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These are good Ben. Your attention to detail, as Robert says, does you proud.

I love your handle designs and the transitions look great.

Hi Ben Varsek, The coyote brown / OD green Bullwhip is my favorite out of all. But the black / charcoal grey is also very nice. The "experimental" whip looks great. Overall I think your work is very good and all the whips looks great. Thank you very much for sharing the pictures.

Thank all of you very much for your compliments !!!

Here are some pictures of the whips after waxing (again - I apologize: I'm a not much of a photographer):













All the best
Ben

Ben, that looks really splendid! In fact, I want to say, 'Wow!'

Ben, that black and charcoal grey (?) is my favorite whip you have posted .
It looks fantastic. I am officially a fan of your work now.

Ron

Very well done! They seem to come alive!

Ben Varsek, your work looks great. Very nice work and thanks for sharing the pictures.

Thank You,

William Caban

@ Robert Gage:

Thank you very much Mr. Gage !!!

@ Ron May:

Thank you very much for your compliment !!!
I haven't hear of this color before either but the customer asked for it


@ Rachel McCollough:

Thank you so much Madam !!!


@ William Caban:

Thank you very much Mr. Caban and youre welcome !!!


All the best
Ben

Ben, awesome work. I like the 5 ft target bullwhip with the alternating colors, looks really really cool.

Here are some pictures of a whip which I made for myself. It's a shoot loaded 6,5 footer with two plaited bellies (8 and 12) and a 16 plait overlay. Since I'm participating on the 10/10 challenge, I thought it was a good idea to have a whip which will show up well on camera and therfore made the entire whip (except for the knots) in neon orange.

Both bellies of this whip are made with a TT at the end. Insted of staring the TT where the core strand ends I've dropped a string from the 4 plait and used the core strand together with the 3 remaining strands of the 4 plait to make the TT.

I've also changed my "binding" formula for this whip in order to achive a more fluid and resposive whip with a quick forming loop (I'm quiet happy with the result ).

I transitioned from square start to double herringbone faster than its usualy done since I didn't want the U1O1 sequence to be seen on the handle (on a normal square start the heel knot wouldn't have covered the entire U1O1 sequence).












Here is a close up of the fall hitch. I've used Tyler's method of making a loaded fall with the only difference that the stiched portin of the fall is covered by the fall hitch and I also did some slitbariding at the stiched portion. The main reason for this is that my stiching looks terrible but Rachel has given me some very useful tipps on that (thank you Rachel !!!) and I will use her tipps for making the falls on my next whips.






All the best
Ben

Ben, your work is immaculate as usual. And your plaiting and fall hitch are as neat and smooth as can be. Excellent taper too.

I absolutely love the color for demonstrations and as demonstrated in the video it flows and cracks very well.
Very nice job Ben.

Ron

That is all so neat and tidy Ben. Very nice indeed.

Thank you very much Ron !!!

I've also made myself a 5 foot snakewhip since I wanted to have a "every day carry" whip.
I liked Erik's idea of making a whip in "friendly colors" that would rather trigger interest than scare people.
Since I prefer to have a heavy core on whips that are shorter than 6 foot (especialy on snakewhips) I've made this whip with a led core. The led core has the same measurements (diameter and lenght) as a 8 plait belly including the shoot loaded core. In other words: this whip has only one plaited belly (12 palit) and a 16 palit overlay.
I used the coral snake color setup for this whip with differnt colors than the normal coral snake pattern.








I'm currently working on a custom order (6 foot 20 plait bullwhip) and I'll post pictures here as soon as I've completed it.


All the best
Ben

Thank you very much Sir Tuson !!!

All the best
Ben

Ben, the star pattern in the heel knot is quite unusual and I like it a lot.
I don't think I've ever seen that before.
Well done.

Ron

Thanks Ron, but I'm pretty sure that you've seen it before

It's a single pass 6 bight TH (green) with pineapple interweave (yellow). I then just "doubled" the interwoven part with a black string of type 1 paracord. I was thinking of using a black string on each side of the yellow string to match the coral pattern (green/black/yellow/black/green) but decided to leave it like that since I liked the way it turned out.

All the best
Ben

Ben, both whips look amazing! I love the fact that you didn't hide your ends, instead you decide to leave it out for show~

Wow... those whips are absolutely fantastic . The square starts on the orange one are immaculate.

Those are really cool whips, very tidy work.