Whip Basics. The Forum

Here's a bit of an experiment. I wanted to see how a single belly whip handled, so I made a 10-ft cow whip, 16-plait overlay in rust and sky blue, with a 14-inch African Blackwood handle, TT core, single 12-plait belly, and a 26-inch weighted fall. And since I know you are going to ask Ron, it cracks beautifully and rolls out oh-so-slowly. I'll try to get a video if the damn wind ever drops below 40 mph again.

This is really nice. I like the color combos a lot. Did you bind it more like a bullwhip or leave it loos-ish similar to a stock whip?

Collin, I bound the core with a closed loop layer and a couple of open loop layers, mostly to get a smoother surface for the belly. No other binding.

It looks really nice.
That handle is awesome.
Nicely done.

Ron

Thank you, Ron.

Mark, that looks terrific! The handle is particularly nice.

The only cow-whip I've ever handled is my 10-footer, made by Roy; this looks somewhat lighter than that. (If I recall correctly, Roy's whip has two bellies - but I'm not sure.) I do like the slow roll-out....

Thank you, Robert. It's not as heavy as my 8.5 ft., 3-belly, bullwhip, for sure, but it does have some heft to it, mostly because of the handle, I think. That Blackwood is very dense.

I love - really love - that handle and the idea of a cow whip. Great that you do experiments like this one with only one layer.

I won a whip from Tyler and I don know how it is build, but it is thin, but slow and fun to use - the same way as yours

Thank you Flemming. It is fun to send that loop rolling down the whip and wait..............................O....................crack!

Mark, I really like the look of this whip and that's something because I'm not typically a fan of cow whips.

Thank you, Scott.

Beatiful Mark!
Looking forward for the video!

Mark, I love this whip! Beautiful, sir.

Thanks Scott and Rachel.