Introducing Greg Desaye - Whipmaker
I got my early braiding lessons from Wally Cantrell while cowboying with him in Montana's Bear's Paw Mountains. Later in Arizona, I learned a lot more about braiding and knot tying from Loren Miller, retired Oregon rancher and life-long rawhide braider. Both of my early braiding mentors have passed on, but they are never far from my mind when I am braiding.
In the early 1980's cowboy artist and whip-cracker Fred Fellows gave me my first whip handling lessons and encouragement to start making whips. In the years since, with the input from many cowboys, ranchers, and other whip enthsiast, I have developed a selection of Nylon whips that compare in functional ability to only the highest quality leather whips.
My nylon whips are hand braided over a loaded nylon core. I make stock whips, bull whips, and snake whips. I test my own whips by helping neighboring ranchers move and work cattle here in Southwest Montana. My whips are being used in many states, as well as Denmark, Australia, Germany and Canada.
Nylon whips are not affected by the weather and last longer under harsher conditions than leather whips, so you save your good leather whips for special days.