Bullwhips, you get what you pay for
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- čas přidán 8. 12. 2020
- Whips can get expensive fast, so I'm here to show you some low dollar options that I found on Amazon. Are these whips any good? How much should you spend on your first whip? These are questions I help answer in this video!
TLDR: Skip Amazon and find an entry level whip maker on Etsy or Ebay. Reach out to them and get something from them, they'll love your business and you will get a higher quality product then the mass produced options you can find on Amazon!
If you have any questions pertaining to this video or any other whip cracking or whip making topics, please ask down below or reach out to me on Instagram!
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Funny that I get recommended this video because 5 minutes ago I was online looking for paracord bullwhips and I end up on Etsy and it’s your shop. Now here I am watching this.
Haha, thanks for sharing this, I hope the video is helpful for you!
I'm getting recommended whip videos now because I was watching Castlevania lore the other day
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The 'Indy' whip reminds me of those £2 whips you get from joke shops. Someone bought me one when I was at university. Totally useless except for one thing - they make great cat toys.
My cat loved chasing the popper and chewing on the cheap leather. There was enough spring in it to make it wriggle across the floor, or I could dangle it from the stairs and get him to jump up to catch it. After he'd shredded the whip down to the core (which was made from something like straw) I went out to the joke shop and bought him another one. Much better value than a lot of the cat toys on the market!
This is amazing, thanks for sharing! Maybe I'll have to do a part 2, haha
@@whipworks4468 we need a part 2 this was an amazing video
Holy shit that's a great idea I'll definitely do that for my cats
My parents bought me the cheap one when I was a kid that loved Indiana Jones. I learned how to crack with it but it was only one way it would work. Still, as a young kid it was perfect to play around with. My parents did what they could to make a young boy happy! Great memories
Im 70. As a teen i got a 8ft whip at western shop. It untangled. So i asked him to get me the biggest made. In 1965 i think it was $100. It was about 12 to 14 ft. Couldnt even crack it. 😢
Great video Adam! I like the breakdown you did on the most commonly sold "mass-market" whips. I'm actually working on a tutorial for an "Instant Whip", which is a fully functioning whip that can made with $15 and 30 minutes of time.
That sounds awesome! I'll keep an eye out for that
Keep me posted about this video plz
i made my first nylon stock whip, and its so worth it. Just always get extra parachute cord.
For sure! Expect mistakes, haha
I'm also making one, and spend about 70 eu on materials. And it's fun to do.
@@whipworks4468 The 130 dollar whip makes me angry, I'm making my first whip now and I don't make these mistakes :/ feels like a cash grab
Thanks for the informative and entertaining video. For years Ive seen that Indiana Jones costume whip, wondering If it would work. Ive gotten a dogleash with some shoelace tied into it to crack, so I wondered that an actually whip shaped... whip wouldnt be so bad. Being a small town boy for all my life, I have missed out on all of Indiana Jones merch, so I was amazed to actually find the whip in a costume store when I was visiting the capital. I held from buying it, as It came with a crappy hat, that was too small, and I already had myself a brown fedora (Still do!). Finally someone tested It out for me, so that itch has been scratched.
I have an old handmade bullwhip with true wooden handle which was braided by hand.
It’s about eight to ten feet long and I’ve had it since I was a young man.
I have always treated it with leather oil and after a small amount of bees wax to seal in the oil and to water proof it.
It has a tongue at the end and does not taper to a thin end, it was made for cows and with a simple side handed lash it snaps very easy.
I got it for fifty dollars from a friend who I asked to look for one for me and who found one and got it for a low price then sold it to me with a finders fee which was about twenty five dollars or half the price but I was pricing them and they started at a hundred dollars for a used one and that was just a estimate.
Bull whips where hard to find in my day, it was not as easy as today and just going online and searching one up.
The whips you buy today and for show and if you actually intend on using them extensively you will find they fray and brake easy.
The one I have is a handmade authentic whip made by a whip maker years ago for farm use and cattle wrangling.
P.S I use to practice by putting cloths pegs on a line and whipping them off one by one.
Man, I've gotten a 120 cm long piece of rope with knitting yarn for a cracker to crack fairly consistently, how does someone make a product that cracks worse?
That's an excellent question, haha
the $10 whip looks like a shoelace with mange
Awesome video. I am one of those entry level whip makers and you are absolutely right. We are more than happy to work with a customer to give them an inexpensive but high quality option. Loved this video.
Thank you!
I was hoping someone like you would post in the comments
I've been putting the whips I got from you through their paces and they're still in great shape after months of use. Even built a zorro board and snuffed my first candles with the zorro whip a couple of months ago (what a feeling!)
Got my heart set on a matching pair of five foot bullwhips hopefully in the next few months so I'll be in touch soon. Hope you're well mate 👍
That is so cool! I haven't done any candle snuffing yet, I need to! I look forward to making a pair of 5 footers for you :-)
Glad I found your Videos & Store. I will be getting a few whips, definitely the Glow One!!!!
That's awesome! Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions, adam@whipworks.com
Ok, new subscriber here. I love your style, and you just name-dropped pretty much all of the guys that I've been following for a while now, some of them for years. I'm definitely going to be checking out more of your stuff in the days to come. I'm a relative newbie to the hobby, but I've bought and made (thanks to Nick's tutorials) a few whips now, and it's seriously addictive. I look forward to seeing what you add to the knowledge pool
Hello, thanks for the comment! I hope you enjoy my content
My first whip was a gift from a weapons hobbyist of a uncle. And it seems to work pretty smoothly
Great video, I bought a whip that was on the cheap side and let’s just say it is collecting dust now. I bought an 8 ft black and acid purple whip from you back in April and I immediately fell in love with it, crack it every chance I get. I just ordered my next one a few days ago and I can’t wait, first time going with a 10 ft whip.
Jack! I'm working on your 10 footer right now, thanks a ton for the order and I'm so glad you're enjoying your 8 footer!
@@whipworks4468 Adam I could not be happier with not only your level of craftsmanship but also the fact that you make sure your customers are satisfied. I’ve only purchased whips from one other whip maker and lets just say that the whip I received was not worth the money I paid or the six months it took to get it. You are now my only choice when it comes to buying whips.
Thank you! This was incredibly helpful!
Happy to hear it!
Great review Adam!! Love the energy you bring to the screen! Getting a quality not quantity made whip definitely matters. Nice job brother!
Thank you my friend!
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great wipe work, thoroughly turned on.
What a great and interesting video. Thank you for the info. 🎉
Great breakdown! I got that Ardour Crafts whip for $50 for a 4 foot whip, and at that point I feel like it is a decent deal - all your same criticisms apply but now the price more closely matches the quality.
Very educational, very helpful
You'd be surprised at how cheap of a whip can crack. The first whip I bought was a $25 Texas gas station swivel handle. Made in Mexico, 10 feet, looked worse than even the cheapest one you have. It was so inflexible that I could hardly do a cattleman's crack, but after just 30 minutes of constant practice I had it cracking over my shoulder hard enough to hurt my ears.
Of course I had to do a weird "Start vertical and crack horizontal" whip to get it to do that and by the end of those 30 minutes I had worn the whip so bad that the center of the thong was fraying, and I was using as much force as a haymaker. But I could do it!
Couldn’t ask for a better video.
Youre Awesome Brother ! Happy New Year !2023
Hey Adam! I really enjoyed the video! I will be back watching more and perhaps buying a decent whip. My whip came from the fun shop, nothing like a really useful cracking whip. Thank You for the video and see you again soon!
Hello! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos, Happy Cracking!
Had some bad workers this really helps Adam!
I'm a baby in making whips and and I already have people asking me to Sale them a whip but I don't want to because I know it needs a lot of work so thank you for your tutorials
Interestingly, when I bought a costume whip like that I took the string off and attached a longer thinner string to it which gave it more of a crack and woosh noise, FYI ;)
I actually ordered one of those "$50 Amazon" whips and when it was about 75% of its way to me, it suddenly became "undeliverable" and was sent back. In the meantime, I saw this video and took your advice about looking on Etsy. (What a dangerous rabbit-hole...)
It can be a little intimidating trying to find the artisans as the first few pages seem to be dominated by "star sellers' who are really just "Amazon-style mass-market vendors", but I continued the search a number of pages in when I noticed a brand new seller: 8-foot kangaroo hide "Indy" whip, decent price, AND a fellow Canadian. (Never hurts to support the home team.)
So, I rolled the dice....
And, boy, did it ever pay off.
Got my whip today and it is something else. This guy knows his craft.
So, thanks for the Etsy advice. Took a few more bucks but it turned what would have been a mediocre purchase into something far more awesome.
I'm looking to buy a Aussie Stock whip now and you are right, it's quite a rabbit whole. I'm in USA, what maker in Canada did you buy from? I'm looking at Bould Whips in Australian but IDK.
My 1st bull whip was 75$ and it was great
I made a whip 7 years ago from a pvc pipe, rope, ball chain, and wrapped in medical tape. I don't have a reference for it, but I enjoy it. It's been sitting in my closet since then, and I've only now tried it. It's a lot of fun.
Sounds like the one I made from an Adam Winrich video
Great info on the whips, thanks. Can you quantify the “weight” characteristic I hear so much that makes the difference in a good whip. I had/have an old 10 footer, leather that I bought back in 1975. The fall finally broke off it, and the whip is a somewhat nodally, but I was always able to crack it with a side are through.
Anyway, just bought a cheap $50 nylon replacement and it is much lighter and has a stubborn curl that I’m not sure how to use. Any instructions on how to use a brand new stiff whip?
Thanks again for your video.
Bought a whip from Amazon. Looks great and its my first whip as an adult. Hand crafted from Ardour Crafts.
I've bought that same $50 whip and took apart the last 5' of braiding and re-tapered it down to 4 strands at the hitch. Works really well now, just took me an hour or so to re-braid it.
Very nice, that's a great idea!
That was fun! I was looking at whips online as well and you popped up. I usually just get the prca 10' leather. I've had 3. It's an ok all purpose for 65$ I think. Try one. I had a 12' Paracord one that bend Stella and put dents in dumpsters. I had a video on you tube called bullwhip in love but I can't find it. The recoil after smacking a dumpster with that heavy 12 was crazy.
That thing sounds painful to get hit by
it looks really cool
My very first whip was the Number 2 you were testing. Learned a lot since then🤣
Were you able to crack it? I feel like if that $50 whip was my first whip I would have had a VERY hard time learning on it
@@whipworks4468 Agree, it is not for beginners at all. I managed to extract some sounds from it🤣 But nowhere near a perfect crack.
@@magenpiesnest8830 Haha, well, I hope you've had some better whip cracking experiences since then!
@@whipworks4468 oh yesss😁
Really glad you reviewed that indiana jones 8 footer cause i have been looking for a 50-75$ whip on amazon. I had a 10$ one once for a prank and it broke after 25 cracks
Did you get that 10 dollar one to crack at all?
@@whipworks4468 I actually did but it was the "junior indiana jones" crack you did in the video. Served its purpose of scaring my friend when we where camping though haha. I'll be saving up to get a quality one after seeing your review
I needed a whip for a costume (not Indiana Jones), but still wanted it to work (I do not want to embarass myself by unfolding something rather crappy). From my former equestrian days, I never liked the long lungeing whips I had to use for groundwork. Consequently, I went with a short 1.20 m model. It is enough to do the job, but gets the look accross. Also, having not done this for over 10 years, I feel better with this. Will still do quite some practice, but it works very nicely. Got it on a Black Friday sale from etsy...nice leather, despite being a beginner whip, it is real leather and is nicely weighted. Any boy, you can make this thing crack. Thing I noticed is I have to practice my wrist technique. If done correctly, cracking is easy.
Very thanks !!!
I have the second sip you unboxed and when you get it from the store you get spare poppers. Mine is also way shorter it’s like 6 feet not 10
I just got the same $50 whip (before watching this) and it did come with an additional fall.
Weird! I wonder if they saw my video, haha
I got a 40 dollar whip from eBay. Not disappointed lol
Glad you found something that works for you!
Hi, I was wondering how you do your Celtic and emerald fancy plaiting because they look very nice.
Great video , would love to see a video of them being pulled apart showing the internals of a cheap nasty whip..Being a whipmaker (stockwhips ) its sad to see that people are being ripped off in buying these things .You are right people need to do their homework before buying, Looking at pics of good whips and then crap , you get an idea of how the taper difference between the two of them etc.
You read my mind! I was going to take them apart in this video, but it was already over 20 minutes! I will definitely be taking them apart in a future video. Then I can throw them away and get these cheap whips out of my life, haha
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Great video.
I consider myself above entry level and have some whips on ebay that are not that expensive. Think the most expensive one is $140 but its a stock whip that has an extra thong. So not to bad
If you know of any Norwegian based whip makers I'd love to check 'em out! I'll do SOME research as well, I'd love to have a proper bullwhip cause they're a ton of fun and it's easy to look impressive with them and they're probably legal to carry around so you won't get arrested for putting on a show in some random place. I'm eventually gonna try to make my own as well just for fun.
Very nice video! Can we suggest you other products to test?
I had a bullwhip when I was a kid because Indiana Jones I could cut an aluminum can in half with it from 20 feet away it was huge and crack it as loud as shooting a 22.
I just need one of these for me and the wife
i had a 10 dollar whip like the cheapy you were using. It was pretty useless and I was blaming it on my lack of skill and training. then, I took it to a whipping seminar given by an experienced whip maker and he told me that it needed a stiffer handle to get it to work at all decently (which was a relief because I was hoping that it wasn't due to my being totally clueless). I made the handle with a piece of 1/2 inch drip irrigaton tubing that i covered with some black scrap leather, running the old handle inside the tubing and securing it at the heal. Subsequently, It served me well for about 10 years of occasional use then about a year ago, the leather was seriously decomposing so i retired it. I bought some fancier but still cheap ones (under 50 bucks each) but they didn't work as well as my modified but now retired, 10 dollar whip. Then, I tried making a paracord whip and compared to all the others (including my retired one), it's awesome. I'm sure I could do an even better job on my 2nd attempt but i'm not that ambitious (this first one seemed like it took forever to make and i was so sick of the videos I had to watch to learn how to do it. When it does come time to replace it, I will be buying one from you. I'm sure yours are great.
Thanks for sharing this story! I dig that idea of using some pvc pipe to make a handle on one of those super cheap whips. If someone reaches out to me with a super small budget I'll for sure recommend this!
@@whipworks4468 Thanks. It's a nice cheap way to make something useless into something useful.
i taught myself to braid using bruce's book, and have studied david's books too. any advice as to what i should attempt to build. teaching myself to build whip and to learn to crack.
I'd say I'm sad for my first whip but my family is poor, just got my whip two days early for my birthday (14th) and I really liked swinging around with it and I'm just trying to learn as much as I can before the weekend (I want to show my mom how much progress I made when she gets out of the hospital for a medical emergency that's personal)
Hello! I hope that you're enjoying whip cracking. I'm sorry to hear about you mom, I hope she recovers. I'm sure seeing how much progress you've made will be fun for her to watch!
My whips under 50$ .. seen a roo jacket at a thrift store for 20$ .
20$ parachord ,7$ loaded line and 3$ for an 8 inch nail handle .
Only mistake was doing my last layer 12 strand and I have gaps vs 18 and it be solid .... but ... I'm using a lacing needle to run some more to fill the gaps and I love my first whip lol ... cheers
You sound like Olivander describing each of the whips 😂
Whips are the wands for muggles!
Haha, I'll take it!
I like the brown leather whip. Those are a lot of work for a cheap price.
I purchase whips from ebay since in the UK i cannot find any reliable and cheap places I must say over the year's the ones I've bought are rather good however I have found struggle with some, those being some of them turn out to be ridiculously stiff, half of the time these are from the whips which I have had some of the gooder results with too. I have two questions, one being how do I soften up my bullwhips, under the assumption when they're soft they're better to crack and overall better in general. And where can someone like me from the UK purchase reliable whips which won't break or come undone. And if possible where could I get some whip care/treatmeant resources to keep my whips in tip top shape? (Sorry had to add this, but whats the best material for practical whips?)
Thank you and this video has been lovely!
Thank you for this very informative video! I was quite amused by the $10 whip but then when you pulled out the $50 whip it got personal. I just bought a 6ft. LB whip. And while I've gotten it to crack, I'd like to learn more cracks and with a better custom whip. While I appreciate your advice to find a novice whip maker, I'd rather go with someone I like. Like you! Please contact me so that we can discuss a good length, material and design to get me crackin'!
Hello! You are welcome, I'm so glad this video was helpful for you. Feel free to email me at adam@whipworks.com if you have any whip related questions! I can link you to my website or etsy shop
Great video! I theorize that you might be so accustomed to your your own whip where it may be hard to adjust for each whip and going against your body's muscle memory. Technique might need to be adjusted for each whip.
but im no expert, or anywhere near that.
I'd like to suggest practicing with different handle sizes. I do believe your assessment is correct & you do know your sht bra but take it from someone who can Crack anything. I can make the shtyindie do anything but only once because it'll blow out or shatter. I believe that if you did this video mid to late summer you'd have better control the guy that showed me how to Crack was a Florida "cow rancher" & he hated being called a cowboy. Really good guy. He trained me on a fla handle like yours. Like 12 to 15 inch handles. But we would break most under the weekend. You are correct about the wip makers also. I can still Crack the wet tip off a towel at 42
Totally at fort snelling. I’m right up the street off Lyndale. I ride my bike through there all the time. Or is this maybe Battle Creek?
Haha, that's awesome! It's Hidden Falls, very close to Snelling
i found a 170 quid 6 foot 16 plait kangaroo leather whip, would that be a great first whip for someone looking for quality
I got a 60$ 14ft whip made out of rubber from Wish. It's actually really good, feels great to handle and has a loud crack. Best whip I've owned between a homemade one and a 100$ cow leather one from amazon. I was very impressed with it.
im just over 5.5min into this vid and i have the $50 selection in my ebay cart awaiting the splurge. the next idea you coul run is buying the $50 whip and converting it into a snake whip!! thats what i'm planning on doing, as i am amidst plaiting my 1st belly now and i'm uncertain how many i'll end up with, after i learn how alla this stuff goes together lol. i got a $8 gas station whip and disassembled it to learn its secrets (ie flaws) abnd began my whipmaking journey thus. i won't produce them for sale, but i enjoy the occasional craft and who doesn't pretend to be Indy sometimes?
Don't forget DaKitty whips. Her prices and quality offer a great value and I'm pretty confident she has a great mentor in whip making.
Very good point! Dakota's whips are definitely a great option for high quality performance whips at an affordable price
the 50 dollar ones looks so much better than that yellow one
do you have a ;link you can share with the 50 dollar one?
Is leatherbondllc any good?
Some of the ones on Etsy are around $145 and seem to be pretty decent.
Ya! There are some whip makers that choose to make whips at that price point by using techniques that don't take as long to make the product. Those may be a great option for you!
Man watching whip related content is a first for me lol but after being invested in this amazing content btw I noticed your voice sounds just like the character from Django unchained who was with the hooded k**nsmen who said "I think we all think the mask was a great idea, but... it could have been done better" lol
9:52 just for the sheer joy of it and in honor of the adventurous spirit lol. Who cares if you should, you're cool for doing it anyways 8D.
This is awesome!! Very helpful stuff, just in time for the holidays. Great video, Adam!
Haha, thanks Tom, you're the best!
Did you do the voice acting for the Marquess d'Queensberry?
Thank u so much for the information about the whips. I bought the 10$ and 50$ whip and the 10$ whip wasn’t good, but the 50$ whip was amazing your the beast whip expert ever the information was very helpful than keeping u.
bro ngl the whip i made waz legit lookin just like the first indiana jones whip lmfao
Man I just watched this video and I wish I found it a couple of months ago so I could've made a better decision with my money. Because I bought a paracord nylon bullwhip off Amazon a couple months ago and it's so bad. It barely has any taper on it and the fall hitch is so fat, it's an 8 strand hitch that's about the size of my thumb and it just feels atrocious to try and crack it
Bummer! That sounds like a very difficult whip to crack
@@whipworks4468 it is
Any good whip makers ? Im entry-level i just want something durable, loud and fluid to swing
Wow in 7 months no one has answered you. I think I can help by telling you that in the video lots of references were made to where you could go get a decently priced whip, Etsy etc. The only other thing I discovered is that there are several whip makers in the comments. Hit em up! Don't know till you try.
Think I'll just get them on etsy
What are your opinions on victor tella whipmaker and his kangaroo whips
I haven't used any of his whips, the pictures look great on his website!
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I think pictures are like the Whopper. They take 3 days to get one good picture but once you get to the store and take your burger from the sack you find yourself looking around saying... WHAT HAPPENED?! That's why I watch videos like this one. It's so much better when you and others actually show us instead of only tell us. OH yeah! Much better.
Back in my day we just had regular whips
Sorry you did not show us the cut card on your whip? Close up? Like others.
Can you do a shake whip video ?
Mr.kitty did a song about whips. It's pretty good.
a fair side by side would have had you testing a brand new out of bag whip against the other out of bag whips. but thanks for the review, as biased of course as it must be. :D
Does a stock whip crack easier than a bullwhip?
It really depends on your style, both are easier to crack in different ways. I personally think that for a first timer, a bullwhip is easier to learn on
I am starting to make whips and I want to sell them for $40 does that sound like a good price
"Everything, you get what you pay for"
Truth
@@whipworks4468 Great video however, I got no clue about bullwhips but it was entertaining!
I found out how to do a volley with a horse whip from the horse feed store and it made my arm sore
Because of the long handle
Im making my own tomorrow. Well a parachord one.
Had no idea the whip community went this deep
My Dom only uses the finest whips on my broken and bleeding skin
The leatherphobia kangaroo hide (double bellied, 16 plait) whip from ebay is $60. Your thoughts?
I haven't seen this one! Can you share a link for me to take a look at?
@@whipworks4468 sent it to your IG dm's.
i bought an 80 dollar whip based off indiana jones for comic con and im nervous if the look will make my cosplay look cheap
That jazz music tho....
In Minnesota?
Lol the kiwi accent was pretty good
Can you make a kangaroo whip if not have you ever used leather if not tell me why
What is a good length for a whip?
My favorite all around bullwhip length is 7 feet!
My wooden handle part spins.. Is that normal?
Many less expensive bullwhips will have swivel handles, totally normal!
@@whipworks4468 I just contacted midwest whips to look into their performance whips.. and yep, I did not pay anywhere near as much as what they charge, must be a reason. Thanks for the info.