Skin Two Magazine - Victor Tella was first introduced to the leather community in 1977 and immediately fell in love with the singletail whip.(Signalwhips,Snakewhips and Bullwhips) The idea of fashioning such an intricately crafted piece of functional art fascinated him. However it wasn't until !992 that he began to make them."I learned how to braid simple things like key chains and whistle lanyards as a young boy in summer camp.So I knew something about plaiting leather," he explains. It was obviously of some help, but as the self-taught, Florida-based Tella admits he wasn't prepared for the fact that it would take him four years he could actually make a whip worth it's name. Nowadays he is considered on of the top whipmakers in the world, and although too modest to blow his own trumpet about it, he admit he has been commissioned to make several whips for Swain Adney Brigg - also known as "Whipmakers to the Queen". He manages to find time to demonstrate and teach across the USA and Europe too, though most of his time is spent sitting at the bench doing the thing he loves most - "making the most beautiful pieces of functional erotic art I possibly can."
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"Victor, Thank you Very much for the beautiful set of whips you made me. Very smooth with a great balance and taper as well. I Love the knots the color they way they fly, I LOVE THEM! As you know, I have about 40 singletails (various whips and makers) and I love and appreciate Great Whips. A while back I was deciding between You and Murphy to make me a pair of mini bulls and I decided on Murphy on the sole reason he had made me over a dozen whips before and I had not really known you and seen your work. I will tell you Victor that was a MISTAKE. I . should have had you make them for me." "Victor. . Your whip making craftsmanship is Amazing and I would like more from you. I will now sell my matched set of Murphy Mini bulls as well as my matched set of cats and then have you make me them the Right Way!"... Jordan
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