The "Making of" Gallery - Rachel McCollough

[Tyler Blake]

I second, or quint or whatever, that the handle looks turned

[Ron May]

Yeah, if someone wants you to make a handle for them because they want that hand made look, they will be sadly disappointed.
Crazy mad skills there.

Ron

[Rachel McCollough]

Thank y'all, very much. I deeply appreciate it.

[Flemming Bo Christiansen]

Rachel - I always love to see how you build your whips and make the dust

The building process helps me understand how different techniqes influence on the whips performance and the difference between whips.

Especially I really love the picture from 05.08.2018 18:02:10, of the paper on your wll, where I can see, that you are very systematic about your whipmaking (just because I know that it has something with whipmaking to do). For me that paper could be something someone found in the deepest room in a Pyramide in Egypt

[Rachel McCollough]

Flemming, Thank you!!! I missed your reply until today, I'm sorry!!!
I greatly appreciate your words!
Here is a little more of some project:
Plaiting soap.
100% pure lard and Lasse's recipes from there for leather conditioner and then plaiting soap.
Final product contains pine tar, lard, water, ivory soap, beeswax.

That is natural unoiled roo hide and plaiting soap put on the darker piece.

[Mark Elliott]

Rachel, your soap is a little fancier than mine. I just use lard, pure soap, and water. Where did you get the beeswax and pine tar? Can't seem to find either around here.

[Rachel McCollough]

Mark, I found pine tar at a local feed store. It can be ordered in small amoints from Amazon as well. The beeswax can be had from any local bee keeper, or from any craft store such as Michael's or Hobby Lobby. Sometimes walmart carries it as well. Any Tandy's will, too. Only an ounce or two is needed.

[Rachel McCollough]

I have some mighty fine leather dressing I have bought from Roy through www.whip-nation.com that has pinetar in it. I really like it, so I thought I would try Lasse's recipe for plaiting soap. So far I like the way it looks, though I will render my own beef fat for the next batch over lard.

[Mark Elliott]

Thanks, Rachel, I'll look there. Maybe the batch in the photo is still warm but it looks a lot more creamy than what I've made.

[Ethan Mitchell]

Looks tasty! :p

[Rachel McCollough]

Ethan, salted caramel mousse it is not!!!

Mark, dare I say it...
Whip it, whip it good......

To keep it from separating. That is all I did. I used ivory bar soap melted and stirred into my water and added the fat with the beeswax melted into it and pinetar. Whipped together. That was it....

[Mark Elliott]

Rachel, that's pretty much what I did with mine, minus the pine tar and beeswax, but when it cooled it was about the consistency if cool butter. Definitely going to try the pine tar and bees wax.

[Ethan Mitchell]

The bazaar things we whipmakers end up trying, melting wax, homemade plaiting soap, etc.

[Robert Gage]

Ethan, if I may - 'bizarre' (strange, outrageous) not 'bazaar' (a market where things are sold). :P

[Rachel McCollough]

Mark, It is almost like whipped butter!

Ethan, they probably sure do sound bizarre to most folks!

[Rachel McCollough]

...now that it has been seen, here's a few more pictures

[Mark Elliott]

Oh, my! Rachel, this is a stunner.

[Rachel McCollough]

Thank you! It was a really nice piece of wood.

[Sven van Leeuwen]

Oh, wow. That's one awesome looking whip! That handle is just gorgeous. I love the dark wood color.
The thong itself is a beauty too.

Sven

[Robert Gage]

Rachel - Wunderbar!