Para Cord Whips

[tmfg10]

Hello Everyone!
I hope you are doing great

I wanted to ask if you have any experience and opinions on Para Cord Whips?
I did some research on them and they say they are durable and good for beginners as they need less maintenance and they are durable.
I found this one that has a very good price. do you have any thoughts? it has very good reviews too. but of course i wanted to ask our lovely community about it.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/769865351/ ... rs=1&pro=1

Of course I would love to get a leather one at some point. but I am buying a lot of good quality things for my Indy outfit lately so for now a leather whip is completely out of budget.

Thank you so much!

[bearbeast]

Paracord whips are awesome. They are indeed very durable and crack amazingly. They also really look the part and almost no maintenance is needed.

This being said, LeatherBond is a fradulent seller, if I remember correctly. They used to have a profile on Ebay, called "LB", before being reported. The whip pics are sketchy also: why have an interior of leather, when the exterior is paracord?

Now, given all the good reviews, I might be wrong and the name is just a coincidence. The price is also very low, which makes me doubt the quality and the inner construction of the whip. Even a paracord whip should be about €200 or above, I'm not really up to date with the market.

If you want to take a chance I guess ~€50 isn't such a loss, but I would advise you go to a more well known maker. Adam Winrich, DaKitty Whips, our own Tomek here on C.O.W.

Cheers,
Bear

[IJJTM]

I’ve personally used paracord whips by Eliason whip co and Swordguybuilds, both make superb paracord whips.

[tomek9210]

I can fully confirm that nylon whips are durable and they don't require as much maintenance as the leather ones. When it's wet, let it dry. That's all. Cracker changing is pretty easy to do and you have to change crackers every now and then in leather whips as well.

And they are a lot cheaper.

[Western New York Indy]

I have one of those LB whips. I use it for a belt hanger and it's fine for that purpose, but it barely cracks. The "leather interior" is just a long strand of leather inside the whip, nothing fancy. I wouldn't recommend it if you want a functional whip. If you just want an Indy-esq belt hanger, they have others that are more accurate than that one.

I'm a bit embarrassed to say I bought a few of their whips before I knew any better... They would work for a few months, then break somehow. One of them which was made of cowhide still works, but I had to modify it quite a bit to make it decently crack-able. I always received the product that was pictured in the listing, so I guess you could say it was a legitimate product, just not a high quality one

A lot of people really love the Swordguybuilds Economy Indy. It's probably your best bet budget-wise for a whip that really pulls off the look of the Indy whip. And will crack well, unlike the LB options.

-WNY Indy

[Indiana Jeff]

I’m a fan of paracord whips as well. My first real whip was paracord and I learned how to crack a whip using it.

The only thing to add is paracord whips tend to be lighter than the same length leather whips. That’s not a negative to me.


Regards,

Indiana Jeff

[tomek9210]

Not necessarily. You can make a nylon whip to weigh as much as a leather one. When I make my nylon Indy whips I use longer steel shot core and lead foundation in the handle. In the result the 10 ft Indy bullwhip may weigh even 900 grams.