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Atlatlista
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King Tut Sling Help Needed
Nov 14
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, 2012 at 2:21pm
Hey guys, so I got an invitation from Yale to come interview for their PhD program in Egyptology, and I figured that I'll leave a good impression on the department chair if I give him a king tut sling when I visit the week after Thanksgiving. I've never made a tut sling before, so I was wondering if you guys knew the simplest, most fool-proof way to do it. I know about the tutorial already posted from Timothy Potter, but if anybody has an easier way without making a loom, I'm all ears. Otherwise I'll get started loom making.
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Nov 14
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There was a recent post on how to make the same sling but with an easier method. The simplest way? Buy some.
If you have a dropdead date for needing your slings I bet a few people could send you something.
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Try timann
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Also Humdinger
http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1172017416/2370
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and...
http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1140984986;start=all
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Nov 14
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, 2012 at 3:26pm
Hey, I have never made a King Tut sling in my life. I have barely browsed through the tutorial. What I
do
is making braided slings with knitted pouches which may
look
like they could be Tut slings.
Almost the real stuff, just looks better, faster to make and use way less material
Feel free to ask me about them.
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timann's got skills.
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Nov 14
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, 2012 at 3:35pm
The loom is the easy way, believe me. Make the loom about 12" each way to give yourself plenty of room to work. Make one now with whatever you have available, you will learn a lot with your first attempt that you can use for your second.
Don't be discouraged when the first few passes look like a spider on meth, after a few more passes it sobers up and looks respectable.
Start now and aim for your third or fourth as being the perfect one.
Good luck and post pics
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Nov 14
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, 2012 at 3:46pm
It may look like I have skills but in fact I just do what David says above. I practice a lot when a sling model interest me.
The first of it`s kind is always functional, the third or fourth begin to look good as well
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No arguing with a master. I do what David says too.
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Nov 14
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, 2012 at 4:51pm
Thanks guys. I'll give it a try with wool yarn and a loom tomorrow, post pics with results, and feel free to critique. I've already ordered the 10/2 linen rug warp, so it should be here in a couple of days.
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Nov 14
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, 2012 at 5:08pm
don't you have cotton or some other smooth yarn ? Wool may tangle way easierly (how do you say this ? ) and since you will have a lot of yardage to tighten the weave, it may result on hell on earth...
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Nov 14
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, 2012 at 7:48pm
Caldou wrote
on Nov 14
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, 2012 at 5:08pm:
don't you have cotton or some other smooth yarn ? Wool may tangle way easierly (how do you say this ? ) and since you will have a lot of yardage to tighten the weave, it may result on hell on earth...
I have some hemp I may use. It'll be thick, but for the 20-warp it should be okay until my linen comes.
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Nov 15
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, 2012 at 3:32am
For some reason cotton never cooperated when I tried making it into a Tut sling. It always stretched in all the wrong ways, never stayed in place, distorted the warp no matter what I did, stuff like that. Nylon was a bit similar. They weren't the most forgiving in the learning curve. Jute however, cooperated VERY well. I recommend learning with jute until you get it down, then use whatever you like after you manage to pump a good one out first. (Jute's also cheap, so it's better than burning away some-300' of that expensive linen warp with each attempt.
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Nov 15
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What ever you use, don't use twisted nylon! It is slick and won't stay in place.
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