Here's a 6-foot snake whip made with an alum-tanned latigo, 2 plaited bellies, an 8-strand overlay, 30-inch latigo fall, and a Padauk heel.
Author: Mark Elliott
Paramedic, husband and father, whipmaker, skeptic, perpetual student, bird photographer. Pretty good medic and wipmaker, skeptical to the point of cynicism, hit and miss on the others. Lived in the Texas Panhandle since a was a kid, a stranger in a strange land.
Top Hand
Whip number 92 is an 8-foot nylon whip with a 16-plait rust overlay and 2 bellies over a shot-filled core. It has a 12-inch handle, a weighted… Read more "Top Hand"
Red Raider
Here's a 6-foot. 20-plait bullwhip made of red and black, 3/16=inch, nylon whipmaker's cord with an 11-inch Indian Ebony handle. The core is 8 strands of ungutted,… Read more "Red Raider"
Palo Duro
Here is whip #90, a 16-plait, 9 ft. cow whip in natural, saddle tan, and whiskey kangaroo hide. It has 3 plaited kangaroo-hide bellies around a core… Read more "Palo Duro"
Waddie
Whip #89 is a 6 ft nylon cow whip with a 12-inch Indian ebony handle, a 28-inch weighted fall, and a 12-inch cracker. The whip was built… Read more "Waddie"
Big E
Whip number 88 is a 9-ft, 16-plait, rust-colored, nylon cow whip with 2 plaited bellies around a twisted tapered core. It has a 14-inch Wenge handle, a… Read more "Big E"
Carbine
Here is whip number 87, a 5-foot, black kangaroo-hide whip with a Canarywood handle. The core is a 13-inch steel rod with 10 inches drilled back up… Read more "Carbine"
Another Matt Galizia Whip
Several times in this blog I've mentioned a whip made by Bernie Wojcicki. It was made a year or two before he died and is, in my… Read more "Another Matt Galizia Whip"
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