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I second, or quint or whatever, that the handle looks turned

Yeah, if someone wants you to make a handle for them because they want that hand made look, they will be sadly disappointed.
Crazy mad skills there.

Ron

Thank y'all, very much. I deeply appreciate it.

Rachel - I always love to see how you build your whips and make the dust

The building process helps me understand how different techniqes influence on the whips performance and the difference between whips.

Especially I really love the picture from 05.08.2018 18:02:10, of the paper on your wll, where I can see, that you are very systematic about your whipmaking (just because I know that it has something with whipmaking to do). For me that paper could be something someone found in the deepest room in a Pyramide in Egypt

Flemming, Thank you!!! I missed your reply until today, I'm sorry!!!
I greatly appreciate your words!
Here is a little more of some project:
Plaiting soap.
100% pure lard and Lasse's recipes from there for leather conditioner and then plaiting soap.
Final product contains pine tar, lard, water, ivory soap, beeswax.

That is natural unoiled roo hide and plaiting soap put on the darker piece.

Rachel, your soap is a little fancier than mine. I just use lard, pure soap, and water. Where did you get the beeswax and pine tar? Can't seem to find either around here.

Mark, I found pine tar at a local feed store. It can be ordered in small amoints from Amazon as well. The beeswax can be had from any local bee keeper, or from any craft store such as Michael's or Hobby Lobby. Sometimes walmart carries it as well. Any Tandy's will, too. Only an ounce or two is needed.

I have some mighty fine leather dressing I have bought from Roy through www.whip-nation.com that has pinetar in it. I really like it, so I thought I would try Lasse's recipe for plaiting soap. So far I like the way it looks, though I will render my own beef fat for the next batch over lard.

Thanks, Rachel, I'll look there. Maybe the batch in the photo is still warm but it looks a lot more creamy than what I've made.

Looks tasty! :p

Ethan, salted caramel mousse it is not!!!

Mark, dare I say it...
Whip it, whip it good......

To keep it from separating. That is all I did. I used ivory bar soap melted and stirred into my water and added the fat with the beeswax melted into it and pinetar. Whipped together. That was it....

Rachel, that's pretty much what I did with mine, minus the pine tar and beeswax, but when it cooled it was about the consistency if cool butter. Definitely going to try the pine tar and bees wax.

The bazaar things we whipmakers end up trying, melting wax, homemade plaiting soap, etc.

Ethan, if I may - 'bizarre' (strange, outrageous) not 'bazaar' (a market where things are sold). :P

Mark, It is almost like whipped butter!

Ethan, they probably sure do sound bizarre to most folks!

...now that it has been seen, here's a few more pictures

Oh, my! Rachel, this is a stunner.

Thank you! It was a really nice piece of wood.

Oh, wow. That's one awesome looking whip! That handle is just gorgeous. I love the dark wood color.
The thong itself is a beauty too.

Sven

Rachel - Wunderbar!