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New Slinger From Alabama
May 6^th, 2008 at 3:46pm

Greetings everyone. I must say that finding this site has been one of the most fun and time consuming things that I have done on the internet for some time

I just got started slinging last week, have made five slings already, gotten my older brother hooked, and have been casting on my lunch break every day. Wish I had gotten into this years ago, talk about fun! Anyway, just wanted to intro myself. Anyone on here from Birmingham, Alabama?

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Camo-sling Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Forge your own path. Posts: 1292 Australia Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #1 - May 7^th, 2008 at 2:33am Welcome, I too found this website very addictive and I also got my friend hooked. Well done on your 5 slings, already more than me! Please post a picture of your sling!! Camo.
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9100 Midlands England Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #2 - May 7^th, 2008 at 6:34am yep pics of slings are always good :-) I live near birmingham - england, does that count ? lol So what have you gone for sling wise ? a couple of bits of string and some leather or a braided job ? Welcome to the forum anyway :-)
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Re: New Slinger From Alabama
Reply #3 - May 7^th, 2008 at 8:52am

My first sling was of the woven pouch design found in the how-to section of this website. My second started as a woven pouch (sort of) and then I laced a piece of leather into the middle of it. Turned out ok, but I made the cords a little shorter than I would prefer. I have since made a couple with simple leather pouches just to experiment with cord length, and another woven one for my brother as a wedding present (my brother's name is David, so I thought it appropriate). After having exhausted my ready supply of cord, I must now go out and buy some more before I attempt my next project, which will be a braided sling with a woven pouch that I saw on the forum yesterday. I will try to post pictures of my slings later this afternoon. lol I guess Birmingham England counts.

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BrianGrubbs Funditor Offline Joined May 6th, 2008 Posts: 559 Alabama Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #4 - May 7^th, 2008 at 4:42pm Here are some pictures of my slings thus far. Sorry for the quality, old not so great digital camera in use
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BrianGrubbs Funditor Offline Joined May 6th, 2008 Posts: 559 Alabama Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #5 - May 10^th, 2008 at 10:29am I finally was able to get a better camera and took some shots of my newest sling. I think it is the one that I will stick with for now, I seem to be able to get more consistancy out of it than my previous attempts.
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BrianGrubbs Funditor Offline Joined May 6th, 2008 Posts: 559 Alabama Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #6 - May 10^th, 2008 at 10:33am Holy Cow! that was a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be. Sorry about that guys, I will try to remedy that problem with my next post.
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bigkahuna Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 3702 New York, USA Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #7 - May 12^th, 2008 at 4:35am Welcome. Nice looking slings ya got there. Look around. We have a Ton of great sling designs made out of everything from grass and human hair to modern synthetic fibers. Have fun.
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9100 Midlands England Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #8 - May 12^th, 2008 at 6:23am pic resized :-) in general try and make any pics posted somewhere between 640x480 and 800x600 - anything bigger will usually involve scrolling of one kind or another.
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9100 Midlands England Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #9 - May 12^th, 2008 at 6:24am so you're sticking with the split pouch eh ? Have you tried a solid pouch sling yet ? :-)
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Re: New Slinger From Alabama
Reply #10 - May 12^th, 2008 at 8:48am

I have made several solid pouch slings. So far I have enjoyed the split pouch, though I did just make an Apache sling, and I like it a good deal as well. I enjoy making the slings almost as much as I do slinging, so I doubt I will stop making them any time soon

I will post a picture of some of my others when next I get a chance. I would like to try a woven solid pouch... I might try the netted sling next.
Thanks for the resize! I'll try to keep that from happening in the future.

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Re: New Slinger From Alabama
Reply #11 - May 12^th, 2008 at 12:24pm

no worries - download and install this little utility and resizing is as simple as right clicking the picture, selecting photo gadget resize and picking the size you want.
[url]http://www.download.com/Photo-Gadget/3000-2192_4-10396427.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10396428[/url]

takes all the hasle out of it. you can just transfer pics from your camera right click the one you want to upload and pick the size and it's done :-)

If we had a utilities section on the site I'd post it there - but we don't (don't think anyone's ever suggested it actually lol)

Nice looking sling - even if I can't stand split pouches lol

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bigkahuna Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 3702 New York, USA Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #12 - May 13^th, 2008 at 6:19am Well I guess I'm not sending you one of those.
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jax Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take me out to the ball game........ Posts: 1164 Northeast Florida Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #13 - May 13^th, 2008 at 9:53pm Aardvark still hasn't gotten his Equinox sling? B.K. ,it's practically winter solstice...
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9100 Midlands England Gender:	Re: New Slinger From Alabama Reply #14 - May 14^th, 2008 at 9:15am lmao - you know I'd completely forgotten about that - but yeah - still no sling :-(
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