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8 foot nylon bullwhip for Jennifer

12/21/2013

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A few weeks ago I was contacted by a lovely woman who wanted to order a gift for her fiancee.  She must love him a lot because she spared no expense.  She wanted the best of everything.

I was told to make it 8 feet long, 16 plait with a 12 inch handle base.  Jennifer gave me a list of 10 colors and said I could use any or all of them I wanted and had complete creative freedom over the design.  Also, there was no time crunch, so figure it out and have fun.

WoW!!  Are you kidding me?  I may never get another chance to express myself like this again.  I was super excited to do this project
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I took a while to think about using all ten colors.   I have done some patch work whips with every strand a different color and they do look cool...  but the plaiting is lost in the sea of color distraction.  I decided that, in this case, less would be more and settled on a 5 color pattern that would be both classy and surprising. 

As an artist, I am really inspired by what I see around me.  The rock that I take the whip pictures by was found in a canyon next to my house and I carved an ammonite on it because fossils are everywhere here and I thought it was a little funny to carve one when you can pick them up off the ground.

I was setting on the back porch thinking about whip colors and patterns and watching my flock of ravens fight over a pare of sunglasses that they has stolen from some poor tourist.  I suddenly heard the peacocks go off in the the creek bottom and it hit me.  A Peacock-Raven whip would be Amazing!! 

So with out further adieu....  here it is!
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I love this whip so much!  Not only is is beautiful, it is easy to crack and super loud. 
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