Hi,
This is a place to post all photos of your slings or you slinging. If this thread begins to get a lot of photos, and there isn't much chat, I'll make it sticky. I know there was some excitement over this idea, and I personally think it's a good one, so here's your chance to make it happen. Feel free to post pictures in here  that you've already posted on this site before.
Have Fun,
CanDo

An UPDATE:

PLEASE resize your images so that they'll fit (about 8" wide). If you'd like to show the image in full, just include a link. This keeps everything neat, and visible. If you have any questions PM me. Thanks.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v378/acscottthefirst/bullet.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v378/acscottthefirst/slingglands.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v378/acscottthefirst/spiderwiresling.jpg

I cleaned the post a bit, hope the pictures show better now.
Willeke

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http://images.gesichterparty.de/images/imagecache/user_galerie/67317/image/6731728.jpg

Here are my slings, From left to right: netted sling, golfball sling, apache style sling, asymetrical duct tape sling, two nylon braided slings, jute plit pouch sling, jute dimond pouch sling, three
Peruvian slings.
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6829/picture243tm2.jpg
Up close of the Peruvians
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6494/picture228io2.jpg

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7171/picture229ar8.jpg

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/4155/picture231tx5.jpg

Links to descussions:
My Peruvian sling- http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1153341136/0
Peruvian sling toutorial- http://www.slinging.org/wiki/index.php?title=Methods_of_making_Slings_%28Modern_and_Historical%29
My Amo bag- http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1087825010/30#30

EDIT 3/3/07
Here is my latest sling. It is made out of thin hemp jewlers twine.
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/1777/picture257jf2.jpg
   

Oh and feel free to make some notes about your photos or give a link to other places on the site where you've posted them before for anyone who might want more information or a place to discuss. Great pictures thus far! :)

My only decent plastic bag sling. This one's good for tennis balls.  :)

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http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3286/slingerlt6.jpg

Willeke, suggested that I post this shot of my avatar here.  I can't zoom in tight enough on the sling due to grainyness, (scanned photo), but, its made of nylon chalk-line, hand-plaited 8 strand with woven split pouch, 1.626m total length. Braided finger loop and double Mathew Walker at the bitter end.

Just finishing a fig. 8 at a stray dog, dumping on a neighbor's lawn.  (Dog is safe and contented; no windows broken).

My first sling:
Tutorial for making it
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b40/JustKnot/IMGP0838e.jpg

Very nice job on your first sling, Can you explain to us how you did it?, the pouch area looks really cool.
I would like to make one just like it.
Don

riverwindflutes,
Click on the line just above the photo:
Tutorial....

Willeke

My First Sling.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/theunseenkid/Sling02.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/theunseenkid/Sling01.jpg

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The center stitch there attaches a reinforcing strip, which seems to help. All three strands braided at each end, finger loop made simply. Pouch made of old leather CD case cut up, cord is Hemp, with a bit of black duct tape reinforcing the stress points where cord leaves pouch on each side, all found around the house. Slings sizes from Golf Ball ~ish up to half a brick or so if I'm ambitious.  I like that it's rather primitive, and has a worn look to it for good reason. :)

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1980/slingerzooienik003ng5.jpg

this is my small-pouch-sling its really handy for small stones (of about 4cm in diameter) and works good

here you go Cando ;)

here is my most recent sling. i finaly saved up and bought some premium leather, and i really like it. it's simple yes, but it works and i like it. :D

_{CanDo was here, to make the image visible}

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Here's an alternate method of tieing a sheepshank sling.  Normally, you would form an "S" in the bight of a line, throw on a half-hitch at each small bight of the "S", then tuck the working ends through the bights, transforming into 2 bowlines, making it a "locked" sheepshank.

My way uses an extra bight, or 2 "S's" stacked, allowing for quick weave through the 5 cradle lines...I can report that it's great for throwing apples & oranges...or, tie a couple of constrictor knots inboard of the bowlines to adjust for size of projectile.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j42/donhreed/SheepSling.jpg

a lot of good looking slings here.
the one of JustKnot is very beautifull. I'm going to make one like that.
here's some of mine
Never mind the atlatls and darts in the back ;)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d24/rednassreve/sling.jpg

the brown-pouched one is currently one of my favorites as is the black pouched one right under it.
the black one makes a nice whipping sound when I handle it propperly.
in the corner left under is an adjutable sling, lenght up to 130cm folded. well suited for big stones.
this one and the blue one, as well as a sling without any knots or stiches at all, are better vieuwed here :
http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1136663600/0#0

hope you like them
Sander

:o Nice work, both slings and atlatls!
That's a very good photo; it belongs in the members' gallery I reckon.

Second that!!  :D

wooooow, that are some nice slings and atlatls!!!

Because there are a lot of great (and a few EXCELLENT) posts here, I made this sticky (for now, anyway).

I'll have to ask again though, that as long as this is sticky,  can we keep comments on the pictures on different threads,  Please?

Thanks,
CanDo

If anyone disagrees with the sticky decision, just send me a PM - I don't have a good feel of public opinion at this point.

Hi

thanks for your nice reactions!

Sander

Six strand retention cord, pouch woven with Matthias' instructions (http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1168848146/0 - great stuff, Matthias  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]), three strand release cord. Made from 2mm nylon cord. I haven't tested it yet.

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Here's my to slings (can't figure out how to post them properly so I make two posts..):

This first one is the one I was talking about making in the thread "Apache slinging". Came out pretty well i think, throws good. The pouch is made from black leather, and the strings are braided from persienna strings.

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The second one I made several years ago, can't really remember when. The strings are made from leather boot laces. Leather in the pouch is the same as above.

Thanks.
Jonas.

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I have posted some of my holiday photos from Australia in my Yahoo albums, in there are the photos of Wrenn slinging.
I have not seen him on the forum for a long time so I could not ask permission to post the photos.
So Wrenn, if you see this and you want them removed, please contact me and I will.
Till then you can find them at: http://new.photos.yahoo.com/willeke_igkt/album/576460762392989642/photo/294928804270641029/10 and following 4.

Willeke

2 apache slings made from 1mm cotton twist

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Wow, some great looking slings have been added since the last time I checked this thread. Great work everyone!

Nice to see some looped-warp split pouched out there too. Pretty slick! We need to get those instructions into the articles section I guess.

Matthias

I thought I was new to slinging but I recently looked at an old book in my library which describes a sling I made 30 years ago.  After 5 loops (6" long") are made you begin a sheepshank but tie an overhand knot and place the end of the cord through all five loops and pull tight.  Repeat at other end.  I did not use it much 30 years ago.  The sling pictured here works well in the few times I have used it and a golf ball did not slip through the lines of the pouch.  I was not using full force. The name of the book is "Whittlin', Whistles and Thingamagigs" ISBN 0-8117-1882-2.  Tony
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/asemery/earlysling.jpg

This is the first sling I've made, just a day after my first visit to this site.  

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/Slingresized.jpg

and me holding said sling.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/Holdingresized.jpg

I had an old and worn out gun belt (The kind with two rows of adjustment holes)that I was going to get rid of.   http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/belt1small.jpg

Before I trashed it though I had a thought that I could make it into a sort of sling pouch.  It assembled well.  I haven't been able to shoot it yet because of the massive storm in the US North East, but it looks good.

I believe in giving credit where due.  This sling is simply a modification of the Dan Bollinger design found here http://www.slinging.org/20.html.  For all braiding instructions please refer to his article.  I could really write it better.

I started by cutting the leather from the belt in two polygon shapes as pictures.  I made them eight spaces in length, with the first and last sections having one of the holes removed by an angular cut.  Make sure to leave enough leather around the singular holes to leave them sturdy for the stress of throwing, about an 1/8th of an inch or more.  It's important to make them an even number of rows in length so the weaving will leave the strings entering and exiting from the leather in the right way.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/belt2small.jpg

After braiding the retention cord as per Mr Bollinger's instructions I came to the point where you'd normally split the lines, and braid the pocket.  Instead of braiding I put the strands through the first hole of the belt leather from the side where the ammo would be loaded.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/attach1small.jpg

I then weaved the lines in and out of the spaces along the outer edge of the leather, exiting at the other singular hole on the other end.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/attach2small.jpg

I then repeated on the other side with the other piece of leather placing it to mirror the first.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/attach3small.jpg

To finist the sling simple continue braiding the lines as per Mr. Bollinger's instructions.  The finished pocket looks like this.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/pouchsmall.jpg

And holds well as illustrated by my tennis ball sized metal sphere.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/spheresmall.jpg

Give it a try.

Very cool  jml11220
Great adaptation of the Bollinger design, Keep up the good work.
Don A.

My two new slings.  I've taken pretty well to the braiding process.

This first one is made from six 48# hemp cords and a large shaped leather pouch for tennis ball sized projectiles.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/HempSlingfull.jpg

The retention loop.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/Hempslingretention.jpg


This next one is Cotton cord with a shaped leather pouch for golf ball size projectiles.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/jml11220/cottonslingfull.jpg


They throw pretty well.

Look good!

Willeke

I like the large pouches, especially for throwing those tennis balls around
Nice Job !!!

Found this interesting sling while surfing the net

http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/exhibitions/images/cen/phoebe_era/native_cal/1_10605_10604_clay_balls_basket.jpg

Here's one of two that I have on my Balearic Style Slings

Marc Adkins

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Here's the Second One :)
Marc

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my sling, I'm very proud with the fraying knot solution ;D

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b357/Eglacam/pracka.jpg

This is probably my 5th or 6th sling.  It frays easily with most rocks, but it is very nice for tennis balls.
It's para-cord, and 60 cm (2 ft) long from mid-pouch to the release knot.  The pouch is 15 cm (6 in.) long, and the split in it is 9 cm (3.5 in.)

Edit: I will try to get a build-along or instructions posted in a few days.

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Hi Cliff,

I really like the design. It looks so simple and uncluttered. I assume there are no actual joins, ie. it is made from just one continuous piece of paracord that continues on into the release and retention cords. If so what is the overall length of cord required to make the complete pouch?

Aussieslinger

Here is the most uncommon sling of my collection. My father in law bought on Madagaskar. The man who sold it to him showed him how to sling. He used the Apache style and shot a pebble abpout 70 to 80 m far. I plan to cut a new sling (this one is a little bit torn) from leather in the same shape and I'm curious how it works.

funda iucunda

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Something went wrong, but now it should be alright:

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funda_iucunda,
I'm extremely busy right now, but I'll resize those images for you shortly...

these look great! i will try to get some pictures of my slings or me throwing burning objects around. hehe. ;D i especially like yours cliff. i am patiently awaiting a tutorial. and cash for paracord.

Photos Fixed :)

Can Do,

many thanks for your quick help! :)
In my program the fotos had a good size but it didn't work as an attachment :(

funda iucunda

Here is one of my first slings  :)

http://dmitry.e2e.ru/temp/_MG_3295.jpg
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http://dmitry.e2e.ru/temp/_MG_3297.jpg
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http://dmitry.e2e.ru/temp/_MG_3300.jpg

i would trade for one. those look great!! you should start a post in the trading post.

i'll think about it.
but .. there is one small problem :(
i live in Russia.  :)

that shouldn't bee a problem.

aussie has sent his free pouches to all continents by now, and he does it for free, so if you trade something, shipping should not be an obstacle :)


(i don't trabe a lot, but even I have sent things to america, asia and australia, from europe.)

cool a russian member :-)

Love the pouch style. trading works by each member not really caring what the postage costs. You decide whether something is worth trading your thing for and then you both send the items.
I've traded a heavy club to hong kong for a light sling in return. Lost out on postage that way round, but it all evens out in the end and the wood for the club didn't cost me anything :-)

Good fun. So far I've sent and received stuff from various bits of america, germany, lithuania, czech republic, holland, australia, hong kong, canada and probably somewhere else as well. :-)

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n113/mathya/100_4320-1.jpg
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n113/mathya/100_4319-1.jpg
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n113/mathya/100_4318-1.jpg
Here is mine.  ;D

Deimos wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2007 at 11:58pm:

i'll think about it. but .. there is one small problem :( i live in Russia.  :)

Great! I have yet to send one of my pouches to Russia. Only too happy to send you one if you like.

Aussieslinger

Just started this stuff the other day.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/TacoMania5000/slings4.jpg These are based on a sling I purchased. Probably won't work. My first attempts. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/TacoMania5000/slings12.jpg This one I made from an article here. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/TacoMania5000/slings15.jpg This one was totally freehand.

This is my first braided sling, it's only 38 cm (folded) and each strand of the pouch is 10 cm :)

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deimos how did you made that kind of an pouch? :P and btw i live in finland 8-)

Hi Guys,
Neat forum.  I don't have a photo but when I was in the Navy several of us made slings from the remains of a drag chute.  We cut lengths of the nylon webbing 3" wide X around 4 feet long.  We took a wrap around our hand and held the other end with our thumb.  We put a rock at the bottom of the loop and threw it overhand.  You could throw a rock a little smaller than a hard ball a fair distance.  

I haven't thought about it until I blundered onto this site.  You have some neat slings here.  I may try using a sling again.

Thats great. hopefully i can get some pics up.

A lovely photo of myself slinging:
http://funditor.110mb.com/slinger.jpg

Hi Guys,
I am relunctant to post this photo since all of you have put a lot of time, thought, and effort into your slings, but just in case someone wants to get started right away I'll post it anyway.  Took me about an hour to make and cost about $2.50 U.S.

I can't figure out how to send the images so I guess you will have to take my word for it.

CanDo Gave me some help with the images.  I'll try again:

The leather, an old eyeglass case, $0.99 U.S.
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/slinging_101/MyLeather.jpg

Layout:
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/slinging_101/LayoutOfPouch.jpg

Completed Sling with nylon lines, $1.27
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/slinging_101/CompletedSling.jpg

As the pouch doesn't have a pocket, it works best with heavier stones. I tried the Apache throwing technique and got fair results, except for the time I accidently hit the car.  I think I will try to make an Apache sling next.

lightfoot71 wrote on Jul 12^th, 2007 at 3:47pm:

Hi Guys, I am relunctant to post this photo since all of you have put a lot of time, thought, and effort into your slings, but just in case someone wants to get started right away I'll post it anyway.  Took me about an hour to make and cost about $2.50 U.S. I can't figure out how to send the images so I guess you will have to take my word for it.

Check your PM :)

G'day fellow slingers. Never having posted pics on the web before (yes I know, hard to believe isn't it?)
I thought I might give it a go here and see if I can get it to work.

My Macrame sling

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Now all I have to work out is how to post multiple images :-?

Kava_Fiend

sling close up:

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Nice lookig sling

Marc Adkins


wrote on Jul 31^st, 2007 at 1:37am:

G'day fellow slingers. Never having posted pics on the web before (yes I know, hard to believe isn't it?) I thought I might give it a go here and see if I can get it to work. My Macrame sling

I did give one of my early pattern Balearic slings to a Russian Co-worker for christmas. Along with some slinging stuff in russian.
but I don't think it's quite the same thing.

Marc Adkins


Deimos wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2007 at 11:58pm:

i'll think about it. but .. there is one small problem :( i live in Russia.  :)

Quote:

Nice lookig sling

cheers dude,

I was just messin' 'round with some designs and this one actually worked; the knots form a natural pouch shape. This one was just a prototype, I made longer one out of jute, which works great; better than a split pouch, eh?

Kava_Fiend

i get great spin with this sling.......paper balls and regulation baseballs.
during the few moments when my techniqe is good, it nails the target hard.

these are a couple of pics of my first sling. its a modified version of Zorro's medical tape design. made of 2.25 inch medical tape of course some tread and two pieces of nylon rope(# 15 i think????) with a total of about 72 inches (183cm). it has a tripple split design. i'm not sure how much longer it will last. as soon as i get my other slings made i will retire it :(

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC01460.jpg
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC01461.jpg

i'm in the process of the last steps of my second sling and in the planning of my third. i've been thinking about the hand woven split-pouch design ;D

i made one up about a week or two ago out of some of the leather that C_A so generously sent me.  it is a prototype design that i think will work well (haven't had a chance to use it yet)  i intentionally used double cords.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e197/siguy/DSCN2380.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e197/siguy/DSCN2381.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e197/siguy/DSCN2382.jpg

Here are links to photos of my sling. Its  simple and not so pretty but it works well :)


http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3171/26082007na7.jpg

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2663/26082007001ag2.jpg

-Greetings from Finland

Greetings

Hurrigate, IMHO it's all about the slings performance and not about how it actually looks. My favorite sling before I retired it was made from old leather bootlaces and a piece out of another old boot..

but your sling is a nice basic model that should do everything you ask of it

Marc Adkins


Hurrigane wrote on Aug 26^th, 2007 at 11:23am:

Heres links for pictures of my sling. Its  simple and not so pretty but it works well :) http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3171/26082007na7.jpg http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2663/26082007001ag2.jpg -Greetings from Finland

Its scrap suede/leather pouch with suede cords.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02617.jpg
Total length is 34cm the pouch is 9.5cm.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02625.jpg
I’m slinging broken marble.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02631.jpg

Hey bcerus,
Once I got my ammuntion issue straightened out, I started using Landscape Marble Chunks, Eventually went to Landscape River rock, they seem to fly better.

Marc Adkins


B.cereus wrote on Aug 29^th, 2007 at 9:29pm:

Its scrap suede/leather pouch with suede cords. http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02617.jpg Total length is 34cm the pouch is 9.5cm. http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02625.jpg I’m slinging broken marble. http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02631.jpg

[quote author=winkleried link=1172017416/60#71 date=1188529243]Hey bcerus,
Once I got my ammuntion issue straightened out, I started using Landscape Marble Chunks, Eventually went to Landscape River rock, they seem to fly better.

Marc Adkins

Thanks for the tip :)

No Problem.
This way you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Until I figured out it was the weight of the ammunition Slinging was a very frustrating experience for me
Marc Adkins


B.cereus wrote on Sep 12^th, 2007 at 10:29pm:

[quote author=winkleried link=1172017416/60#71 date=1188529243]Hey bcerus, Once I got my ammuntion issue straightened out, I started using Landscape Marble Chunks, Eventually went to Landscape River rock, they seem to fly better. Marc Adkins Thanks for the tip :)

her's some o my slings..

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Here is my favorite sling.  I have made at least four others like it for gifts, and can do it pretty quickly now.  I stitched the leather on with a sewing awl, which I got cheap at the craft store.  I dabbed the thread knot with super glue.  The cord is jute.

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The rest of my slings.  I also have a half-done Peruvian.  

The one in the middle is interesting, since you can use either side for the loop.

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ranger, do you need to uses a wide grip for that middle sling so the cords dont tangle?

I don't remember having that trouble.  I recently gave that one to my nephew. so I can't go play with it to answer the question more thoroughly.

This was my first time braiding and I didn’t get the hang of it until I started the release cord.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02721.jpg
I used cotton for material and added a few strips of leather for aesthetics, no real function.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02667.jpg
I like the shorter length. It seems to be more accurate.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02688.jpg
You can see the errors more in this one.

I don't think this sling of mine features on the site so here goes.

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Close up of the pouch.

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Africa_Slinger wrote on Oct 19^th, 2007 at 6:23am:

I don't think this sling of mine features on the site so here goes.

can i see the inside of the pouch and what type of ammo do you use?

Hey if it works who cares what it looks like. My first braiding attempt doesn't look too pretty either but it still sends rocks down range.

Nice try, keep it up

Marc Adkins


B.cereus wrote on Oct 18^th, 2007 at 7:48pm:

This was my first time braiding and I didn’t get the hang of it until I started the release cord. http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02721.jpg I used cotton for material and added a few strips of leather for aesthetics, no real function. http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02667.jpg I like the shorter length. It seems to be more accurate. http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02688.jpg You can see the errors more in this one.

I made this reconstruction of a medieval sling (ca. 1250). The original was found in an excavation in the town of Randers in Denmark.

The pouch measures 7,5 cm x 10 cm. The strings are 60 cm each.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t306/MikkelF84/Randers-slynge.jpg



I also made this one (though it's not based on anything but my imagination :-) )

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t306/MikkelF84/slynge1.jpg

If you have any information on the first sling, I would love to hear it. I am sure that other members who are into historical slinging would love to hear it as well.

Marc Adkins

Mikkel wrote on Oct 19^th, 2007 at 5:01pm:

I made this reconstruction of a medieval sling (ca. 1250). The original was found in an excavation in the town of Randers in Denmark. The pouch measures 7,5 cm x 10 cm. The strings are 60 cm each. http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t306/MikkelF84/Randers-slynge.jpg I also made this one (though it's not based on anything but my imagination :-) ) http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t306/MikkelF84/slynge1.jpg

Even though some of you have some of my work or have seen it posted by other ppl I have not actually ever posted anything myself. So here is a pic.

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Oops I forgot to post the other pic I have. Here y'all go.

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is that real animal skin, Loki?

Yup, its alligator skin. It is really fun to work with.

Nice Slings.  ;). tommorow i buy nylon and make one.

my latest slings!! :) :)  and the grenade is defused. ;)

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Hey I happen to know where I can get multiple Glandes of that type here in town, Whats your best range with them?

Marc Adkins


kellymcdman wrote on Oct 30^th, 2007 at 4:04pm:

my latest slings!! :) :)  and the grenade is defused. ;)

8-)These are all very nice.

winkleried wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2007 at 12:24pm:

Hey I happen to know where I can get multiple Glandes of that type here in town, Whats your best range with them? Marc Adkins kellymcdman wrote on Oct 30th, 2007 at 4:04pm: my latest slings!! :) :)  and the grenade is defused. ;)

i've never slung my deactivated handgrenade before, its the only one i've got, and i dont want to wreck it.. ;) but, i know people used to use slings with them before, so try it out and please post your distance results.. :)

kellymcdman wrote on Oct 30^th, 2007 at 4:05pm:

:)

the one at the bottom is cool :)

Second braided sling, #4 overall, 86.36cm total length.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02891.jpg
As you can see things are tighter. This sling is much more accurate than the first one.

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa172/blzrng/DSC02903.jpg
This is my work horse for my short slinging. I made the pouch shorter, the finger loop tighter and rapped suede around the end of the release cord for aesthetics.

New sling in the Yurek, nwmanitou style with some modifications to connection of cords to pouch.

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The detail of how the pouch is connected to the cords

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Hi everyone!  Here is mine slings.

This is Woven paracord sling.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8375/k014qc9.jpg

And this is mine Jeans sling.
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/3688/k015ss1.jpg

Sorry my bad english.  ;)

Nice looking sling.
No need to apoligise foryour english. We on this forum have a way of advoiding language barriers
Your english is better than my Finnish :)
Marc Adkins


Nallekarkki wrote on Dec 15^th, 2007 at 8:46am:

Hi everyone!  Here is mine slings. Sorry my bad english.   ;)

Out slinging on a snowy day... It was tough, because the ice is covered with slushy snow, which makes moving your feet hard. I nearly tripped on this, and the snowball didn't go very far... Kind of a combination underhand throw and attmept at regaining balance...
That is an aussiepouch, by the way.  :)


http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x4/Sithapprentice21/P1080192.jpg

Here's another one. I made this sling myself.


http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x4/Sithapprentice21/P1080145.jpg

After joining yesterday I decided to make a new sling, borrowing a few ideas from a few of the members here...


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/Isshogai/Picture006.jpg


Vey wet and windy today, but as soon as I get a chance I'll give it a go.

The knife is a spyderco UKPK (UK Pen Knife) designed specifically for the UK's carry laws ::)

Here is my first staff sling which I call 'Gorgon'.  It isn't too pretty but it does the trick. The pouch for both my shepherd's sling and my staff sling is some kind of canvas-backed synthetic that I used for mock-ups, but they work so well I've just kept them as is. I plan to make my first leather pouch soon.

The Greek inscription is 'pathos mathos', the ancient origin of 'no pain, no gain'.

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Thomas' non-traditional

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Thomas' non-traditional

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This is my new braided sling that I made from jute twine bought from the local hardware store, and following instructions from Dan Bollinger's article (thanks, Dan). It is hairy and smells a bit funky, so I've named it 'Sasquatch'. I seriously think I might be in love with it, it works so nicely for me.

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Nice looking sling sir.
Got a couple that look similar,
Although Sisal and Hemp are my favorites vegitable fibers to braid.

Marc Adkins


elephas17 wrote on Feb 24^th, 2008 at 3:59pm:

This is my new braided sling that I made from jute twine bought from the local hardware store, and following instructions from Dan Bollinger's article (thanks, Dan). It is hairy and smells a bit funky, so I've named it 'Sasquatch'. I seriously think I might be in love with it, it works so nicely for me.

Here is a braid sling, but it has a woven pouch. Its all one piece w/ exception of the hemp that is used in the weave. So its strong and not going to break.

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Very nice. Did you start with a split pouch like the one in the previous photo and just weave the solid pouch over it?

I agree, that is a very handsome woven pouch.

If I ever get a digital camera I could make a tutorial but in the mean time, lets see if i can explain...

I take 8 strands that are long enough to make both cords and the length of the pouch.  Fold them in half.  Take 4 strands that are long enough for the pouch and long enough to braid the excess a couple of inches into the cords. Fold these 4 in half. Put them with the eight strands.  I like to move like an inch and a half from the centers of the cords and tie a string around them to hold them in place. Get all the shorter stings in the center, it will make weaving the pouch easier later. Do a 12 string square braid for like 3 inches. Separate out the short strings and take all the long ones and do a 8 string square braid until you get your desired length.

To weave the pouch I tie all 12 string to a dowel. The pouch comes out better the wider you spread out all the strings. Now here is where this sling differentiates from the other woven pouches. I use a strand approximately 9 feet and put the middle in between 6 of the strands of the sling. Pull both ends together and cross them on the one side. You have to get one going up and one going down. I really don't know how to explain it. In a normal weave the string goes under one, then over the next. In this one end is going under a string and the other one goes over. Its pretty simple, just hard to explain. I group 6 together for 2 rows, then 4, then 3, then 2, then 1....keep weaving to get you half the pouch. Then move the 12 strands together on the dowel. And do the same as before, only reversed. Tie the two ends of the string your using to weave when your done. You can manipulate the pouch to get the shape you want. Pulling the outer ones will give you a rounder pouch.

To finish it up, go back to a  12 string square braid till the 4 strands are all most used up to. I try and get both sides even. Then separate the 4 shorter strings. With the remaining 8, do a square braid again until you get your length you want.

You now have 4 strings hanging out of the cord in 2 places. I like to put them on a needle and thread them through in the opposite direction to hold them in place.  

Tie your release knot and make a retention loop and your done.

I hope that makes sense!!!

Those are pretty clear instructions I would say.

So it looks like you are twining the weft, which is what I have usually done also.

Nice work :)

My dear that sling is gorgeous, in fact, when I go home I am going to test out your tutorial!  ;D

Ethan, I really like the photos of you slinging...as photos themselves and not just the sling.

Why thank you!  :)

The top one nearly proved painful, because I was tripping. The photo looks funny, though. I have a few of myself slinging, same day and location, but with a nice sunset in the background. They're pretty nice.

I finally uploaded the sunset one... I like it. These are all taken by my brother, Jake.

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x4/Sithapprentice21/slingingsunset1.jpg

this is my first braided woven pouch sling

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and this is a close up of the pouch
sorry the images are crappy, i took them with my cellphone ;D

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A first post for me. I really like the handiwork I see throughout this section and I'm beginning to learn how personal a sling is. My first stop, unless someone has other suggestions, is going to be to Google "Braiding for the Compleat Idiot" and see where that gets me.

Learning (1) braiding and (2) braiding techniques (going from one braided leg to a broadening pouch and back to another braided leg, for example) are on the list.

Great input here.


ara

Well, that didn't work.

Any suggestions for learning resources?


ara

http://slinging.org/index.php?page=other-websites
Check out braiding resources.

Ara,
One of the sites in the resources is mine, here is a link:
http://knopen.ismijnhobby.nl/tables/braid-text_table.html
If this in itself is not enough, tell me what you need to know and I'll try to help you.
(But in a new topic rather than here between the pictures.)

You can also search for braiding in this forum, there is a lot already.

Willeke

Hadn't had a sling in a while, got bored and threw this together.
It's a section of my ex-wife's belt + shoestring.
I like the extra holes, maybe cuts wind resistance?
Here it is in action (video)

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Here are 3 of the slings I use.  Two I made and the other one can be reconnized as the world famous aussiesling.  one is about 32+ inches and the other one around 20"

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This is my first sling on the left and my new Aussiesling, the first sling is made out of tough cotton cargo shorts, and is 3 layers thick in the middle and 5 laters thick where you can see the reinforcements around the loop hole.  The stitching is for ornamental value and just to hold it together.

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My favourite sling broke a few years ago. Since then I have not done much slinging, mostly because I have moved, a lot of work had to be done around the house, etc, but also very much due to the fact that I hate doing a sloppy job when I make something!

Recently I found some leather that would be excellent for slings; about 2 mm thick, soft and pliable but with very little stretch. So I finally made myself a new sling! (And two more like it for my sons)
I´d like you to see a picture of it.

The pouch is 6.5 cms wide, and  +30 cms long end to end. The ends of the pouch have an extra layer of stiffer 1.5 mm leather between the others, for added stability & strength. The strings are 4 mm 8-strand braided polyester, with virtually no stretch at all. I made the finger loop from a leather strap, to distribute the load on the finger better and reduce chafing and discomfort on the finger. All string loops are spliced, sewn and whipped, all leather seams hand stitched. (Yes, I did want this sling to be realiable) The length from my fingers to bottom of pouch is 75 cms, which means that when I am standing up with arm hanging down, the pouch clears the ground with about 3 cms.

Since we had a surprise fall of about 40 cms of snow overnight I have not been able to test it properly – it´s hard to look for stones. I used one stone (200 grams) and two 120-gram chunks of lead that were lying around my workshop to make 3 test throws just to feel what the sling was like. The three throws were approximately 25, 40 and 70 metres – with all three impacts in a more or less perfectly straight line! The unbroken snow surface made it easy to see the impacts. (I am so looking forward to spring! ::) )

Lasse

http://archive.pixbox.se/arkivet/synligt_24/19310000-19319999/640x480/19313003.jpg

good looking sling,Lasse C

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y238/Hornedhunter/Slinging/sling4jpeg.jpg

My First go at slinging, managed about 75 metres underarm

Yes, but can you actually sling the rock of Gibraltar that's in the background?

I'll have a go if i can find enough leather for the pouch.

Nice pic - I can't help drooling over the pebble beach.
Okay so there are some disadvantages to living in the centre of an island - as far from the coast as it's possible to get :-(

Good wide grip you've got there too stevo.

Very nice vid Slappy - really good shot. So, umm, how many takes ? ;-)

Forgive me I fail to sympathise with ya C_A
Ya outta try living in a landlocked state that several hundreds of miles from the ocean :( :)

Marc Adkins




Curious Aardvark wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2008 at 7:29am:

Nice pic - I can't help drooling over the pebble beach. Okay so there are some disadvantages to living in the centre of an island - as far from the coast as it's possible to get :-( Good wide grip you've got there too stevo. Very nice vid Slappy - really good shot. So, umm, how many takes ? ;-)

Lasse,

Really a nice looking sling, just perfect. But I'm wondering why the pouch is so big.


Stevo,

The place of your slinging is a paradise indeed.

Yurek

Yurek wrote on Apr 4^th, 2008 at 5:03pm:

Lasse, Really a nice looking sling, just perfect. But I'm wondering why the pouch is so big. Yurek

Actually I think the pouch may look somewhat bigger than it is due to the slim (4 mm) strings. The width (about 6.5 cm) is simply a width I know I have been very comfortable with before - and which is recommended in a few places here on slinging.org, I might add! The length of it (+30 cm) may seem unnecessary long, but I wanted the pouch to be a little cupped but not very much. As I wanted the leather strips to fully overlap at the string hole this is more or less the length I ended up with! The size of the pouch does not seem to give me any problems with air resistance - at least not in the first test throws and the "empty" test swings I have made.

Have not been able to test it more, but it sure felt and worked nice on those first three throws!  :)

Lasse C

My aussie sling with a paint job  8-)
Sry for bad images.. Bought one of the first digital cameras. 4mp ONLY!!

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Other pic of my sling (close-up)

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So heres my sling. Aussiepouch with paracord. Those balls are mini-pétanque balls. Flew quite well. I'll add the slinging pictures later.

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Here is a picture of some of my braided slings.  In the middle is my first braided sling, an apache type, then follows my first made from 6 strings . A split pouch, I have used it a lot, it is wery good, slightly worn, hate golf balls, and I just found that longish stone and gave it a good workout.

The two slings on the outside is a long and a short one, made after inspiration by balearic-slinger.  They both works nicely, the short one is wery ``agile``, the long one I must use underhand, but it has given me my longest throws so far, perhaps almost 60 meters :-/

Nakki, I saw a mini-petanque set like that.  It didn`t cost much, but the shop had just one left, and 3 of the balls was stolen out of it :(

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So heres a picture of my friend slinging. I'm behind the camera. I have more pictures but I'm not so sure how you can add more than one picture on your message.
We slinged in a field that was more than 400 meters long. The longsest throw flyed over 120 meters. We didn't lose any of those mini-pétanque balls when we slinged. It was so dry that you could see a little dusk "mushroom cloud" every time when the ball hit ground.
I also have a braided sling with a split leather pouch but I haven't got any picture of it and I'm now too lazy to take one.

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Beautiful throw :) I prepare pictures soon and I share it with you then.I have 15 slings from this i think so11 braided.the rest of the string slings.I write about Hungary. I live here
on a farm.brilliant place,I like the country and the nature very much always there am.his Nice day!:) Slinging my life!!!! :) :D

My pictures.About  one and a half years made by was an autumn akkor..Ha somebody has a question I am at his service. :)Nice day! ;)

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In the forrest.

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I and my kind slings:)

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This is my sling, aussie sling #106.  I made new cords.

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ONCE AGAIN ONE MORE GOOD POST FROM YOU.THANKX
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jerry

I love http://buydiscountgolfballs.com

I posted this in the introduction section, but I figured I'd put it in here as well.  This is a sling that I made for my brother David as a wedding gift.  Also shown are some clay glans that I made for him with a "G" rune (taken from J.R.R. Tolkein) in them for our last name.

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BrianGrubbs wrote on May 30^th, 2008 at 10:27pm:

I posted this in the introduction section, but I figured I'd put it in here as well.  This is a sling that I made for my brother David as a wedding gift.  Also shown are some clay glans that I made for him with a "G" rune (taken from J.R.R. Tolkein) in them for our last name.

Nice looking sling and I just love the glands

Marc Adkins



BrianGrubbs wrote on May 30^th, 2008 at 10:27pm:

I posted this in the introduction section, but I figured I'd put it in here as well.  This is a sling that I made for my brother David as a wedding gift.  Also shown are some clay glans that I made for him with a "G" rune (taken from J.R.R. Tolkein) in them for our last name.

Here is a pic of my braided sling, it is made from hemp with a leather pouch, it also has a leather finger loop.

i am currently selling these on ebay with good results.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y238/Hornedhunter/Slinging/SlingMk3.jpg

My collection, made by me.
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_100_0846.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_100_0848.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_100_0849.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_100_0851.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_100_0853.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_100_0857.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_sling.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_sling2.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_sling3.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_sling4.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_sling5.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_sling6.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_sling7.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_sling8.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/dorkslingin/Sling%20Collection-Made%20By%20Me/th_sling9.jpg

awsome collection Dork!! great photography too. :) :)

wow - some serious variety there and some really unusual looking pouches.
Nice going :-)
So which one's your favourite ?

Dork,
Nice slings!  VERY nice image posting!  I like that I can click on a thumbnail image and see a larger version.  I never thought to try that, but I like it!

My favorites are the four slings on the last pink page. The multicolored one my 11 year old daughter made with me. The cloth one is the first real sling I ever made its the one that works like a draw string effect. ( It is the one I have stretched over my thumb in the next pic.) The leather one is the best leather design I ever came up with. It can cup any shape. The sling laying on top of the dollar is my first acceptable braid and woven sling I ever made. I used it exclusivly for over one year throwing anything I could get my hands on. It is completely made of jute. I guess between 300 to 500 throws before the not broke off the relese cord. The pouch is still very good. It is retired now.

The picture of the two slings with the dollar between them are the ones I had made for me and sent from mexico. The pouches are huge. I have not been able to figure out how they are woven. They are made from a cactus fiber.

Very nice pictures of some very nice slings.

I was going to ask how you wove those two by the banknote - but now I see those are the ones from Mexico.

dork wrote on Jun 7^th, 2008 at 1:07am:

My favorites are the four slings on the last pink page. The multicolored one my 11 year old daughter made with me.

awwwwwwwwwww you got some family time ;D ;D ;D ;D

So is there a link or other way of contacting your braider in Mexico. I really like the look of those slings and think a similar one would look nice next to my outher ethnic slings.

Marc Adkins



dork wrote on Jun 7^th, 2008 at 1:07am:

The picture of the two slings with the dollar between them are the ones I had made for me and sent from mexico. The pouches are huge. I have not been able to figure out how they are woven. They are made from a cactus fiber.

I actually never had any direct contact with the weaver of the slings from mexico. They came from a relative of a guy I worked with. Unfortunately the american economy forced him out of the work place and I have not seen him in almost a year. I bekeive he moved back to mexico.

Oh well,
Thanks for the info

Marc Adkins


dork wrote on Jun 9^th, 2008 at 9:01pm:

I actually never had any direct contact with the weaver of the slings from mexico. They came from a relative of a guy I worked with. Unfortunately the american economy forced him out of the work place and I have not seen him in almost a year. I bekeive he moved back to mexico.

This is my second sling, I posted it under introductions also. I made it out of 550 cord with a leather pouch. I sewed it with wax coated string.

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Pretty sweet job. Very clean and well constructed

thanks man!! You've made any slings?

@ Marc Adkins,

this pic was posted by I believe Africa-slinger (could be wrong)

anyways they are the same I believe as the mexican slings. perhaps the colour can give ahint as to their construction.


_KF_

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paulmiller look at top of page 11.

Kava the first sling is very similar. The weave runs the same way

my latest finished project:
16 strand square braid, 2 strands added for pouch. took a few days to make, great for larger projectiles, say, tennis balls and up. pouch made using macrame technique called 'cavandoli work' - which is kinda like making friendship bracelets.

_KF_

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Very good looking sling. What material is that? looks like yarn

Very nice indeed.  I love the patterning on the pouch.  I'll have to look up that technique...

cheers for the appraisals guys. glad you like it!  :D

yeah the material is knitting yarn, I mostly use acrylic yarn when I braid because it cheap and plentifull and the colours are endless.

@ BrianGubbs, yo dude, I'll get up a diagram in the next few days that explains the cavandoli technique, it's pretty simple, but I don't how to put it into words...

Cheers,

_KF_

KF,
do you do the cavandoli work with the knitting yarn?
If so, how many yarn to each strand?

I do the same kind of knotting, and find knitting yarn getting real thin in the knots.
But your sling looks terific.

This Alphabet pattern guide is really cavandoli work:
http://www.geocities.com/hbernb3/alphatips2.html
The knot used is this:
http://knopen.ismijnhobby.nl/tables/half_hitch_knot_table.html

There are more guides on cavandoli on internet, but I seem to have lost the links.

Willeke

Willeke,

yep sure do, I use different sizes as they take my fancy, however for this sling both lots of yarns were 3 ply, I think that is what you were asking... but yeah the knots did get a bit thin, so both sides of the pouch took a bit longer than I thought they would.

I'm glad you like it.   :)
there was a pic of a sling of yours that really caught my eye - perhaps  there is a possibility of a trade maybe?
I'll pm you some details in the next day or two, as they say 'nothing ventured, nothing gained!'

cheers,

_Kava_

a diagram of the cavandoli technique:

if its a bit difficult to get your head around, check out the links willeke posted. its basically a combination of tying horizontal half hitches in one colour to create a background and then using the added strand of another colour to created a pattern by tying vertical half hitches.

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Here's my latest project, and my current favorite.  I'm sure C_A will be happy to see that it is not a split pouch :)  Along with it is a concrete egg that I cast using a jello mold.  I talk about that more in the string mortar rounds.  

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I just got my good camera back so I am about to post a lot of pictures here.  I can't do the multi-pics-in-one-post yet, so I will just have to keep posting!  Here's the first one, which is the first two slings I made.  For future reference, the length of each sling (measured from the pouch out) is on each image.

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This next one I made as an experiment... it worked pretty well, and I use it sometimes for longer range work.

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This one I made for long range... but I screwed it up initially and had to redo it twice.   I don't really like it, and don't use it often... I'm thinking about making the pouch narrower.

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THis was my first braided sling.  I still use it a good deal, mostly for tennis balls.

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My second braided sling, with a woven split pouch.  Thought it was neat, but don't use it much.

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My second Apache style sling... my first one I made for my brother and don't have on hand for a photo, though there is a picture of it in the introductions page.  I nicknamed this one "mighty mouse" because for such a small sling it can put out some serious distance.

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And lastly here is the first one I made from yarn... I realized about halfway through sewing on the leather that one side of the pouch braid was longer than the other.... oops.  It still works well, though it looks a little odd.

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Here is some pics of my first sling I made. It is made from two long leather strips with the pouch sewn in. The total length is 35". I formed the pouch with a golf ball(worked pretty well). Nicknamed "Monster" it has a wicked crack when slinging also does fine with large or small stones. The best sling style I have found with it is using the figure eight.

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OOOOH like that pouch

Thanks!

Here is my new sling I made today from cotton string. Its over all length is 54 inches. Retention side and release side are 24 inches. The pouch is 6 inches long and a bit over two inches wide. I finally measured first and got my length like I wanted it(Y x 2.8 = X) and it worked well. Once I finished the pouch braids I think I did a decent job of tapering the release side. I went from 12 strands down to 6 strands. Once I was finished I used an al to sew on the leather pouch.

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Here is a view of the back(like it really matters).

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Nice, looks a good bit longer than you last braided sling  ;)  You need to find a ten year old to give your old one to.  How's it work?

Well this bad boy is a bit longer, a good bit longer than the tiny one. She slings beautifully! I have been casting further and further. I went out yesterday and today to sling. I had to retie one of my knots but other than that, exellent sling. Will be my favorite one until my next one!

My wife took a couple of shots of me slinging today, while I was testing out my portable sling target.  I thought they were pretty good (she takes good pictures... these unfortunately have me in them) so here they are.

First the windup on my figure eight...

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And the pitch...

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Nice day! My name is MUNgarian .Bison this is my new name:)

Hello Bison!!

 Here's another one of my Dad's cool slings.

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...and a closeup of the release mechanism.

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How does that work?
Just like a normal sling or what? Looks high-tech ;D
I'll be posting my first braided sling after today or tmrw. :)

Does anyone know how to make this sling and can anyone make a more detailed version of this tutorial? I'm kinda new to braiding, and this sling looks quite sturdy... :)
http://www.woodcraftwanderings.org/public/images/image8_24_tmb.jpg

oldavid wrote on Jul 8^th, 2008 at 7:42am:

Does anyone know how to make this sling and can anyone make a more detailed version of this tutorial? I'm kinda new to braiding, and this sling looks quite sturdy... :) http://www.woodcraftwanderings.org/public/images/image8_24_tmb.jpg

Well - going to the site, which is rather nice I think :), This is one of several different pouch designs to be found there.

The pocket is said to be based on the Lovelock sling. I have made pouches like this, but they are tricky to get right. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures. The way the pouch grows out of the braided cords is unlike the original.

Seems to me that the author of the site may be a member of this forum, he's certainly aware of it. There's not that many from that part of the world so it wouldn't be hard to make a guess ;D
Perhaps he'll volunteer to produce a more detailed tutorial, but his descriptions are pretty clear I think, particularly if you experiment with some cordage in front of you.

A nice site though, which I wasn't aware of :).

Yea when I saw it I thought it was quite simple, but after the first row of instructions, it got a bit messy and cluttered, and I couldnt' tell one string from another any more.... :-? I'll ask him...do you think the netted sling or this sling (BTW what's it called?) is simpler to make? Thx

A number of people here (including me) have tried to learn how to do this kind of work.  My first attempt was pathetic.  My second worked better, but still not very good.  Since then I haven't braided much, I learned how to use leather because I get a working sling a lot faster  :)

The key is to know what he is doing.  The cords need to be fairly thin, but you need more strands when you get to the pouch.  So you start adding strands into the braid, a few inches before you start the pouch.  In his montage, he is adding  two strands to the braid in the top row, second from left.  You can see the ends of several added strands, in the top row second from right.

The pouch itself is not braided, it is woven.  The strands you were braiding, you now separate, and you pass a new strand back and forth, under and over those strands.  In weavers' terms, the strands that run along the length of the pouch are called the warp, and the strand that gets woven side to side is called the weft.  It looks like he divided the warp strands into pairs from the start, so I cannot quite see how he makes it wider and narrows it down again.  (The way I learned was to divide the warp into two groups, weave a few rows, divide the warp into four groups, weave a few more rows, divide it into eight, weave a few more.  Each time you divide the warp into more groups of fewer strands, the pouch gets a bit wider.  Then reverse the procedure at the other end of the pouch.)

Anyway, the woodcraft.org person is doing something a bit different, he is actually looping the weft strand around each pair of warp strands, before passing on to the next pair. More complicated than simple weaving, but perhaps more secure.

Sounds like I know what I'm talking about, right?  Wrong.  My head knows what I want, but I still need to train my eyes and my fingers to do it right.  That takes time.

It would be my question we the difference Apache I am Hungarian between a sling and the others and I do not know it that when in this manner enter sporting event the slings what kind of type think.how much féle there is type?Thank you.

I rescue those pictures anyway that they are here.I recruit them.very much there are brainwaves here the in the topics.Many beautiful slings my photo is already at home:)

I would like to ask it,that here how I know an own photo to a side to recharge? :-?

I say thank you for it I try to use a text translator. :-/

Bison,

Jó napot kivánok.

Welcome to our community.  I hope you will find many people to talk with here.

I hope that my attempt at your language is acceptable.  Your language (Magyar?) seems very different from English.  I have looked briefly at a web site where I can try to learn Magyar (http://www.hungarotips.com/hungarian/).

How long have you used a sling?  Are you only starting?

You should start a new topic in the Introductions section of the forum, and we can talk there.

Szia!

Jax slinger
is your dad a member or was he at some point. I have seen that sling on here before for throwing baseballs.

Thomas is Jax's dad :-)
so yep long time member :-)

Why's this thread lost it's stickiness Dale ?

I don't know.  But I stickied it again.

Pictures...

Where?

alstablieft

Was sagen Sie?

Jaxslinger,
I see that you ask for instructions for some kind of braiding, even adding pretty please in Dutch, (if the spelling is slightly off) but as I do not understand which kind of braiding or which part of which set of instructions, I can not help you at this time.
I think Dale has the same problems.

Can you please tell which set of instructions you use, with a link, and where you loose track (something like picture number... or when I have done this......)

Thanks in advance,

Willeke

It appear to be a lot of text here in this thread, lately, and not many pictures, and I have just tried out some AUSSIE- and six-hole- pouches lately, so here goes...
timann

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Nederlandse?  I thought "alstablieft" was Deutsch!  Hmmm... I googled the word, and all the sites that came up with in the Netherlands or in Belgium.  So I guess it is not German after all.

So, JaxSlinger, when you said, "Pictures..." I thought you intended to post some pictures but it didn't work.  That's why I asked "Where?".  Maybe I should have said, "JaxSlinger, I am not sure what your last post means; could you please elucidate?"

Timann,

Good looking slings.  The top and bottom slings are the AussiePOUCH design (two crossed straps), but the one in the middle looks like a variation on Yurek's pouch design; the ends are cut, but the cut does not go all the way along the pouch.

What knots are you using to attach cords to pouches?  One sling (the bottom one) looks like it is using a bowline.  Is the one in the middle using a perfection loop?

Sorry for the confusion.What I meant was more pictures in this thread,if you please"alstablieft", in Flemmish.I like this thread all pictures,because for quick reference,you can simply scroll down for different ideas.


                        Brett

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Hmmm, good point: more pictures, less text.  Well, since you ask ... here's a photo of my latest sling.  Composed using ideas from several different people.  The pouch is a six-hole trebuchet pouch, made using Curious_Aardvark's template.  The fingerloop is based on Captain Paul's idea, though I punched holes in the leather and passed the cord through, rather than sewing the cord to the leather.  The leather release tab is copied from one of TechStuf's slings, as is the idea of using fishing snap-hooks to reduce cord tangle.  Also lets me use several different pouches with the one set of cords.

Nice beach.  It would be fun to go slinging there.

EDITED LATER: replaced original photo with retouched photo: brightness increased.  Should make the pocket easier to see.

EDITED AGAIN, WEEKS LATER:  A warning for anybody that might copy my variation on the Captain Paul finger loop:
My variation on the Captain Paul finger loop DOES NOT WORK!!I was slinging today, and I checked my sling for damage, and I found the cord had pulled through one of the holes in the leather.  Even the large nylon blob was not sufficient to keep the cord in place.  Had I not noticed this, it might have pulled through the other hole and who knows where my shot would go?
That sling is now retired until I have sewed the cord in place, like Captain Paul originally showed us.

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Hi, Dale.  Yes, the middle pouch is of that six-hole construction.  All the knots is  ¨double bowline¨ knots, which I prefer for syntetic string.
But the sling in the middle spent its first hours with perfection loops, I too like a bit of experiment :D, but I still got a way to go before I reach the fishing snap hooks.  Does they change the feel, or balance, of the sling in any (subtle) way?
I have also tested such a leather tab and finger loop once, on an short, indoor, ping pong ball sling :)
timann

Here are more slings...

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Timann,

I re-touched the photo of my sling, when I looked at it again it was hard to make out details of the pouch.  Even lightened, it is still hard to clearly see that it is the trebuchet design; it still looks like the simpler Yurek-style, with two straps at each end instead of three (one slit cut from each end of the pouch, not two).  The third part of the pouch is hidden behind the rest.

I also mis-remembered the name of those anti-twist gadgets.  They are called snap swivels.  Anyway, I got the idea from TechStuf, who used them in one of his slings.  There are two kinds available: one kind uses ball bearings for easier movement.  I did not like that kind.  I made a sling using them, and put a tennis ball in the pouch, and let it hang, and it twisted, and and twisted, and twisted ... it just never settled down, the ball bearings let it twist too easily!  So I took those off the cords and put on the simpler kind, no bearings.  No more twisted cords, and no excessive twisting back and forth.

If you decide to try using snap swivels, get heavy-duty ones.  I did some calculations that showed a four-ounce (113 gram) rock could exert a force of more than 130 pounds (59 kilograms) on the cords, as you sling it; a light-duty swivel would break.

My wife and I just spent the weekend in Vicksburg Mississippi, and one of the places that we visited was the battlefield park.  While there I had a chance to sling some stones over the same fields that were crisscrossed with cannon and gun fire over 100 years ago.  My wife took some (as usual) very good pictures of it, and here they are.
This first one I'm slinging from a connon position on the Union side of the battlefield.

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And in this one, I am in front of the Illinois state memorial.  I didn't realize untill my wife started taking pictures how much twist I put in my body when I sling.  

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OOOh...boy do I wish there's beautiful wide areas like in your country Brian... :-/ In the 2nd picture there were cars close by...weren't you afraid of hitting them if you misfire? :o

Does your wife also take videos?  HINT HINT!

LOL yes hint taken Aussie, I'll got one up soon, though it will be taken with my digital camera, so it won't be the best quality... but it's not too bad.  

Here are my two new slings. Thanks again go to Aussieslinger for the pouches!  8-)

The big one is a 41" elbow-height-to-ground length monster. The cords are of nylon rope tied on with a loop through and a double overhand knot back around the standing end. A perfection loop finishes the retention end.

The smaller one is 30" extended-arm-to-ground length. Paracord is looped three times through the pouch hole this time, I am theorizing that this will reduce the strain on the knot while throwing.

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Here they are again, showing off a new kick-ass cord wrapping technique suggested by a climber friend. I will work on the technique some more then describe how its done, with pictures this time!

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What does the kick-ass cord wrapping technique do? Something like a Monkeychain knot?

I think I figured it out from the picture.  The picture shows that you can wrap your cords up in a small bundle.  Then you fold the cords into the pouch and stuff it into your pocket.  Nothing new here, there's numerous ways to make a small bundle of your sling.

The neat thing about this technique shows itself when you want to use your sling.  Just grab the pouch in one hand, the ends of the cords in your other hand, and pull your hands apart.  The whole bundle will instantly come apart, and your sling is ready to use.

Dale wrote on Jul 15^th, 2008 at 12:40pm:

The neat thing about this technique shows itself when you want to use your sling.  Just grab the pouch in one hand, the ends of the cords in your other hand, and pull your hands apart.  The whole bundle will instantly come apart, and your sling is ready to use.

Yep  8-)

At the pouch end of your cords, fold a bight.
Wrap the free ends around the length of the bight, leaving the end loop exposed.
When you are nearly finished, fold a second bight into the remaining free cord.
Push the loop of this second bight through the loop of the first bight, stopping before you get to the retention loop and release knot. Pull the first bight tight with a pull on the pouch end of your cords.

One pull on the free ends pops the whole thing undone.

You can stuff the cord bundle into the pouch and carry it that way, you could even use the loop of the second bight to hang the sling on a carabiner for that weapon-festooned SWAT look  ;)

Dale wrote on Jul 12^th, 2008 at 8:40pm:

The leather release tab is copied from one of TechStuf's slings, as is the idea of using fishing snap-hooks to reduce cord tangle.  Also lets me use several different pouches with the one set of cords.

Dale

The swivels have helped a lot with my slings which have a kind of continuous loop construction. I do use the stainless ball bearing type of 150# test. These are very compact and come in a 3 pack for about 4 dollars. I have used swivels of 1/3 that rating for the 5 ounce baseballs, without any breakage, knock on wood.
The swivels are installed at the grip end where the two cords connect to the hand holds with adjusting knots. I often swap the hand hold assemblies between different slings. Sorry no pic yet.

Tom

Is it the same as this one?

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Remarkably similar, a 30” tennis baller with those 1/3 things no doubt!  

I haven't used this sling but three throws.Tomorrow I'll give it a whirl.

   Brett

Hello Thomas,

  That sling is great!!Thanks to you and D.P.T.,for his delivery.
         I'll be at arriving flights at 3:45 P.M. Friday.

           Let's SLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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http://slinging.org/forum/yabbfiles/Attachments/small-water-balloons-kit.jpg

Here is me, slinging into a nearby lake.  Me and my family spent the night there.
timann

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And :)
timann

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And :).  It is kind of apache throw ;)

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And my son
timann

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I feel this picture belongs here :)
Two slings, braided with 6 strings, one 1,5 mm and one 3 mm.

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Wo looking nice! :D My sling is exactly like your 3mm sling, only...i can't get the slits in the pouch area facing the same direction..one's twisted the other way. :'( I like your stitchwork in the smaller sling. ;D

Thanks, oldavid.  
Twisting the other way, you say.  Hmm, how to solve that.  If you hold the same side of the sling  up when you braid the two halves, and braid even and firm, but not wery hard, it SHOULD  go well.  Practice is the secret.

To come up with my favorite, sew- on leather pouch, I just tested, thought, experimented, AND studied all the pictures in this forum to get ideas. Easy as that.
Back on page 10 in this tread is a picture of my first sewn-on pouch. Wery differeny, but works still ;)
In the beginning, I used waxed linen sewing twine, but later it is the same hemp as the sling itself.  I thinks it loocs cool ;)
timann

Hey here´s my picture of my sling it´s my second one. i didn´t use a leather poutch couse i havn´t got any leather bus it slings great whit stones so i'm happy and i'm already busy with my next sling

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Nice sling.  You make good use of the materials you have.  Looks like leather cords, and a cloth pouch?

Nice timann :D The idea of using the same material to sew on the pouch is smart, 'cuz it'll look like the pouch is actually "part" of the sling (not that a normal pouch isn't a part of the sling mark you) :)

hello everyone since everyones posting theyre slings i thought id post mine...
mine are 100 percent braided thanks to the slinging community for theyre amzing tutorials on braiding slings!!
now for the main thing....

the one in the middle i just made today.....its made out of nylon with really really tight braid.....braided by me....
the one on the right is the one i use to use all the time....still my favorite.....ive used it so much that its actually frayinng all the strings......i still love it tho...and its going to be alive for a long time ^^....
now the one on the left is the big boy....i use him to hurl large rocks and achieve long distances.....i dont use him much...and he is in good good condition ^^ with some mud stains

ooops forgot the pic ^^

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Looks neat ;D But close-ups would definitely give us all a better chance to appreciate the detail that you put into those wonderful slings. :)

David

most certinly  :D

  Here's a few pics from a recent trip to the slinging field with my Dad.

                          Brett


  No,I don't have a lumpy butt,those are 5oz. baseballs in my pockets.64" non-traditional sling.

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And another

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There were a lot of bees in the field while we were slinging.

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Wow what a beautiful field! :o All mown and stuff...was it a pretty hot day?

85 F.

yeah I built a new one! it maby doesn´t look pretty but it slings very well.

it´s a woven pouch but I couldn´t make the same as on the site becouse you needed too much cord  :-/ so here it is

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and here are the stones i sometimes sling with. there all stones from a river (in norway I was there on holyday) so they are very smooth and don't damage the sling

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Hmm nice sling! Very nice colors you've got there. ;D Blue and red are the best colors in the world...sort of... ::) How many slings have you got TimdaSling? Those are gorgeous stones man...just waiting to be chucked at some innocent poor creatures and humans ;D
How're they slinging? I meant...is the sling good and all?

yes that one is quit good. not perfect I´ll hope the aussie pouch arrives soon.

i hadn´t got enough rope to wove it tight enough so it is a bit loos.  but the stones sling very well and are the right size so they´ll fly pretty far but now I´ve got to find an new field as I sling much better than before 8-)

Ow and I´ve got 2 slings now both on page 17  :)

I posted this below in another thread, but here it is again.  It's a video taken by my lovely wife of me slinging in North Carolina.  So for you people that looked at the pictures of me slinging and wondered why my body was in the position it was in the stills... now you know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-yvC5f1SWw

nice slinging action!:)

wheren't you afraid of children playing in the woods ;D

TimdaSling wrote on Jul 29^th, 2008 at 9:15am:

nice slinging action!:) wheren't you afraid of children playing in the woods ;D

Nah! They didn't have slings and anyway they wouldn't have had the range to return the fire. ;D

LOL aussieslinger I always knew you are that kind of person! MWahahahah ;D Reminds me of someone...(is it me??) :P

My sling

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1:1 scale human skull (no jaw) made form modeling clay, the final product will be ceramic plaster, a good substitute for bone.

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The sling looks to be absolutely beautifully made. Please tell us more about it. What material is it made with? What size/weight stones do you use and what distances can you throw?

May I ask what's the skull for? Looks...freaky... :-?

Once I make the negative mould, I´ll have a perfect replica of a human skull, and thus, a good target for skill shots.

This a sling a bit longer than my usual, ca 105 cm/42``, folded.
It has a ``Double crossover leather strap`` pouch and an easily removable leather finger loop. Developed the idea after reading about Captain Pauls slings.
I tested it today, had to adapt my underhand for it, for great distanses, and used fig 8 for trying to hit things.  Worked better than I had dared to hope for ;)
timann

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I had a great sling session by the river Severn in deepest Shropshire while visiting my folks. Dad took some photos:

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This one is just after release - you can see how the stone has pushed the release cord aside on the way out:

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A closeup of the release cord:

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This is a photo emailed to me from Manchester Museum:

From the Egypt and Sudan Collection - a sling and sling shots dating to the Middle Kingdom (c. 1900 BC), from Kahun, on display in the Daily Life gallery.

Description:  A sling and three sling stones, for use either as a toy or for hunting and fighting. Made of woven plant fibre
with long cords at either end, one of which has a loop to fit around a finger.
Period/Dynasty:  Middle Kingdom (Dyn. 12)
Site:  Africa, Egypt, Faiyum, Kahun (el-Lahun)

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how does a sling work?

First of all, Maudie, Welcome!

Did you just find this place?  Slings are fascinating for some of us; a very simple device, and it takes years to learn to use it well.  But the learning process is a lot of fun!

I suggest you go over to the Guides and Articles section, and read a couple of articles under "Advice and How-To's".  If you completely new to the sling, start with David Taylor's article which has several videos showing him using a sling in various ways.  Taylor provided his videos in several formats, for convenience.

Other good articles to read are Lynn Ballard's Making and Using the Venerable Hand Sling (which has some pictures, but no videos), Larry Forsyth's How to Build and Use a Traditional Apache Sling which describes a technique for hunting with a sling, and Mark Weaver's Tennis-overhand (Weaver) Style Overhand Release, which has a description and videos of yet another slinging technique.

Please do not be intimidated by the large number of styles.  Everybody I know (including myself) just use a couple of techniques most of the time, and we each develop a style that suits how our bodies work.  One of the simplest techniques for you to learn may be an underhand throw, which you can see demonstrated by Mike Greenfield (AVI format or QuickTime format).

Quote:

how does a sling work?

It doesn't - it claims benefit !
lol - sorry couldn't resist it.

How does a sling work?

The short answer is that it extends the reach of the human arm, therefore you can shoot proyectiles with greater strenght. Sling.wiki has all the formulas and physics principles involved.

BrianGrubbs wrote on Jul 28^th, 2008 at 11:08pm:

I posted this below in another thread, but here it is again.  It's a video taken by my lovely wife of me slinging in North Carolina.  So for you people that looked at the pictures of me slinging and wondered why my body was in the position it was in the stills... now you know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-yvC5f1SWw

I have not gotten on Slinging.org in a few weeks, so I have been catching u on some old threads. I just saw this posted video!!! I really like the whip cracking!!! Here is my recent sling I have made.

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oooh quite an original design! Never seen anything like it..does it work well?

It looks realy nice!
It looks like it´s a simple design does it work well?

I wish I could take credit for the design, it is copied. It was so simple to make and it is my favorite one so far. I am getting at least 100meters with golf ball sized stones, using a figure eight method. I might try and post a video some time if I can wrangle up a video camera.

Just for reference, this pouch design originally came from Ripcord's trebuchet site (www.ripcord.ws), which sadly appears to be dead.  The original pouch could easily hold a bowling ball (tenpin), if I remember.  The design was scaled down for use with a sling by Joseph Curwen.  Several of us copied the design using Joseph's proportions or changing them to fit the leather we had on hand.  Curious_Aardvark posted a template for this pouch design, whose proportions are excellent.

Hey!  I just found that Ripcord is (was?) a member of Slinging.org!  But he hasn't posted anything for five years... his interests are mostly siege engines, not slings.

Oooh yeah thats right now I remember that's where I got the template, good to give credit where is it due. Or it might have been Curious_Aardvark's post, one or the other. But without a doubt I have found it to be best style of pouch I have used yet, I prefer it over my braided ones.

thanks to the web archive, ripcords site lives on, albeit with only 50 -70% of the original graphics

[url= http://web.archive.org/web/20061006202320/http://www.ripcord.ws/] http://web.archive.org/web/20061006202320/http://www.ripcord.ws/[/url]

_KF_

Here is an interesting picture of a woven sling from a page about Israel.

http://www.forallbelievers.org/DavidsSling3531.jpg

that sling from Israel is probably based on a common design that is used in the area,

compare it with these palistinian slings:


http://perso.wanadoo.es/hondero/sling14.htm


pretty similar...

_KF_

Yep,if that's the webpage I think it is. I am waiting to hear a response from them before i order.

Marc Adkins


David Morningstar wrote on Aug 16^th, 2008 at 8:17am:

Here is an interesting picture of a woven sling from a page about Israel. http://www.forallbelievers.org/DavidsSling3531.jpg

Good effective designs tend to last especially in a region not only famous fo it's slinging but for still using the sling up till modern times.

Marc Adkins


wrote on Aug 16^th, 2008 at 9:02am:

that sling from Israel is probably based on a common design that is used in the area, compare it with these palistinian slings: http://perso.wanadoo.es/hondero/sling14.htm pretty similar... _KF_

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j193/Mordechaj/IMG_8318.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j193/Mordechaj/IMG_8349.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j193/Mordechaj/IMG_8335.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j193/Mordechaj/IMG_8331.jpg

nice slinging!

and beatifull country

Has anyone ever actually .... slipped...and fallen over those dangerous looking cliffs....? :-X

not that i know of.
this is on the island of Lokrum, in front of city Dubrovnik in Croatia.

the local suicide spot is on the cliffs in the town ;

water is deep, but i don't know how important is it if you are not a pro jumper (30+m height).


that's one of the reasons why my release is a bit held back. (the other one is that i'm rusty)

David Morningstar,

a nearly 4000 year old sling! That is incredible! Do you have more information on and pictures of that? Is that the original sling or a replica? Is the kind of fiber known or the material of the sling shots? How long is the sling in total and in detail? It wozuld be fascinating to try to make a replica.
Until now I only knew the sling of Tut Anch Amun (1300 B.C.) and of Lahun (900 B.C.). Another sling was found in Switzerland of the Latène period (about 900 B.C.).

funda iucunda

funda_iucunda wrote on Aug 27^th, 2008 at 5:44pm:

David Morningstar, a nearly 4000 year old sling! That is incredible! Do you have more information on and pictures of that? Is that the original sling or a replica? Is the kind of fiber known or the material of the sling shots? How long is the sling in total and in detail? It wozuld be fascinating to try to make a replica. Until now I only knew the sling of Tut Anch Amun (1300 B.C.) and of Lahun (900 B.C.). Another sling was found in Switzerland of the Latène period (about 900 B.C.). funda iucunda

I queried with the curator of the collection whether it was original or a replica, and she confirmed it is original. It is on display in Manchester Museum near me but I havent been able to get even half a day when they are open to go and see it! Photography is allowed without flash so when I do go I will have lots of hi-res pictures to share. Everything I know so far I have posted with the picture.

Ah Guys I think that is the Lahun Sling.

Marc Adkins


funda_iucunda wrote on Aug 27^th, 2008 at 5:44pm:

David Morningstar, a nearly 4000 year old sling! That is incredible! Do you have more information on and pictures of that? Is that the original sling or a replica? Is the kind of fiber known or the material of the sling shots? How long is the sling in total and in detail? It wozuld be fascinating to try to make a replica. Until now I only knew the sling of Tut Anch Amun (1300 B.C.) and of Lahun (900 B.C.). Another sling was found in Switzerland of the Latène period (about 900 B.C.). funda iucunda

winkleried wrote on Aug 27^th, 2008 at 8:22pm:

Ah Guys I think that is the Lahun Sling. Marc Adkins

Nope.....

http://slinging.org/index.php?page=the-ballistics-of-the-sling---thom-richardson

"It is preserved in the Petrie Museum in University College London, no. UC.6921, and was excavated from El Lahun in the Fayum in Egypt in 1914.... Only the loop end of the cord and the cradle survive"

Note that the Manchester sling has simple twisted cords whereas the Petrie Lahun sling and its replica use elaborate braided cords.

As mentioned on the other thread where we are talking about this sling the pics I have of the Lahun sling are copies of copies so it's real hard to see the detail of the cords.

Now both you and Funda are claiming this isn't the same sling as the one in the Petra Lahun sling.

Now I know that the Manchester Sling is attributed to being found at a site in El-Lahun. So we have two slings that look similar from the same site?  Stranger things have happened. Although I would recomend that we move further discussion to this thread

http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1140984986/45

Marc Adkins


David Morningstar wrote on Aug 28^th, 2008 at 1:53am:

Note that the Manchester sling has simple twisted cords whereas the Petrie Lahun sling and its replica use elaborate braided cords.

I managed a couple of quick chucks by the River Worfe today with my Dad on camera duty.  Apache before.... (my feet are probably too far apart to be ideal)

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....and after! The sling I am using is a dinky little 19 incher with bootlace cords and a skinny leather slit pouch I made up from offcuts from another project. I have been spurning shorties since my first efforts at slinging were with one about this size and I was rather disappointed. I'm doing much better with this one so my technique must have improved. That my theory and I'm sticking to it!

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nice pics of slinging david

I wanna make some pics myself maby I can persuade my little brother to take pics  :)

Use a fast shutter setting. 1/250th of a second works well.  Those pics were taken using the cameras 'Sport mode' which is good for capturing fast action.

Something I've wanted to try is the fast sequence mode on my camera.  Basically it keeps taking them until you let go of the button.  Could make for some interesting shots.

don1 wrote on Mar 1^st, 2007 at 12:43pm:

Here's an alternate method of tieing a sheepshank sling.  Normally, you would form an "S" in the bight of a line, throw on a half-hitch at each small bight of the "S", then tuck the working ends through the bights, transforming into 2 bowlines, making it a "locked" sheepshank. My way uses an extra bight, or 2 "S's" stacked, allowing for quick weave through the 5 cradle lines...I can report that it's great for throwing apples & oranges...or, tie a couple of constrictor knots inboard of the bowlines to adjust for size of projectile. http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j42/donhreed/SheepSling.jpg

OMG!  Just a short time ago, tonight, I posted my introduction, and I also linked to a tutorial I made that employs the 5-cradle-line design that you just described!  :o

I learned the woven sheepshank one from a member of EDCForums called "Stormdrane" (He's amazing with paracord projects, I mean really really good!) but I found the pouch didn't satisfy me with its width, so I started to tinker.  Very quickly (it surprised me!) I came up, on my own, with the 5-cradle-line version.  Wow!  I had spent a little time wondering if anyone else had ever devised the same thing.  (I should've known better.  :D )

Blue skies,
-PJ

I've been idly tinkering with a 2 loop sheepshank and a woven pouch, starting with a 2-1-2 warp then 1-1-1-1-1 for the main pouch bit and finishing with 2-1-2 again, it seems to make quite a deep pouch.

the collection grows:

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the braids:

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cool stuff.

Kava fiend, you have some very good looking slings. Do you make them yourself?

beautiful man

Beautiful work,Kava!Did you check out Rockman's slings in the toilet video?Those things look as if there was some work involved.Also,Willeke has a lot of skill with intricate braids and knots.It must be time consuming,but the effort is worth it,no?I suppose I will take the time this winter to braid one,if my large hands and small brain can tackle a project like these slings you build.
 

Thanks,

               Brett

cheers guys, thanks for the comments.  :D

in answer to the questions: yep Rockman, I make them all myself.The techniques are a combination of hand braiding and/or kumihimo for the cords and plain weaving/soumak wrapping for the pouches. My prefered style of pouch would be the split pouch because of aesthetic and practical reasons. Jax - yeah bro they look like a bit of work, but the sling design can be as complex or simple as you wish, it just depends on the braiders skill and imagination, the main thing about making a textile sling is that i can really stress is it just takes a lot of time to complete one. but give it a go dude, I think you would be pleasantly surprised at what you can come up with!

_kava_

Nice braid work Kava!

Rockman, you might want to start with a Chain Hitch type braided split pouch sling as described in the Articles section.  Very simple "braid" that looks good and goes quickly...

Here's a sling I made a few days ago.

It's made with UAC paracord, with a 5-strand cradle based on the "sheet bend" design.

The finger loop uses a "Longbow Knot," and the release knot is an Ashley's Stopper Knot.

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd269/ornithoid/Knotwork/DSC02408.jpg



http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd269/ornithoid/Knotwork/DSC02409.jpg



http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd269/ornithoid/Knotwork/DSC02413.jpg



http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd269/ornithoid/Knotwork/DSC02414.jpg



http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd269/ornithoid/Knotwork/DSC02419.jpg

Good looking sling there Jeffery!

rally like the sling very nice pouch design.

Very nice  8-)

peacefuljeffrey,

PhotoBucket has deleted your photos.  Could you attach them to posts here, please?  It is easy to attach a photo to a post; just look below the window where you type your text, there is a box labeled "Attach".

Only problem is, you can only attach one photo to a post.  However, it is very easy to stitch several photos together using a free image viewer called IrfanView (available for Windows, I don't know how to do this on a Macintosh but I'm sure there are even better tools for the Mac).

David Morningstar wrote on Sep 10^th, 2008 at 1:32pm:

Very nice  8-)

nice work.

why is this topic removed from important?

I thought this was allmost the most important post on the site :)
allways lots of pics and interesting stories

Dale wrote on Sep 11^th, 2008 at 11:09am:

peacefuljeffrey, PhotoBucket has deleted your photos.  Could you attach them to posts here, please?  It is easy to attach a photo to a post; just look below the window where you type your text, there is a box labeled "Attach". Only problem is, you can only attach one photo to a post.  However, it is very easy to stitch several photos together using a free image viewer called IrfanView (available for Windows, I don't know how to do this on a Macintosh but I'm sure there are even better tools for the Mac).

Dale,
I'm not sure what you are talking about.  Is the problem the way I linked the photos to my post with the links to Photobucket?  I can see the pictures of the sling in my posts as normal.
Did I use a method that Slinging.org does not want used?

I see the photos fine in Firefox but I guess they're just cached.  I opened Explorer and I don't see them anymore.  They are also gone from a corresponding post on EDCforums, so I'll have to relink or something.  I'll do it as soon as feasible.   Sorry about the inconvenience.

peacefuljeffrey,

I figured out what happened.  Your pictures were moved, somehow.  When you posted the pictures, they were in dd269/ornithoid.  Now they are in dd269/ornithoid/Knotwork.  I grabbed copies of the pictures, stitched them together using IrfanView, and attached them to my post, below.  These are the PhotoBucket thumbnails, not your full-size photos.

You have some nice work shown in your album!  

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OK, Jax, this topic is up at the top again.

Dale, thanks for the heads-up.

I've re-done the linking.  I guess I may have mistakenly relocated the photos from one album to another but I certainly didn't think I did that.  (I don't recall getting the message that they would break links.)

Anyway, they should be back now.  Enjoy.

peacefuljeffrey is this how you made that sling? and wow i just learned how to use irfanview to stitch photos :) its under image: create panorama image ;)

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kellymcdman wrote on Sep 12^th, 2008 at 2:50am:

peacefuljeffrey is this how you made that sling? and wow i just learned how to use irfanview to stitch photos :) its under image: create panorama image ;)

Yes, that's the one.  I think I posted the link somewhere on this site, but here it is again.

Instructions for 5-strand-cradle paracord sling, photographed and written by yours truly, over at EDCForums.com.  (Based on a design for a 3-strand-cradle paracord sling posted on EDCForums by "Stormdrane.")

Thank you Dale.


 In between throws to nowhere,we enjoyed a few cold pops.

          Brett

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JustKnot wrote on Feb 25^th, 2007 at 12:58pm:

My first sling: Tutorial for making it http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b40/JustKnot/IMGP0838e.jpg

very nicely done, how does it work for you?

Maybe this will work..something about proper codecs.

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Jax, that last video crashed Firefox.  Twice.  What format are you recording in?

Video Clip (.AVI)

 Again,I had to use the disc that came with the Samsung,and all the gadgets that came with it.directx and some kind of codec.

Try this. I use WinFF to convert from the bizarre Samsung codec.

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The quality doesn't seem as good with your conversion,David.We've been recording onto the card of the samsung.I wonder if that has somethimg to do with the problem.You see,to view the discs on the H.P. I'm using you have to finalize them in the vr first,so at $3 a pop you must practice delayed gratification.


                       Brett

I'd tried quite a few different sling builds, but always had issues with drag (as in air friction), wear (as in release cord flies away with rock after a week), and rock release (as in snag...oh no, where'd it go).  This design has worked pretty well the last year so, gradually tuning different parts until they'll last a good few thousand rocks.  The sling is my fifth build of this style, and has been in use since early summer, so 4-5 months... 50-100 rocks a day, few times a week ... 3k rocks or so. (rocks! and rarely the smooth river stone kind)

Pouch is tan leather from a couch.  Not mine of course, but some wasteful loon willing to part with a leather couch for free on craigslist.

Cord is braided polypropylene rope from the lumber store.  I've used some of the yucca cordage i've made, but missed the neat colors the rope comes in.  Someday i'll learn to dye the yucca purple and I'll be set.

Attachment thread is dacron bowstring thread (serving thread).  I tinker with bowyering sometimes, and it seemed like what'd fit the bill.

Release knot and release abrasion wrap are kangaroo lace.  I've used other types of thin lace, but kangaroo stretches and gets nicely tight during build, stays tight, and wears well.

I also wax the cord every week or so with bowstring wax.  Keeps the cord and lace in good shape.  The last picture is how I loop the primary cord onto my hand, and where my release cord sits - on top of forefinger, first knuckle, held down by thumb.

Release abrasion wrap
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/2862302314_740f7d0036.jpg?v=0

Primary cord attach
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2861472181_b7172e2072.jpg?v=0

Release cord closeup
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3177/2861472279_9bdf046815.jpg?v=0

Full picture
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3083/2861472249_f5775d438f.jpg?v=0

Travel Mode
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3294/2861472209_9ce58d89aa.jpg?v=0

Hand grip
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2862302508_3b9a975aa3.jpg?v=0

(all of these pictures are linked from flickr, if they stop showing up at some point, i'll repost)

tough looking sling. A number of members use this style leather pouch.
So you got  a whole free couch eh ? Nice way to get leather.

Dale get yourself gom player - video works fine for me. It's not firefox that has the problem just whatever video player you use.
Wrist loop works well - how do you attach and remove it  (to and from your wrist) ?

And boy I'm glad you wore them long shorts - with that camera angle short shorts could have been quite unpleasant for the viewer ;-)

Nice looking work. You must be a seriously proficient slinger by now!

I am noticing that if I dont put any protection on the release cord then it gets muck and wear for at least four inches, but a much shorter length of wrapping will protect it completely. Is this the general experience? Any idea why this could be?

David Morningstar wrote on Sep 16^th, 2008 at 2:33pm:

Nice looking work. You must be a seriously proficient slinger by now! I am noticing that if I dont put any protection on the release cord then it gets muck and wear for at least four inches, but a much shorter length of wrapping will protect it completely. Is this the general experience? Any idea why this could be?

Re: proficiency, that's relative to concentration i suppose, but that's the beauty of slinging for me though. Simple tool and complex skill.  Rather the opposite of most of our culture.  I threw for a couple years overhand/side - but kept causing problems with my elbow because of twisting right at release.  I now throw overhead - left hand tosses pouch/rock up and behind my head, right arm pulls and creates spin, then release on the second rotation.  Aiming is far more difficult because one dimension isn't handled by the rotation plane of the sling anymore (like overhand/side).  But i can throw for hours on end without my joints rebelling - and it feels more natural.

On the release guard, that same question bugged me for quite a few sling experiments.  My theory is this.  The pouch is generally flexible and grips the rock - thereby limiting abrasion.  As the release cord becomes slack though, and the rock starts rolling along the pouch toward the cord, the cord is the first "stiff" thing that the rock encounters as it releases.  Makes sense that most of the abrasion would occur there.  I've tried unprotected release cords though, and you're right - the entire first few inches take a good shredding.  I think once the stiffer wrap is placed at the beginning, that the rock hits it and the stiffness of that wrapping levers the remaining cord away from the rock ever so slightly - limiting abrasion.  You can't see it very well in the picture, but I also wrap that lace such that the backbone of it is off-center.  Theory being, when the rock contacts it, and the rope moves, it twists off to one side - allowing less chance of the rock contacting any of the release cord.

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Dale get yourself gom player - video works fine for me. It's not firefox that has the problem just whatever video player you use.
Wrist loop works well - how do you attach and remove it  (to and from your wrist) ?

And boy I'm glad you wore them long shorts - with that camera angle short shorts could have been quite unpleasant for the viewer


Hey CA,

Sorry so long on the reply.The wrist loop was actually sewn by my dad to fit my rather large hands.I just slide my hand into it and it fits snug around the back of my hand.Sliding loop attaches to the strap.

When you wear shorts are they Daisy Dukes,or what?Your second comment about my shorts has me wondering what you're wearing.Here in America those shorts are short.The hip-hop nation has them going half way down the calf.I'm late thirties,and in my youth we called them floods.It meant you were growing too quickly to keep up with your pants. ;D

  Brett

While this isn't a "picture," I made a new video yesterday that shows me explaining and using my new staff sling.

The video is here on YouTube (clickie)

Comments are invited, if you are so inclined.

Cheers!  :)

Nice job PJ; although I didn't get any audio...

I'm not aware of any problem with the audio.  It comes across when I view the video myself.
If anyone else watches and has this problem, please let me know pronto!  I hope that's not why there have been over 200 views but no comments!  :-/

There wasnt any audio the first time I viewed it yesterday but now I get your voiceover and it makes a lot more sense.

I wonder what the cause of that was.  Is it possible that your attempts to view the video coincided with the "processing" that takes place for a few minutes after the video is uploaded?  I dunno.  Anyone, please let me know if you go to the video and don't get audio.  Make sure to turn your sound volume up a bit, because after the first segment, where I am talking with the camera near to me, the sound becomes lower because I am in the distance.

When I get a chance, perhaps sometime this week, I'll make another video of me doing regular hand-slinging, in pretty much the same format.  I'm looking forward to that, especially so that you folks will have an opportunity to either marvel at my skill, or thoroughly rip it apart.   ;)
(I do feel that I've come a long way in the tiny amount of practice that I've been able to get.  Happy to be launching my golf balls as reliably and as far as I've been!)

After having read posts about staff slings, I improvised this one by tying one of my leather/paracord slings to a 4-foot ash staff.
It worked good, I was surpriced by the flat trajectory, I had expected more of an arc.
Not to practical to carry the staff along, but it was incredibly easy to use.

It was raining hard during the night, and it was almost freezing cold this morning when I did some testing with it, so my hands turned WERY cold when I picked up my warious wet test-ammo balls :).
timann

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Staff-slings are taking over the world  ;D

If it is shooting flat then the sling is long. If you shorten it a little you will get an earlier release and a higher trajectory. You can then shoot high by starting with the staff horizontal and shoot flat by starting with the sling end raised up a bit.

Thanks, David.  I must try to memorise your short instruction.  This morning, after some throws, I  slided the tyed end of the sling up and down a little, just to see what happened. This led to me hitting the ground a little closer to myself.
But soon, my hands, and the rest of me, too, turned so cold that all the fun went away, and I went home :(

I guess my sling could have been a bit shorter, compared to the staff, but this was just a first test and I just grabbed a sling, retyed the finger loop, and tyed it onto the staff.
timann

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The weather was terrible this weekend so I have stayed home and made this instead:

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nice sling love the pouch design :)

It started out as a bored test run of a peacefuljeffery style six cord sheepshank pouch using a metre or so of offcut paracord.

Once I had done the tying I could see that although I didnt have enough at each end left to use as sling cords there was probably enough left to do the pouch weaving with. I tied a loop at each end of the pouch and led the free ends back in to weave the center. This worked perfectly so I cut some more cord and strung the pouch with the end loops.

I did the first two rows of weaving on a 2-1-2 pattern, pairing up the outer cords, to make the ends of the pouch narrower. This makes the whole shape more elliptical which I prefer. I worked from each end in to the centre. You can see the break in the pattern where they meet, and on the underside you can see where the remaining ends are tucked away.

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Hey, I was bored last night so I made a new sling with a diferent method. Instead of a finger loop, I left really long cords at one end.

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This is how you are supposed to hold it.

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It looks like a three strand, but actually it´s nine. I took really thin cords and braided them.

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Wow, thats some serious work!

On my very first sling when I was a kid, I didnt have a loop I just wove the retention end between my fingers and squeezed tight.

Since the winter is approaching around here, I must make slinging preparations.  This is a test model of Weather Resistant Snow Ball Adaptable Double Crossover Strap Sling.  
I simply melted and flattened the inner ends of the poly strings and hand stitched them between the two pouch straps, which had their ends doubled over.  Took just a few minutes and worked great with a few rocks and golf balls.  
This is a really easily made and uncomplicated sling,(especially compared to Rockman`s braided sling :D).  
I think my next try must have the pouch shaped a bit wider, for the snowballs.  Hopefully, I still have some time before the (sling ammo class) snow start to fall here.  
timann  

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I hope we have snow this winter it is getting worse first we had every winter 10 days snow and now we´re lucky whit 2 :o
now we have a lot of rain, rain, rain and more rain  :'(

Hello, TimdaSling.  I am a bit further north than you, but I agree with you, and join the choir; rain, rain and more rain.
Winters now is just snow a couple of  times, wich rains away in a couple of days, and leaves everyting wet and muddy and dirty and nasty(not good at all for us dog-owners and  snowball slingers) :(
timann

I have had this sling made of ugly, white, stiff, hard poly-something laying about, waiting for a pouch.  It really do not deserve leather, since it is rather ugly, so I made my first tape-pouch on it.
timann

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It looks allright not very ugly
does it sling well?

Hello, TimdaSling.  With its tape pouch, the sling looks rather good, but the plain, white poly braid was not wery estetiqually pleasing ;)
The pouch is a bit flat, so especially a golfball have a tendency to roll off the side, but with some care it would still work.  I have just used it once, this morning, and I mostly used some rocks, wich was less than pefectly round, and the sling slinged well, I got some rather (for me) axeptable distances :)

This is much sling with little work, and field repair shold be easy with a small roll of duct tape or similar.
timann

Here I have added my second tape sling, made yesterday.  Braided from 6 x 1,5 mm poly-something.
It slings well.  On the picture it is possible to see the thinned-off ends, I prefer to use the sling a little before I cut them to short, so that it can stretch and self-adjust a little, if needed.  
I decided to use silver-gray tape on this one.
timann

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Looking at those I would guess you are taping those flat on a table and then bending them into shape? I made my duct tape pouch across my knee so the curve was built-in. I laid the strips of tape on my knee sticky side up and laid the sling across them with the ends hanging down.

Thanks, David Morningstar, you are of course right.  I never thought about that possibility.  Now I know what to try NEXT time ;D
The nice thing with tape sling pouches is they are easy to make and UN-make ;)
timann

I re-taped the thinnest of my two tape-slings.  It was a bit more complicated to have the tape on my knee, instead of on a flat cutting board,where I could make slits in the tape with a sharp knife.  I had to use a scissor instead.   But the curve in the pouch was nice, it has worked very good with tennisballs during the first tests, it should be able to handle snow balls well.
timann

A couple of days later, I must say that for practical use, a tape sling can be as good as it needs to be.
I have used my re-taped sling exclusively the last days, and if it is not as good-looking as my hemp-leather slings, it has performed perfectly.
 
Yesterday I walked a short forrest path, slinging awailable pebbles along the way, several styles, overhand, apache, fig 8 and commanche, and it worked great.  And, when I was at the end of the path, I desided the last throw should be helicopter, just for fun.
I aimed for head height on a thin, tall tre, guesstimately ;) 30 meters away, 3 whirls around my head, and hit exactly spot on :o.
I consider this sling well and truly baptised by that throw :)

The "but" with this sling is that the pouch is a little bit long and wide for golf ball slinging.

And this is actually a bonus, since it gives me a excuse for making YET another sling ;D

timann

my latest sling! sorry the pic quality might be bad. using a web cam..

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This is my latest creation. My first natural fiber sling.

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It's made from pita, which is what we call generic natural fibers. It's from some kind of plant.
Making the pouch tested the limits of my patience, but the effort was worth it.

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My first two slings

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/ginshun/knife023.jpg?t=1225287640
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/ginshun/knife024.jpg?t=1225287687
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/ginshun/knife025.jpg?t=1225287708

This site is awesome!  Thank you guys for all the info!

Nice work Ginshin.  Welcome!

Awesome, Ginshun!   :D
I love the first one, especially -- looks just like the ones I've been making!  That design Cliff gave us is SWEET!
What is yours sized to be able to throw?  I do mine for golf balls, but my very first one was sized for tennis balls.  Then I got a hold of about 600 golf balls so that's what I make my slings to throw.  ;)

Hey, try doing a two-tone version of that sling.  I did a black/blue one and a black/tan one: they look great that way.

To make Cliff's design to fit golf balls, I generally make the arch of the split sides 11 turns long.
That is, look at the top row of turns in your picture, where the single arch of the pouch curves up like a rainbow from left to right.  If you make 11 turns on the outer edge of that length before it rejoins the other split side, you will have a sling that is ideal for golf-ball slinging.    10 turns is just a bit too little, and 12 might be ok but could be a bit too much.  (After all, you don't want the ball to slip backward through the hole!)

One more thing...

I see that it appears you have a Bowline for a finger loop on your paracord sling.  Nothin' wrong with a good old fashioned Bowline...
but check out >>>this thread<<< (clickie) for an idea about a different knot that seems to have earned a welcome reception.  I use it on all of my slings and it performs well in addition to having a cool name.  ;)

erased for double posting.

See next post.

You are right, that is a bowline.

and the all paracord sling is sized probably just a little bit big for a golf ball, doesn't really work very good with a tennis ball though.

The leather pouch one is formed to a golf ball.  The loop knot is an knot from a book that I have at home called an Adjustable Loop if I remember right.  Its a nice knot, you can adjust it, but it grabs the string, so it doesn't tighten up when you whip the sling and release.  The release knot is the chinese 4 leaf clover thing.  I actually saw the thread about it right after I made it.  The attachment to the pouch is just a bunch of alternating half hitches.  I thought it looked cool.

I am making another sling right now and trying some new knots. The cord is 3/16 nylon rope, so its just a little tougher than the paracord. Stayed with the clover leaf for the release not, but went to a Hangman's Noose for the attachment to the pouch.  The pouch itself is the aussie style pouch that I have seen in some other threads where it is basically just two stips of leather with holes in the and and put together to form a nice cupped pouch.  It should fit a baseball or maybe even a softball.  Havent decided on the finger loop yet.  I am thinking of using a double bowline or double figure 8 so I have two strings in the loop, should spread out the force a little.  I'll post pics when I am finished.

Honestly, I am not very good at slinging yet, but just throwing the ammo (whatever it is) out into a field is so damn fun it crazy!  I am also having almost as much fun making them as I am using them anyway.  They are so simple and easy to make.  I gotta try a woven one here in the near future.  I really like the woven net one that there is a tutorial on the main sight for.

And thanks for the kind words!!

You're welcome.

If you did the attachment with a series of same-way half hitches, you'd get a spiral and it wouldn't look "one way" like there was a left version and a right version to be had.  There are also multiple-overhand-knot constructions you could do that would make it like a noose is grabbing the pouch.  Those might look good, too.

That's pretty cool that you had the idea for the chinese knot before seeing the thread that was specifically about it!  What a crazy coincidence!   :o

My latest effort. Leather and paracord. Knots used: double overhand noose for pouch attachment, Ashley stopper knot for the release cord and perfection loop for the retention cord.

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I have started using the noose attachment method. I like the way it positions the knot behind the end of the pouch and puts two cords through the hole instead of just one.

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The purpose of the three holes in the center of the pouch is to make the pouch curl up under tension. The tension cannot go across the centerline because there is no leather there to transmit it. It has to divide and pass around each side. When you pull, the sides come together and the pouch bellies out nicely.

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I made this nylon sling for a friend. The black cord protects the sling from wear and gives a nice finish to an otherwise pure white.

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Rockman and David Morningstar -- those are nice-lookin' slings, guys!


David, I wonder if you are familiar with what happens when you make a multiple overhand knot in cord and then tighten it.  You can make a barrel that looks like that of a hangman's noose, but the standing end and working end of the knot come out at opposite sides.  What you get is essentially a lump of coil in the middle of a cord.  If you were to tie this kind of knot with a strip of leather inside the coil as you tighten it, and then clipped the end that is toward the pouch, you would have the actual barrel of the "noose" gripping the pouch, instead of a loop of a noose.  The whole system might be a bit simpler, although I don't know for certain how it would behave in actual use.  I attached a cord to the arms of a pair of sunglasses in just this manner a long time ago.  It has held for a number of years, because of the flanged ends of the arms of the glasses.  If you flanged the leather in a similar way, you'd have a secure grip.

If you're interested in trying this out but don't know what I mean, I could take some how-to pictures if you'd like.  Let me know.

Here goes two freshly made slings made like the honda manchega (but with finger loop). They are made from very cheap nylon string:

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And baby brother..

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Couldn't resist to post some others I use for the moment as well ;)

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Nasse, forgive me:  how well do those split pouches retain ammo?  I am having a hard time visualizing them holding onto a rock or other sphere without it falling through.  Are they practical?

peacefuljeffrey wrote on Nov 8^th, 2008 at 5:07am:

Nasse, forgive me:  how well do those split pouches retain ammo?  I am having a hard time visualizing them holding onto a rock or other sphere without it falling through.  Are they practical?

No sweat :) Well, I suppose they are a bit harder to load than solid pouches. If one would find a perfectly round stone you thus would have a problem - if it's too small :P Yet it isn't much of a problem since i rarely find naturally spherical stones ;) for golf balls - i don't know, but I think it would work out just fine if you just make it the right size. The smaller one of the braided one's I intended to make for my girlfriend, but after trying it out I think I'll maybe hold on to it ;P turns out the first one had a bit too long pouch, thus it retains bigger ammo nicely but not my regular size as the smaller one does.

Hey, split braids have been used for hundreds of years, how dare you doubt their awesomeness!? Haha... In truth's name, they are a tad harder to load (you get used to that very quickly) but I think they have a cleaner release, so it all adds up to a perfectly good sling.

Hope that helps :)

P.S It takes less than an hour to make one of these, it's well worth the effort and cash.

Jonas

My dad sent me a few of his new sling designs,and I must say they work excellently.They feature the captive release cord that set his slings apart,but are much more simple in design than the earlier prototypes.The leather pouch opens upon release of the comfy craft ball,but hold it snug until that point.Thanks Dad!!

             Brett

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Thomas' Non-Traditional

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Thomas' Non-Traditional

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...and the pouches close up.

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So by releasing that ball, you allow the cord holding the front of the pouch to lengthen, which lets the ammo roll out of it?
Hmmm... seems ingenious.  Does the line get in the way of the projectile's release, though?


Wow, this is like "the next big thing in slinging" or something.  Will it end up like that Tucker car, though?  :-?

No,there is no fouling upon release.The fishing swivels allow me to get it dialed in for my grip,but once you've adjusted it,the projectile just rolls right out.

Here is the small tan sling in action.

http://slinging.org/forum/yabbfiles/Attachments/Non_traditional_2.MPG                                                                                                                                                                      

That thing is pure awesome!  I see what you were talking about now... hmmm... might have to experiment with that one too ;)

very nice sling, hope they sling as good as they look

Would this be the semi-automatic version of the venerable ancient sling?

If so, I really think it's too dangerous for civilians and should be banned.  ::)

According to the manufacturer this slinglike item is a sporting implement and should be managed in a manner consistent with healthy sporting ideals and never as a weapon.            

Jax’s slings have what I termed as “upset” pouches. They are similar in principal to Techstuf and Mike Greenfield designs called “3 cord slings”. There is also another pouch from a Russian source. Jax pouches have two major differences. These more recent slings have the (2) release attachment points exiting perpendicular to the pouch on either side of the horizontal axis where they form a loop, also the release cord is captive, meaning it can advance only far enough to allow the spherical ammo to pass through the release cord loop.

Tom(dad)  

I have some 3-way swivels that may contribute to the evolution of this revolutionary design.I'll mail them on Friday(Wednesday post).

                Brett

P.S.           @home on Monday ;) ;)

                   maybe carry-on??

Greetings Brett,

The new design looks great! It looks as if the release will be really fast and unimpeded. Have you tried it with irregular shaped stones? Do you think there is any danger of it snagging? Can you control the orientation of the pouch on release and does it matter?

I suppose the really burning question is does it give substantially better performance than a conventional sling of similar length?

Regards,

Aussie

do you still get spin with the golf balls - your's seemed to be curving to the left.
Nice bit of kit - you know it's my birthday in a couple of weeks ;-)
(hint hint)  

Aussie wrote on Nov 13^th, 2008 at 7:55am:

I suppose the really burning question is does it give substantially better performance than a conventional sling of similar length?

I tend to gravitate away from things that have a greater number of parts than a comparable counterpart has.  This thing seems interesting, but I doubt I'd go out and build one because I eschew such complicatedness.