For this reason I often recommend people deal with Joe Wheeler in Chicago instead. Joe studied with David, is very good, but can be slow. Here are some quotes from the current catalog. Two-Tone Stock Whip Whipmaking was once a flourishing trade in Australia, with numbers of experienced craftsmen and appretices producing a wide variety of products in a full range of quality. The most highly developed whip was the kangaroo hide stock whip, and the show pieces for the top quality work were fine plait two-tone whips with fancy plaiting and ringwork.
Today there are very few people who can produce such a whip.
We have been able to obtain a limited number of 16 plait two-tone stockwhips with ringwork on the handle showing a diamond pattern, and fancy plaiting or both the handle and the thong. We offer these whips, while available, to the more serious collectors who with to hold examples of the best of the Australian work. The thong is seven feet in length. T Fancy Two-Tone Stock Whip, 7ft. The Art of Leather Braiding We maintain a specialty interest in leather braiding, arising from contact several years ago with some of the last of the Australian whipmakers trained as apprentices in the Victorian craft of hand braiding.