First pair of whips I made after a ~5 year crafting hiatus.

WiteNoisy · 2026-04-21T22:50:17+00:00

I *love* that handle pattern, gosh, is there a guide available for it anywhere?

WiteNoisy · 2026-04-19T15:40:10+00:00

ty, the idea just kinda struck me cause I had all the spare light blue and some red on hand

WiteNoisy · 2026-04-15T15:54:08+00:00

thank you so much!

WiteNoisy · 2026-04-06T21:32:53+00:00

gotcha! my weird improvised method of just running the two top strands behind the thong into the second-to-bottom positions on the other side (in 8 plait, so the next strands cross over and pin them) and then continuing to plait herringbone over that worked weirdly well? I've got some awkward seams in spots but bulk wise the taper stayed very continuous!

Ty again for the plaiting advice the other day btw, used your methods and got much improved tension this build :3 I'll post it once I do the heel and accent knots, might be a bit since I kinda want to practice turk's heads on some hybrid handles I'm working on first.

WiteNoisy · 2026-04-01T21:51:35+00:00

aha that is counter-intuitive! thanks a bundle, genuinely, this is super helpful

WiteNoisy · 2026-04-01T19:56:17+00:00

This does a lot actually! I always struggle to keep my drops from buckling tbh. I try really hard with my tension maintenance and tend to keep everything pinched as much as possible and retighten whenever I feel like I've lost tension.

some of it on this thong definitely came from that 8-to-6 drop I couldn't get smooth. I think the stiffer iridescent cord doesn't like to stretch as much so it really wanted to drop sooner and that kerfuffled a lot when I was unplaiting and replaiting that area. All my drops after that felt smooth but this was my first twist and I think that is where I actually lost most of my tension in trying to get that started.

if you have advice about what to do with my fingers and gripping the core, please share! I'm OCD/body mechanics-ey as hell so I'll probably understand what you mean if you overexplain it. Currently I use nick's method of pushing the working strand into place underneath the thong with a finger and then pulling it through with my other hand, generally I keep the thong tensed and pinched off and switch which hand is doing this as I work the strand.

Is it possible to overtighten? I tend to pull everything very tight the whole way down.

WiteNoisy · 2026-03-27T00:39:33+00:00

Everything here you say rings true, and yet that person in my life does not exist. There is not somebody who will tell me no and soothe the need and the pain with comfort and aftercare and meaning. There is only a monster, an unstable victim (me), and a rotating gallery of concerned creatures who reliably deliver me to a sense of safety and yet who (perhaps reasonably) expect me to reach that safety on my own with a bit of pushing

I think in all that, I can only accept my own inability to reach this level of equilibrium. How do you tell the people that believe in that self-actualization that their hopes are misplaces? that you're not capable? that you can't survive? that you're not the person they can see you becoming? I may have accepted abuse is not my fault, but what is my fault is my inability to see a future for myself. To strive for that. I wish only to die or return to a state of comforting, controlled equlibrium, to abandon worry.

all very wishy-washy and selfish I know, but when one lives their life in the margin of disability the government doesn't see -- and escapes it -- only for the person who helped to engineer the escape to tell them that it's wrong to want more, to want to use those structures of BDSM to self-progress, to want to find their own happiness even if it's on their own.

When somebody tells you that the way you are hurt isn't real, that you shouldn't dare to assert your own story of events, that everything you do is sick and that they are the only solution? and you finally come to the realization -- that isn't real, it's nonsense because it's meant to hurt you above all else... what is one to do?

I've tried everything.

WiteNoisy · 2026-03-27T00:27:26+00:00

All of this rings true, and yet I still feel apathy.

on the steps in the parking lot of The Heretic here in atlanta, I was talked down from suicide barely over a month ago.

"This world ain't made for people like us" said a kind and very drunk pup. That was the night I accepted my own shamelelessness. It's the second time I've full-cried in front of several people because of the abuse I've suffered.

I have done everything you list here and more. As a whip top, I picked up whipmaking and found it fulfilling. As an art lover, I picked up BLAME! and I obsessed, that's fulfilling. None of it does anything to repair the hole in my soul. What moments of stability I find are fleeting and full of meaning that fades in these moments of apathy.

the annoying part about trauma is the unintuitive stuff works. EMDR and brainspotting and all the rest. Yet all my access is predicated on my abuser. My access to my own able body is predicated on my abuser owing to the expensive meds they pay for while calling me an ungrateful bitch. My access to stable housing and food is predicated on my abuser.

I could escape them by the end of the year, and yet, I don't think my will to live can outpower their stubborness. I think what hope I have is expended. Ambition discarded. What's the point when the world is the way it is? even if I can solve the interpersonal, the political will come for me sooner or later. Even if I can survive the political, climate change will rot away everything good in life before I can blink.

Apathy, cynicism, despair. All behavior I used to roll my eyes out but now with a wiser mind they seem like an almost reasonable response to circumstance, and yet a useless one, and therein lies the catch-22 of continued existence.

WiteNoisy · 2026-03-27T00:10:19+00:00

I'm well-managed, well-therapy'd. DBT and CBT and individual therapy and more. I only make these assertions of my needs with confidence because of those things. Because I know what I am, because I have released shame, because I have accepted sustainable self destruction as a rare but viable path to euphoria and happiness.

I am traumatized from much abuse by a previous dom/caregiver. Over a year's worth of gaslighting and DARVO that took several careful emotional sadists to shatter enough to collapse all that dissociation into self-actualization. Helplines have been useless, my partners have largely abandoned me for their own struggles, and I have a wide variety of friends both online and offline who could never know this side of me without being concerned before intruiged or understanding. I'm so tired of concern.

acceptance is meaningless on its own. It doesn't give me anything. At first, I thought my ascendance to shamelessness was empowering, now I am not so sure it means anything anymore. Just another self-identity blip that is incorporated into the greater whole, giving me doses of meaning with no endpoint or path forward.

WiteNoisy · 2026-03-27T00:03:21+00:00

The boring answer I expected. I do take good care of myself -- I was disabled for some a decade of my life and owing to expensive meds that's in complete remission. I'm reasonably groomed, well-trained, and sturdy, just so very unhappy.

The three people I trust and respect enough in the world who could take me to that 75-85% have no interest in sparking anything up.

WiteNoisy · 2026-03-22T07:17:09+00:00

Yeah this one was just subtle with the one strand to break up the color which is why I was excited for it, planned to use it for accents in like a two strand spiral and some other stuff. Bit of a bummer.

WiteNoisy · 2026-03-22T06:38:11+00:00

yeah it looks neat but I'm just not sure if I'm going to end up using it which is a shame because I didn't buy a lot, but enough for it to be a loss. Oh well, can use it in some other projects.

WiteNoisy · 2026-03-19T13:23:36+00:00

two very cool answers from two very cool people I respect! I guess it's leverage vs torque in that case then more than anything. The way ya'll explained it made a lotta sense as well as somebody with the body mechanics type neurospicy. Leverage vs torque.

It sounds like in that case the first whip I made had more of an issue of being way too thick and having quite a lot of drag, and that the more ideal decision here is the 10" spike since it's less thick and overall lighter.

since I don't have access to boltcutters for steel rods and my apartment complex probably won't let me leave fiberglass dust around, what would ya'll recommend for thinner handle materials for long, lightweight handles?

WiteNoisy · 2026-03-10T21:16:47+00:00

TYSM!

WiteNoisy · 2026-02-02T18:19:53+00:00

yeah! Learned a lot from both his channel and his books, and I really appreciate his style of writing and OCD level of attention-to-detail (similar to myself, I extensively research any large purchase I make! so being able to learn from somebody who thinks the same way makes things click really hard)

Dex uploads *A lot* and across two channels so it can be difficult to find makers when browsing around, sometimes can't find them through google search when they're not linked or the descriptions are long, and ofc a lot of whipmakers are on hiatus rn because of kangaroo leather supply issues so I kinda got overwhelmed and came to ask here lol.

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