One on One Swap: For Morten

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Post by Brandon "Sparky" Lam »

So excited to be part of a whip swap! ^_^

This may or may not take a while, I've got a lot of things to do before new years so I might have to pause this until then XD

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10 inch steel handle. I've rounded off the edges, but that's all the modifications I do to it!

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My core - I use 6mm cord with 4.5mm steel balls inside, and then splice a length of normal 550 paracord. This splice acts both as a smaller core, as well as blocking the BBs from getting out. This core is short, since I now like doing the twisted taper to the next belly method. Also, the steel is wrapped in hockey tape to give it a little more grip with the paracord.

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It begins.

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This is where I'm breaking for tonight, it's 2:45am and I'm kinda tired :P Haven't even completed the first belly, but ah well, rest is needed!

I'll update when I next work on the whip :D
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Oh it's so pretty! We should do an inside-out whip swap using only scraps and leftovers just to see what kind of color combos we get.

And now I have the Totoro song stuck in my head.
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Post by Ron May »

Brandon, that looks like a very good start.

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Post by Brandon "Sparky" Lam »

ahaha that could get messy really quickly! I actually tend to use ALL my scraps from the previous whip in my next one, since I buy in 500' spools.
...Unfortunately I didn't have scraps this time round, I actually chose this colour combo :3
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Post by Brandon "Sparky" Lam »

Yay someone who likes Totoro in WB!! :D Totoro totoro~

Thank you Ron! :)
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Post by Morten Aalykke Pedersen »

Hi

I am looking so much forward to getting this - even more excited than christmas :-)

Love the looks so far

I am starting the desing of yours tomorrow - and have to say i am nerveus.... first time i make a whip for somebody who actually know something about them :-)
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Post by Brandon "Sparky" Lam »

ahaha I hope my whip meets your expectations! :P

So small update, didn't have too much time but I finished off the first belly. Charlie and I actually had a small conversation about the way we end our bellies, in the past I ended them in a twisted taper up to the next belly length. The problem I had with that was that since it was 2 strands per "twist", it could potentially end up being too large of a diameter for the next belly. So, after hearing what he's done, I did something similar.

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So once I finished my 4 plait for the end of this belly, I stopped, cut each strand, and used a needle to put the two strands on top into the strands on the bottom.

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It kinda looks like this. That core strand I'll pull out, cut and melt just like the normal strand drops. Here, I start doing a twisted taper on the two "thicker" strands.

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This is what it looks like - you can actually kinda tell where the strands ended, cause the twisted taper becomes somewhat thinner! :P Then it's a simple task of placing that last strand into the long red one. The long red one will then become the core of the end of the next belly :)

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And this is the complete belly -
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Annnnddd now I gotta run off, do a whole bunch of paperwork and other tasks. Will update when I continue with the binding and plaiting! :)
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Post by Charlie Carpenter »

Cool man, glad I'm not crazy or at least someone else is as crazy as me :) Looking really good, it's cool to see when people adapt ideas to their own methods. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out
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Post by Ron May »

A very nice job Brandon.

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Post by Morten Aalykke Pedersen »

Looks Good :-)
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Post by Brandon "Sparky" Lam »

Charlie, we can be crazy together! :P

Thanks Ron and Morten~
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Post by Guest »

Looking good!

I'd be careful to create any kind of irregularities like I see on the transition on your core: every little bump tend to accumulate going towards the overlay. Why don't you slip the handle all the way trough the 6mm core, singe it on the butt-end and bind it for good measure?

Other than that it looks like a nice design!
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Post by Brandon "Sparky" Lam »

Thanks Erik!

Funnily enough, I actually like that bump there. It gives me a visual/tactile feel of where the transition starts (cause sometimes it's hard to tell where it is if you've bound it a lot), as well as (personally) I like the transition being slightly larger than the handle, even though on a 2 belly whip it's literally invisible.

I would love to give that a try, but my steel rods are actually 1/4in/6.35mm thick (that's the only ones I could find around 6mm), and my cord is 6mm, so it's hard enough getting it in there as is! :O

But thank you for the advice, I'll try find some 6mm rods as opposed to 1/4in if I can :D
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Post by Guest »

Alright I see! I'm also afraid if I order 1/4 music wire it's too large for the battlecord I'm using.

I have a swell in the transition too, but what I meant is I see some irregular bumpage on the transition that might be a problem later.
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Post by Brandon "Sparky" Lam »

Ohhh yeah, I see what you mean. If I remember, that picture was taken before I quickly rolled the core, so I think that might be the tape accidentally folding on itself? Either way, I'll be sure to be careful with the transition ^_^
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Post by Morten Aalykke Pedersen »

Have to say - i see the bump on the first pic - but hardly on the rolled belly - looking good
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Post by Jessie Edwards »

And Picachu on the shirt. :) Badass. I like this new avatar. :)

Anyhoo, cool idea on the taper you guys. I think this OOO whip swap is resulting in some good learning and teamwork.
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Post by Brandon "Sparky" Lam »

Thanks Morten! Jessie, that Pikachu shit is one of my favourites :D Though I've managed to rip a small hole in it :'(
This OOO whip swap (Yass, I love that name) is turning out to be a fun activity~

Ok so I didn't have much time today, but I've bound the first belly (jeez, this whip is going really slowly). I'm a little nervous about posting it here, after looking at everyone's whips standing like a stick, but here we go -

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Hopefully I have time to work on it after new years :D
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Post by Guest »

Lost it at "Pikachu shit" x DDDD

OOO! I like that!

I think it's looking proper tension wise. I'd give it a good heavy roll to sort the nooks.
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Picachu shit huh? I always wondered about what that looked like. Does it glow, because...lightning?
...I could edit that for you, but I refuse. It made me giggle and comic relief is precious to me. Speaking of t-shirts. T shirts in the merchandise area saying "I participated in the Ooo Whip Swap 2016" would be fun. Oooooooo Whip Swap.

Back on point. I think the binding is fine. You have more binding to do and straight-as-a-stick-stiff is overkill IMO. One way or another, it will break in and a broke in whip is a joy to crack. Who wants to wait for years before you have joy? I understand that if bound properly, it will break in to a certain point and simply plateau. So I wonder if stiff is great, but technique is better.
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