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A question: Would not an original have been tarred or pitched in order to preserve it, make it stiffer and more effective?

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I've seen a couple of originals and they weren't tarred. Hemp, unless left in complete damp, is one of the more durable ropes; and the force of the whip is because of its speed, so tarring it would make it less effective (but still damned painful one imagines).

Foxe

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OK, I've just costed up the materials properly and timed myself making a cat and I reckon I could do them for $50 +shipping if anyone did want one.

Foxe

"With this Fore-Staff he fansies he does Wonders, when, God knows, it amounts to no more but only to solve that simple Question, Where are we? Which every chi'd in London can tell you." - Ned Ward The Wooden World Dissected, 1707


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