IronBear
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Joined: 6/19/2005 From: Beenleigh, Qld, Australia Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail IB.......... Way wrong, my friend, a bullwhip is a bullwhip, a stock whip is a stock whip and a quirt, a bunch of fucked up shit. Ron I'm going to have to disagree there mate. part of my post I was boning up from a couple of books on platting stock whips written by a well known whip makes and ex stockman/saddler/bushman Ron Edwards. I've heard the differences even here in Queensland, as well in Victoria, country NSW and Western Australia fron the Kimberlies and the Pilbera to kalgoorlie and down to Albany... There is a cheap version of the more traditional Australian Stock whip often only 4' long which in a few areas is refered to as a yard whip.. The 18' Bul;ock whip I've never managed to master but many of the old guys I knew as a kid were masters on their usage.... Its all different locations or countries different lables.. BTW there is a whip made from a single piece if tapered leather about 3' to 4' long which has a series of slits cut down the length and the fall is threaded through making an ingodly looking abomination but it is one style used in South America and it called by them a quirt. I understand there a few varieties of this which I am researching as a possibler whip for play. You may enjoy one site I visit too Real Whips
< Message edited by IronBear -- 12/6/2005 1:32:33 AM >
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