Bullwhip Cores

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I've only done a few leather whips & hadn't read or bought the books yet - but can testify to different materials causing, ... "oddities".

I mixed some upholstery leather for colors on a quick & dirty test, supple little thing & very sleak. I used lamp chain, artificial sinew to attach the lamp chain to a solid set of 3 tannery done oil die 2mm x 2mm pieces. Then did a layer of veggie tan cow ~2-3oz for the belly. Then layered on black zora & a white upholstry leather to get my exterior. What I'm saying here is that I commit a whole slew of sins, so who knows exactly where my errors caused the worst problems.

On the throw it collapses on the rolling loop just before the crack at an uneven rate...sometimes spectacularly so, my little 3' body and 4' with tail+popper ended up deafing myself & some guests one night in the basement when I told one whip cracker to just power through the loop as it didn't handle like a traditional throw.

At rest it exhibited some pull in one direction, curling significantly ... when I took it apart again, I find my artificial sinew had bunched around the ending constrictor knot I did on the core - perhaps I used too much sinew and some of it slip off the other pieces as we cracked it.

I don't have pictures for it, should have though ... especially when I started dissecting it!