In a way, it depends more on where your preferences lie. Aside from 3 Balearic slings I've made, I own two Tut slings: one I made with a cup as deep as the one seen in Timothy Potter's tutorial, and one that I got in a SITH from Hubert (Which had so little cupping, it was more like a Lahun than a Tut.)
Personally, I don't like "solid" pouches with a deep cup; my release always fumbles and ends up significantly late. Oddly enough, this has never been a problem with split pouches.
While mine ended up doomed to the shelf halfway through it's first session, Hubert's is
amazing and is an incredibly responsive plinker that can easily handle 4-6 oz rocks and would be especially nice for glandes and manufactured ammo. Definitely a fave.
When made uber thick like the originals, the Balearic slings seem to thrive on oblong/irregular ammo ranging from 4 oz to half a pound. (Which in all fairness, the upper portion of that is above my preferred range due to the strain they put on my arm.)
So basically it depends more on what you prefer: one is better for smaller ammo--such as glandes--and could care less what the shape is, or how smooth it is. The other is better-suited for larger oblong/irregular ammo such as natural rocks.
In their traditional forms, it all comes down to your preferred choice in ammo.
squirrelslinger wrote on Feb 18
th, 2013 at 10:40am:
there is this thing called leather.
Anyway, I am sure it can be done. but it would take a massive amount of cordage.
I personally like the rockman and rocklaric, both sort of a cross between a solid pouch and a stranded pouch. Balarics have this annoying"rocks fall out of this thing" problem... I find the tut a little small pouched, good for throwing lead, but not much else.
-Squirrel
I still have no idea what you mean by "Rocklearic". Could you describe it in more detail? Because the defining difference is essentially the pouch, so how can they be both at the same time?