Whip Basics. The Forum

Hi guys,

Couple of weeks ago I mentioned that an old friend of mine has agreed to refurbish my acoustic guitar (that I bought off him 30 years ago!). As we both have so much history with this guitar, he agreed to do it for just the cost of parts so I said I'd make him a whip in return.

He asked for Black and Goldenrod but left the design up to me. So, here is Tiger, Tiger... a 6'6" Bullwhip (still needs fall, knots and wax but I ran out of cord so am waiting for a delivery)

That turned out very nice.
I love the colors.


Ron

Cool whip, Sir Roger, I really like the plots and patterns.

Roger, that's an astonishingly attractive choice of colours. I like it a lot - and (as you know) I think 6 and 1/2 feet is a very good all-purpose length. I hope your friend is pleased! I certainly would be....

Sir Roger:
Really, really nice work!!!!
I love it.

Thank you people. I'm very pleased with it so far. I'm aiming for golden heel, transition and fall.

Roger, that's great. I especially like that third photo - It
s got a neat sort of optical effect (although my eyes may be playing tricks on me, as I'm quite tired today). At any rate, nice work!

Beatiful sir Roger! Really like those colours and pattern

Scot it does have a bit of a 3D effect in that shot.

Very, cool! Keep us posted!

Sir Roger, Tiger, Tiger turned out beautiful and I realy like the story behind it!
I'm looking forward to see the pictures of the final result!

All the best
Ben

love!

Sir Roger. When I started read I thought it would be a interesting colorcombo. But when I saw the pictures... wow. It's a ver nice combo.
And good plaiting!

Love the colors! It looks very nice and not a hint of "wander" in the plaiting. Very good job!

Awww, thanks guys. Much appreciated!

Ooh the black and yellow look awesome together! ^_^

Thanks Sparky. I have a twisted black and gold fall to go on and am doing a 7x6 pineapple for the transition and a 2-tone heel knot to keep the Tiger motif.

Oooh nice! What kind of heel knot will you be doing?

Well, I am thinking of either straight forward 5x6 black/gold doubled/tripled or another gold/black pineapple. Still deciding.

I'm thinking a knot like this would really accentuate the "stripes" (not my image, pulled from a facebook group) -



Unfortunately I have no clue what it is called or how to do it :O