-How To make Whip Crackers-(by Omar)

If you look at how hard it is to make a whip, making a whip cracker is nothing, its easy!. Making a whip cracker is easy and incredibly inexpensive. There are many different types of string and nylon cord you can use for making crackers. Bailing Twine, depending on where you live could easily be picked up from a farmer for free. The only problem with it is that it does not last that long and its big bulky and shreds to pieces everywhere when you are trying to make crackers, and it does not look pretty. Synthetic Bailing Twine works good but you have to pull the strands in half because if you use a full strand of it it will be to bulky and wont make a good cracker. There are lots of people that are confused on how to make whip crackers and they end up using twisted nylon twine for cracker material that only works with slit end nylon falls. Then they usually believe that they are doing something wrong because there cracker keeps untwisting and they decide to tie knots in the center of the cracker. This is completely incorrect and it looks very unattractive on the whip and does not work well at all as a whip cracker.

I've looked around and the best cracker material I found was nylon decoy cord. You can usually find it at any sporting goods store in the hunting/target section. Its nylon so it wont rot and its braided so it stays together and its small and stays in place when you twist it. It looks like this, a roll of 100 feet makes about 87 crackers. Here are the supplies you are going to need if you want to make nylon whip crackers. 

These are the things I use to make crackers, a hook is not completely needed. I sometimes use one of my toes or attach it to the corner of a table. You really just need something that the loop can go on. I am going to use the decoy cord to make the crackers (it's in the picture). Make about 1 1/4 of a foot of decoy cord and then cut it off the spool.

                                                   Then fold the strand of cord in half 

Find something to attach the loop at the end to, I use a hook attached to a piece of wood but you can use a small knob or nail to attach it to. Wrap The strand on the right over the one on the left and then grab the new strand on the right (it was just on the left before you flipped it) keep repeating this all the way to the end.

                                        Stop when there is about 1 inch of cord left on the cracker. 

This is the very last step to making a cracker. Take the strand on the right and wrap it around the strand on the left then pull it through the loop you just made. 

The finished cracker should look like this. You can make about 89 from a spool of 100' decoy cord. You are done! Look here to tie on the whip cracker

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