repaired my 9ft. Stenhouse

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repaired my 9ft. Stenhouse

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I'm using a 9ft Paul Stenhouse Bullwhip since arround 5 years now. During long time of use, the turks head became a twisting problem and was too soft aswell.
I wanted to fix that before the very nice made turks head some off, so I wetted the turkshead in water and heated it with a hair dryer to harden the strings. Unfortunaly I was stupid enough to leave my beloved whip during the heating for a few seconds, lying next to the dryer (I know, how on earth can anyone be that stupid to do so, but I really did). And, of course, the strrings of the turks head where melted, partly black, hard as stone and destroyed.
After having a cigrett I realized that I have to fix that. After my good old friend Nick suggested to make a wrist loop to it aswell I managed to repair the turkshead and moved it from a Bullwhip to a Indy style Bullwhip.
I took a lot of care to make a very nice turkshead and I dare say that it came out as nice as Stenhouse made it years ago. I used pre cut lacec which where nearly white, that looked very strange on my natural tan whip which allready bacam VERY dark during time and age. So I painted the wrist loop and and the turks had with saddle tan leather paint. I also gave it a new coat of shellac, and this is how it came out:

1 year before the accident (old turks head, no wrist loop):

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and after:

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Post by McFly »

Wow - that also came out very nice!

People are doing cool stuff to their gear today! (Or at least showing us the cool stuff they've done today)

Great work, bro!

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Post by K on the run »

Nice indeed, well done. And nicely displayed on a bed of cowhide Wested, if I'm not mistaking. :lol:
Can you post a close up of the braiding on the thong, I'm interested in seeing how the leather is cut.
Is Paul's whips tightly plaited?

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Good job matching the colour on the new stands!
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Post by racerx »

Cool,, it looks totally re-newed and well worn in at the same time, if that makes any sense :D

Great job.

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Post by BullWhipBorton »

Nice looking bullwhip, BreinederIndy. Looks like you did a really nice job matching up the color and re-tying the new knot. Good Job.

BTW what ever happen to Paul, anyone hear from him lately or if he's gotten back to making whips?

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There's a rumor that he' will pick up his old habits later this year. :D

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K on the run wrote:There's a rumor that he' will pick up his old habits later this year. :D

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Paul told me this aswell
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Post by Paul_Stenhouse »

I'm still here in the 'other' down under.

It's amazing how much @#$% there is to do when building a house!

1)power to garage
2)sort out leather supply in Christchurch
3)get on with it!

Best Regards,

Paul

PS. Looking good. Where's the swinging video?
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Post by BullWhipBorton »

Good to see your still with us Paul, Hope everythings going well down under down under.

Dan
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