Club Obi Wan

heav, heavy, heavy

here are the pics:








the video
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrxhcn ... t_creation

JP

Nice, tough bullwhips, my friend!

I like the texture formed by the thicker cowhide. Seems to give a better grip. I see they needed heavy skiving on your part.

Are they heavy? From the video, they seem so. But in any case, they are very responsive and crack with ease!



Aldo.

thank you vey much my friend
yes indeed they are soooo heavy!!!!


JP

Sorry! I reread your post, and noticed the "heavy, heavy, heavy" phrase. Oh, well...

Aldo.

Very nice! I like them. What was the weight/thickness of the cowhide that you used? Was it difficult to plait?

Pete

Aldo my friend no worries

@Pete: the cowhide is about 2-2,2mm thick. Not that much difficult to plait.
It needs much power for skiving it free hands.
As cowhide is weaker than kangaroo hide, and although I cut -as much as possible- the strands dedicated to the end of the whip in the back of the hide, I made a slightly poor taper on my strands. I was too afraid to break strands during plaiting. So I took the option to drop strands rather than tapering down my strands.
Indeed I end those whips in 4 plait.

Does it make sense?

JP

It made sense to me

jeanfifi wrote:Aldo my friend no worries

@Pete: the cowhide is about 2-2,2mm thick. Not that much difficult to plait.
It needs much power for skiving it free hands.
As cowhide is weaker than kangaroo hide, and although I cut -as much as possible- the strands dedicated to the end of the whip in the back of the hide, I made a slightly poor taper on my strands. I was too afraid to break strands during plaiting. So I took the option to drop strands rather than tapering down my strands.
Indeed I end those whips in 4 plait.

Does it make sense?

JP

Sure does. You did a great job on those whips!

Very nicely done, Jeanfifi!

thank you all


jp