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Kick Forum Moderation Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5790 - May 12^th, 2020 at 3:15pm Really clean even weaving. Awesome!
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Tejo Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 44 Chile Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5791 - May 14^th, 2020 at 11:29am Hi! I'm a new member and these are my favorite slings (my others are too crappy to be shown). The gray one was made with a piece of glove and zip ties.
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Tejo Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 44 Chile Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5792 - May 14^th, 2020 at 11:36am Sorry for the enormous image
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Kick Forum Moderation Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5793 - May 14^th, 2020 at 12:02pm Welcome from Finland! They look really nice!
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Tejo Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 44 Chile Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5794 - May 14^th, 2020 at 12:32pm Thank you Kick!
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Reply #5795 - May 14^th, 2020 at 12:49pm

Welcome Tejo

Good slings you have there.
I find my traditional primitive slings a little harder to use than my 'simple', easily assembled, synthetic cord slings

When I use my primitive slings that have each a few hours of labour into them, and I discover they don't sling as good as my paracord slings, I previously got discouraged to make traditional slings, thinking the added complexity wasn't worth it if it wasn't gonna sling better than the 5 minute paracord slings.

While these synethetic cord slings are easy for us to assemble and they sling really well, the truth is that even the most complex traditional slings made by hand are still more ''simple'' than the simplest of synthetic slings, being that synthetics requires oil being pumped up from deep inside the earth to be created and complex braiding machinery, and all the machinery for that, while the skillfully crafted ''traditional slings'' only require plant fibre and a pair of hands (and maybe some small weaving tools)

on't know why I rambling on I just felt like sharing these thoughts.

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Reply #5796 - May 14^th, 2020 at 1:15pm

AncientCraftwork wrote on May 14^th, 2020 at 12:49pm:

Welcome Tejo

Good slings you have there.
I find my traditional primitive slings a little harder to use than my 'simple', easily assembled, synthetic cord slings

When I use my primitive slings that have each a few hours of labour into them, and I discover they don't sling as good as my paracord slings, I previously got discouraged to make traditional slings, thinking the added complexity wasn't worth it if it wasn't gonna sling better than the 5 minute paracord slings.

While these synethetic cord slings are easy for us to assemble and they sling really well, the truth is that even the most complex traditional slings made by hand are still more ''simple'' than the simplest of synthetic slings, being that synthetics requires oil being pumped up from deep inside the earth to be created and complex braiding machinery, and all the machinery for that, while the skillfully crafted ''traditional slings'' only require plant fibre and a pair of hands (and maybe some small weaving tools)

on't know why I rambling on I just felt like sharing these thoughts.

I agree with your thoughts, I have spent hours making some slings just to realize they are made from crap materials and will not work well. I will try to make a sling with phormium tenax plant when I can gather some leaves.

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AncientCraftwork Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2403	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5797 - May 14^th, 2020 at 1:24pm Here is a jute sling I made yesterday
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Tejo Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 44 Chile Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5798 - May 14^th, 2020 at 1:28pm AncientCraftwork wrote on May 14^th, 2020 at 1:24pm: Here is a jute sling I made yesterday That is a nice looking one, Jauke.
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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5799 - May 14^th, 2020 at 7:20pm @ Tejo Nice work! Like the seat belt type attachment on the leather pouch.
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Tejo Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 44 Chile Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5800 - May 14^th, 2020 at 10:05pm walter wrote on May 14^th, 2020 at 7:20pm: @ Tejo Nice work! Like the seat belt type attachment on the leather pouch. Thanks! I made it like that to prevent the cords from ripping through the pouch.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2811 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5801 - May 15^th, 2020 at 10:40am
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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2597 Australia Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5802 - May 15^th, 2020 at 10:50am Pretty sling Jaegoor
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Kick Forum Moderation Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5803 - May 15^th, 2020 at 11:10am I'm so impressed with how clean everyone's weaving is. I need to get back to making some woven pouches, particularly with the twining over sticks method.
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Tejo Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 44 Chile Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #5804 - May 15^th, 2020 at 11:38am Beautiful sling
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