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Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging
Reply #7995 - Apr 14^th, 2025 at 4:18pm

Mind if I hop on the question train and ask what they're made of? Aside from oil? 😆
Also, you say "11 or 22," does that mean after you joined the fingerloop you switched to a 22 strand braid instead of matching the strands and continuing with an 11 strand? 'Cause I've thought about doing that, but doing a standard braid with an even number of strands means one side is gonna be thicker than the other 'cause it goes over an extra strand.

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Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging
Reply #7996 - Apr 14^th, 2025 at 5:20pm

Stals wrote on Apr 14^th, 2025 at 4:18pm:

Mind if I hop on the question train and ask what they're made of? Aside from oil? 😆
Also, you say "11 or 22," does that mean after you joined the fingerloop you switched to a 22 strand braid instead of matching the strands and continuing with an 11 strand? 'Cause I've thought about doing that, but doing a standard braid with an even number of strands means one side is gonna be thicker than the other 'cause it goes over an extra strand.

The first two are hemp and the one on the right is flax.
The loop is 11 strand braid, but where the cord begins, the yarns are lined up and each pass is two rather than one. So it’s like 11 strands, but passing two at a time.

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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #7997 - Apr 28^th, 2025 at 11:06am Here's a picture of the SITH sling I made for Eino. It is a partially skeletonized modified pj or Five Strand Sheep Shank. It is 100% Jute.
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GT Junior Member Offline Having fun slingin' Posts: 55 Illinois Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #7998 - May 15^th, 2025 at 10:32pm ooh that looks very nice!
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #7999 - May 17^th, 2025 at 1:11pm GT wrote on May 15^th, 2025 at 10:32pm: ooh that looks very nice! Thank you. I got the colored jute from Amazon. It was pretty cheap.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2862 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8000 - May 17^th, 2025 at 1:34pm Makramee Sling
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2862 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8001 - May 17^th, 2025 at 1:36pm
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8002 - May 18^th, 2025 at 9:56am Beautiful! Edit: I'll make a sling and think it looks pretty good. Then I'll look at one of Jaegoor's slings and suddenly mine looks like it was made by a monkey. We have some real artists here.
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 925 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8003 - May 18^th, 2025 at 12:00pm Works as well as its good looks suggest ? I have always resisted learning macrame ad "impractical" ..... maybe time for a re think ! 😁👍
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2862 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8004 - May 21^st, 2025 at 7:10am Thank you for the praise. I like aesthetics and functionality. Here's another one. The material is paracord; I rarely work with paracord. Usually, only when I want to try something new.
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Archaic Arms Funditor Offline Testing and inventing "Archaic" weapons. Posts: 780	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8005 - May 24^th, 2025 at 2:21pm Always like to see a new Jaegoor masterpiece.
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Archaic Arms Funditor Offline Testing and inventing "Archaic" weapons. Posts: 780	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8006 - May 24^th, 2025 at 2:25pm A sling made quite a while ago. Hemp, woven with rods, waxed and oiled.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2862 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8007 - May 25^th, 2025 at 7:21am Reminds me a bit of Cordailiot. How did you make them? Really good work.
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 3900 PA, USA	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8008 - May 25^th, 2025 at 1:38pm Some amazing looking slings getting posted here recently.
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Scorpion Vin Descens Offline Still slinging better than archery! Posts: 249 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8009 - May 25^th, 2025 at 4:49pm Clean work! You oiled it first and then waxed it, right? What oil did you use? It looks very neat. And the small cross-section of the cords will allow you to throw stones more powerfully than thicker and heavier ropes.
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