Whip making cutting lace video 1.mp4

How to cut and make kangaroo hide lace

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Howto & Style

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• Whip
• making
• cutting
• lace
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[dugeclark66]

Bernie, I have been working with remnant cow hide using lace cutter and homemade splitter. Im doing a fair job but cant get strands thin enough while remaining strong enough. The kangaroo leather must be perfect. You make it look easy. What can you suggest? Maybe type of leather cause i cant afford roo.

[bernie46]

@dugeclark66 Therein lies your problem, using remnant cowhide. I only work with kangaroo hide to make whips and am not familiar with the type of cowhides you can get in the US. Your best bet is to google some US whip makers and ask them the type of cowhide they use and perhaps they can supply you with a source.

[messmer777]

Hi Bernie,

I appreciate all the information alot, thank you. I'm wondering if you might make a video on how to make that lace trimmer you show in this video, I'm going to make the beveller, but don't know that I can figure out the trimmer...if you have the time that would be great! If not, I can probably muddle it out on my own.

Thanks again!

Tom

[bernie46]

@messmer777 G'day Tom . The lace trimmer is made the same way as the beveler except the cut is at 90 degrees instead of 60 degrees.

[packapunchwhips]

Sorry about this, Bernie. I think I've been asking too many questions (more than I'll ever ask from my teachers). But how wide should the strands be for an 8 ft 12 plait bullwhip?

[bernie46]

@packapunchwhips To get the width of strands for the overlay or to cover anything for that matter you multiply the diameter by 4.5 and divide that by the number of strands you want to use. So if your belly was 20mm x 4.5 = 90 divided by 12 and your strands would have to be 7.5mm wide to cover the belly.

[cainas80]

awesome! as some one who is just starting out in leather craft your vids are really helpful

[dugeclark66]

Im sorry Bernie, that was a dumb question. Thanks for your response. I made a good whip, just want to do better. Thanks again. You are awesome. Doug

[bowow0807]

@messmer777 you can also check out ron edwards how to make whips he has a section on cutting leather

[messmer777]

@bernie46

I realized that about 2 seconds after I posted that...my face is a little red....