i like that - it's all one piece, simple, quick to make and looks good.  it might be better if the outermost braids on the poch were combined with the next innermost ones - in the pic of the round stone, the outer braids aren't contacting the stone.
but it's very clever - does it shoot well?

sv

David,

A few of us here (including me) are rather like the Athenians that Paul met (from the Bible, the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 17): "Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or hear some new thing."

I believe I speak for all us "Athenians" when I say: Thank you!  Something new!

As it happens, I have seen a sling with a netted pouch, similar to yours.  It was designed by

Bob Anderson

.

I have also seen a sling with a three-finger grip.  It was designed by

TechStuf

.

However, Anderson's golf ball pouch needs a complicated jig for its assembly.  TechStuf's grip required leather and some plastic spacers.  For that matter,

my copy of TechStuf's grip

still needed leather (I substituted knots for the spacers).

Yours is just braided.  Needs some time, but simple to do.  No extra equipment or materials needed.  You describe how to divide the cords to form the pouch.  I could build one of these myself (it would take longer than three hours, I am slow...)

I like it!

Concerning wear, the Balearic slingers often cover their pouches with leather, but theirs are simple splits (see the bottom-most photo

here

, where the cover is being placed on the sling, and the third photograph

here

, showing the finished sling being loaded). Your pouch is a much more complex shape.  "Painting" the cords with some kind of glue would work.  Another thing you could try is a fiber that resists abrasion better.  Worsted wool might be good (this is, I think, what the ancients referred to with the phrase "well-twisted wool" -- it is twisted into a tight cord, not "fluffy" like the yarn used to knit sweaters).  Nylon would not abrade as fast as natural fibers, but that is not useful if you are trying to stick to natural fibers.

Two cords and a pouch.  What variety can there be in that?

Infinite variety.  Thanks!

So true, we all love to hear new devleopments.... on preshistoric weapons!


By the way, very nice sling  8)

david, here's an idea, why not dip the whole pouch in this stuff - it might be worth a try

http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.asp?productID=8165&frostProductName=Plasti-Di...)

sv

I like it! This is a pic of a peruvian sling we posted a while back that uses a similar idea, but with complicted joining of new strands. Lots of work! I like the simplicity of your pouch.



Matthias

Awsome sling.


Happy to see fresh ideas.

   I am working on some of my own.

-Unsapien

i found a way to improve a one-string sling design, if you don't have a good cord available.

my friend has lost his sling, and all he could find was 3 m. of badly twisted, uneven hemp rope.
he made a one-string sling design, but the rope was to thin, whole sling too flimsy, so most of his stones dropped out during the wind-up.

after seeing it wasn't usable we cut 2 short pieces of spare rope (2-3 inch each), and bind them vertically to each of the three strings that made the pouch. (we bind them so they divided the pouch in three equidistant parts)

we used the most common knot, the one wich you start to tie your shoe laces.

/just try to put the bulging part of the knot on the outer side of the pouch./

it would be better if we had thicker cords, and thinner stabilizators, but it functioned great anyway. not one rock got ot of the pouch prematureley, except when it was the operator's fault. 

he could sling pebbles soze of a thumb, to those that fit in your fist niceley, because pouch was now more rigidly held in place than we anticipated.

strings were held equaly divided (both vertically and horinzotaly looking), firmly in place, and abe to cast ammo of various size (with wich normal one-string slings have some difficulty, mostly depending on the texture of the cord, and it's thickness).


if all you have is a rope, and you prefer knitting to the most simple version of the sling known to me (wich is i am still entranced by it) because of better consistency, or don't trust in one-string to hold it's ammo, here is your solution (and possible saviour of the sling-trip/day).


tell me if you comprehended what i tried to articulate in the 1:10 in the morning, after a dull day