Re: One on one swap - For Brandon
Morten, those photos make a case for good binding which seems to me unanswerable! Well done! 
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Morten - thank you for sharing so many details. It is very informative.
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Awesomeee I cannot wait to get my hands on this whip 
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2 belly 12 plait started - a small note - the ink mark on the end of the handle - thats my alignment mark - always pointing up in my vice - keeps the direction
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Good to know I'm not the only one who draws a line XD I draw it directly onto the bellies myself~
Love the contrast between the two bellies 
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Second belly finished and bound. I am a little conflicted at this point. By talking to Brandon i have realised he likes a "flowing whip with a quick forming loop). Lately my whips have been pretty stiff with a lot of binding, guess i am afraid of being known as the Danish Limb Noodle.
I also think my whips look more stiff / less flexible than the ones i see some of you using - but i am not sure which of the factors below (or others) that i can blame:
- my whips are not broken in yet (i do spend substantially more time plaiting that cracking)
- Binding with the sinew
- hard plaiting
- my wax getting hard in the cold weather? I went out this morning and cracked a whip that spent the night out in the frost - it was very stiff.
Finished 2. belly
before binding
after binding - less than i would normally do to accomodate my end users request :-)
so now i have to decide the overlay....
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Fascinating to see this progress. Thanks so much, Morten!
(I like the way the whip frames the dog, who naturally assumes you're photographing him!)
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Also my private avatar - the rubber chicken that has a tendency to appear in all my pics :-)
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Morten, thank you for trying to accommodate what I like in all seriousness, though, go ahead and do what you want, I would love to play with your whip either way
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Working hard on it Brandon - overlay half finished - stopped at 2 this morning - was up anyway preparing pulled pork
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Brandon Lam wrote:
Good to know I'm not the only one who draws a line XD I draw it directly onto the bellies myself~
Love the contrast between the two bellies
I've started using chalk directly on the belly to maintain my plaiting line. I believe it's made a huge difference to avoiding twist.
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I too draw a line to help keep the seam orientation consistent.
I have no evidence of what it does but it puts my mind at ease.
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I use a combination of lines and holding the tip/handle of the whip in a vice, so if there's any bending you can see it.
I've also almost completed the overlay on yours Morten
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Well Brandon - going into the final phase here - so to keep the suspension - it will be no pics until the whip arrives in melbourne
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Awesome I can't wait! Should we wait until both of us are done or should we send it straight away?
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Brandon - i have to attend a meeting on whips on the 20th of january - and would really like to bring our whip there as well - so if you dont min - i wont send it before that + plus the fact that it aint finished yet - need to find some materials to finish of some of the details.
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Oh that's awesome! Totally fine, I'm happy with waiting~
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Grt thx buddy
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Morten - it is indeed looking very stiff. I also mark my handle by drawing a small arrow on the tip of the handle to keep the orientation the same for all layers. I also braid in a vice and have recently started paying a lot more attention to the orientation in the vice in order to keep everything hopefully straighter.
Great dog model. 
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