Post by fenris on Feb 19, 2013 10:06:32 GMT -5
Recently did a simple pictorial with my whips and other stuff and thought I'd share it here.
The light-colored whip is a paracord whip I made a few weeks back. It's a 7-footer. Didn't know how to make a turks head knot so I just sculpted some epoxy putty and made it the butt. At the end of the handle is a 25-cent Philippine Peso coin. It has 2 plaited bellies and a 12-strand overlay. Mediocre plaiting at best, maybe on my next whip I could perfect it.
I had some issues with bulky strand drops at first, but after a week I re-rolled the whip and really put pressure on it and all the bulky strand drops were gone! Didn't realize how important that step was for the overall look of the whip. The pic above is prior to me rolling (and waxing) the whip.
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The other whip is made by Tomek9210. This whip has been pretty much abused as I usually just crack it on the street in front of our house. Still, it's going strong... A little bit on the heavy side; after 30minutes of cracking, my arm and shoulder hurt.
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Thanks for reading!
The light-colored whip is a paracord whip I made a few weeks back. It's a 7-footer. Didn't know how to make a turks head knot so I just sculpted some epoxy putty and made it the butt. At the end of the handle is a 25-cent Philippine Peso coin. It has 2 plaited bellies and a 12-strand overlay. Mediocre plaiting at best, maybe on my next whip I could perfect it.
I had some issues with bulky strand drops at first, but after a week I re-rolled the whip and really put pressure on it and all the bulky strand drops were gone! Didn't realize how important that step was for the overall look of the whip. The pic above is prior to me rolling (and waxing) the whip.
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The other whip is made by Tomek9210. This whip has been pretty much abused as I usually just crack it on the street in front of our house. Still, it's going strong... A little bit on the heavy side; after 30minutes of cracking, my arm and shoulder hurt.
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Thanks for reading!