/diy/ - Do It Yourself

these are pretty cool

Pretty cool, you should make a few of them out of rawhide, roo hide and leather though you could probably sell a couple for decent money.
Stockwhips are pricey (around 4-500 for an 8ft one) and can be hard to come by as there's not a lot of people making them. Just a thought as it could offset some of your hobby costs once in a while

Nice work anon, >>1237415
is sexy.

Is there a core in the handle, or is the whole thing 100% paracord?

>>1237412
>>1237413
>>1237415
>>1237416

Please whip something and post pictures

>>1237412
>OP

>>1237412
A paracord sjambok would be an interesting project.

>>1237556
There's a nylon sinker cord center that's been filled halfway with bbs and wrapped in electrical tape

>>1237556
There's a nylon sinker cord center that's been filled halfway with bbs and tied off

Nice work OP, I really like >>1237415 It kind of gives the impression of fire, I might make one like this for myself.

I've been braiding and cracking whips for about 5 years now after seeing adam winrich's "fire whip" show live at the Texas renaissance festival. Since then I've made 4 Paracord whips(6ft, 2 matched 4.5 ft, and a 3ft), 2 leather whips(6ft, and 12ft) and recently finished a Kevlar wick fire whip(8ft)(that I'm frankly to scared to try to light, I know it works but what if...)
I have a 6ft long handled bullwhip, that I do most of my target cracking with. Plus I have several "whip" shaped ropes on handles that my family thinks I can use.

Currently I just go commissioned to make a 8 foot paracord whip in exchange for 2 full rolls of od green paracord, so with that I'm making myself a 50 foot 16 plait whip. I've finished the core, first bolster, and belly of the whip and let me tell you, it's fun as hell to crack, but doing it for an hour made me sore.

>>1237694
That's awesome anon. Do you have any pics of them I can see? And also how do you crack a 50 foot whip? That sounds ridiculously hard

>>1237706
Basically you can only throw overhand, underhand and side arm flicks with the 50 ft whip. You really have to be able to set up the whip in front and behind you straight then throw the whip like you are throwing any one of the 3 cracks mentioned above. It's really cool to see the delay as the loop travels down the whip.

>>1237412
>if anyone else on here is a fan of whipmaking too.
I'm probably not as good as you, but I make little snake-whips for sale to my local fetish community

this one was too long for my camera to get a good pic.

this one is whip number 3. it went to a pleasant older sadist in trade for a really nice knife

>>1237684
I use gutted Paracord filled with BBs
I just melt and seal one end and put in some staggered lengths inside.

>>1237416
>>1237415
>>1237413
>>1237412
do you do an underlayer?
or just one layer of braid?

>pic is the shortest one I've made
at 24" and very stiff I made this for a very short girl who has been afraid to use it for fear of putting out one of her eyes

>>1237412
this one was a mistake because I used an extra-stiff cord to do the braiding...it fought me the whole way through.

>>1237412
now this may skirt the board rules(I AM NOT ASKING HOW TO MAKE IT, I ALREADY DID MAKE IT)

this is a variant I get a lot of interest about in the fet-community, and if you know anyone local in that scene they'll really appreciate buying one off you.

its easy to do the braid-work on one of these because it doesn't taper.

>>1237589
all the pics I have of that are NSFW

>>1237600
defeats the purpose, unless you mean a braided handle.
paracord woven or braided makes FANTASTIC handles for things

the prettiest of my creations.

it was stolen a total of 3 times before it finally left the region

came out to exactly 3 feet of braid

and for some reason I got fumble-fingered recently with this 4-footer I made all in the span of one day. to see if I could.

yes I made it on the 4th of july

>>1237412
in the same topic as the pic in >>1238234 you might consider making some of these with your scraps. local fetish people will (if one or two of them are given a few chances to try them) pay quite pretty sums for them

>>1237412
I've made a couple whips but couldn't get seriously into them due to their modern impracticality.

Do you prefer one type (stock, bull, snake) over another?

>>1238239
Seconded.
I make the most random shit for the local bdsm scene and most of them seem pretty flush and loose with cash.

>>1238297
nah, its that they're used to over-paying for things because people gouge them for money because they don't want or can't buy it publicly in a lot of cases or else lose their job, home, reputation, family ties, etc.

its discretion that we pay for out of smaller local crafters.

>>1238305
Huh.
Never thought about it like that.
We've got a lot of top 10% folks here so I assumed it was that.
I made a spreader bar with wrist and ankle cuffs, literally a couple hours of work and maybe 50 bucks in materials, and the guy was ready to drop 300 on it. I was seriously wondering if I was an accomplice.

>>1238273
I prefer making bullwhips. Snakewhips are too much of an effort to crack and are pretty ugly in my opinion

>>1238308
How did my innocent bullwhip thread turn into a conversation about bdsm and people losing their jobs ahahaha

>>1238313

>>1238308
>50 bucks in materials,
what the actual fuck did you make it out of?like...antique oak with sterling silver hardware???

but yeah.
if a school-teacher is discovered to be a BDSM fetishist she gets fired and never rehired ever again she could move across the country but as soon as the reference call gets made they lose that job. because despite any other reasoning the vanillas think it makes you unethical or a danger to children even though you are not.

nobody wants a doctor whose a fetishist because "is he getting his jollies off on my problems, or my unconscious body on his operating table?"

fucking vanillas will RUIN your life if they find out...

>>1238313
because you either make them for rodeo shows or you make them for fetishes and almost nothing else.

>>1238318
Lmao. Nah, the guy was just really specific as to how he wanted it built materials-wise. Particular leather, nothing alloyed with nickel, etc. Wasn't stuff I just had laying around or could source locally.

>>1238329
>Particular leather, nothing alloyed with nickel,
ah, thats more than likely to do with skin reactions and allergies, and possibly because he wanted it to match his pre-existing equipment.

I've seen similar requests from things...

>>1238230
>this one was too long for my camera to get a good pic.

I get that a lot.

>>1238387
it was an old shitty phone camera...

the whip was only like 28-30 inches long

actually it used a coilspring core and always springs back to a straight position. makes it really good for horizontal flicks but really bad at other techniques.

>>1237412
If I don't use electrical tape in my whip what should I use instead?

>>1238436
Dude... I'm an old Dad with a shitty, campy sense of humor, but come on...

>>1239843
I take people deadpan serious and answer honestly

>>1239848
I take people deadpan serious and answer honestly

>>1238436

Tell me more about this coilspring core? It doesn't wear or damage the cord?

>>1238975
Use artificial sinew. I do for my whips now and it's honestly one of the best materials. Find it waxed and in bulk since a small amount won't do much good. 8oz is the ideal size for a first purchase I'd say.

I'm the anon with the 50ft whip, and I forgot to ask last time I was in this thread, do you prefer to wax your whips or not? I most of my whips are not but the few that I did wax turned out exceptionally.

>>1240316
it was an analog manual control cable for an old destroyed piece of machinery(like pic related) it had a thickness of around 1/8 to 3/16 inch

the tight spring didn't really grip the inner layer.
I really need to get me some more of that stuff to make another one
I used 2 strands of spring to make the core and a single layer of braid so the cross-section was ovate.

this means the whip would stay straight under it's own spring tension in one direction and flex cleanly in a horizontal plane. makes it REALLY GOOD for S&M play.

I sold that thing and regret it now...

>>1240532
an alternate question.

I never end up taping evenly so the core is unevenly stiff.

is it easier to use the waxed thread?

>>1240712
I don't wax them
customer preference
what benefits does waxing grant?

>>1237412
Well i am now. Thanks anon.

>>1237589
>SOMEONE

>>1238230
Lol, are u the porn camera bro from /b?

>>1238313
LOL.

>Welcome to 4chan enjoy your stay.

>>1242620
nah

I'm usually on /tg/

>>1238234
Ben?

>>1242621
>>Welcome to 4chan enjoy your stay.

wait. doesn't he get a cold drink and a 10 year old

>>1242735
nah, whose ben?
he make fet-gear too?
he got a fetlife?
perhaps we can talk shop...

>>1242736
could have sworn it was a whiskey-Soda and a 12 year old...

>>1237412
Thanks anon. I'm getting back into paracording now and maybe bringing a bro. I'm gonna start a paracord thread soon when i dig up my own projects amd start a "useful" paracord thread on out to maybe get some ideas from their and help keep the thread interesting. My skills are begginer level but with youtube it's pretty easy to learn. Just time consuming. Wich is what i want.

>>1242894
>could have sworn it was a whiskey-Soda and a 12 year old...

>>1242736
>wait. doesn't he get a cold drink and a 10 year old


both of you were close, I suppose

>>1243071
you might try doing up some fancy livestock show-harnesses

the cobra-stitch can substitute out for heavy nylon strap material

>>1243111
Shit. Good call anon. Fucking cows are in my way 24/7. That or 40moh feed trucks with shit flying off. Will look into that.

>>1243134
indeed. it's easy to get the measurements too, but for the love of god do not just do trial and error on the measures. cloth tapes and mockups. see pic-related for the concept I'm talking about.

SHUT UP, IT ISN'T ACTUALLY PORN

>green-black w/Brass Hardware
>god tier color scheme.

>>1243173
Oh my god what have I done

>>1243194
...you mentioned a thing, I gave some advice with an example image.

YOU are the one to read too much into it.

I used this process for some non-petplay stuff but the image I posted is what gave me the idea of how best to measure my subject before I started the project.

>>1243173
>diy libestog harned
:DDDS

Hey /diy/, op back with more bullwhips that I've made. These recent ones have been a part of a series I'm creating based on CS:GO skins. Half is marketing strategy to profit from edge and the other because I think they look good.

That first bullwhip I posted was a bronze deco, a pattern for the desert eagle. The next one is a Neon Revolution, exclusively for the AK-47.

>>1245974
These are cool as fuck.

How many hours a standard whip take u?

>>1245974
>>1245973
could you take picture series of your process?

>>1246379
Typically it takes a couple of days, and that's without the time in between to rest my fingers. Posting a picture of me weaving the neon revolution below

>>1243173
>get to work with fetish qts
I should get into this hobby

>>1246636
I can recommend it for that certainly.

>>1246627
do you put the thing in a vice or just tie it around your foot to pull tension while you braid?

>>1247378
I don't use a vice right now but I want to in the future. Currently I just pin the whip to my desk using my keyboard.

>>1247500
what technique do you use when you drop strands...I've never gotten the hang of that...

>>1248123
The technique that works for ME, (since there are others) is taping the strand to the whip body with electrical tape and braiding over it.

>>1248199
I never have enough hands free to tape it and get it to hold

that, and I never end up taping the inner layer all the way down, so the tape either doesn't stick or I have to use enough that it leaves a hard-spot in the middle

what do you use for handles?
I just do snake-whips but if I want to I might steal whatever idea you use for handles and use that...

>>1248214
You should searcha channel called nickswhipshop on YouTube. It's where I learned how to make bullwhips and learned every technique I've been talking about in the thread

>>1248245
I'll give it a look thanks

How difficult is it to make a whip from a cord that isn't gutted paracord?
I mean any cord that is round and refuses to lay flat, would that really screw the whip made from it?
I just started to get interested in whips and making of them.

>>1237412
I make chain whips.

>>1252391
Do you kill vampires with them?

>>1252398
Not anymore.

>>1252391
never could keep track of all the pieces for chain.

how broad at the base? taper ratio?

cause that shit might make a really neat whip-core.

or at least make a whip that behaves interestingly.

>>1237556

What is it with, the American obsession of bungee and paracord?

>>1253130

3/4" base, .11in/ft taper.

It acts more like a hybrid between a bullwhip and a Chinese 9 section chain whip.

>>1253773
approx weight?

and does it swing reasonably accurate?

>>1253843

Haven't weighed them but they are heavier than most leather whips of the same length or longer.

As far as accuracy, I'm no expert but it seems accurate. Way more accurate than my first few. I would have a section of spirals toward the end of the whip before the fall.

>>1254254
>I would have a section of spirals toward the end of the whip before the fall.
spirals?

lots of the fetish whips I use are either steel core or lead-shot loaded, they get pretty heavy pretty fast. but that actually looks pretty fucking cool.

does it crack?
do you have problems with the rings opening?
material?
how/where do you get the rings?

>>1254271
the spirals were a weave called jacobs ladder which i accidentally learned. kinda got the idea for these whips from it.

it cracks beautifully.

i do have problems with rings opening but mostly in the handle as its under the most stress when swinging.i have since started welding the rings closed which doubles the amount of time to make one. Im pretty inexperienced with welding so rings will still pop open from time to time.

At first it was 100% nickel silver as thats what i had on hand. i have switched to stainless steel for welding purposes. it also has a bit more hardness and slightly lighter.

moslty make the rings on a mandrel. i'll sometimes order pre made rings from various chainmail sites to try out new ideas or materials.

>>1254254

Oh what a terrible night for a curse.

>>1254430

But soon the morning sun will vanquish the horrible night

>>1254433

thank you.

>>1254436
>>1254433
>>1254430
???

>>1254453

Don't make me use my laurels on you.

>>1254453

Castlevania 2 Simons quest

>>1252391
Cool!

>>1254525
eh, something from before my time.

>>1256579
You should check it out. Kinda grindy but it's the game that gave birth to the metroidvania style of games. Also perfect time of the year for it.

Would this work to make crops? If yes how would one try to make one?

>>1256740
Most people consider SOTN to be the first Metroidvania in the Castlevania series. The earlier games, not counting Vampire Killer (which was a computer release and never came out in the states) were linear. Also, Metroid came out before the orginal Castlevania. So, Metroid is the game that 'gave birth' to the genre. Even then, there are earlier games that could be considered part of the genre, it's just that Metroid was the first one to be really successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoNKrtCd5BE&t=170s

>>1256993
man...that guy's procedure for making a fall(the purple bit at the end which holds the cracker) is awkward as hell...

granted my method needs a lacing fid so I guess it's got its downside too

>>1257037
You mean threading paracord through itself?

>>1257225
I do something like that, but I end up with a near seamless eye that I attach to a similar eye on the end of a core-strand and another one for the cracker

my process does require a much longer fall though...but it transfers cleanly from thong to fall and fall to cracker

Hey all, bit sad because of a breakup tonight but just finished a new bullwhip. ~OP

This picture isn't of the finished bullwhip but I can't be asked to take a picture of the finished one right now. The Turks head knot is blue like the rest of the whip and frackers were attached.

Here's a full picture of my new bullwhip from the photoshoot

>>1257827
whats the metal thing at the handle-end of the thong?
how do you set whip to handle?

>>1258923
Not him, but it looks to me like inner rod of the handle, he probably cut paracord around it with razor instead of sawing whole butt end off.

>>1258946
I doubt that, the cut-down in diameter is too drastic.

I THINK its a socket for fitting it to a rigid handle. but how it's made and how it interfaces is what I'm really curious about...

>>1258946
Yeah that was my method

>>1258946
Yeah that was my method

>>1259489
what was the tubing you used? it looks like plain stainless hydraulic tubing...

>>1260831
It's not, it's a 10" long 1/4" thick steel rod, picked up from Home Depot.

Hey bullwhip thread I don't have a name for, made a new whip. It's based on the asiimov skin for csgo and someone already bought it!

>>1261179
>and someone already bought it!
awesome

>...I don't have a name for, made a new whip.
read this as
> I don't have a name for a new whip.
and was about to suggest you call that one "peaches and cream"

>>1261311
I also read it that way.

Can I swing from shit like Indiana Jones with these?

>>1262237
This destroys the whip.

>>1262237
sorry to bust your bubble.

but you can't do any of that stuff with a real whip...except hit people with it.

>>1262468
He can always whip it out in front of someone.

>>1238318
>America

It's a bit more relaxed in Yurop; I've known people, including a school teacher, who are fairly out.

>>1262760
for the most part
I was told by an italian that they come down worse on the S&M there than in america. something about the catholic presence on the peninsula.

Made this one for Halloween, works pretty well.

>>1263534
Looks a bit angular/stiff.

>>1262971
Yeah, Catholics are fucked up no matter where you are I guess.

>>1263536
Yeah, I think I might have been too uneven in my taping. But it should even out eventually.

>>1263624
Electrical tape is a nightmare. Take my advice PLEASE before it’s too late and use artificial sinew + cloth hockey tape. You can get enough artificial sinew for 10 whips from someone online called the leather guy for 17$, just make sure it’s the 8oz kind. When oh get both of those, the sinew and hockey tape, put the hockey tape on first like you would with normal electrical tape and then bind over that with sinew. It is the absolute best way I’ve found so far to avoid kinks and creases in your whips, plus it makes them nice and ridgid all the way out.

Finally finished my new Asiimov bullwhip. Opinions? (Still needs to be waxed, doing it tonight)

>>1264415
nice Halloween colors there...

>>1264415
Looks good.

The whip is finally 100% complete, waxed and all.

The Turks head knot looks really nice on this one

>>1264915
How strong do they hold?
Wherever I look at a whip I feel like if I hold it by the knot and swing it, I'll end up with knot still in my hand and whip sailing off in an arc.

>>1264930
If you do it right the knot will stay in place for years. I first put a layer of artificial sinew, then the handle and leather to round it, bind that with artificial sinew, then finally wrap a piece of leather around it, bind it extremely tight with artificial sinew as tight as you can, and a layer of electrical tape to just hold the artificial sinew in place. I finish it off by pushing 12 nails (4 rows of three vertically) into the knot foundation. Finally I wrap a thin layer of electrical tape on, a little more artificial sinew to hold the knot in place, and tie the actual knot. Once it’s done I tighten the knot and wax it. All that combined and it won’t move even if you wanted it to.

>>1264913
>waxed
why do people do this?

I bumped into someone last week who bought one of my first whips, its in fine shape and its worn its 5 years of use quite well.

>>1264953
Apparently it prevents dirt from sticking to and sneaking between paracord, or so I heard.

>>1264981
That and it waterproofs the paracord, weightens it and gives it extra stiffness.

>>1265143
>waterproofs the paracord,
why is this really important?
it doesn't really mildew

>weightens
really?
like significantly?
because I might have to get an old crock-pot full of wax if thats the case

>sextra stiffness
this is of value to me

counter arguments
if you live anyplace like where I live you cannot keep the whip in the car or have it outside for more than a few minutes before the wax melts and gores flying with every crack...

>>1265155
It binds with the paracord so leaving it in a hot car wouldn’t do much damage to it. As for weightening the whip, not extremely significantly; only a few ounces. Maybe like four or five. And waterproofing it just makes it so you can crack it in wet environments without it getting waterlogged

>>1265315

>>1237412
dear OP, I started making paracord whips at the tail end of 2013. I too started by finding nick's whip shop channel on youtube. I'd love to share some pics of my whips, but they're all on my old phone... maybe tomorrow i'll try and dig it out and charge it and see if i can pull them off it, as most of my whips were given away as gifts. I know LOTS of tricks now, if anyone has any specific questions plz ask. I also have a book to recommend for anyone serious about the hobby, "How to Make Whips" by Ron Edwards. Of course, it deals exclusively with leather whips but it has all sorts of cool patterns of plaits you can do and lots of tips... and really, the only thing that doesn't translate directly from leather whips to paracord ones is that we cannot taper our strands, which is easy enough to work around by plaiting more strands and dropping them faster. Also on that note, if you haven't already, check out bernie46 on youtube. He has some legit tutorials on roohide whips but lots of great tricks that translate to paracord.

>>1240532
>>1263881
how exactly do you lay the sinew on?

do you have a wrapping jig that keeps the thong tight?

>>1268016
Just wrap it nice and tight by hand

>>1237415
Is it venomous?

>>1269367
>venomous
>not poisonous
one job

>>1269368
I know I'm being trolled here, and I'm not falling for it!

>>1269370
You already took the bait.

>>1237415
red and yellow kills a fellow
one of those lived in my dad's old shop, called him Jack

>>1269368
a job he did right by the looks of things.
>Poison kills you when YOU bite IT
>Venom kills you when IT bites YOU

>>1269370
already did.

>>1269374
I sometimes wish they'd implement all the cross-board features through the whole of 4chan
like Dice from /tg/ and /qst/
spoilers from the gaming reading and watching boards(image AND text).
can you imagine what the in-built art features of /i/ could do for help and tutorials here?

>>1269720
>tfw no whip to bite on while sexy dominatrix whips you with another whip.

>>1269733
>biting the whip
>when you can have your submissive hold the next worse thing
>"if you drop that I'll use IT instead"

>>1269754
>next best thing
ftfy

>>1269761
eh, you say potato...

>>1271472
Beautiful whip. Here’s one I’m working on right now. It’s going to have the Hyper Beast skin from csgo. Or at least I’m hoping it’ll look like it.

>>1272518
all honesty I was bumping the thread with something off Tumblr.

but that looks pretty cool
you gonna post the finished thing?

>>1272567
Yep, expect to see it by Tuesday night

>>1273171
Sorry to break the news but I’ll have to delay. The Turks head knot slipped right off and the leather was too thin

>>1273974
CURSES, I shall have to wait then...

>>1242722
Sworn to Slaanesh, huh?

>>1274117
Here’s something to keep you going until then

>>1254435
teach me senpai

>>1262468
dont listen to this buzzkill, just leave a long line of sinker line out of the end like 1½ meters or so

>>1264947
are you john snow?

>>1274145
nah no excess for me. merely a few fetishes

>>1274149
>wrist strap
nah. too much handle for that. but maybe a hanging eye or pic related built into the handle

I finally finished that whip. The last step is to wax it

And finally waxed. That concludes the hyper beast!

>>1276384
>>1277270
and a sexy beast it is. though I cant say I fully support how the waxing dulled the colors

>>1279170
>dulled
They look a bit more vibrant in my opinion.
Except white, it looks just dirty.

>>1279249
it dulled the greys and whites. it mutes a lot of colors and brings down the gloss

it looks to me like the difference between a brand new whip and one that's been used to beat people for several years.

the wax makes it look grimy and less clean, like its had a run-in with too much skin-oil and sweat.

>>1279545
There was only light gray on the thong. Personally I like the gloss it gives the whip because it emulates real treated leather whips. As for the handle i think it really improved it. The colors were dulled down just enough to be bearable to look at it