Club Obi Wan

Well, I took the plunge an bought my first bullwhip, a Raiders style Indy on a Buget from Adam at winrichwhips.com.

What can I say? I know nothing about bullwhips except for what I've read here, but this seems to me to be a fantastic peice of gear at an astoundingly fair price. In fact, I did wonder originally if, for the price, this would be more like a prop than a working item, but boy was I wrong!

I realise this is an item that's been posted on before, but I just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone on this bit of the forum for the wealth of information and to Adam for offering a great service. It was a pleasure to deal with winrichwhips and the bullwhip looked ready to go adventuring right out of the box - it was even accompanied by it's own little tub of Pecards! What more could you ask for?

Here are a few pictures of the IOAB in it's box and then with some of my other gear:

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Looks nice and for sure isn't a toy, it's actually Winrich's most durable when it comes to field use!

Michael, great purchase!

I'm thinking about ordering one of these myself soon.

Canyon wrote:I'm thinking about ordering one of these myself soon.

Great idea. Also consider Gio's whips, they cost the same and have more plaits and thus look better IMO.

Congrats on a fine purchase, michaeljcr.

VP wrote:

Canyon wrote:I'm thinking about ordering one of these myself soon.

Great idea. Also consider Gio's whips, they cost the same and have more plaits and thus look better IMO.

not always true.

Depends on how the whip maker treats thoes plaits as to how the whip turns out. A random 20 plait is not better than a random 4 plait bullwhip, just because it has higher plaits. The construction inside matters. If one does a bad job at the plaiting it will turn out....well bad. Its sort of like saying a old rusted through the hull bmw is better than a brand new volvo that will last you 20 years.

Some profesonal whip crackers have also argued that a 4 plait whip they cracked handled the same as a 20 plait cracked minutes before.

Im not saying anything about Gio's work at all. Just commenting on what vp said about the plaits.

enjoy your new whip michaeljcr, looks nice

The real Henry wrote:Looks nice and for sure isn't a toy, it's actually Winrich's most durable when it comes to field use!

Cheers! It certainly seems durable, makes you want to find a chasm to swing over...

Canyon wrote:Michael, great purchase!

I'm thinking about ordering one of these myself soon.

All I can say is, go for it!

Mola Ram wrote:

VP wrote:

Canyon wrote:I'm thinking about ordering one of these myself soon.

Great idea. Also consider Gio's whips, they cost the same and have more plaits and thus look better IMO.

not always true.

Depends on how the whip maker treats thoes plaits as to how the whip turns out. A random 20 plait is not better than a random 4 plait bullwhip, just because it has higher plaits. The construction inside matters. If one does a bad job at the plaiting it will turn out....well bad. Its sort of like saying a old rusted through the hull bmw is better than a brand new volvo that will last you 20 years.

Some profesonal whip crackers have also argued that a 4 plait whip they cracked handled the same as a 20 plait cracked minutes before.

Im not saying anything about Gio's work at all. Just commenting on what vp said about the plaits.

enjoy your new whip michaeljcr, looks nice

I'm no expert, as I said previously, but I did look at loads of different types before I ordered the IOAB. I looked at Gio's whips on the forum and his website and was very impressed, but in the end I must say I'm really happy with what I got. After all, this is just the first bullwhip...

It's great to hear that the profesonals use similar plaits though, I didn't know that.

Thanks again to everyone for the advice and infromation, you guys are the best!

Michael

Don't swing on it. Go out and start cracking it. Looks great. I have cracked GraveRobberGreg's IOAB and it cracks like a cannon. Great whip for the money.

Bufflehead Jones wrote:Don't swing on it. Go out and start cracking it. Looks great. I have cracked GraveRobberGreg's IOAB and it cracks like a cannon. Great whip for the money.

I think you might be right about the swinging, in my case at least it might not take the strain!

Congrats on your whip!

It looks like some stuff has happened since the first generation IOAB whips. Mainly the improvment of the Turk's head shape;




I hope you have fun cracking it buddy!

Regards,
Swindiana

Man I need to get me one of these. I miss my whip I bought back in High School. I think it got lost in our storage unit. (think the end scene to Raiders) It's always fun to go out and crack them. Wish I knew more about them back then. Congrats on your purchase. BTW, I did swing on mine once but I heard it stretching and stopped. I wouldn't recommend doing that unless it has a steel cable core.

Glad you picked yourself up one of these puppies. They crack very easy and loud! A great starter whip, no doubt about it. I perfected my forward crack technique on an IOAB.