repaired my 9ft. Stenhouse
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:26 pm
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):
and after:
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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):
and after:
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