This new Gallery replaces the former "Masters Gallery", which will work from now on as pure archive. Here you will find not only the work and art from folks who sell whips, but also from folks, who create their whips out of pure passion. And we have an additional gallery. It is called "The Gallery - Making of".
Tyler, thank you! Nope
I've not had the chance to post many finished pics lately. I've got a couple more that are almost complete that I'll post after they get mailed out while us conspirators continue to conspire
But I will begin this week. No more will you get out of me :P
Here's one I've done a little while back.
8' 14 plait two belly cow with 15" Jatoba handle, midnight blue, charcoal gray, dusty blue.
Jatoba wood from Whip Nation.
That's nice. How did you find the colours took to waxing? My 11' is made of those colours and the mid range Blue did not like the wax and kinda 'stained' in places.
Thanks, Roger-
They took to waxing well. No blotches.... The only ones I've had problems with thus far with anything like that was a stiff feeling cord- I usually won't use those in an overlay at all any more. I wonder if your blue had a fabric sizing on it or something, that could cause it.
Hi Jesse, thank you. No sir I've never worked with zebra wood- while it looks to have good numbers for a lighter weight handle (slightly lighter than Gonçalo) I've heard it can be splintery and brittle. That doesn't mean it's not a good candidate, but caution in what it would be used for and not too thin of walls of material. It would be good for a bullwhip handle with a 1/4" internal rod, for example. A working whip- probably not.
My $.02
Rachel, I have some experience with it. I will agree with what you said about being slightly splintery. I've used ity in the past to make knife handles, and it worked well for that. I could see why it might cause issues.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
-Mark Twain
My main thing is if a wood is splintery I'm not fond of working with it- large pores also. On a lathe it would do ok, but by hand and hand finish work for me it would add at least an hour per handle....
And splintery wood tends to be unpredictable. One with high contrast grain (dark and light) I see some of the woods I've tried have a soft and hard spot from color to color as well. If you could guarantee you're getting a heart piece it'd be a lot better....
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