Pics of Crops I've made (contd from Hunt Crops thread)

[stp]

OK, I was bashful at first, but some asked for pics and didn’t laugh, so here goes for general consensus. The first thread has some pics of restorations. I would love honest critiques…you won’t hurt my feelings.

The first pic is 3 whips I have made.
The top whip is my personal preference for real use riding as it will not gore my ribs when I fall :-0
The middle whip is a personal favorite for creativity and it was intended to imitate one I worked on that was over 100 years old (double brass collar, hair cell pigskin covering, latigo handgrip.
The bottom whip antler and collar design is my husbands creativity, but many seem to like the double shouldered copper ferrule.

Detail of my favorite reproduction of the 100 year old Zair

The next pic is the ends and keepers of the above whips (hope you can see detail enough to tell if they look professional) -they were designed with an emphasis on strength.

This pic is of a knob end made from Sumac Root. Very light weight, very strong. I wish I had made a pic of my hickory knob end before I gifted it away (shew what a hard wood to work with)

The last is the gawdy-ist thing I have built, but it was intended to duplicate one I saw that retailed for megabucks (the BIG men like this one)

[woodstock]

Wow- let me just say- WOW!!! I am so impressed. They are all beautifully crafted. Bravo!

[magickmeadow]

Second that WOW. You are so talented.

[Cita]

Those look amazing! I think you just found yourself a new side business

[Painted_Wings]

Very Cool

I love the hand made knob end whips. Our huntsman makes beautiful whips. I have two of them. I also have some antiques. I love them.

[strawberry_roan]

They are gorgeous–and I am very jealous of your talent! :D:D Really, really nice work. And I noticed those little paws in the picture…:lol:

[Foxtrot_s]

Cute little paws. Good job. We had a stick once, made in England by a craftsman who used a sheep’s horn to make the handle in the shape of a curved fish. The horn was boiled, I believe, until soft and then bent. Do you now of that craft? You see them at County fairs and the like. Would like to know more about it.

[stp]

I would too…

I’d like to know more about that too! I’d also love to know how many folks would care to have something like that. I ADORE the classic design of a right angle deer horn, but honestly, it bugs me riding with something like that. Just anything that couldn’t puncture my ribs when I fell would be fun to learn about. That’s why I like the top one in the picture of 3. I can still open gates or pick up a little something with it but it wouldn’t gore me.

[mortebella]

Beautiful work! I love the sumac piece. And I commend your concern for safety. Have you ever made one with a horse hair end for a fly whisk?

[stp]

No but

No but I will if you think I can help me think up a unique design and resource for horse hair…or wonder if those erhum EXtentions that you buy from the beauty supply would work?

[mortebella]

I think human hair is too lightweight and fine. I’ll ask a friend of mine who is a vet (horse practice only) where might be a good source.

[AdAblurr02]

HAH! I have that one covered - three horses (2 stallions and a studdish old gelding) who grow over a foot of tail every three months - I keep them all banged off to keep the tails out of the mud!

Then of course there is the red headed broodmare who got the itchy-butt syndrome and pulled out over HALF her tail rubbing it on her bucket eyebolt… that hair might be kinda messed up for a fly whisk, though

Seriously, very pretty work, and you have another PM!

[xeroxchick]

Wow! I have only seen knob-ends that people have made themselves. Did you make the ferrules? Are they copper?

[Little_Valkyrie]

This might sound morbid but…

Over the years I have made a few horse hair whisks from the tails of beloved horses who have “crossed the bridge”. I like to think they still hunt with me! I used fiberglass fishing poles for shafts and brass ferules that I got at a plumbing supply store.
I also rescued an old hunt whip from a dusty antique store. It is interesting because it looks like it was made on a lathe, but it is actually hollowed, grooved and twisted. Very strong and flexable.
Great job on your whips!

[stp]

NOT AT ALL

Not morbid AT ALL! Matter of fact…very endering…wonderful. I have a clipping of my mother and fathers hair stowed in sacred boxes. Sometimes when I am especially lonesome for them I open the little pack and I can smell them again. I don’t care if someone thinks this is sick. They were all I had.
As for the horse hair. My mother upholstered a very unusual antique occasional chair with my horses mane pullings. It is small enough that I will take it with me till the end of my days. RIP Jack.

[Foxtrot_s]

In my parents’ home the sofa and side chairs were upholsered in horse-hair. That was the way it ws done before polyurethane. They were lovely pieces but sadly had to be left in England.

[Foxtrot_s]

I googled “sheeps horn walking sticks” and came up with a number of fascinating sites readers might like to search. I waaaant one since our original got burned in a housefire. wwww.scottishwalkingsticks.com is one site.

[cjmicro]

<<Beautiful work! I love the sumac piece. And I commend your concern for safety. Have you ever made one with a horse hair end for a fly whisk?>.

My son makes handmade fly whisks and sells them, either with horsehair or with rex lace (flat vinyl lacing). I would like to find out how to wrap the collars like you did on your hunt crops though, currently we use electrical tape then cover it with leather.

Cheryl