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JeffH

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Other uses for your skills
Sep 23^rd, 2003 at 9:38pm

Here are some other things I have made using some of the same skills I use to do the leather work for the slings.

These are paper weights filled with lead shot and hacky sacks filled with a variety of things (olefin beads, leather beads, wood beads). The hole size and spacing are the same as I use for the sling pouches. My children love these things and they make for great gifts. I made all the coordinators in my office a small turtle with contrasting shell and legs/heads. The diameter of the small turtles and rounds is 2" and 3" for the large. (It takes 3 times the filling for the 3" than the 2")

Jeff <>< - who finds making things a great stress reliever

So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone. (1 Samuel 17:50)

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Chris Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1284 USA Gender:	Re: Other uses for your skills Reply #1 - Sep 23^rd, 2003 at 9:46pm Cute turtles.
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Ulrica Funditor Offline Fly, stone, fly Posts: 639 In the middle of Sweden Gender:	Re: Other uses for your skills Reply #2 - Jan 22^nd, 2004 at 10:49am hey Jeff! They look all neat! Did you try to sling some of them? Maybe the round, flat-thing flies well? I really want to feel them! Ulrica
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nwmanitou Senior Member Offline Posts: 335 Utah, USA Gender:	Re: Other uses for your skills Reply #3 - Jan 22^nd, 2004 at 11:22am I slung a hackysack once.... It hit a wall and exploded on the first throw.
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Ulrica Funditor Offline Fly, stone, fly Posts: 639 In the middle of Sweden Gender:	Re: Other uses for your skills Reply #4 - Jan 22^nd, 2004 at 11:23am OH!! Maybe wasn´t such a good Idea, then
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Reply #5 - Jan 27^th, 2004 at 4:15am

ahh, the art of footbag. I spent many an hour over the years sewing leather footbags. I learned the craft from a very interesting and ingenious fellow named Daniel Botkin who has a very cool website called the Footbag Peace Initiative http://www.valinet.com/~dbotkin/ - he uses footbag and sewing footbags as a way to mend walls between race and class, and work with at-risk kids. Very Cool.

By the way Jeff, I got the bull roarers in the mail yesterday - They are sweet. I will email you some picts when I whittle out my own. What kind of "printer" did you make the templates with? Also, seeing as you make footbags - if you are interested, I can send you some templates of 8 panel and 32 panel footbags as well as a sweet star-tear drop pattern that is 12 panels. They definitely take a lot more time to sew than 4 panels but the finished product is very satisfying. What do you sew them with? I use dentil floss

I love sand-filled bags, though I haven't perfected sewing a tight enough seam to keep them from leaking little bits of sand here and there.

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Ulrica Funditor Offline Fly, stone, fly Posts: 639 In the middle of Sweden Gender:	Re: Other uses for your skills Reply #6 - Jan 27^th, 2004 at 4:51am Quote: I love sand-filled bags, though I haven't perfected sewing a tight enough seam to keep them from leaking little bits of sand here and there. Barak Hi Barak! Can´t you sew a little sack for the sand to have in the bags? Then it wouldn´t leak so easily... maybe... Ulrica
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Reply #7 - Jan 27^th, 2004 at 7:28pm

Barak,

I am not really a great footbag kicker. No reason to spend the time making a really nice bag to just sit around.

As for the templates: they are printed on a laser printer. Its what they are printed on that makes them special. Applique film used in drafting. It is great stuff. I have a supply I use for various things. I make my leather bags and sling pouches with them, as well as bull roarers.

Let me know how it goes with the bull roarers.

jeff <><

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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Other uses for your skills Reply #8 - Nov 26^th, 2004 at 8:57am well i think i may of found my safe nondeadly recreating ammo and if nothing else i be a hackey sack would make a good choke for sling ammo.
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english Ex Member	Re: Other uses for your skills Reply #9 - Nov 26^th, 2004 at 1:21pm I just went to the footbag site that Barak suggested. Wow. Go footbag. I think I'll sew myself a bag and get playing.
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