My Current Nylon Bullwhip Making Method 2020

[Music] everyone it's Nick with the whip shot today's video I'm gonna be showing you my current method for building a nylon bullwhip [Music] listen to this beautiful sound that's one of my favorite sounds in the world right there it's the promise to spring my friends alright so here we are we're outside tonight I could not resist coming outside even though it is a little bit chilly I got the coat going that's alright I just think it's a beautiful perfect environment to to ease your mind as you work on a whip we do have two cameras rolling this evening and one across the table and another one right here hello that way you can see what I'm doing better hopefully this is the same camera setup that I used on my herringbone knot tutorial just a few weeks ago I hope you guys like it and do let me know in the comments if you do let's take a look at our material that I'm using nowadays for my handle this is no longer 1/4 inch steel rod but it's 7/32 of an inch and why did I do that I did it because I felt like that little step down just gave me a tiny bit slimmer of a profile especially coming off the handle into the thong of the whip I just liked it it was a little more sleek and I felt like it's 16 Platt those strands really stacked together just a little bit better and he eliminated the possibility of any gaps now this is spring steel if I'm not mistaken it's a high carbon steel they had carbon to it they heat treated this that and the other and the finished product is a steel that is very firm and it can be bent but it always snaps back true so especially if you have a smaller diameter and a longer handle it will actually flex and you feel it doing so while you're throwing the whip but it always goes back straight and that's the beauty of spring steel it's also known as music wire that still has the label on it there might may or may not take that off before we start assembling the whip but I was looking online for a spring steel and oddly enough I found a place called Granger industries there's a link in the description for this material they are within 20 miles of my house they're actually over in Gary Indiana which is pretty close to here the next thing that I'm doing differently these days is if I have a handle that's 10 inches I cut it to 10 inches there's no more make it 11 inches cut that extra inch off in the end we're not doing that anymore I have some ways around that that we'll get to momentarily so what I've done to the handle this is pretty much the same I just really kind of rounded off the end that we're going to be slipping our sinker cord over I don't want any sharp edges that could potentially tear through the core of my whip so that's the reason that I'm really sanding that down I'm also kind of roughing up about three or four inches up that steel so that when I go to bind this on in a few minutes it grips a little bit we're gonna be wrapping it tightly but it just it gives that little extra bite that I like and I feel comfortable doing I will say this it is very difficult to cut and I'm actually cutting it nowadays with a bolt cutter it's just much quicker it's easier and I'm not going through you know two blades a week if I were to cut this spring steel with a hacksaw I'd be wasting blades left and right so get yourself a good bolt cutter to cut this if you don't have access to spring steel you don't have to have it it's what I use now you could even go with the quarter inch steel rod that I used previously if that's more accessible if you're unable to get any steel rod of any kind you can always find a screwdriver in the hardware store and sacrifice it put it in a plastic bag take a hammer and smash the handle off as funny as it sounds that will give you a steel rod that you can use in a pinch if you have to have it so this whip that we're going to be making today is going to be six feet it's going to have a 10-inch handle and I've cut 10 inches makes sense next we're going to be talking about our sinker chord I'm using three-eighths inch sinker cord from the paracord store comm link in the description for that as well this is one of the biggest things that I've changed on all of my WIPs all of my whips nowadays unless otherwise requested by a customer or if I'm feeling experimental I only fill the core with eight to 12 inches of bb's I felt like loading the thing with bb's any any longer than 12 inches was overkill and given I do still have customers from time to time that want that extra weight so in that case I will fill it with that many more babies I will do two feet three feet at bebés personal preference but for me I enjoy 8 to 12 inches of bb's because at the end of the day when I wax the whip that amount of bb's plus the wax I just feel gives yields a more balanced finished product of a whip that throws better and it's not so heavy the next thing you're gonna see here in a few minutes is that once I filled will say on this whip we're going to be filling eight inches of bb's then the next inch I'm gonna actually cut off that sinker cord so I'm really only using as much sinker cord as I need for the bb's and as we plat those bellies those dropped strands will be taking the place of the sinker cord core I found that this really helps with the taper overall and it also allows us to get a thinner point at the end of the whip first thing we're gonna do is we're going to load this sinker cord with some bb's I'm still using the four point five millimeter steel bb's it doesn't really matter what kind you use in my opinion the kind that I'm using today I think some of them are copper plated and the rest of them are zinc plated but a BB is a BB in my honest opinion so let's do it alright I'm going to take my 3/8 inch sinker cord and I'm going to put it in my clamp and I'm just going to take some artificial sinew and I'm gonna tie off a little stopper here and what this is gonna do just like you've seen in so many previous builds on this channel it's going to simply let me just adjust this camera real quick and what this is gonna do like you've seen in so many previous builds we are simply creating a stopper so those bb's don't slide down the core once I have a few wraps there I'm just gonna tie that off like that nothing nothing crazy to that and I'll give it three just for good measure now eight inches of bb's is personal preferences I just mentioned so the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to grab my tube that you've seen here and I'm just going to slide this tube inside of my sinker cord and this stuff is great it has an interior diameter of about five millimeters so the next thing I do you'll notice that I no longer have my little little funnel on this thing it's because I found a more efficient way I'm just gonna pour these bb's into my hand like this just a pretty good little portion there I'm just gonna scoop them up like this kind of running along the natural creases in my hand every now and then I'll just kind of dip it back a little bit but I found this does wonders in getting those babies inside of the tube now this actually might be too many but that's alright but now just look at how fast that's going I think this is actually quicker than the little funnel that I had but this is a good way to do it I think and once again there's a link in the description for this brass tubing or if you near a hardware store that's open right now there is a pandemic going on so a lot of places are closed so once we have all those bb's in there we're just gonna slide right out like this and then I want about an inch BB free and that's the part that we're going to slide over our steel here in a second so I'm holding the end of that with my finger and then I can just right back in the little container and we'll set those aside so there that's that's about eight inches of bb's and the last inch to inch and a half is free there BB free see that and now we can take our steel rod I'm actually just gonna dress this up just a little bit I'm gonna cut off that fray there I don't like that there we go I just feel better about myself now when I did that I don't know so now we can take this we got an inch free here and I'm gonna slip that 10-inch handle inside there and then I can put this thing in my clamp and this is a wonderful little clamp that was given to me by my friend Nico in Germany when I visited in 2008 2018 wasn't that long ago so that's in place next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna reach into my little whip bag here which is actually just a modified painters bag and I'm gonna grab a little bit of electrical tape and I'm just going to wrap a little bit on here to hold this in place I'm gonna start here I'm gonna wrap very tightly right there and I'm just gonna stop right there I need to tighten that clamp up a little bit don't happen here we go see just a little bit don't panic just a little bit there to hold that in place now we're gonna come back with our artificial sinew and really really find this down just making a little loop like this you guys know how to do this and I'm just really really pulling tight nice and tight we don't want this to ever come off and I'd like to say that you can't really over tighten this part but again I've been known to be an over tightener so now we're just ready to step off of the steel because of the nature of the sinker chord once we get those bb's all in line and things start to really compact it'll stretch a little tiny bit and as you can see there's about one bebés width of stretch of space that we have to occupy and we're going to do that with the artificial señor so here I'm coming off the handle you can see right there coming off the steel and now it's like I've just fallen into a little a little step there and I'm just gonna fill that in with my sinew and replace that area and this happens just because of stretch there's nothing to worry about we just stiffening this up a little bit and filling in where that BB was everything shifted down just a little bit artificial sinew is good molding material sometimes I think it's almost like clay you can or putty maybe you cannot get it to go in places and fill in gaps what have you so see that that transition looks pretty good I like that it's stiff but not too stiff we'll worry about achieving more stiffness as we tie our next bell or tie the first belly on and then bind it so now see I'm just going down here and that's just what this is doing is it's just filling in kind of the spaces on top and between those bb's holding everything in a nice line like that so now we've we've reached the end here I'm gonna move this up a little bit just a little bit there and I cut it there and I'm going to take it and just tie a couple of half hitches to tie that off like that very good so now you're gonna see me do something that I've never done before on this channel I don't think and that is well first I'm going to trim off these crazy little antennae looking pieces of sinew so as you can see here is the handle and here is where the bee bees end right here an inch after those bee bees end I'm gonna snip off the remainder of that sinker cord and that's something I've never done before on this channel you've never seen something like this on this on this wit making channel and as I've said previously what we're gonna do is we're going to be planting our first belly along here we're going to be planting our first belly and the first strand is going to be dropped right here it's gonna fill in become the core and take over where the sinker cord was discontinued to the next step I'm going to reach down here and grab some more hockey tape this is actually a different brand howie's it still smells like fish don't you worry and I'm just going to just above where that sinew is I'm gonna wrap the steel at a very steep angle and the only reason I do this is so that paracord isn't sliding around on that bare steel just like that and ladies and gentlemen we have here a prepared core we are now ready for our first belly of this whip so how far should the braided portion of each belly reach that's a question that I'm often asked through email people call me and ask me that question through Facebook etc etc the way I do it is I take the number of braided layers that number and I divide it into the overall length of the whip to bellies in an overlay its thirds so in today's instance we're making a 6-foot whip six divided by three is two so basically what that means is the first belly needs to reach two feet of braided section the next belly needs to be two times that so four feet and of course the last braided layer which is the overlay needs to reach the entire six feet so that's how I do it so for this whip I'm going to be using the strand lengths found on my website Nick's whip shop comm there are also in the description so let's take our strands for our first belly and let's attach them okay so I have my four folded strands here for our first belly and once again all strand lengths are in the description they're also right here here are the strand lengths for this first belly now all these strands I found the middles as you can see by tying knots these are the exact middles I don't worry about staggering things two inches three inches anymore I don't do that anymore I just there's really no need to do it we learn so let's go ahead and let's tie on this first belly so nothing different here really for the most part two strands making sure that those indicator knots are in the back next I'm gonna take those remaining two strands open up a little eye and I'm going to slide those two strands through nice and simple there's nothing new to that procedure but there is something new to this next procedure so I talked about how we no longer add an additional inch to an intended length for a handle we cut handles a certain length and we do it and we mean it in other words this handle is intended to be ten inches long and we cut it 10 inches long we are not going to be cutting any steel once this whip is once the overlay has been put on what we're going to do is we're going to simply begin platting eight plat under two over two just for a couple of passes here few passes just to establish the beginning a whip makers plat aka herringbone pattern those are two interchangeable names so that looks good to me once I've established a few Platts I'm going to take this thing and I'm gonna push it up about a half an inch past the top of this handle and it's gonna feel a little bit weird and once everything's done this end is going to be a little bit floppy once we finish each belly we're gonna be binding it so that the heel not foundation has a strong strong firm layer underneath to penetrate and those staples really hold things in place but something that you can see here is that the steel actually starts here we're going to be doing this with every belly so at the end we are gonna be cutting off these knots we're not going to be cutting through steel spring steel is just too hard and it doesn't allow that and you're saving yourself a bunch of time so that's something I'm doing differently now I am not cutting off the end of the handle so you can see it's right about there so just we're pushing it a half an inch up half an inch up and now we don't have to worry about it so I'm just kind of finger tight platting here as you can see and then now a little bit later we're gonna start pulling a little tighter so now ere we go see that see that not move another nice thing about indicating your middles with knots is that those knots lock things in place so that you can pull really tight and it keeps it from submerging like a snake in a hole and it won't disappear underneath the rest of the strands just keeps everything even so see the steel ends here we won't have to cut any steel at the end so the rest of this you guys know the drill I don't recall honestly if I did what I'm about to do in my previous current method video but there is simply no need to plat a single strand herringbone pattern over a belly on a handle nobody's gonna see it and it's just as strong to take two strands at the same time and doing a two strand under two over two it speeds up the process times to some raccoons are fight and real out over there I know if you can hear them or not but Savage so that's what we're doing so I'm just going to be platting this handle two strands together pulling just like that and you can find that you can really fly along quickly if you're doing two strands on the handles so I'm going to keep platting all the way down this handle until I reach the point one inch before the steel ends I'll meet you there okay we've reached one inch before the steel ends and this is something new that I'm doing I'm doing a single strand diamond plat over the transition where the steel ends and the bb's begin and the idea is a single strand diamond plat there's a lot more surface area there's a lot more gripping in instances of strands on strands like a net and physics just say that it's going to be a stronger stronger weave so we're gonna do that so upper-left the top strand surface strand here on the on the surface points together left under around the back under one over one under one over one and you guys know how to do a single strand diamond flat so this is something that I'm doing new and I have found that this combined with a good binding practice coming up here shortly it's work it's worked wonders for me and I've found a lot of improvements in in my WIPs along the so I found that this works really well and yields a nice extra tight springy transition there we go I gotta make sure I don't lean into the view of the camera over my head I did that a couple weeks ago I had like half of this video filmed and I reviewed the footage and found that I was like this the whole time it's really frustrating it was warmer than two but it happens so I'm gonna carry this on until I get about here I don't need a whole lot in my opinion on that first belly so I'll do two to three inches of this diamond pattern and then I'm going to go straight back in or I should say not back in two but I'm going to go straight into a single strand herringbone of under two over two and eight plat so it's a little more time-consuming but in my opinion I think it's worth it so I do it there we go under over under over very good as always with the diamond plat I'm making sure that I don't pull so much down and up but every time I go around and I complete a pass there are different ways to up up doing this we all have our different ways I'm not saying that my way is the only way by any means but it's important if you're using my methods that after you get done with each pass I'm taking the Strand before I plat it so for example the Strand on the surface points to the upper right this is the next one I'm giving it a pull outward and I'm shoving it up and down and that really helps attribute itself I think that's the word I'm looking for lend itself maybe to a 360 degree uniform diamond plat otherwise if you just plat it like you would for a herringbone you get a beautiful pattern on top uniform pattern on top but the back the diamonds are all skewed so that that's a subject matter I think for a future video we'll go look into the physics of a diamond plat so see this is coming along pretty well here less talk and more planning so I like to just do a few passes and then with with this diamond I go back and snug things up I've just never been good at the whole Platt lose pull tight when it comes to when it comes to a diamond pattern I just have an interesting way of doing it not that it's more efficient but it's how I do it how I learned so see that pushing each strand I'm kind of pushing and shoving around the back so that's about good you can see it's snugging up how I hurt what I do so look at how tight that is I mean you can't tell how much pressure I'm putting on that but that is a nice snug transition right there I'm happy with it so that's a couple of inches that's all I really want and now two inches we can go directly into a single strand herringbone pattern so top strand pointing to the upper left we take that around the back under two over two and you could be more fancy about it and you know take some procedures and take some steps to make it look a little better going into that herringbone you could not go straight into it and there are ways to so I'm still cooling fairly tightly here more so than I was there we go I'm just gonna slide this up a little bit cuz you can see what I'm doing and now I'm just going to plat normally all the way down until I reach the end of this I'll meet back up with you when there is an inch left we're not dropping any strands until I meet back up with you here okay so we are just about to the end of the core the B be loaded portion and you'll notice we look at it again the sync record stops one inch after the BB stop the idea is we don't really need that sync record there when we have strands that we will be dropping to make up the core I found it a bit unnecessary to continue that on one third I believe it was for the previous video one third the overall length of the whip so I want to as we arrived to where we are going to be dropping our first strand I want to briefly discuss dropping strands as a beginner wit maker I was always so obsessed on knowing exactly where I needed to drop a strand and I would almost be fanatic about it I would get my ruler out or whatever I'd get my tape measure making notes every time I dropped the strand at thirteen point two inches or what-have-you whereas the more realistic approach in what I've learned is that going by the measurements that I that I initially was telling you so for a six foot whip the first belly needs to be two feet the next needs to extend to four feet and then six feet for the overlay the way that I approach this concept now is that here's a braided layer I'm starting at eight plat and I'm finishing and for plat how can I go from eight to four strands and in such a fashion that the taper will be just as good as it will be so how can I time those drop strands so I don't really look at it anymore as okay there's where I'm going to drop the strand it's more so how did how do the strands feel how much more do I have to plat before I arrive at that first two feet which makes up the first first belly so I am going to tell you in this video I'm going to measure it exactly for you but my point is that it's so important to just kind of recognize teach yourself to recognize where we need to drop the first strand the second strand the third strand where to drop the first strand will be pretty self-explanatory because we're dropping it right where the baby's end but for the rest of those strands try to get in that mindset two feet where am I at if I drop that strand now we'll be too thin towards the end just really try to focus on going from big to small from big to small a plat to four plat within two feet really focus on that practice it'll come quicker than you think it will so now we can zoom in a little bit we're still 1/8 Platt under 2 over 2 and the bee bees are coming up to a close they're coming to a close right about there babies are over then we're gonna drop one of our two shortest strands we'll have two that are the same length on the left and the right eye maybe because I'm right-handed but I've kind of become accustomed to dropping my first strand from the right side it doesn't matter and there we go is this this is the shortest strand from the right side giving it a swift pool and dropping it into the core now that strand just became our core see that the sinker quartz done and this became our new core when Adam visited in August of last year something that I saw him doing is he was always taking measurements he had a picture in his mind of where he was but he was confirming that with a tape measure and he was he was saying okay this belly needs to end around this point I thought that was a really good practice to always be in the habit of just taking an overall measurement and seeing where you are within that mini width each belly is like its own little overlay its own little mini project if you will it's kind of the way I look at it nowadays but I was really inspired at how much Adam was making measurements like that I think it's a good good habit to get into if you start to look at each belly has its own whip and not worry so much about where are you dropping that first strand it'll really help you and your overall ability to make whips I think so I'm going to take a measurement here and I want to see how we're doing so we're looking at about 1 foot 8 inches so that means I need to start thinking about wrapping this belly up so I'm gonna drop another strand now drop it from the left side there it is swinging it to center stage and as soon as I do that I'm going to cut out the previous strand that was our core and I picked up on this idea from Adam when Rich's stock with build dropping strands into the core and cutting out one of the strands of the core I really was inspired by that so now we're 6 Platt on the left and the right side there we go so under 2 over 1 left on the right 6 Platt with one core so we're reaching the end here you need to think about ending this thing so now I'm going to drop the next strand now we're back to the right side get one on top of it slide this thing up so here it is the shortest one of my right side swinging at the center stage that this becomes the new core and I'm going to cut the previous strand that was our core there we go and now on the right side I'm under 1 over 1 and on the left side I'm under 2 over 1 and I'm just gonna pull that that looks good so we're probably coming up to about our 2 foot mark which should be about where we end this first belly and don't be in the mindset where it has to be exactly 2 feet if you go a little bit beyond 2 feet you can compensate for it on the next belly you don't have to be perfect with your measurements just be in the ballpark plus or minus 2 or 3 inches is not going to hurt anything now on the left side short astray on the left side I'm going to be dropping that to the middle one pool swing it to center stage and cutting out our previous course ouch of course stranded so now we are temporarily in four plat under one over one over a core but as we near the end the two-foot mark is about right here I'm actually going to cut the middle out so now this is something new now we are platting four strands over nothing this is something that you saw in the stock quick video just like that and a good way to do it in my opinion is to plat it loosely and then just pull with those thumbs you know push down with those thumbs it's a good way you can get a lot of pressure because you it's kind of hard to do it this way I'm just planning for strands over and nothing about ready to take a measurement here to see where we are I would imagine that we are at about two feet that means it's time to end this belly so the Strand on the very top I'm just gonna swing it over and just half hitch it just to temporarily held that place I'm gonna take a measurement see where we're at let's see where we're at and that is about two feet two inches braiding staff of two feet two inches that's fine I wanted to carry it out a little bit longer so it wouldn't be so abrupt so two feet two inches I'm going to take some tape and I'm just going to temporarily wrapped us excuse the Train we've been having a lot of trains here in the area lately so this is something that I'm doing new now this tape here is going to come off once we arrive at this point on our second belly this is simply a placeholder to hold things in place I no longer bind or wrap the ends of my bellies with nylon thread with artificial sinew with tape this is just to hold it temporarily I allow the previous belly to do all of the constricting of the end of the belly the idea is we are eliminating any kinks or bumps or lumps that could potentially form there as a result of the tension being slightly higher here then say two or three or four inches up the whip so once that is in place I'm going to zoom out a little bit the next thing I'm going to do is this is about this is about the two-foot mark I'm just going to take note of my the length of my remaining strands pretty good if you'll notice the strand lengths we used they give you quite a bit of slack so if you're really worried about wasting parachute cord you might want to do this build and then make notes as you go to adjust your lengths for future builds so I'm going to space this out about every five inches I'm gonna snip a strand the staggered form I'm going to snip another strand five inches down and then another five inches down I'm gonna snip another strand and this is the tapering of the tails of that belly so let's take this thing out of the clamp so here is our first belly of our six foot whip the next thing we're going to do before we roll it is we're going to put it back in the clamp and we're going to introduce the tape and binding on our first belly alright well we've got this whip in the clamp the temperature has actually gone up about three degrees you can hear it's made such a difference with those spring peeper frogs it's amazing all right I'm going to take some hockey tape now and I'm going to wrap a spiral around the transition of this whip this is something that I'm doing I haven't really changed anything here so I'm finding where exactly by just kind of touching with my fingers and bending very lightly so we can see the steel ends right here so an inch above where that steel ends I'm going to start some hockey tape and I'm just going to wrap this in a spiraled fashion and I want this first wrapping to be about six inches down the whip that's about six inches right there I'm gonna cut it now what this is doing if you've watched my previous videos as it is creating a layer for us to bind over so that the thread or artificial sinew or whatever you use doesn't go through slip through the cracks so it's a netting a surface for us to bind a bond now here's something that's new I am no longer using artificial sinew to bind the transitions of my whips and the reason for that is as I reach over here real quick and grab some nylon thread the reason for that is because after time I found that this artificial sinew stretches a little bit maybe when it heats up after use it stretches a bit and you tend to lose some of your springiness as the years go on and the transition of your whip every now and then I will still resort back to my artificial sinew but that's more so just to build up a little bit of diameter if that's what I'm wanting I'm wanting a little more bulk a little more thickness to the transition of the whip then I'll resort that back to the sinew but for the most part I'm strictly using this so this is number two sized crocheting thread or quilting thread nylon you can find this stuff this is actually hobby lobby's brand artiste but there's a link in the description to where you can you can get some of this stuff and I found that it works really nicely fresh spool here okay so I've got my nylon thread here and what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to spiral down and spiral up so as I go down I'm going to be doing what you've seen me do before I'm just gonna get this little thread out of the way here as I work my way down I'm just doing this crisscross pattern like this and I found that I can get the transitions a lot tighter with this nylon thread so I'm gonna go down it up three times so for this first belly I'm only gonna go down about this far that's about three inches there so now I'm gonna turn around and remember if you've seen in previous videos I've done I'm filling in those gaps that I haven't been before and this is going to give a lot of constriction to this area of the web all the way up there to the top and now I'm coming back down again but the only time I'm doing the crisscross pattern that you saw me do is when I'm blazing a new trail of where there has never been any threat before so if there's already thread there I'm just kind of filling in the little spaces that I haven't been before so now as you can see I've reached a new point so I'll be blazing a trail just like this my binding is feeling good here so just before I reach the end of that tape I'm going to go up again to the top and this is just giving multiple passes I was coming out of the clamp there and this is just the first belly here there's gonna be one more belly but you can already see how stiff that is look at that see that I'm just doing our best here to filling where we haven't already been some people like a really stiff transition I don't like it that stiff I like it to be springy like it to have a lot of life but if you are wanting to achieve a whip that has exceptionally stiff stiff transition so see network blazing a trail again so we're going back into the crisscross pattern if you want something really stiff you can actually take the nylon thread and do a very tight pattern across the transition and I'll show you what we're doing as we are continuing past the tape for a few inches here and the idea is we want to taper off to that rigidity that's something that I've talked about tapered rigidity you may have heard me reference that term from time to time on this channel that's basically what we're doing here we're just now I'm just lightening up my wrapping a little bit every every wrap is a little bit lighter than the one before she just fade out that energy alright that tension I should say and now we're gonna come back up to the top again sometimes these spools will do that and you may have to hold on to it unravel it and then wrap it back up you can see it's doing all this crazy stuff that's something that's a little troubling sometimes about the nylon thread it doesn't stick on itself like the sinew does so sometimes you got to deal with some weird stuff but it's okay feels alright so see now I'm going back up I'm increasing my tension as I climb back up to the top there there we go feeling in the best I can where I haven't been before see that okay we go up we go we go back up to the top and now once I get to the top I'm gonna tie this off that's something that you've seen done many a times on this channel and I have to give props to Bernie which is ski IVM brand whips god bless him passed away a few years ago and he was the one who really started it all for me he's kind of the father of what making tutorials as many people have he was a a good man I never got to meet him but he was the one who did this little loop there i saw i meanit's he didn't invent it but I always ruin every diver knee because he was the first one I ever saw do it so I'm gonna wrap this about four or five times hold this with my left hand there and I'm gonna cut it slip it through the eye and now I can pull this just like that cut off the excess and see you don't even have to cut off I remember I used to cut off all right snip a piece off of your sin you and then take this I can't even have to do that just like take your spool you don't have to cut anything off your spool don't waste so there we go see how stiff that is this is the first value of two we're gonna do the same thing to the second belly but if it's already that stiff you can imagine what you can do with this nylon thread so I'm about ready to roll this first belly of the whip and we'll talk a little bit about the whips curve and what gives a whip its curve [Music] all right well I've just given this whip a roll as you can see I've bound the top of the handle there so that in the end hour he'll knock Foundation has something firm to hold on to and this thing is not spinning on us at all it's really important that we do that for every belly and the overlay I want to talk a little bit about the preferred direction of flow in other words the whip has a natural curve to it when you add this binding to it and a lot of people ask me what causes that so as you can see this is how the whip was in the clamp while we were doing our binding with the nylon thread and the top is where we were doing those crisscross X's all the way down up down and up three times and filling in the spaces where we hadn't been before as I mentioned as well as I was working on it if we flip it over this was the underside while we were doing that and you can see there's all these open loops there there isn't as much surface area there aren't as many overlapping nylon thread strands going over each other so it would make sense that this side would be tighter and this side would be more loose and that's exactly what's going on the underside is the looser side with less tension so it's going to give way it's going to curve and that's how we had that natural curving going on and the part that has more X's on it more thread on thread is going to be stiffer and that's what gives the binding that little curve to it now what we could do is I could pop this whip right back in the clamp and we could just keep on reinforcing that curve for both valleys and the overlay but I'm not going to do that what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually flip the whip over so in other words I don't want it to be extremely curvy this way and then extremely stiff this way I'm gonna flip it over and I'm gonna take I'm going to change the direction of the curve and the reason that I'm doing it this way is because I like that natural curve but I don't like it to be so severe that when I roll the whip out it's actually pointing upward I don't like whips that do that I like it to be more ideal for being able to crack both ways so if you're doing the volley if you're doing a lot of change in directions this way of doing the binding is more ideal in addition to that we'll talk about the platting normally the portion of the whip that is tighter is the top as you're planning so the back side the loops are a little bit bigger it's the same principle there's more surface tension on the top than there is on the back so when you roll it out and things even out as much as they can the top is always going to be the inner portion of that loop when you roll the whip out so one more time this is how the whip was just a few moments ago while we were doing the binding we rolled it now I'm flipping it upside down so that this was the previous underside while we were doing the binding and to establish the beginning of that direction change in the curve I'm going to grab some nylon thread this is white so you can just see it a little bit better and I'm gonna just start off just doing a few X's and that's just to establish the new direction of flow we're not gonna do this the whole way it's just to get things started it's worth mentioning that some people really enjoy a very very firm transition on a whip if you wanted to do that what you could do is take your thread and do these really really close wraps like this almost end to end actually it would be end to end and you could do this all the way up to the top and that creates tremendous tension tremendous stiffness but this is a shorter six-foot whip and I don't need a transition that's that strong the whip was 12 feet then I would be more likely to do that but I don't feel that as necessary so we're just going to go down now see I'm coming back up filling in those spaces and this is just to establish the new change in direction and it just builds up a little bit of thickness also so back up to the top now I can grab my thread again and I'm going to be tying this off for little wraps and up it goes pulling it through and now we've established the change in direction so now we can tie on our second belly and begin platic okay I have the strands cut for my second belly once again they are right here for you and in the description as well so this is going to be a 10 flat second belly nothing is changed as far as the flat count goes for a 6 foot whip have the whip in the clamp making sure that this is centered in the clamp looks good now we're gonna go ahead and tie this I'm gonna take any of my three strands we're just doing this the same way that we did with the first belly nothing's changed here once again my metals of the strands are the exact metals no staggering going on taking my remaining two strands finding the ends I'm gonna feed them through a little eye there that's and pulling that shut now I'm gonna find the Middle's of those strands as indicated by the knots and they'll stop us automatically there's the first middle and shorty there's a second okay so something that you can do if if you're unsure of where your steel is you can take a little neodymium neodymium magnet I don't know how to pronounce that and you can actually find exactly where the handle begins so remember we want to make sure that every belly starts a little bit before a little bit above the steel so that when we cut everything off at the end we won't have to cut any steel so just holding the magnet here and letting it go see I just kind of slips into place that means the steel starts right there so we just want to make sure we start the belly a little bit above that but to get it started I'm just gonna start it right here so here we go starting with the upper right around the back under three over to ten flat it must be a road closed or something because I have never in my life seen this much traffic coming down this road behind me so I apologize for the noise hopefully it's not too unbearable it's obnoxious though for me alright so there we have the first belly it's unreal [Applause] so there is the first belly materializing at this point I'm gonna take everything and slide it up here to about half an inch above that steel then we can take our little magnet and double check ourselves and see the steel starts about all right there so we're in good shape under three under under three over to ten platen I'm just gonna get this established by pulling lightly pulling firmly and then I'll start to tighten things down as we go and then we'll be going back into the two strand together for the handle to expedite the process so now I'm starting to really pull things tight there we go really tight there we go it's almost time to go into our two strands stuff here one more and we'll get on with it big pull now I'm gonna finish up this handle by taking two strands together around the back under three over three [Applause] and we're just gonna keep that up all the way until we get to the binding at the transition I'll meet you there okay so we've reached one inch before the steel ends and we are ready to go from our herringbone to strand under three over two directly into a single strand diamond pattern we're doing the same thing for the second belly once again the idea is that a diamond plat there's a lot more surface area a lot more strands touching strands and there's an overall stiffer platting pattern so starting with the upper left around the back this time we're going to go because it's an odd number we're going to be going over one under one over one under one over one whenever there's an odd number of strands and you're doing the single strand diamond you're always starting by going over pulling that Stern around the back and we're going over under over under and I'm gonna keep this up and go about twice as far as I did for the previous belly with the diamond pattern another thing you'll want to have on hand during the second belly platting as a permanent marker or a marker that you can write on the surface of the whip the reason we're gonna do that is because once we work our way down I'm actually going to mark where the tape ends and I'm also going to be marking where the binding of the nylon thread ends that way we have something to reference that way we have something to reference in once we're doing the binding on the second belly we can make sure that we're not stopping the tape directly on the previous place the tape stop we want to carry everything down at least 1.5 times so so when I come through with a tape on this belly I'm probably gonna carry it down to about here and then likewise with the binding I'm gonna carry the binding back down to here so have this on hand this is one of these little Sharpie permit it like one of those silver metallic markers so I'm just gonna continue this diamond pattern and I'll catch back up with you momentarily alright so I have carried out this 10 Platt single strand diamond pattern for roughly twice what I did on the first belly and it's time to go right in to our single strand herringbone pattern so strand on the surface here points to the upper right going to go around the back under three over two for an even ten flat upper left coming around under three over two making sure that I have my my sharpie marker handy because I'm getting ready to mark on the belly itself one shot once I reached the end of this tape here I'm gonna mark that so that I know where the end of the tape is while I'm binding this belly feels pretty good it's a lot chillier now than it was during the day cold front has come through so see my breath spring has really been taking awhile I can't wait till it's 80 degrees and hot and muddy I love that kind of weather frogs are really loving this moisture you can hear it's it's I love that sound okay so that's looking good as you can see we are nearing the end of the tape we just have a little bit left to go right there and now that's the end so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take my sharpie marker I'm just gonna draw a little line there make it a little T 4 tape and now we can keep cladding past that we're starting to run a little bit short here on the right strand we'll keep that in mind that's probably gonna be a strand that we're gonna be dropping first those Ferraris are getting 100 by the second it's funny with those spring peeper frogs if you go on a run late at night while they're out if one frog stops the rest of them stop it's like they all kind of communicate with each other and it's fascinating one will start chirping and then pretty soon they all start chirping again even if a deer or raccoon walks by and make some noise they all quiet down suddenly it's amazing now in tune they are with their surroundings so this is gonna be the first strand that we're dropping and I'm not gonna be dropping it into the core because I have a belly underneath we won't be doing that until we reach the end of the first belly and we're not there yet so I'm just gonna be dropping it on the top top right and you'll see exactly what I mean by that in just a second so here we go and now I'm dropping this strand so I give it one last tug and that's its final resting place every ten it isn't even there and the Strand underneath it becomes the working strand so points to the upper right this one doesn't count anymore because we just dropped it around the back under three over two on the left and on the right side we are under two over two and now we'll give this one last pass it's gonna be a little short that's alright I got my little pliers here to help me pull it get a grip on it there we go so we want this belly to reach approximately four feet in length before we end the braiding in four strands and that's an approximation about four feet if it's a little more or a little less or not overly concerned about that if your handles longer than ten inches if it's a 15 inch handle you need to take that into account meaning that the first belly should extend a little bit further than a third if the handle is 15 inches long so there's the final resting place of that strand we're gonna give it one little pull here with our pliers whoops like that and now we're at an even eight plat under two over two on the left and the right side that feels pretty good all right and now we're coming up to the end of our binding right here it's hard to see because I used red thread but we do want to also mark that with our marker so that we can know where that is when we're binding this when I carry the tape a few inches past the first layer on the first belly and we're also gonna carry that binding beyond the first bellies binding when we bind this second belly and dropping strands once again I'm dropping strands when I feel like I need to drop Strasser I'm paying attention to how things look here if it starts to look a little crowded I might drop a strand now there's still plenty of space there's plenty of meat to this belly underneath so I don't need to worry about dropping strand I still have plenty to go I'm not even to the two-foot mark yet so we can wait that out I just ordered myself a couple nights ago my discus launch glider radio-controlled airplane a glider and you launch it by holding pegs on the end of the wing and you swing around and you fling it into the air and it uses thermals or rising heat on a hot summer day to soar you can gain altitude and keep climbing because that rising air so there's a whole a whole art to finding that rising air in the sky there are competitions I ordered I labelled from the company called dream flight in California that's a cheaper one there's about 130 dollars for the glider itself as opposed to the more expensive lighters made by companies like arms or the other company was Vladimir's models some beautiful all carbon-fiber $700 models I just couldn't justify it but I'm looking forward to flying that thing so here we are so we're coming up to the 2 foot mark and we're getting ready to slide this tape down there's a little trick I'm gonna show you it's something that I do new now on my whip builds since I'm not binding the ends the bellies so I'm gonna slide this up so you have a better view of what I'm doing zoom in a little bit [Applause] Batman Batman wait what do you do you know you got to drive around and yell Batman when somebody drives by and says Batman you got to reciprocate what else you gonna do during a pandemic this quarantine is getting to all of us okay anyways so here we are we've arrived at the end of the first belly and welcome to do it's gonna take my scissors and I'm just gonna make a little incision here so that allows us to peel this tape like that and what this tape is going to do is it's going to hold all these strands together while we plat so as we plat our way down we're gonna slide this down like that see that I just move it out of our way and we'll plat a little bit and we'll move it down as we as we need just like that so we're still an eighth plat I'm going to continue this hey that was funny that was a random occasion of the night right there I love stuff like that so we need to start thinking about dropping a strand here not quite yet once we get about here I'm probably gonna drop a strand from the right side I'm just gonna take a quick measurement here there we go so 2 feet 2 inches we still have another two feet to go on the second belly and we're on the schedule and I'll continue to put the marks on screen where I am dropping these strands so you guys can follow along so here we are see we're getting a little close to this tape I'm just gonna move it down and there's another way that we could do this a lot of leather whip makers will hold those tails with their hand and they'll actually plat like this you know pull it around and keep switching hands but I didn't learn to do it that way that ways probably more efficient and if you can do it you'll probably be a little bit faster but I never learned to do it that way so I use my little tape to constrict my strands Maya Platt that just works for me so if you're watching this video right now we are in a pandemic I don't know when or who is watching this video maybe it's ten years into the future but we're dealing with the kovat 19 with corona virus and it's pretty wild to say the least it's very sad it's just a strange time anyway on to more positive things to think about and that is that we are about ready to drop strand so we're still under 2 over 2 and I make a quick adjustment here so guys can see as soon as we reach the end of this strand here we're gonna drop a strand into the core and now since we're planning over loose tails we're going to be doing so we're going to be dropping strands into the core until further notice I've really been enjoying the birds photographing them they have a way of calming you you have people joke about it you know bird-watching there's a lot of jokes about it but there's a reason people do it there's a reason that people love it so much and I've been really enjoying it I'm watching videos from this lady named Leslie the bird nerd is what she goes by on YouTube there's a link right up there you can check out her page wonderful informative video is about birds about their their habits their calls identifying Birds I've learned a lot from her Leslie check her out good stuff all right so we have arrived and here it is on the right side things up a little bit on the right side pulling the Strand underneath it one swift pool on the Strand we're dropping it and pulling it underneath swinging at the center stage and now we're gonna be cutting one of the strands out of the middle and I'm gonna cut the shortest strand out of the core because this drop strand is about to take its place a little magnet stuck to my scissors there okay now on the right side we're going under two over one and on the left side we're going under two over two and what I like to do at this point is I like to pull off that tape and I like to attach either some more tape or just a couple little wraps of the sinew to just constrict things and hold things in place for me so I'm not getting my strands confused something that you can do that'll help you with this is you can use different colored paracord for your bellies but not too drastic you I don't advise doing like black / white or neon pink over something dark so keep keep your tones similar because if you're starting out with whip making you will probably have some little spaces and gaps in your platting here and there and if you have bright on dark or dark on bright it'll make that even more noticeable so I haven't decided yet what the color is for the overlay of this whip I'm thinking of doing like a nice yellow maybe I don't know I'll find out okay so here's the Strand that we dropped into the core and I actually made this too tight I'll pull this down perfect very good so under two over two on the left under two over one on the right and just before I drop another strand from the left I'm going to be cutting the shortest strand out of the core and that's just something that I like to do there really is no black and white answer as to where you should do that I'm just kind of observing my belly there and I'm thinking well yeah things need to slim down a little bit now so I'm actually going to do that now we're going to be cutting the shortest strand out of the core this one right here I don't pull it out and a little snip right there and so now we just have two strands in the core [Applause] and pretty soon you're gonna be dropping a strand from the left side and that will become a core strand so we are currently at the 34 inch mark we are in four strands on the left and three on the right platting over two strands in the core so I am going to very shortly drop a strand from the left and that strand is going to fill in for the core I'm actually going to do that just about now so here's the Strand I'm going to be dropping let me get one more strand on top of it at 36 inches I'm going to drop this next strand give it a tug over to center stage and I'm going to be cutting a shortest strand out of the core and this drop strand from the left side is replacing it now we are in six plat three strands on the left three strands on the right under two over one on both sides and we're gonna continue platting and since I really just have two strands to worry about in the core I can take this off I don't have to worry about that anymore there we go I'm almost ready to snip one of these strands out of the core and we're going to be planting six strands over one strand in the core continuing down 36 inches I'm going to cut the shorter of the two strands from the core and I'm going to continue plotting that six plat under two over one we're going to carry that on for a little ways so we have about one more foot of platting on this belly before we will be ending at this belly and then we'll bind it we'll roll it and then it'll be overlay time and that's always kind of the final stretch if you will the checkered flag is waving the final lap it feels good especially once you come off of a an intricate handle maybe a fancy planted handle or perhaps a a single strand 24 plat diamond handle Oh those take a long time they're very tedious and by the time you get to the transition when you're just doing a herringbone pattern single strand you just feel like you can fly you can fly down that whip make some serious ground it's always a good feeling to get there pretty soon I'm gonna be dropping this strand but I'm not gonna actually drop it to the core because I already have this single strand in the core that's much longer so I've gotta be shooting myself in the foot if I used this and cut this so we'll just drop it like we did a ways up the whip or we drop it from the top at 40 inches 40 inches I'm going to drop the shortest strand from the right so we're gonna keep going until now it's on the upper right there's its final resting place and now the left were under 2 over 1 and on the right we are under 1 over 1 so things are starting to wrap up for this belly you one more and at 42 inches we'll drop this strand right here on the left and the camera across the table the memory card just filled to capacity so that camera shut off so you're stuck with this view only that's all you really need though for this okay so 42 inch mark this strand is no more it did its duty goodbye my friend now we are in four strands under one over one on the left and right and we are planning over one strand for the core there I'm gonna cut out that core strand and now just like we did with the first belly the way we are planning for strands over nothing we're going all the way to that 48 inch mark which is about 4 feet which is exactly 4 feet actually and we'll tie this thing off I'm going to guess that this is the four-foot mark right here right off camera sorry I'm so confident in that decision that I'm gonna actually tie this off with some temporary tape to hold that belly from becoming unraveled 3 feet there and there is the four-foot mark so just as we did last time I'm just going to stagger these four strands and they're all nice and long so I don't have to worry about being picky and choosey about which ones I cut just lay them out we'll cut the first one right there and I'm spacing them out about 5 inches so next and again oops and here's the last one right there and these might be fine-tuned later on we might make this an inch shorter we can be a little more selective once we have that second belly but there you have it guys the second belly is plaited and now I'm just gonna take this thing back just check my pliers since these are some shorter strands to begin with pull I'm going to grab my little lighter alright this magnet is trying to steal the show so I'm gonna sniff leaving about a millimeter on these strands because this is the belly we can just melt them and press them into that belly one thing I forgot to do was I forgot to mark where the binding ended it was right here I just did that that's better to do it why you could still see it so you're more accurate don't forget like I did camera is distracting me alright so there we have it guys we have the second belly with a nice single strand diamond Platts transition there it's nice and stiff and we are about ready to pop this thing back in the clamp and start wrapping with some tape and we'll get on with the binding we have the whip back in the clamp here in the same orientation that it was just in while we were finishing it in this second belly I'm gonna grab here some hockey tape and I'm about ready to lay down one spiral of tape and that layer is going to actually surpass by a few inches where we stopped on the first belly so once again you guys know the drill by now one inch above the transition where these steel ends and I'm going to begin wrapping with this hockey tape so as you can see as indicated by our mark here this is where the tape stopped on the first belly and just for reference I'm gonna mark that on top too so we can see how much further to go so I'm gonna carry it on this length that we did on the first belly I'm gonna go about half of that so about three or four inches actually we're stopping right where we stopped our binding on the first belly so as indicated by our little be here for binding it's where the binding stopped in the first belly T that's where the tape stopped on the first value so that feels good at this point I'm going to take my nylon thread we're basically going to repeat exactly what we did on the first belly except this time we're gonna go further but the same down and back three times principle applies here so starting about an inch above and doing the whole criss cross thing again just like that it's a beautiful day today guys it was 70 today which is first in a while this this point of the month we should be starting to have more 60s and 70s and for that I'm very excited so there we go at this point I'm going to turn around and go back up again in just a second this is about a third one to three so I'm going to go back up again so that's about five inches six inches about five inches so as I go back up I'm just filling in the places that I haven't been every single time we lay down the tape we want to go down and up down and up and then pass the tape about four inches and back up again so what we did to the first belly we're doing to the second except everything is scaled up and turning a corner and going back down again once again whenever there is nylon thread already in place underneath where I am wrapping I'm just doing a spiral I'm not doing the crisscross so you can see here I'll zoom in now that I am entering a point of where I have not been before we immediately go into the crisscross pattern like that as you can see we are currently surpassing where the tape stopped on the first belly it's important so our next down motion we want it to be about double what the first one was right about there whoops and back up again spiraling filling in where I haven't been before there we go almost up to the top up to the top again and now coming back down for the final time doing my best to just kind of scope out where I haven't been before it's not perfect but I'm just kind of it's kind of like when you're I don't know if you've ever been running through a an area of a bunch of little rocks or something where you have the step exactly on a rock there's a certain path that you can take and you can run through it quickly in your brain is making all these decisions all at once of where without even really knowing it of where your foot needs to go same-same for this thing you can just quickly glance at these spaces and your brain will just kind of be like okay I need to go there yeah I need to just go there somewhere in there long story short when I'm trying to say I'm failing so horribly is that do your best to fill things in it's not an exact science so now down here there's a mouse I know I'll be out of the frame soon and yes I'm wearing flip-flops with socks and now blazing a new trail so I'm doing the crisscross pattern once again now as indicated by here that's where the binding stopped on the first belly so we're going to pass that up I'll pass that up I'm still wrapping fairly tightly here but as I work my way down just as I did in the first belly I'm starting to ease up on the tension and I'm starting to ease up lightly more lightly more delicate until I'm just almost letting the weight of the roll itself do the binding for me so you can see how long that is and then back up again back up again finger tight slowly increasing the pressure slowly increasing the pressure filling in spaces where I hadn't been before this thing's giving me trouble guys just giving me trouble I gotta get out of this let go we're stuck just like that increasing the tension as we ascend now we're back over the tape here we are we go if we go to the top filling in the spaces we haven't been before how many times am I gonna say that okay way to the top I'm gonna grab my artificial sinew and tie this off and we're gonna do something for this whip I wasn't gonna do this but I'm gonna do it anyway if we wanted to achieve an extremely tight transition this is what we would do and I do this on some of my longer whips that have two bellies as well as some of my whips with three plaited bellies all right so I'm gonna start just like I did with this binding here and it's gonna look like I'm about ready to go into the crisscross pattern but I'm not gonna zoom in extra close like that and I am actually wrapping this nylon thread end on end meaning that every wrap is touching the side the edges of the previous wrap there is so much surface area covered here by this wrap that you will find that doing this creates a lot of tension a lot of springiness to your whips now this is a six-foot whip so I kind of feel like this is overkill to do this personally I'm not gonna do it very far but I'm just doing it to show you and as you can see I'm getting a little bit sloppy in there but the idea is to have each wrap touching the sides of the previous wrap I'm not doing a great job of showing this sorry but I hope you get the idea and that's all I'm gonna do I just wanted to show you what you could do you could carry this on for as long as you wanted you could carry it for four inches five inches and as you go what I would recommend doing is you know each wrap is a little bit lighter than the previous one but this is common coming right off the handle or the steel ends and the bb's begin this is a a wrapping procedure that you could do to really strengthen your whips and now I'm just gonna call that good see that you can already tell like that just that much it is a lot stiffer so through we go through the loop and pulling that cutting this as you can see I've before i started binding this belly I wrapped very heavily the top here of our second belly and once again that's just to reinforce a good strong surface and strong bound layers for our heel mat foundation to to be stapled into so it never slides off so this whip is at this point ready to roll and then we'll get on with the overlay and this thing will be just about done all right so I have all of my overlay strands cut and ready to go right here and as you can see if you look up here I have them color coordinated for you guys so if you want to follow along this pattern you can do so so what I'm gonna do is I want these to be sort of separated these two tones I want them to be separated by the single white strand once again what I've done all these strands you see you see up here I have I've split them all in the middle so I've either indicated the middle by tying a knot or I've indicated the middle by just cutting the strands in half pulling the guts out and then fusing them back together as you can see just like that and I had some of this paracord lying around so I figured I would use it up this is 550 parachute cord some people were asking about the strand lengths on my website whether or not those were designed for 650 or 550 parachute cord they were originally designed for 550 parachute cord and you can use it with 650 what's going to happen if you use 650 with those strand lengths is you're going to get a little bit of extra maybe six inches of waist so you can make the adjustments as you go so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take all four of my solid green strands here I have four of them I'm going to find the middles I already done that pretty much but I'm going to fool them to where they're readily accessible like that and then I'm going to tie these just like that nothing is changed here as far as tying on an overlay with the exception of we are going to push this to where all the belly start which is about an inch above where the steel begins and repeat myself once again that's so we don't have to cut any metal in the end so I'm going to take my remaining strands here and you can see that I have all the Middle's indicated on these as well so I can go ahead and let go of those metals and find the ends and I'll show you how we're gonna set this up I like the idea of having that white strand kind of separating the bright green from the from the darker vegetation green we're gonna do that like this I'm gonna have my three bright strands on top and the white one on the bottom and we're just kind of open up that I slide them through like that once they're in close that eye up and then I'm feeling around the back here making sure that all those middles are resting directly behind here as we've always done I have to ship things around just a little bit but I'm it's pretty close to the way things are gonna be except for the white goes in between and now I'm pulling all of these tree frog green cords until we are stopped by the middle there's a middle there there's a middle beautiful rain is coming down right now I just love it here comes the fourth strand there's the middle right there so you see what we're doing we just kind of have that nice little not a gradient but uh just a variation of greens separated by a nice strong solid white and I like that so let's go ahead and get started here I'm gonna establish the beginning of my two strand diamond pattern first and once I get that established we'll push things up and we'll settle it in to where it's going to be resting forever so taking two strands these strands at the surface are pointing the upper right we'll start with the upper right nothing's changed here we're just starting a diamond plat two strands side-by-side diamond around the back under two and I'm just gonna try to maintain this this pattern you see here it's always a little tricky to begin with under these two over two under two and over two and this is just something I'm doing this color scheme just something extra something fun it's a lot easier if you have a solid color as you are well aware now we're gonna go again taking those two strands under two over two it's you know under these two over under these two and over those two there we go with these guys and on the back to number two under to over to keep stepping on my strands that's why I'm doing like a little square dancing going on here I keep having to lift my feet up go and around the back again we'll do one more pass right here and then we'll slide everything up to where it needs to go 102 over - under - over - there you go now I'm gonna slide this up to the beginning up to the top there we can continue this pattern under - over - under - over - I'll show you what came in the mail today there she is I test flew it a couple times still kind of evening things out and got a lot to learn with them but looking forward to a nice hot summer day - I can do some soaring so now I'm really going to make sure that the whip is in the clamp nice and tight that's nice and tight this is nice and tight nice and tight and here's where I'm starting to really cool my strands kind of individually to really lock them into place initially see that look at that there's another one and now we can work on this side here ooh I really like those colors so all that is that a tree frog green it's kind of a an iridescent glowy kind of look and what's going on is it's lime green with some embedded single strands of looks like royal blue it just gives it this really beautiful shine to it almost met that look cool under a blacklight so there we have it I've begun this this single I've begun this two strand diamond pattern I'm going to continue this all the way down until we get to the binding here once we reach the binding about an inch before the steel ends we're going to rapidly transition into a herringbone plat or a whip makers plat so I will meet you here all right as you can see we have arrived at one-inch before the steel ends I want to make a quick mention that some whip makers prefer to continue their diamond plat all the way up until the very end of that steel but I like to do so I like to switch over to the herringbone plat an inch before that steel ends just the way I've always done it the way I feel comfortable doing it taking a look at my strands and it looks like we have maintained that little separation the white separating those two different shades of green so you can see I have two tree frog greens on the bottom the white there and then for regular greens so let's go straight into it the strands on the surface here point to the upper right around the back under four over four this is a 16 plat and once again this is the transition so I want to make sure that I'm paying extra careful attention to the tension that I am pulling these strands at under four over four on the left and right side and I will meet back up with you momentarily I'm just gonna go on through with it and we do have some strands that are starting to get a little bit short so pretty soon we'll be dropping a strand from the right side first and I'll be taking a measurement for you guys where I drop the first strand but keep in mind do not I don't want you guys to say oh he dropped it there so you drop it there every time it's not really how this works it's not really how this works every whip is a little different okay it's time to drop the first strands of the overlay I really am happy with what's going on here guys so I want to maintain it meaning that I'm gonna be dropping two strands at the same time to keep this little chevron pattern that we have going here I want everything to maintain balance 17 inches we're going to drop our very first two strands at the same time it's the way we're gonna do that is here they are zoom in for you these are my two strands here see though fraying going on I don't know what's causing that I think it's the humidity humidity is like a hundred percent I took the lighter and just melt the end so it wouldn't fray any further so anyway two strands were dropping or on the bottom so I'm going to continue platting as if nothing is about to take place momentarily and once I've established at least two strands on top of those strands that we're going to drop and right now I'm in under 4 / 4 nothing's changed and and what I'm about to do really dropping two strands at the same time so let's see we got three strands underneath it this is the one we're dropping pulling everything there in a second and we'll get one more on top of this one two and I like to just go through pull the Strand we're going to be dropping and the three underneath it same with the left side pull the string we're gonna be dropping and the three underneath it and then we're gonna just one at a time swing these little strands to the center and I'm not going to pull hard yet I'm just pulling with enough force to get them to the middle like that maybe you can cross them too if you want to temporarily cross them you don't want to have them stay crossed otherwise they'll be a little bump there and your whip now we are under four over three on the left and the right side I'm gonna have to uncross them very soon here because we're about ready to pass them up so there we go leaving these tails here I'm not going to cut anything yet because I want to have a lot of strands on top of those two strands before I pull them or anything otherwise we'll see those very noticeable Spade spots the strand will sag and get pulled underneath the others if we don't wait and establish some tension on top of these two strands and we're dropping at the same time so both sides under 4 over 3 under four over three there we go yeah we're getting ready to give both of them a little tug here we go and I think at this juncture we can go ahead and give them a little pool there's one and there's two perfect and then the one right below it is this strand so you can't even really tell that anything dropped there I'm happy with the attention that I just gave these the left strand perfect and now we can come through at an angle I'm gonna come through and trim these two strands this is something very important that I I'm not sure if I mentioned on my previous current method video a couple years ago but always when you're about ready to melt and push two strands into the core never let them catch fire and don't let that fire touch your thread because if that happens it'll melt your nylon thread and a lot of the tension will loosen up you don't want that to happen you spend all that time binding that part of the whip let the flame go out first and then press it into the core as not to melt and cut ultimately cut that nylon spiraling that you did so now we can proceed in a fourteen plat even 14 plat and we've maintained this neat little chevron pattern that we have going I didn't want to interrupt that I like it I want to carry it on further maybe till the end we'll see how we feel and now I'm just carrying on carry on now another thing I'm going to mention right now it's it's nothing new but it's something I feel like I haven't mentioned a lot in my previous videos and there's a reason I just zoomed out every now and then if you can every six inches or so maybe even a foot or six inches do what I'm doing right now untangle because if you keep going it's it's it's gonna give you a big ol knot that you don't want to have to deal with I made a few 15-foot whips and I think it was when I was first starting to make whips the first three years I was working on a 15-foot whip so excited so excited oh this is cool this is gonna be great before I know it I'm about seven feet into the whip on the overlay and I have I hadn't at all thought about what goes on down here what goes on under the whip makers bench as a dark thing unless you keep up with it and keeping up with it just means every six inches to a foot just free all your strands and keep going so you don't have a big rat's nest that you have to sit down for two or three hours and deal with that's happened to me before now it's not fun so take the little time to just straighten your strands out sure that's looking okay and the left and the right I'm happy with that and we're gonna continue and not too long from now we're gonna have a couple more strands to drop and I'm gonna keep on plating and I'll meet you there platting I haven't slipped like that in a while forgive me okay we have come to the point where we are once again running out of strands on the left and on the right I'm gonna keep this pattern going so I'm gonna drop two strands at the same time once again if I wasn't worried about maintaining with pet maintaining his pattern I would drop this strand or this strand and I would carry it around and do it staggered meaning not all at once as you've seen many times before on this YouTube channel and I'm gonna take a measurement let you guys know where I'm dropping these next two two strands and we're dropping them at the two foot mark 24 inches do that right now our strand here I got three strands below it and on the left side we have this strand will be dropping and then we have two strands below it so and here's the one we're dropping on the right so giving everything a little tug they're a little bit too close in for you guys I think there we go so pulling the Strand and the two below it and on the right side this is the Strand we're dropping giving it a tug and also the two strands below the three strands below it a tug there we are so we'll start with it right on this side drop strand one tug under the three pulling it to center stage and I'm gonna be doing the same thing with the left little pull under those two to center stage strand on the surface points to the upper left around the back under three over three on the left and the right side we are now in a 12 plat 12 plat that's what I started with 12 plat about eight years ago I can't believe it's been so long it doesn't feel like it's been so long I feel like times been going by quick I won't get into the conversation and there we go gonna zoom out just a little bit once again building tension by stacking strands on top of these to drop strands before we snuck in ething up making sure this is nice and tight to hold those two strands in place right in the middle I can share everything around the back is uniform and I think it's about time we give both of these a little tug and you can see they're slightly raised areas right here is you way up on them there we go watch him shrink there's one comes to two to drop strands and now at this point we can continue the twelve plat and then very shortly we're gonna be cutting them in a staggered fashion is to encourage the taper that's what we're always trying to do with whips encourage the taper encourage the taper and size and add mass there we go yeah I'm happy with that straighten that a little bit around the corner we had a little twist developing there nip that in the bud real quick let's go ahead and give these a little little snip I'm gonna move to my better pair of scissors if I have them in here no I sure do Amazon all right got a little cut here and once again I just trimmed these strands there and I melted them and press them into the belly below once again making careful making careful once again making sure that they did not touch this nylon thread while burning if there was a flame there I want to wait till the flame goes out before I press the melted paracord into this core as not to cut the nylon thread causing unraveling and do increase in tension you don't want that to happen so now I am currently in 12 Platt and I'm going to continue that 12 Platt until we start to run low on strands I will see you there okay we have reached the point where we are ready to drop two more strands and I already have them as you can see I already have them and the correct orientation and we're ready to go so I have the most amount of strands underneath the strands were going to be dropping as you can see here is one over there and then there's three over here on the right side I could do one more on the left side but that would cut off the Strand that we're dropping see that so we're just gonna do it the way it is right now so pulling that right strand three below its swinging that strand to the center and then pulling this one and pulling that one to the center also and now we are in attempt lat under three or two on the left and the right side under three over two and we are still maintaining that chevron pattern definitely going to wait on pulling these because I do not want to have them slide underneath the rest of the strands making sure they stay in order there and behave don't cross over one another there we go under three over to 12 I'll ask you to be 1010 Platt [Applause] and now it's time to pull those two drop strands and observe what's going on above there's one and there's two looks good to keep on going for a little weight an inch or so and then we'll cut those two drops strands now we go I know a lot of you watch these videos for the ASMR value but I'm curious as to how many of you enjoy the videos for their ASMR qualities let me know in the comments curious there's two we are awfully close there so I'm gonna actually undo those two strands as not to melt my beautiful green overlay and here's a little melt there now we don't have to worry about the the binding anymore because it's gone here we go like that to be a little flatter there we go if you melt these things and then just smash it with your thumb stick your hand in water first because as I mentioned in my previous tutorial I thought I think the skin on my at least my thumbs and my fingertips they're actually desensitized is a nice way of saying dead nerves from doing that so much but I just do it quick and then rub my fingers together but if you're gonna do it you haven't made whips in a while that hurts if you don't have some resistance isn't the word if you haven't killed off your thumbs of your skin cells and your fingers then don't do that there we go now we are in a nice 10 plat alright hey now I'm just gonna keep on planning here until the time comes to drop our next couple of strands and as we progress our way down the whip I may or may not let this V go you know I just might let it go and do it at once because sometimes it gets it gets difficult to drop two strands at the same time when you're in a lower plat count it can be easier to have gaps form in those scenarios but it's it's doable let's just can be a little challenging that's all so gonna keep on planning and I'll meet you at the next drop okay it's time to drop a strand number seven and strand number eight at 40 inches we're going to be dropping this next strand so here it is and I'm gonna let this chevron pattern do what it wants now we're halfway through the whip and I'm just gonna let things kind of play out so that being said here's the strand we're gonna drop let me get two strands on top of it so here's the Strand that we're going to drop pulling it tight pulling the two tight underneath it swinging it to the middle a little lift there to get it in the middle and there we go I'm going to plat under two over two on the right and temporarily on the Left I'm going to be platting under three over two until we drop that next strand here Tara Lee all right and here is the next strand we're gonna be dropping so give the one that we drop the pull there talk there you can see it moving that's good and here's the next strand that we're gonna be dropping we won't quite yet cut the strand that we dropped from the right side so 40 inches 41 inches is the next strand drop on the left side and let's accumulate a couple of strands at least on top of it this one right here there we go and at this juncture I'm gonna go ahead and cut this right there don't have to worry about nylon thread so I'll catch that on fire and melt it push it right into the core underneath we establish one more strand on the top there and then now from the left side there's two strands on top pulling the one we're going to be dropping and the two underneath it holding it in place when you need to center stage and now we are in an even 8 plat on the left at the right side under 2 over 2 we're gonna have this thing done in no time at all once you get to eight Platt of course depending on the length of the whip once you you uh you get into eight Platt you start to look at what you already did and then it's kind of downhill from there as far as platting goes I think there we go making sure everything underneath looks okay it does like that now I'm gonna give this a little tug see a move and lock into place and now give that a snipping a melt let's see if I can close this one nope okay even eight Platt I'm going to continue with this eight Platt until it's time to drop our next couple of strands I want to take a moment here and show you guys a beautiful little insect it's called a lace wing and coincidentally it actually matches the color of our of our whipped here you can see beautiful little wings let's see if I can there you go ha ha there we go beautiful rain is starting to pick up a little bit I don't know if you guys can hear that or not but it is just magical I love rain at night there's just nothing better it helps you sleep it's just beautiful I'm almost spring/summer guy I don't know about you guys but I've never loved winter I don't think I have been trying to make the best of it all my life but I'm just a lot happier when it's warmer and when the days are longer I feel more alive I think most people do but of course there are things to appreciate in winter if not the sheer fact that the harshness of winter is what makes summer so great that's the way to think of contrasts something I used to be so fascinated in when I was younger and I still am but I went through a heavy phase of insects I just loved to hear a bug particularly a late August bug like a katydid or a cicada crickets and what-have-you and go find what particular insect was making that sound katydids were especially fascinating to me the true katydid makes a certain type of sound there's a bush Katie did all these different types I was very fascinated by it and just recently a couple years ago these wasps these solitary wasps that are very docile they live alone for the most part they're called cicada killer wasps because they hunt cicadas and the other type is called a great black wasp or a sex pensylvanicus wasp and these things dig holes in the ground and they dig like dogs and it's it's a very very amazing to watch these little insects work they're so intelligent very smart and I decided to start filming time lapses of them digging videos of them hunting I even bought a little scope and put it down their hole and got some video of them digging and stuff and I'm gonna be making a documentary I have all the footage and I just have to sit down and edit it and tell the story that's gonna be available on my my second YouTube channel and find that in the description but I'm excited about releasing that hopefully this year so we are still in a four flat right now and we are at the point where we are getting ready to plat over where the previous beli second family ended so I'm gonna pop this tape off here and I could use that tape and do the whole slide the tape down and use the tape to constrict these last strands so I won't get them confused with these and just hold everything in place quick because of the fact that there's so much brighter and a whole different color I'm just going to plat over them and not worry about anything everything's fine all is well there you go this is gonna plant right over those strands and pretty soon we're gonna be dropping a strand into the core and all that business starts up again once we are braiding a layer of any kind over loose tails I'm going to be dropping strands into the core and those strands become the core drop into the drop into the core cut a strand out etc and that's going to be nice because as we near the end of the whip we won't have these bright red strands inside the core that are eagerly awaiting their chance to peer through our green if there ever were to be a crease in this whip god forbid that happened or a gap you would see that red underneath so it's a good idea to have your final few coarse strands match or if not match have them close in tone to your overlay strands you can see that little thing peeking out right there I don't know if you can see that or not take a little lighter and just kill it there we go now just a little bit of fuzz there a little frayed area and I'm getting ready to drop a strand momentarily after we take a little measurement here here we go all right as soon as we reach the end here of this strand we're gonna be dropping one of these strands to the core there we go leave everything up a little bit for you guys you can see it's part starting to get a little bit tedious but it's nothing you guys cannot manage okay we are still in a Platte I'm getting ready to drop a strand from the right side into the core and I will do so as soon as I reach the end of this shortest strand that is currently making up the core just about there and just a couple more passes and we will be there good okay and at this juncture I'm going to take this strand from the right side it is the shortest one there are currently two strands underneath it giving it a tug and pulling it to the middle like that and in the same motion I'm cutting out one of those strands of the core those red strands that were already there so at this point we should be braiding over a total of two strands that are making up that core so under two over one on the right side under two over two on the left and this isn't an exact science guys you need you need to remember that look at this nasty little fray coming out here that's from the Strand that we just we just cut see that because it's red like that it's extremely noticeable so what we're gonna do you're going to blast it there we go shouldn't be bothering us anymore just shriveled up like a dead plant and there we have it two strands in the core yeah we have it all right continuing down the whip you might notice that sometimes when you're in a lower plat count especially with some of the 650 parachute cord the strands may want to wrinkle their buckle in the middle into an ugly little fold and that's just because we're taking these strands don't forget to pull that strand that we dropped there see it moving down that's because we're taking these strands and we're making them do things that they don't necessarily want to do all the time it's such a low plat count where we're taking them making them twist turn corners platting is sometimes a torturous little path for a strand and if it's already flat to begin with it might not want to do it so easily so next I'm going to once again drop another strand sounds like a duck fight going on across the street here that I'm getting tired I'm getting tired okay and now we are going to drop this strand here next as soon as we do one more pass with it we're going to be dropping that strand of the core and snipping out the shorter one which is this green one here so here's another pass on the one that we're going to be dropping out the side very good and now we can pull it tight and pull it to the center and cut out the previous strand the only reason I'm cutting the green strand as opposed to the red strand is because it is longer and I feel more comfortable having that long strand in there even though it won't be there for too long so now I am in six plat over two strands and realistically I probably could have cut the red one but I'd be a problem because we're about ready to cut it anyway so okay at four feet nine inches where we are Here I am going to cut out that remaining strain I'm gonna go ahead and cut the red one just because it's red and want to get rid of it so now I'm going to be temporarily platting six plat over a single strand in the middle and then I will begin dropping more strands to the core but now from here on out to the end we will never have more than one strand in the core ever as a matter of fact towards the end of the whip we're gonna be having no strands in the core we're gonna be platting four strands over no core at all just like we did with the bellies so I'm continuing on here and we're nearing the end of the whip you're getting very close to the end here we are at the five foot mark I am going to drop one of my strands to the core we just have a little bit of that previous course Tran laughs but it'll be gone in a second so I'm gonna drop this one to the middle here swinging it to the center and then to keep what I said true we do not want to have any places where there are double width strands in the core so I'm as soon as that starts I'm I'm cutting it out right there sorry about the shadow there we go so now on the right side I'm under one over one and the left side under two over one there we go nearing the end and I'm tired another late night we go I'm gonna pull that strand you'll see it move there there we go it is the core now but not for too long because we're about ready to drop another strand so here we are at five feet two inches I'm going to grab a strand from the left-hand side and I'm going to drop that to the core once again that's five feet three inches I'm gonna be dropping another strand in here we have arrived at the five foot three inch mark I'm gonna grab a strand from the left side here give it a tug and drop that into the core while simultaneously cutting out our previous course strand set that aside so now we are planning for plat a little twist there you see that just get that out with your fingernail gently coax it in the direction that it doesn't initially want to go but it will want to go there give it a little wiggle sometimes it'll go and then we're gonna pull that core strand lock it in place and now the last six inches of this whip as I mentioned earlier has gonna be four strands over nothing so once we get to the five foot six mark I'm gonna cut this bad boy out in the middle and then we'll be just about to the end so getting ready to take a measurement here once I feel that I'm about at the five foot six inch mark and I'll cut the core out you know white is a it looks beautiful on whips but it's the problem with it is it gets dirty so easily I couldn't resist adding a little bit of white dough into this I think it just makes it look a little better so here we come up to the five foot six inch mark it's about right here so I'm gonna go ahead and cut out that coarse strand and you guys have had a little bit of practice doing this if you made the stock whips my earlier tutorial which demonstrates how the bill the stock whip and the Adam winter it's style so here we are at the end and let's just go right over it like we did with those bellies do that same thing you did for this and then you'll see a little bit of a little bit of that course Tran likes to stick out just a touch but if need be go back and hit it with the lighter and that'll take care of it but will never be seen again there we go and I really enjoy ending all of my WIPs now with the exception of some really long whips maybe some 12 footers I might keep the core in if somebody's gonna be using the whip in the mud repeatedly cracking it at a cattle rancher perhaps I will go ahead and keep a core strand in but for the most part I'm ending all of my whips and for Platt / no core I just love how fine I can get that point it's just remarkable I've never been able to do it any other way and even with a four four-point fall hitch that we're gonna be time sometimes all I know with a twist on request or if I'm making a stock weight but for a bull whip I'm still using a four-point ball hitch it's stronger that's the trade-off it's stronger it is still going to be even with this Corliss finish and for Platt it is going to be a little bit thicker than the tapered twist but it's a stronger hitch than a taper twist taper twist cracks like butter and you can't beat it but it doesn't last as long as a four-point fall hitch okay here we are we have arrived at six feet all that work paid off guys if you got to this point great job this whip is almost finished I am now going to tie a four point fall hitch I have here a gutted four foot piece of 550 parachute cord can also use 650 parachute cord doesn't really make much of a difference I've cut one end of the parachute cord at an angle and I've taken my lighter and I just kind of melted it and rolled it in my fingertips into a nice little point that way we can feed it into my lacing needle I get my lacing needles from jig Pro Shop this is the micro needle it's very thin so it can easily pass through any almost any court including whip makers cord so now at the middle I am feeding the paracord inside of itself and I learned how to make this type of fall that you're gonna be seeing I do it a little bit differently but I learned this from Adam winrich and Dakota winrich as a matter of fact Dakota has a brand new video out on how to make this type of fall she just started her new YouTube channel to kiddie whips definitely check it out it's always fun to see a fellow what makers start their own YouTube channel so give her some views there's a little card up there and yeah I don't know if it's on the left or right side I can't remember where YouTube puts it but there's a little link to her page give her a subscription so there we have it sliding down as you can see that little that little loop is getting smaller and smaller and we want it to be about like this see that little loop there that's what we're looking for it and that is the middle so if we hold this out it's about two feet long so we're just gonna leave this needle in and I'm actually gonna tie this on the whip as it is right now and it's gonna be a little different from where you've seen but I think you're gonna like it all right so we have the whip in the clamp right now I'm reaching for my fall I just made I'm gonna open up this eye I don't really have to worry about anything sliding out of place because this needle is still threaded into the end and I saw Adam winrich do this when he visited and he's got just a great little way of doing this fall that I never really thought about I was actually taking the needle and feeding it halfway through and then unthreading it just a few steps that were really unnecessary Adams got a much quicker way of doing it so we have this now I'm just gonna find the end here and just pull that and I'm just gonna it's gonna cinch that up a little bit they're just all the way to the top so that's nice and tight right there behind there and I'm just going to push that up and just plat maybe one or two more little strands there just to have everything locked in place nice and tight now at this point I can make sure this is around the back this loop is tight I'm holding it with my finger right there I'm going to plat one more strand just to get a little bit tighter now I like to finish my whips with just a normal fall pitch in for Platt so once we are in this orientation I'm going to take the upper strand here I'm going to go around the back like that and nothing has changed guys as far as my fault hitches I'm still doing it the same way I've been doing it for a while so not a lot has changed her nothing has changed really I'm gonna do my next strand below it right here now each time I tie on one of these strands with a half hitch I'm tying a knot in it just to indicate that I have already tied that strand I don't want to do too I don't want to tie one more any more times than I need to we'll do a white next just tie that that's looking good tie a knot in it and then we have one more to do the last one won't have an audit and that's all we'll know what just happen my viewfinder just shut off I don't know why hopefully we're still recording if you're watching this we are so there was the last one going through that's back again very strange funny little tricks Oni and there's the last strand I'm not gonna I'm not gonna pull anything tight yet until I grabbed this last strand that we just fed through and I'm gonna feed that through the the fall hitch itself so I'm gonna grab this and here I actually need to dress this up a little bit I need to cut an angle so I'm gonna do that right now there's an angle there and I need to melt it there a little twist and now at this point I'm actually going to reach down here and pull out the needle or if you have another needle you can do that too and now we're gonna thread this back in to the needle and now see here are the hitches that we just put in place 1 2 3 4 and this we're taking that last strand and we're going up through this fall loop right there pull that through make sure we don't have any strands that are trying to come with us up there and just nice and easy now before I pull this all the way through I do want to give this last loop a little tug there and I can pull this in place and now I'm gonna go individually down the list of strands there's the green one next we have whoops this one the white ones next next we have another white one and then finally this green one and then at that point we can start to pull some tension into our fall like that now we can take this last strand give it a tug that is it all there is to that make sure I have my fault isolated make sure it is your fall and I'm gonna take all the rest of the strands and cut them leaving about an inch right here so there's a cut and I'm gonna come back and melt all these little strands so they don't fray just like that and lastly I can come through and I can cut the false strand and I'm gonna leave about a quarter of an inch and then also melt the end of that very good that's how I do my fall hitches these days next steps gonna be to give the finishing touch to the fall all right at this point we have our Fall I'm gonna take my fingers and run it down until roughly those two strands the one that's fed inside the other one and the outer sheath the secondary strand it's kind of at the end and I'm just going to just lop off the very tip that we use to thread into the needle and I like this to be about two feet right there now we're gonna do something that I saw Adam winrich do brilliant idea I'm gonna take that inner strand and now I'm going to pull back the outer strand and expose the inner strand and I'm gonna go all the way back till about the halfway point so now this is about a foot and then we still have off we have a foot of two and then the one in and of itself is exposed so we want to cut the middle there and now we can let that go we can push all that back and you're about to see what's going to happen this is a much better way to create a fall that has half two strands of paracord but the second half of the fall is just one strand of parachute cord total length about two feet thank you adam winrich for showing me that when he came over you know I'm just gonna melt the end of the fall like that and there we go the fall is ready to go all right we have just rolled the overlay and the reason that I'm not showing the rolling of any of the bellies or the overlays because nothing's changed and I don't want to make this video any longer than it has to be especially now we're pushing three hours so so if you want to know how I roll whips there's a little video in the description nothing's changed alrighty well I have the whip here and we are getting ready to bind the end here with artificial sinew and then we're going to take our razor blade a fresh one and we're gonna cut off this excess parachute cord and to help us find exactly where the steel starts so we can avoid the steel got this little strong magnet to help us determine where that is I'm gonna start off with some artificial sent you and I want to wrap this tightly and we did this with every belly and we're also doing this with the overlay and it's going to create a nice solid foundation for the staples to drive into to hold our heel knot in place nothing crazy but we want a few really firm wraps so happy with that left my scissors over there so I'm actually just gonna cut this artifact send you with my razor blade like this ya know I can just gonna press that into place at this point I'm gonna take some hockey tape and we're gonna wrap it over this and the idea with this is to give us a little bit more constriction while at the same time protecting the artificial send you so if we accidentally cut into a little bit of it it's not gonna all unravel on us so as simple as that we just have some sinew and some tape so I've got my knife just one more time we're gonna see what the magnet steel begins here and I am just going to set my blade firm pressure downward and I'm going to cut straight through try to twist it so we can get it nice and flat so it's important to use a nice fresh blade so we just cut 360 degrees it's still a little bit messy we're going to dress that up firstly we're going to dress it up with our scissors and just kind of get these extra phrase out of the way I want this to be flat too if you look back and you accidentally made an angle cut it's not a big deal just try to go through with your scissors and just dress things up a little bit so what I'm doing here and we can take a lacing needle here just kind of probe here as you want to see how far how deep my steel is and it is right there so we're right on the money and at this point I like to grab my lighter it's in my pocket and I'm just a little one more little sniff there two maybe three and I'm gonna put it on high high heat there's a link to Amazon if you use the link to get this lighter I get a little kickback for it so if you use it that'd be great yeah I'm just gonna give a little singe here whoo kept going on its own there for a minute oh just toasting it just like that now it's not perfect I'm just gonna sometimes after you after you melt it you'll see a little bit of uneven unevenness that was kind of hiding me so just dressing it up kind of like a a farrier works on a horse's hoof like if you need to you can use the blade and trim things up a little bit but that's what we're going for a nice flat surface at this point we can prepare our heel not foundation and then tie the knot I'm not gonna show that in this video because I just a few weeks ago put out a very detailed video right there in the top right click that link and you can see how I attach the heel not Foundation and tie the knot so I'm gonna do that now all right so I just finished the heel not I decided to go for the same color scheme here highlight white with that tree frog green I really like the way that it really kind of makes it pop anyways the next step is going to be to tie this transition not we're gonna be using the same colors I have two pieces of cutted parachute cord both of these are two feet long approximately white and tree frog green the next step before we actually start tying this knot is going to be building a simple knot foundation with artificial sinew all I'm gonna be doing here is picking a place that I want the transition not to be and I want it to be covering up the place where we transition into the herringbone so about right there will be the middle and then we'll begin wrapping and all this is doing is it's creating a little foundation a little hill if you will for not to adhere to the edges of this 5x4 to past Turk said not that we're about ready to tie are going to just kind of flow over the edges of this little foundation an artificial sinew is sticky enough to where we don't need to drive any staples sir so once I've established the width here here this length it's about three-quarters to a half an inch to three quarters of an inch depending on what type of knot you use that may need to be bigger or smaller we're going to be using a two pass five by four so the size you see here is sufficient I'm gonna cut that just before we begin tying the knot I'm just gonna lightly roll this on the table here just to get it all the same height and I am very satisfied with that all right at this point I have grabbed one of my two foot pieces of parachute cord that's gutted 550 or 650 I'm using 550 I've threaded one end into my needle the other end I'm gonna lay 45 degrees just to the left of my foundation holding that with my thumb there go around the back and I'm gonna go over that one so it's an X holding that with my index finger right there then we're gonna go around the back I'm gonna go over this one right there under this one under that one right and then over this one holding that with my index finger again like that coming underneath I'm gonna go under this one over this one over that one under this one make sure that one doesn't slide over we're going to move this to the side there and over that last one once again holding that my index finger twisting again and now you can see I'm gonna be going over that one that's a little strand in there over this one under that one over the next one this is the one we're going over under over under and over that last one like that now we can turn everything and just temporarily I'm going to start as if I'm starting the second pass in green I'm not gonna be starting it in green I'll just do that to hold that in place next thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to take my needle off there now we can slide this into place here I'm gonna do that right now you can see it's still plenty loose enough to where we can move anything we want any where we want it so now I'm just gonna go through and kind of pull the slack out of one part of it find one strand and go work your way all the way around and if I'm going too fast on this transition not let me know and I'd be happy to make another video on it something slower this whole video is more so a general how I make my bull whips nowadays so I'm not going heavily into depth on one particular thing so at this points that looks pretty good I feel like the edges here are sufficiently covering that you can see everything is nice and loose we're gonna be relying on the natural filling in of the knot for tightness at this point I like to find where this strand is going to be under that strand meaning that I'm gonna pull this out and this this is not an exact science this is how I do my two-tone Turk said nuts you may do it differently that's alright I'm just gonna cut it right there pull that out don't need that any more so this is where that strand ended we just pulled that out and cut it off and I'm going to take my second two-foot strand and I'm gonna melt it on to that and you've seen me do this before melt two of those just like that because they're both nylon material they will indeed fuse together and that is a stronger bond that then you might think it is but it doesn't need to be extra strong here this is just so that we can get a secondary color now take a little angle here roll that my fingertips so I can thread this now into my lacing needle and we are ready to begin the second pass of this five by four Turk said not now you'll notice that these do not line up that's alright I am not worried about that at all and I'll show you why we want in the end this joint here to be tucked underneath this strand so what we're gonna do just the way we tightened up the hole now we're just going to shimmy things over a little bit pull that there now it's where we want it to be I'm just gonna work that strand all the way around like that there we go around and around until we reach the end and one more revolution to go almost there there it is right there and look at this our strand is right where we want it to be the joint is underneath that strand I think that's gonna fit together nicely so I'm gonna inspect this knot one more time everything looks good I'm happy with it and I think it's time we can begin our next pass and all I'm doing is following the leader whatever this initial pass does I'm mimicking it to the right goes over I'll go over goes under I'll go under and that's all there is to this over that one under here once again guys I'm not pulling this extra tight I'm just pulling it snug I'm just letting the natural filling in of the not do the tightening for me and then at the end we're gonna wax this whip too so that's gonna also create a tremendous amount of tightness that's just a game of follow-the-leader to tie this off all's I'm gonna do is act like I'm gonna continue on to a third pass all right at this point I'm gonna cut things one big pull on the white one big pull on the green and a snip the both I'm sure I'll cut my fingers off I'm gonna Freight a little bit with my thumb and hit it with a lighter just touch it like that briefly and that should do it it's gonna get a little yellow on us unfortunately but the way things are there we go so there is the not next thing I'm gonna do is just take it and roll it a better thing to do with rolling a knot would be to grab a piece of wood like this and this doesn't take a lot of pressure guys don't over smash your nut you can even hammer a little bit like this but the best way I think to do it just grab something that's small enough so you can kind of work into those corners like that see that I'm really just kind of getting in here and then I'm gonna turn the whip around here I'm gonna get this corner to just helps everything just kind of melt into place if you will flow and a general roll to the whole knot itself and there it is she pacified by for this whip is ready to wax okay guys we have some wax here that is heating up and to this day I still use one of these roast masters this particular one is by the brand Toastmaster I don't know why it's called that but it is this one is not the original the other one rusted and I had to throw it away and my mom found this one at her garage sale for me and she called me up and asked if I wanted I said absolutely so I think it was like ten dollars but you can get these on Amazon and I have a little affiliate link in the description so if you use that link I get a little kickback off of it so wherever you buy it just make sure that it's a fairly good length because even with this one some of my longer handled whips 15-inch an ellipse will not fit in all the way unfortunately so I have to kind of put it in at an angle and then take a cup dip it in the wax and be the whip so that's the only drawback this one's about 20 inches by 12 inches so I'm still using the same type of wax I'm just using pure paraffin wax to wax my whips and some of you guys were asking if you could use candle wax and I would say yes you can but I don't know if the candle has like additives in it like dyes and different additives for scent for good smells I don't know if that would inhibit the wax from sticking to the whip the parachute cord I don't know so give it a try I honestly don't know if it would work I think it will but I'm not sure if you have access to it just get the pure paraffin wax there's also a link in the description for an Amazon purchase you can get 10 pound blocks of this stuff how much wax am i using these days I'm just trying to use enough to where the whip is fully submerged if the whip is fully submerged that's enough wax at what temperature well 220 degrees Adam winrich told me about some of the benefits of waxing nylon whips a few years ago and up until that point I didn't know just how much that wax tightens the parachute cord it is a tremendous night and day difference from unwaxed and waxed and my thought was the higher temperature should tighten the paracord a little more and yes it does 180 degrees to 220 is a big difference so now all my whips are waxed at 220 degrees and I found that the whip has a lot more life a lot more springiness and I just think it overall works better in addition to that when you pull the whip out of the wax there isn't some wax that is kind of starting to freeze already on the whip because you're starting at 220 degrees by the time you pull the whip out of the wax completely it still is hot enough to where it doesn't have a chance to start hardening on the whip I know that was a problem in 180 degrees Fahrenheit to test the temperature of the wax I'm using one of these cheap infrared thermometers and don't let the price fool you this thing was probably fifteen dollars but it's still very accurate right now or 67 degrees 67 at these things work so what I like to do so I take off this lid and then right before I take a reading I like to stir the wax and the idea is maybe the surface layer the wax on the very top is a little bit cooler than a wax underneath that just gets everything equalized 215 so just a little bit more a little bit more and this thing will be ready to go now I will say right now if you use one of these roast masters be careful be smart every time I start this thing up and plug it in and get wax melting I start a timer on my phone because I do not want to plug this in forget it's going and leave home just like treat it like a stove treat it like an oven just just be smart don't don't ever leave it unattended another thing I recommend doing is not cranking the heat all the way now this thing is like what they call a double boiler basically there's a tray that you set in there the first tray you're supposed to fill up with water and that boils and heats what's in the next one which is the wax but I don't use that anymore because what was going on was the water was turning the steam and spilling over the side and causing everything to rust so I don't know if you don't use water I think the temperatures have the ability to get a lot hotter and that's another reason that I don't turn to full blast I turn it to twelve o'clock which is half heat and I think that's safer to do it that way the manufacturers probably never guessed that we whip makers would be putting wax in this thing and heating it up so I don't know if it would be safe to turn it full blast but I don't all right guys I just took a temperature reading on the wax and we are sitting at about 220 right where we want to be so what I'm gonna do is I have the whip here and I just coiled it up so it'll fit nicely and now just whole thing in the wax I'm gonna dunk any portions of the whip that are not fully submerged and there we have it you can see all the little bubbles in there I like to leave it in there for about three minutes to four minutes I feel like that's enough at this point it's been about three minutes and there are hardly any bubbles coming off of the whip I know Rhett Kelley of calyx calm he would leave it in there for quite a long time until the bubbles completely stopped I don't leave it in there quite that long maybe because I'm impatient we're going on about three and a half minutes now so what I'm gonna do next is I'm gonna take some paper towels two paper towels 2 rags whatever to soak up the wax and what I'm gonna do is I'm going to now that I'm gonna reach in the thing I unplug it just to eliminate any chance of a lot electrical shock and plugged it from the wall it's off I'm gonna grab a popsicle stick or anything really and just reach in and grab the heel like this just kind of Pat it dry and now I'm going to run my hand down the entire whip and don't use don't wear good clothes when you're doing this cuz the wax if it splashes and gets on your clothing it will be very difficult to get off so we're just gonna go ahead and go down the hole whip once the whip is onto the wax we're gonna turn over here and I have a tarp well I've been looking for this lacing needle sweep I'm gonna take the whip and I'm just going to just lay it out in a semi coiled position like this just straightening the fall and I'm going to let this sit until it is completely cooled the next thing we're gonna do here is we're going to spin up a cracker I'm using number two sized nylon thread the same stuff I was using to bind the bellies of the whips you can also use the inner strands of parachute cord guts so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to double up three times this stuff and then I'm gonna cut the end here take a pair of hemostats I'm gonna clamp all three strands on one end like this and I'm gonna hold the other end and spin the hemostats I've convinced there's no better way no more efficient way to make a cracker I saw caliber whips do this counter hack a couple years ago and I've been doing it ever since so here it is I'm gonna find the middle with my chin and then I'm gonna hang on to the end on the hemostats and I'm gonna let that go and then just kind of run my fingers down it at this point I'm gonna run clamp this and I'm going to tie two knots consecutively there's one there's two and then I'm gonna pull that nice and tight and today I like my crackers to be about eight inches long that's six inches of twisted part and two inches of tassel now we can connect this to the fall so here's how I'm doing that here is the end of the fall I'm going to take a fydd or a lacing needle and about almost a half an inch I'm gonna make a hole in this fall right here and this is where we're going to be sliding our cracker through it on the table use that for leverage so I have the needle through there just like that and I'm gonna make it easier on myself because I used this lacing needle I can actually just thread one end of the cracker inside here hopefully this will work I think it will couple more twists those threads are starting to bite a little bit and now we can go ahead and pull this through like that now we can unwrap that at this point I'm going to open up a little eye I'm gonna untwist this a little bit so as you can see that's going through there I've opened up an eye and I'm gonna put the fall through that eye just like that and now I can pull that nice and tight and now I'm going to take advantage of that little tab there that I created so I'm going to fold this back crackers in the left hand I'm going to fold that down I want to do an overhand half hitch knot like this and then I'm gonna come right through there just like that and then I'm gonna pull this tight so that the knot closes right over that portion just like that I'm gonna pull that nice and tight so you not only have the security of an actual hole in the fall that this thing is tethered on to but you also have it holding there this whip is finished and ready to crack [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Id: AAS6tMwcgs4

Length: 188min 9sec (11289 seconds)

Published: Thu May 21 2020