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...I tried to be creative with the title :P Again, thank you very very much Scott for sending these tapered rods to me! ^_^
These were golf clubs, but now will be repurposed for whip purposes~


So today I decided to play around with these rods, and cut a few of them to size. But, I wanted to do something cool, and unfortunately one of the rods was cut up and pretty much almost thrown away (apart from a bit here or there) for calculations.
Here are some of the unfortunate victims -



I spent two hours outside in the cold cutting and sizing three of these rods (though one is unused mostly). Finally, after a lot of work, this is what I ended up with for today -



If you look closely at them, you might see what I plan to do with these
I'll run these under some water tomorrow to get rid of most of the dust (I rounded all the edges so that I can't cut myself on this haha).

But yeah, these will hopefully be my own personal stockwhips with a little twist, and I'm really excited to be working on a new project~ ^_^ Will update when I work on this next chance I get!

Looking forward for this Sparky

This will cool to see how it all plays out...

This is an awesome start to an interesting project.
I look forward to seeing this progress.

Ron

This is going to be fun to watch. Thanks for sharing!

I'm really busy in the next month or so, but I am hoping to get these done before september haha Gonna go wash the handles for now, might work on the thongs later~

No rush, I just want to see how they progress. I'm interested to see how they turn out.

This looks to be an interesting project. I'll follow this thread.

Sven

I like where your going with this. Very creative idea. Hope it works great for you Sparky

Thank you Sven and Roy! ^_^

Small update - I've plaited the handle portion, need to add the knot and keeper though.


Also, first belly done on both whips, with a tiny bit of light binding. Wondering if I should not make the keeper until I have thee thongs completed and waxed...

Planning for these to be a set of 12 plait 4.5ft long stockwhips ^_^

Excellent!

Nice Sparky.

Ron

Brandon those look exellent!
Do you do plaited keepers on the belly and overlay?

Man, you're fast as lightning! You truly uphold your nick.
Great work, looking very good already.

Sven

Thank you Scott, Ron, Jyri and Sven! ^_^

Jyri, I normally do a keeper only on the belly, because then I can tightly bind it with sinew, keeping it on there, and then do an overlay on top of that

Sven, when I get obsessed with something, I tend to get REALLY obsessed :P But tbh, the bellies themselves only take me like an hour or so each, so it didn't take too long~

Sparky, this is terrific! Fascinating to see it develop....

Thank you Robert! The heel knots have been completed, time to do the thong overlays!~

Quick update, got the heel knots made and the first overlay complete (mostly, need to add a TH to the keeper end, as these stockwhips are english eyes). It's now 3am so I'm going to sleep! :P

That looks super Sparky.

Ron

This project really is coming on fast (as someone else noted, I think). Wonderful!