A personalized 4ft bull whip I made for my neighbor and friend. I present this 2 belly shot loaded 4ft to Juan because of everything he has done 4 me in my hard and low times without ever asking for any thing in return despite barely knowing me at first and me speaking pretty much only English with a few exceptions and him speaking only Spanish and once again with only a few exceptions. We managed become good friends with the occasional all night beer drinking sessions and despite the language barrier conversations that would last for hours. The bottle cap at the end of, the heal represents the beer we would drink together it is a 2 belly 12 plait overlay, shotloaded core with a rubber bolster that was an experiment but turned out to be an excellent performer, very quick and snappy. I decided to go with 2 tone transition 4/3 turkshead knot(black w/blue accent) and the same for the heel knot as well but blue with black accents. This was the first whip I made for another person. I currently am working on a matching pair of 3ft 2 tone thong and heel knots (black and red). Each one has a slightly different color pattern in the plaiting and will have personally specific bottle cap conchos but are identical in every other aspect. They were commissioned by another friend for himself and girlfriend. The bottle cap conchos will b my signature finishing touch on the whips I produce. The whip in this collage was only the third whip I had produced after teaching my self to build up the cores and plaiting the belly’s with the help of the very good tutorials by YouTube channels Nick’s whip shop and and old school Australian master kangaroo hide whip maker Bernie46.. thanks to those guys for there greatly detailed tutorials on YouTube… I probably never would have felt the confidence to attempt this craft without those two YouTube mentors. Once again thank you Nick and Bernie. This is my first upload, there will b definitely more to come of varied content in the future…
Post time: Jun-14-2017