Yep, I am a cheap skate, but also impatient. Here in Canada the cheapest price I can find for a new chain whip is about 20 bones. I could order the 8-dollar ones from Niagara Cycle and have them delivered to my US workplace (cross-border shipping - fagetaboutit!), but I don't know when I'm going to be back that way for sure, so I got fed up and made my own.