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This is certainly a special whip handle.
The amount of craft and hand bead work is awesome.
I can't even imagine the hours it took to do it.
I think they are going to love it.

Ron

Looking good, Jessie.

Ah that‘s for my good friend Renate with whom I do whipcracking practice near a river where she lives and she‘s usually the one who is filming my videos
Westernstageprops paracords she brought from a USA vacation including a trip to Las Vegas started it all for us

Yes it is for Renate. I hope she loves it. I formed the knot foundation for the accent knot and another layer of epoxy seals it all. I think I might go ahead and form the heel knot foundation today too and get that epoxied and drying before putting it all together. I should have done it last night, but I was busy struggling with the idea of epoxy over the beadwork. I’m glad now that I did it.

The epoxied handle with counterweights

Wow, I've never seen anything like it. Jessie, that's fantastic!

Thanks

Very nice Jessie!

I like to tie as many knots as I can before building the thong. It's much easier to tighten without a big long tail flopping around. So, here is the handle with the heel counter weighted and built up:



And with the knots tied:





The hardest part is done. Now, time to build!

Looks really good Jessie.

Ron

Even better!

Sweet!

You make it look so easy Jessie, that's amazing work.

And here is the next step: The core bound, and the first belly being started:



And the first belly bound and the whole works epoxied into the handle.



Until next time...

Nice plaiting gloves.
I sometimes use something similar depending on the cord. Some cord is
more abrasive then others.

Ron

These have rubber grips. I can pull super tight. I got 3 pair on amazon for 15$. The rubber will wear off after a while where the cord rubs. Of course, pink is my color, but the colors are due to the fact that I need kid sizes. You have to make sure they are rubber grip though. I have ordered some before that was a kind of lame plastic. Worthless.

Is the grey part the rubber? I initially thought it was a synthetic suede or something similar...

Scott, yeah. The gray part is rubber. I cut off the tips.

So, it's all done. 6 foot overall length with Czech glass beads hand woven on the handle. Plaited from the tip with an english eye in sassy red. I think it's a sexy whip. It's plenty stiff and will need a little breaking in, but cracks very nice. It can dance a little better once it limbers up.

Absolutely stunning, Jessie. Ron, I wasn't paying attention to where I was and posted in the "Gallery" instead of the "making of gallery," Could you fix that for me?

Mark Elliott wrote:Absolutely stunning, Jessie. Ron, I wasn't paying attention to where I was and posted in the "Gallery" instead of the "making of gallery," Could you fix that for me?

ummm...me too

thanks, and, got it