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Roadrunner
Here's a 7 ft bullwhip, 2 bellies around a TT core, 16-plait overlay in black paracord with accents of turquoise and purple, a 10-inch handle built around a 3/8-inch steel rod and a 20-inch weighted double-loop fall. The transition area is covered with a 10-inch long gaucho braid using a method called back-braiding that I learned from Bruce Grant's Encyclopedia, Plate 41 "Back Braid of Six Thongs." I doubled it to 12 strands to make a 24-plait gaucho plait. The heel knot is a 7x6 3-pass THK tied over a lead and leather foundation. The transition knot is a 7x6, 2-pass THK. I called it Roadrunner because to my eye it looks a little racy and the accent colors remind me of the colored spots behind the eyes of one of my favorite birds, the Northern Roadrunner, although the purple on the bird is more of a reddish color.
Hope you like it.
Hope you like it.
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Thank you all. I really appreciate the kind words.
Wolfgang, there is indeed a bird in the southwestern US called a Greater Roadrunner (I mistyped it in the original post as a Northern Roadrunner). This is a rather atypical photo of one in a tree, They can fly, but spend most of their time on the ground. They catch prey by chasing it on the ground. They eat insects, spiders, lizards, snakes, small mammals and birds, and almost any type of egg they come across.
Wolfgang, there is indeed a bird in the southwestern US called a Greater Roadrunner (I mistyped it in the original post as a Northern Roadrunner). This is a rather atypical photo of one in a tree, They can fly, but spend most of their time on the ground. They catch prey by chasing it on the ground. They eat insects, spiders, lizards, snakes, small mammals and birds, and almost any type of egg they come across.
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Wolfgang, they do indeed chase dowh their prey. I think too speed is around 30kph. They use their tail much in the same way a cheetah does, as a rudder and counterbalance to help them change direction quickly as they run. The colors vary from. Light pink the a very dark red and sky bue to purplish. That's actually the bare skin of the bird. It has no feathers behind its eye.
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