Club Obi Wan

Hello I wanted to share my 1st self made 6' bullwhip, made from nylon. All I could find locally was black for the body. Now I realise I should wrap the handle in a red overlay and change the turks heads to black and have a LC young Indy whip. Good enough for me, until I can rub my nickels together to get one made from leather. And it cracks good to all I need is a better technique. I used the tutorial I found over at the RPF.





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Very nice job!! I really like how it looks...

Thanks, Blue Angel.

I've been looking at the photos of the YILC whip. Does anybody know what the plaiting count I could use to match the pattern of the red handle? Any help would be appreciated.

Nicely done. It looks great.

I am glad you liked my tutorial!
The whip turned out mighty fine.
The only suggestion I have for you is to tie a 5 part 4 bight knot for the butt knot, it will be less flat.
As far as the young indy whip , you could use the red for the handle, bind it where the TH will cover it, bind the black above it and plait on plaiter. Not sure if it will work as I have never tried it, but it sounds sound.
Or take the easy way out and dunk the handle in red plasti-dip.
Ron

rjallen70 wrote: Or take the easy way out and dunk the handle in red plasti-dip.
Ron

I love that stuff, I would go for that if I were you!

Ah.. Take the quick and easy path as Vader did.
once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny!

Plasti-dip you guys are funny.

I wanted to share my finished whip after a bit more work. I wanted to modify it for a Young Indy LC look. So I did a red overlay on the handle and bound it under the THK. There's a lot of taper at the transition knot. But I like it. Now on to a 8' tan.



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I think you did a great job, especially for a first whip.

ya VERY nicely done for you first whip

NIBS

Excellent!
Now get crackin' on that 8 ft!
Ron

Thanks guys. Especially to Ron for the great tutorial.

Your first one definitely looks better than my first one. Good job!

Impressive improvements. Fantastic work.