I started cracking whips as a young fella at Timbertown in Wauchope NSW, My mum used to work there so on weekends and school holidays my brothers and I would be up there doing the rounds of the different attractions pretending to be little apprentices, we’d be doing all sorts of things from blacksmithing, leather working, woodturning, working with the stage coach but mainly we would be working the bullock team that pulled a big log around for other kids to ride on, when working the bullock team we’d be moving them from the holding paddocks up to the yards so we could yoke them up and chaining them to the log, cracking whips was part of it and we loved it. I started making whips because my oldest daughter wanted a black and pink whip for her 5th birthday and I couldn’t find one online, I was telling my supervisor at the time how I was having trouble finding one and he suggested my make one and told me how he’d made one from paracord following YouTube videos, from there I made whips for my daughter and nephews and then didn’t make anymore for years until my friends wanted whips, and from them having whips more people started wanting them, eventually I went away from the nylon whips and started learning to make the out of leather and now I work on them whenever I have the time.