Whip Basics. The Forum

Brandon, thanks!

Tyler, thank you! Nope
I've not had the chance to post many finished pics lately. I've got a couple more that are almost complete that I'll post after they get mailed out while us conspirators continue to conspire

But I will begin this week. No more will you get out of me :P

Ve haf vays ov mekking you tok!

Jawohl Tyler (?)

Ron

You may try.....

Here's one I've done a little while back.
8' 14 plait two belly cow with 15" Jatoba handle, midnight blue, charcoal gray, dusty blue.
Jatoba wood from Whip Nation.

That's nice. How did you find the colours took to waxing? My 11' is made of those colours and the mid range Blue did not like the wax and kinda 'stained' in places.

Thanks, Roger-
They took to waxing well. No blotches.... The only ones I've had problems with thus far with anything like that was a stiff feeling cord- I usually won't use those in an overlay at all any more. I wonder if your blue had a fabric sizing on it or something, that could cause it.

Looks awesome Rachel. Have you ever worked with Zebrawood? I wonder how that would look with a whip. I love the grain in it.

Hi Jesse, thank you. No sir I've never worked with zebra wood- while it looks to have good numbers for a lighter weight handle (slightly lighter than Gonçalo) I've heard it can be splintery and brittle. That doesn't mean it's not a good candidate, but caution in what it would be used for and not too thin of walls of material. It would be good for a bullwhip handle with a 1/4" internal rod, for example. A working whip- probably not.
My $.02

Rachel, I have some experience with it. I will agree with what you said about being slightly splintery. I've used ity in the past to make knife handles, and it worked well for that. I could see why it might cause issues.

My main thing is if a wood is splintery I'm not fond of working with it- large pores also. On a lathe it would do ok, but by hand and hand finish work for me it would add at least an hour per handle....
And splintery wood tends to be unpredictable. One with high contrast grain (dark and light) I see some of the woods I've tried have a soft and hard spot from color to color as well. If you could guarantee you're getting a heart piece it'd be a lot better....

Rachel, another fine quality whip.
Good job.
That's what I want my whips to grow up to be.
Fine upstanding citizens of the whip community.

Ron

Thanks, Ron
Your whips look great.

Rachel, not yet, but they are getting there.
(I know where all the bodied are buried )


Ron

Really nice colours and nice looking handle!

Jyri, thank you!

Ha! Ron I've got my share of those too

It looks great again, Rachel! Another one closer to the big reveal....?

Thank you, Tyler! Yes, closer.......

I will not talk

Rachel - very good, as always. I really like your simple color choices.

Craig, Thank you very much!