My New Whip From Adam Winrich
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My New Whip From Adam Winrich
Back in tha late summer at the Bristol Ren Faire, forum friend and my mentor/teacher, Adam "Crack" Winrich offered to make me a whip after seeing my enthusiasm for the hobby/sport. I quickly agreed-dah!
After a long wait, which, by the way was well worth it, I give you my new 8 foot, 16 plait, tri-color whip! You may now all have permission to drool and be envious!
The whip cracks like thunder, is perfectly balanced and is a little on the heavy side (by design) as I am used to my 14 footer! It is so sweet and I cannot thank Adam enough for the time and effort he put into this whip. I really feel I have a very special one of a kind whip and am lucky to have made friends with Adam.
Again feel free to droll, oh and ah!!!
After a long wait, which, by the way was well worth it, I give you my new 8 foot, 16 plait, tri-color whip! You may now all have permission to drool and be envious!
The whip cracks like thunder, is perfectly balanced and is a little on the heavy side (by design) as I am used to my 14 footer! It is so sweet and I cannot thank Adam enough for the time and effort he put into this whip. I really feel I have a very special one of a kind whip and am lucky to have made friends with Adam.
Again feel free to droll, oh and ah!!!
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beauty and litle similar to your whip Tony - http://ukwhipconvention.com/images/08p1.jpg
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jayw13th,
Your whip is done, and I should make it to the post office today or tomorrow.
Bob,
Thanks for posting pics of the whip.
In the overlay of this whip I used techniques that I learned from Chris Barr, including trimming the strands with gauges as you go so that the taper of the strands fits the whip better than if the strands were tapered first.
-Adam
Your whip is done, and I should make it to the post office today or tomorrow.
Bob,
Thanks for posting pics of the whip.
In the overlay of this whip I used techniques that I learned from Chris Barr, including trimming the strands with gauges as you go so that the taper of the strands fits the whip better than if the strands were tapered first.
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In the bios section on www.whip-basics.de Adam posted his bio. It's really interesting to read.
If you want to know more about Adam - check that bios section - if you like.
Robby
If you want to know more about Adam - check that bios section - if you like.
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Great looking whip . . . it does look like a coral snake. It would have been a cool finisher if it had a snake head for the fall hitch but I don't know how durable that one is compared to the standard hitch.
Adam,
You said that you use gauges as you go, do you mean as you cut out the set or as you plait?
Adam,
You said that you use gauges as you go, do you mean as you cut out the set or as you plait?
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Beautiful whip. Like someone said above, I usually don't care for colored whips either, but those colors have changed my opinion of them. Well done, Adam.
Well, you could paint the turks head to look like a snake's head.Herr Jones wrote:Great looking whip . . . it does look like a coral snake. It would have been a cool finisher if it had a snake head for the fall hitch but I don't know how durable that one is compared to the standard hitch.