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I HAVE UPDATED PICS OF MY WHIP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE

Here are a few pics of my 10ft Joe Strain. It's about 3 years old and I use it very regularly. It wasn't hard for me to learn and in about a week I was comfortable with it. You guys wont believe me....But this whip still has the original fall and cracker that came on the whip

Sorry for the kindof dull color of the pics. It really is a beautiful whip. I need to get into a better background and take more pics.



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He's a machine - look at the seam lines, and the subtle, smooth taper. You know he is dropping strands when he transitions out of the 12 plait. The transitions are there, but well disguised.

Great Bullwhip Vegeta, you even got the right knot for the Indy version. Joe is a great whip maker and a stand up guy too. I have a couple of his whips they never fail to impress in both performance and quality.

How often do you use your bullwhip? Falls should last along time with proper whip use and care so 3 years is no surprise. Poppers on the other hand I go though a lot of, but I do a lot more cracking then the casual whip handler.

Dan

Great looking whip Vegeta !

Great whip! I love my Strain as well.

-Nebraska

thanks for sharing. The whip looks great. I hope you can go out to enjoy it.

Thank you guys so much!! I get out and crack it at least once a week!! I live in FL so the weather is beautiful. Yesterday was the last time I cracked it.

Sergei wrote:He's a machine - look at the seam lines, and the subtle, smooth taper. You know he is dropping strands when he transitions out of the 12 plait. The transitions are there, but well disguised.

Amen to that! I honestly have no idea how he can maintain such consistency in quality and design from a hand-made item, that has to be cut from organic material that varies in thickness, flaws, etc. etc. etc. And I'm not alone. I know other whipmakers who do the same.

I used to spend long amounts of time LOOKING for dropped strands, and minor little cosmetic flaws on my 8 foot Lonestar. I found where the strands were dropped, but even those inconsistencies in the pattern seemed to be part of the larger pattern itself. Did the same sort of examination to the 25 foot, (yes, 25 FOOT!) black Indy style whip that Chris Camp had Joe make for him, (how many separate kangaroo hides was that? 2? 3? Joe? Chris?) Same thing. Just amazing.

Your whip is no exception, Vegeta! But I'd expect no different. While I'd easily believe that is the original fall, the original popper too? That's darned impressive! My poppers tend to stay on well, but wear down or develop knots in the fluffy bit, leaving me with a little knotted string that didn't make much noise.

As to your weather, after a couple days of fallout from a prolonged rainstorm that turned to snow, (thereby laying down a nice even sheet of ice, covered by a nice powdery layer of snow,) I'd normally tell you to go perform a biological process that is quite difficult for the human anatomy, but seeing as how SOMEONE here is getting a chance have fun with really nice bullwhips, I won't hold it against you and try to find happiness vicariously through you ;-)

Happy cracking!

-Dan

You know what the funny thing is fish??? I bought an extra fall and poppers when I got the whip. I bought my nephew an 8 foot, 12 plait, cowhide, indy style whip from Adam Winrich and that thing chews up poppers like they're nothing. I've used a whole pack on that bad boy and mine has never failed! Knock on wood

UPDATED PICS

I took these on a nice overcast florida day to show off the beautiful color of natural tan 3 years aged.