First a bit of history. When I went to Seattle last fall I met this whip (And Louie!) and fell in love with this particular whip. We had a lot of whips to play with and I kept coming back to it, throwing it at different angles and trying to get a real feel for how it moved. As we were packing up I made an offhand comment about picking it up sometime down the road. So I did. Although following the Morgan pattern in appearance, the whip feels different from the only Morgan I've ever handled. The weight seems to be slightly more forward for a very balanced crack, compared to the feeling of weight and mass moving straight from the butt. It cracks readily and with good energy transference on all angles of attack. But it is amazing how the short handled changes the handling if you're used to a longer handled whip! Something I'll have to tweak a bit in my own motion.
The thing I love about the whip is that it has elements of all three trilogy whips, hence the moniker. The slightly darker ring knot of ROTLA, the taper of TOD and the shorter, thicker handle appearance of LC. A great representative of an "Indy" whip, if not screen accurate to a single movie. And in honor of us, the fans and this board, I gave it a proper test upon receiving it. I know my motion in the forward flick is a bit artistic and that I'm doing a strange mash up of movie and trailer in my Cairo Flash but it's the only way I know to properly test an Indy whip!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpBG6Vqn5eE
Thank you all and thank you Louie for another fine bullwhip!
It's a real beauty. But why a blue popper?
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