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lakeslinger Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 432 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3180 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 4:03am Also bought an old leather belt in the mentioned shop that I cut into 4 long strings. Two of them finished in this sling. Of this style I made quite a lot of slings. They are simple, but perform very good at throwing.
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Reply #3181 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 4:30am

Another two slings...

One is a shepherd sling with a pouch that is nearly identical to the one shown some pages before (the one I made the drawn mini tutorial for) with the difference that it has no attachment loops for the cords but made as a one piece sling.

The other sling is made from cotton and was first made as a shoulder strap for a bag (the shoulder part is triple for more comfort). But I never continued the bag I wanted to do and the shoulder strap seemed too sling-like to me, so I transformed it into the sling you can see on the picture. Cause the cotton is stretchy the pouch holds the rock very well. The middle string stretches under the weight of the stone a bit more than the other two.

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lakeslinger Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 432 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3182 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 4:32am Another view of the last two.
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Reply #3183 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 6:04am

Cleaning up the mess of all the cordage rests I found a piece of spleitex (this cord that seems natural fiber, but can be melted by fire) and leather, both too short for a sling-cord. So I cut them into smaller pieces and after some whipping I had two string slings. Considering them more a kind of recycled waste than real slings I was very surprised when I saw the first stone flying to the center of the lake where I usually go slinging. After some more throws this two slings had gained my total respect.

The fear of loosing the stones (as it often happened to me with my balearic-style sling) wasn`t confirmed, because the outer string pair can be adjusted exactly to the sides of the stone and so holds it securely until the wanted release.

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Reply #3184 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 6:21am

Another acquisition of holiday shopping were this two wool-yarns. In effect it`s not wool, but polyacryl. When I saw them I spontaneously wanted to make some coloured slings.

The material is less stretchy than real wool, although stretchyness - I found out - is not a big problem in a sling. Wool, cotton, etc. are not like rubber bands. They stretch a little to a maximum length and then stop immediately. In a sling you reach this maximum length nearly immediate after the first acceleration.

So it`s something like a compound sling: starting with shorter and throwing with elongated cords. Also in comparison to rubber bands the cords turn very much slower to their original length after having been stretched (it needs some seconds).

In fact I didn`t note any problems with slings made of stretchy materials.

P.S. On the picture there`s some paracord for size comparison.

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lakeslinger Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 432 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3185 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 6:26am And here are the slings I made from it. The orange shepherd sling isn`t finished yet on this picture. The rainbow-sling is already field-tested and it passed very good. Almost hit a duck
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lakeslinger Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 432 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3186 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 6:27am Closeup of the pouches.
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lakeslinger Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 432 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3187 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 6:31am The orange shepherd sling finished but still not tested. To both wool slings I added some glue on the inside of the pouches against abrasion.
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lakeslinger Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 432 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3188 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 6:40am So here are the last two slings, made Dec. 30th 5 cm wide synthetic belt, same stiffness as seatbelts. Synthetic cords. Whipping with fine cords pulled out from paracord inside and (much-)glue-stabilized jute.
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lakeslinger Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 432 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3189 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 6:42am Other picture - same slings.
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Dan Interfector Viris Spurii SlingingGuide Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3974 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3190 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 9:15am Good looking slings lakeslinger!
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LightSlinger Funditor slingingsport Offline All things in Moderation... Except for Slinging.. Posts: 611 Hanford, California Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3191 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 9:39pm Excellent showing lakeslinger! I am quite fond of your rainbow colored sling..
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jlasud Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Programming stones Posts: 2358 Transilvania Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3192 - Jan 2^nd, 2013 at 12:31pm cool rainbow sling
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14188 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3193 - Jan 4^th, 2013 at 10:46pm Yes, lakeslinger, some good looking slings!
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chucker-mike Junior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Indeed. Posts: 64 SW Pennsylvania Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #3194 - Jan 7^th, 2013 at 9:23pm I'm going to have to attempt one of those shepherd sling pouches. Those look awesome. Nice work man.
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