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Reply #15 - Jan 22nd, 2007 at 6:32pm
 
Willeke wrote on Jan 22nd, 2007 at 5:03pm:
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HEY! I'm here right now! Grin

It does look looser in the pictures than I remember it being... Normally, for a weft-faced weave you'd want the warp pretty tight, but that does make it a little tricky to work with, and the tapers might be tougher to balance out. Like Willeke suggests, what I did is pull up and back to tension the warp only when I was packing in the next row of weft, which I ended up doing after every insertion. The already-woven sections are almost rigid - they don't need any support.

I'm relying on the packing of the weft for almost all of the structure here. For the first pocket I posted, I waited a few passes before compacting, and it shows in the uneven product. Maybe fingers aren't pokey enough to really settle the weave?

I'll try with some "dry" twine to see if there is any difference. The tack probably helps a bit?

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Reply #16 - Jan 22nd, 2007 at 8:51pm
 
Great job with this thread. As usual you guys make the difficult sounding task look easy, and actually make it easy for everyone. Thank you!
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Reply #17 - Jan 24th, 2007 at 7:49pm
 
Matthias,
Get that Awesome post into the Articles ASAP! Excellent instructions well worth a spot there. Thanks Smiley
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Reply #18 - Jan 25th, 2007 at 8:09pm
 
Thanks for the simple instructions. I never thought of weaving the pouch seperate then adding the cords. I have been making many attempts at woven pouches finding myself discouraged with how long it takes or not liking the results. Ihave one braided sling with the pouch woven into the cords. It took a lot of experimenting, and time to make it. But I love the the performance above all of my other slings. I don't know what it is but it has a much better feel to it, like you can almost feel the stone through the cords. Maybe its just me. Thanks anyway this will help a lot.
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Reply #19 - Dec 20th, 2007 at 4:25pm
 
Ill try that for sure!
great work Matthias Wink
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Reply #20 - Dec 22nd, 2007 at 4:38pm
 
tryed it ... sucked
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Reply #21 - Oct 6th, 2009 at 1:49pm
 

I'm bumping this thread because it is cool.  Cool
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Reply #22 - Oct 6th, 2009 at 3:30pm
 
i would have made one if i knew how to weave like that Sad. i can only weave rockmans
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Reply #23 - Oct 7th, 2009 at 1:07pm
 
I've been trying to figure out how to make a woven split pouch (just a pouch) that you can attach cords to for a while now. Any old cords! I would never have figured it out. I think looped weaving is called bowes?

Thanks for the bump David. 

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Reply #24 - Oct 7th, 2009 at 6:09pm
 
Iam sure thats a lot harder then he made it look but good info
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Reply #25 - Oct 7th, 2009 at 7:08pm
 
Sweet! Now I have to make one!
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Massi - WTF? It's called a sling. You use it to throw rocks farther and faster than you could otherwise. That's all. 
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Reply #26 - Oct 7th, 2009 at 7:55pm
 
i personally really like the king tut sling that timothy potter came up with.
http://slinging.org/index.php?page=a-method-for-reproducing-a-sling-found-in-the...

made a few of them.  very nice.
Thanks Potter!
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Reply #27 - Oct 7th, 2009 at 8:34pm
 
Yeah, that thing is seriously cool. Pretty easy to make too, although I'm not exactly sure on how to make whipping.
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Reply #28 - Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:11pm
 
echelon7 wrote on Oct 7th, 2009 at 7:55pm:
i personally really like the king tut sling that timothy potter came up with.
http://slinging.org/index.php?page=a-method-for-reproducing-a-sling-found-in-the...

made a few of them.  very nice.
Thanks Potter!


Wow! Any you have made of those, get us pics if you can! Remember that I am a short distance from an Egyptian original. The museum would be well impressed to see a reproduction..
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Reply #29 - Oct 8th, 2009 at 12:38am
 
I'm in the process of making a full size Tut. It's my 7th attempt, after 6 failures. It gets exponentially harder when you double the ammount of strands.

I did make one perfect one before this out of nylon mason line that was beautiful. The line was so slippery that it dropped rocks, golf balls, tennis balls, etc. Never managed to make it work.  Cry
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Massi - WTF? It's called a sling. You use it to throw rocks farther and faster than you could otherwise. That's all. 
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