at the transition. I’ve made them like this in the past, but I went [...]
Today I started working on the plaited for an 8 foot bullwhip. I had cut out the belly sets a few days ago: Here’s the finished inner belly with the inner bolster attached: Here’s the bullwhip with half of the outer belly plaited: And here’s the finished outer belly: Up next it’s time to roll [...]
I frequently get phone calls or emails where someone is shopping for a whip and they want to know why whips are so expensive. Hopefully this will shed some light onto why whips cost more than you’d expect (if you’ve never shopped for a whip before). Let’s use an 8 foot 12 plait bullwhip as [...]
July has been a very busy “whip cracking month” for me and yesterday was no exception! James Maxwell and Chris were in town and we managed to meet up briefly to do some whip cracking: Unfortunately we only had about 30 or 40 minutes to crack before I had to head off to a gig. [...]
This week Adam Winrich was in Seattle and I got a chance to hang out with him and do some whip cracking. I took Adam to Alki which is an area of Seattle that is right along the Puget Sound and you can view downtown from across the water. We ended up teaching a lot [...]
Here’s the last batch of pictures from my road trip and that’s my visit with Mark Allen at Western Stage Props in Las Vegas. The wall of whips was amazing Mark had whips from most of the better known whipmakers that have been making in 10 or 20 years! Including early Strain and Nolan whips. [...]
On my last day in San Diego, right before I started the 22ish hour drive home, I hit up the San Diego Whip Enthusiasts meeting. Everyone there was very cool, and I had a lot of fun…plus it was nice to get a bit of exercise before sitting for almost a full day. I always [...]
Here’s a bunch of pictures of Lauren, Paul and me cracking whips when I visited them: I was really excited to try to crack Lauren’s Performance Hybrid Whips, especially after John Leonetti had talked them up the last time he was in town. After trying them I really liked them and price at (if I [...]
As part of my road trip to San Diego last week I made a detour and headed over to Nevada to visit Paul, Lauren and Nikko at Mid West Whips. We had a great time talking whips and cracking them (cracking pic’s will be in another post). Paul showed me a very interesting way to [...]
While we (wife, daughter and me) were on the road I stopped at Legoland in Southern California. It was a lot of fun, and me being a total whip nerd managed to find a couple of whips. The first whip was on a Lego Indiana Jones: This particular whip was the nicest one I’ve [...]