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About the same. It needs breaking in, though. The last half is a little too rigid.

Hey sweet lookin whip The colours kind of reminds me of Beetlejuice

Good looking whip! 2 or 3 bellyes?

Maybe a stupid question, but does nylonwhips need the same type of break in as leatherwhips or is there a different there ?

Nice looking whip, Craig!

Craig, that looks great!

Jyri - two bellies and an overlay. Also six total sinew wraps and six layers of hockey tape.


Flemming - I've never used a leather whip, but I'm guessing it would be similar.

Craig how do you do your binding? How far and witch style? If i do lots and lots of binding it efects the flow but yours seem to work nicely.

Jyri - over every layer I do a flat continuous wrap that goes out about half way on the core and completely covers each belly. Then I do an X pattern of four telescoping layers over the flat wraps.

Thanks Graig, i have to try that

I haven't made a new whip in a while. I made a quick one for my daughter's teacher, but didn't post pics as it was pretty standard. I need to make a new Frankenwhip for Robby, but I haven't started yet and there is a very good reason.

As I'm sure most of you realize, if you try to make a whip with a bad mind/pissy attitude, the whip will come out as crap. I need to get my head right first before I try to make another whip. No, there's no great drama or anything in my life, just a lot of stuff going on that is clouding my thinking. I am scheduled to have a four day weekend this week and am hoping that I will be able to settle down enough to slowly and deliberately start working on my next Frankenwhip without creating a rushed piece of garbage.

I get you Craig, I hope this week helps you sort out every thing

Thanks, Matt.

Finally got off my duff and started the next Frankenwhip. Pieces cut and epoxied.

Way to go, Craig. Let's see what you make of this Frankenwhip.

Sven

Go go Craig!

Good luck with the build.

Ron

I'm wishing you lots of fun on your whip build Mr. Frank!

All the best
Ben

Thank you.

I pulled on the core last night and it popped apart. So I crammed in more epoxy and let it set overnight. Now it's strong enough to hold together when I pull as hard as I can. I did a better job cutting and sanding the wire rope so that it went inside the gutted rope much easier. Used a ton of hockey tape to smooth out the junction.

Looks like a good beginning.

Ron

Looking good Craig.