The "Making of" Gallery - Ben Varsek

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".
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Ross Buckley
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Fantastic looking whip Ben, great work as always.
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Ben your whips always just look so clean and symmetrical. Well done!
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Ross, Jyri, thank both of you very much :) !

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Beautiful work, as always, Ben.
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Mark, thanks a lot :) !

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Post by Andrew Van Werkhoven »

After seeing your coral snake design it's shot up on my list of patterns to make one day, it looks stunning!
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Andrew, thank's a lot :)
This pattern got on my to do list after watching Robby's review of Rhett Kelley's work.

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A build form September: 8 foot 16 plait bullwhip with 2 bellies, a 12 inch handle completely in a herringbone pattern.

The first belly is 10 plait. An 8 plait belly would have also fitted the core, but I went for a 10 plait since I wanted the thong to start tapering before the core started tapering.

8 plait square start on the handle with 2 added strands where the pencil points.

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it's kind of bunchy, but it did smooth out a bit after the belly got rolled. Also, the "bunchyness" added some stiffness to the transition area. All layers of binding ended at the short 8 plait section of the first belly, which created a uniform shape again.

First belly ending in a TT:

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12 plait for the second belly:

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The Overlay:

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I usualy don't name my whips, but it's an houner for me that this particular Bullwhip got named: Robby
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Absolutely beautiful, Ben!!!
Inch by inch.
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Great looking whip, Ben.
It's similar to my practice whip, but longer.
Nice work.

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What a beauty, Ben!
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I het the send too fast, I wanted to add I love how precise all your whips are. I try, but can't even get close to being that precise. Great job.
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Mark is right, Ben: 'precise' is the word! Great work! :)
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Thank all of you very much for your kind words!
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A 6 foot Bullwhip with a double diamond patten on the handle. The costumer did show me a picture he had found online and asked me to build a replicate:

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A 6 foot hidden handle Bullwhip. The coustomer wanted to have a little bit of red colour in the handle. Since this whip got plaited from the tip (English Eye), I added 4 red strands of 275 cord at the handle:

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A 7 foot Bullsnake with an 6 Inch handle:

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Great job Ben.
I really like the sleekness of it.
It looks like it could crack itself.

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Ben, this is superb! I can 'feel' just how precise it will be in action! :)
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