Kick wrote on Jun 1
st, 2019 at 5:04pm:
looking at it now... it's ugly.
That's funny. As soon as I opened this topic, my first thought was, "Wow, what a beautiful sling!". But I get what you're saying about the cords being on the plain side.
Unfortunately I don't have a specific recommendation. But I was in a very similar, yet reversed, situation not long ago and thought what I did might help spark an idea. I had a sling from way back when I first started making slings. At that time I liked braiding them, but had zero idea how to use one. So a lot of my slings had really tiny pouches that don't come close to holding the ammunition I currently use.
The specific sling I'm talking about was one that had really nice cords, but again too small a pouch. I decided to cut the pouch out and attach the cords to a leather pouch instead. Here are some pictures of this sling (I didn't take a before picture, so these are just its current form).
Full sling:
Close-ups of front and back knotting:
As you can see, I didn't put much time into making this look pretty. I just took what was leftover from the sides of the pouch, put them through two holes, and tied them in a knot. Again, not pretty, but effective.
You mention having a problem with the 6 strand braid pulling to one side. You could possibly start the braid from the finger loop side instead, then find a way to knot it to the pouch. You could also use a three strand braid, again starting from the loop side. Then at the pouch put each strand through a hole and tie them off. I don't know how nice that would look, but should be pretty quick to make a braid and give it a try.
Hope you're able to figure something out. That is a beautiful pouch. It should be slinging