Rubber Hose Bullwhip??
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 9:34 pm
Hello all;
I'm new here, but I read the various FAQs, and haven't seen this one covered yet.
About 1984, I bought a 6' bullwhip on Olvera street in Los Angeles. It looked great at first: it had a swivel-handle, but the whip-- stuck out nearly straight from the handle for about 3'. Not knowing a thing about whips, I thought it was simply new, and just needed to be worked out before it softened up like in the movies!
Well after almost a year of working with it, it never..."went down"! Frustrated, I did a bit of an autopsy on it, and found that most of the whip was a regular rubber garden hose! Carefully, I cut the hose out bit by bit, and planned to have a nylon rope "sewed" back into the whip, but I never found anyone who could repair and/or relace the leather around the nylon rope.
Unfortunately, I haven't touched a whip in about 20 years. I got kinda good at target practice with a regular rope, have the itch to do it again, but with a quality whip, and may do so. Thanks for reading!
I'm new here, but I read the various FAQs, and haven't seen this one covered yet.
About 1984, I bought a 6' bullwhip on Olvera street in Los Angeles. It looked great at first: it had a swivel-handle, but the whip-- stuck out nearly straight from the handle for about 3'. Not knowing a thing about whips, I thought it was simply new, and just needed to be worked out before it softened up like in the movies!
Well after almost a year of working with it, it never..."went down"! Frustrated, I did a bit of an autopsy on it, and found that most of the whip was a regular rubber garden hose! Carefully, I cut the hose out bit by bit, and planned to have a nylon rope "sewed" back into the whip, but I never found anyone who could repair and/or relace the leather around the nylon rope.
Unfortunately, I haven't touched a whip in about 20 years. I got kinda good at target practice with a regular rope, have the itch to do it again, but with a quality whip, and may do so. Thanks for reading!