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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Forum Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2951 UK	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2520 - Nov 13^th, 2011 at 7:47am I braided up another Mexican woven pouch sling: It is as long as my arm and perfect for golfball sized stones.
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Gnimbly Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 15	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2521 - Nov 13^th, 2011 at 8:19am How'd you go about weaving that patch between the split?
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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Forum Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2951 UK	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2522 - Nov 13^th, 2011 at 8:32am Gnimbly wrote on Nov 13^th, 2011 at 8:19am: How'd you go about weaving that patch between the split? Some pics and descrption here: http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1303006800/3#3
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fletch_man Senior Member Offline When the Guns are Gone Posts: 364 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2523 - Nov 15^th, 2011 at 3:14pm That, is just awesome. Looks like it would open fast. Nice size, too. That is just beautiful work.
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Reply #2524 - Nov 20^th, 2011 at 1:27pm

Here is my first 24-strander, Made with Peruvian Palma braid. It`s made like my previous sling, the 16-strander, with a knitted sewn-in pouch, release cord switched into 4-strand braid for the tapering of the release cord toward the Double Mathew Walker release knot. 28".
I have been working on and off with this sling for a long time, those who can be bothered can look bak to page 150, january 16, to see this sling when it was a few inches long.
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timann Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2221 Norway Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2525 - Nov 20^th, 2011 at 1:32pm And here. Guess next week I`ll have to begin a new 24-strand sling, now with the Margarita braid. I vividly remember a time when I clearly stated I would never attempt making this kind of multi-stand slings timann
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4798 new to california Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2526 - Nov 20^th, 2011 at 2:37pm Great job timman, looks like you spent a lot of time making it. How much yarn did it take?
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timann Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2221 Norway Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2527 - Nov 20^th, 2011 at 2:51pm Thanks. 12 lenghts of 4.5 - 5 meters = max 60 meters, that was plenty long enough. It is stretched out during braiding. A bit for knitting the pouch, just a small amount out of a ball of yarn. . A few meters for whipping, I just doubled the yarn. timann
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Matt Borel Descens Offline I can almost hit almost anything. Posts: 120 Portland, Oregon Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2528 - Nov 20^th, 2011 at 8:33pm Beautiful, timann. It sounds like the 16 and 24-strand braids are not well-suited to tapering. Is that correct? Because of the look of the pattern, or the physical structure?
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Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging
Reply #2529 - Nov 20^th, 2011 at 9:27pm

Matt Borel wrote on Nov 20^th, 2011 at 8:33pm:

Beautiful, timann. It sounds like the 16 and 24-strand braids are not well-suited to tapering. Is that correct? Because of the look of the pattern, or the physical structure?

Its because of the structure. A 24 strand braid must be made with 24 strands and cannot be modified in any way. To taper you would need to remove a whole strand and that would make it a 23 strand braid. And if there is one, it would be completely different from the 24 strand braid.

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Reply #2530 - Nov 20^th, 2011 at 11:35pm

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Its because of the structure. A 24 strand braid must be made with 24 strands and cannot be modified in any way. To taper you would need to remove a whole strand and that would make it a 23 strand braid. And if there is one, it would be completely different from the 24 strand braid.

All of the Andean/Tibetan up-braids are actually square, so you would need a minimum of four strands to make one. I don't think it would be possible o make one with odd numbers of strands...

Timann thats a nice sling BTW, I really like your pouch

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Reply #2531 - Nov 21^st, 2011 at 2:16pm

Nope, no 23-strand braids Wink

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In this kind of sling making I do a good amount of learning as I go, and I considered several ways of tapering the ting down. For some time I considered hiding away the red strands and continue for some time with 16-strand braid before the 4-strand braid. I decided against, it would not add all that much to the overall look of the sling, it would be a little complicated to secure those highly visible red strands over a very short distance and not risk them working their way out or back, and I was turning a bit impatient and wanted to finnish the darn thing off, it has been laying about, and been my nemesis and bad concience, since Christmas.

I like those pouches myself, I have knitted them from wool yarn and 1,2 mm flax twine, both work fine and is surprisingly wear resistant. In effect it works like an Apache pouch or very fine meshed netted pouch. At first I was seriously in doubt of how well they would work, and last, but in use they are very functional and resillient.
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hubert Descens Offline Posts: 117 Oschersleben Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2532 - Nov 22^nd, 2011 at 4:27pm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cYDMDyQUmc hier mit originalton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd19eMFbTQQ&feature=mfu_channel&list=UL
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4798 new to california Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2533 - Nov 22^nd, 2011 at 4:37pm hubert wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2011 at 4:27pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cYDMDyQUmc looks like fun
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timann Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2221 Norway Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #2534 - Nov 23^rd, 2011 at 1:10pm Seem like you got a fine spot for tennis ball slinging. Fine style. And let`s not forget the accuracy. Which was very good timann
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