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Toby Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 200 Nürnberg	The mystery sling Aug 27^th, 2013 at 9:35am Hi there, i postet it already in "pictures of slings" but i thought i give it a seperate topic. Guess what is different about this sling compared to any other sling?
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Re: The mystery sling
Reply #1 - Aug 27^th, 2013 at 11:43am

Compared to any other sling? That's a daring statement Wink

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I have no idea what you could mean. However I can tell you what I see:
- three strand braid with one (pouch) or two strings per strand
- wrapping around the retention loop.
- taper towards the release knot from 3x2 to 3x1.
- bulky release knot (not sure which knot, maybe a monkeyfist, but could also be a turks head variation... Also a diamond knot looks similar)
- material: most probably a synthetic one. I guess polyester, maybe nylon.

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Re: The mystery sling
Reply #2 - Aug 27^th, 2013 at 12:59pm

Ghandi made it out of Abraham Lincoln's hair? Shocked

You braided it underwater

You were actually trying to make Belgian waffles and this is actually what happened.

You made it using only your feet.

It's actually microscopic and its sitting on the end table inside a dollhouse in this picture.

Speaking of dollhouses, It looks like a million doll hairs! Dear lord I apologize for that one. Embarrassed

You set this up for insane comments...you must know this.

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Toby Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 200 Nürnberg	Re: The mystery sling Reply #3 - Aug 27^th, 2013 at 1:57pm I didnt thought that the knot is that unvisible. Its just a normal one. The Material is sisal. Funny answer Arcane. Yes i want insane answers because then there might be the right answer
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Re: The mystery sling
Reply #4 - Aug 27^th, 2013 at 3:13pm

Arcane Tinker wrote on Aug 27^th, 2013 at 12:59pm:

Ghandi made it out of Abraham Lincoln's hair? Shocked

You braided it underwater

You were actually trying to make Belgian waffles and this is actually what happened.

You made it using only your feet.

It's actually microscopic and its sitting on the end table inside a dollhouse in this picture.

Speaking of dollhouses, It looks like a million doll hairs! Dear lord I apologize for that one. Embarrassed

You set this up for insane comments...you must know this.

Mint Arcane lol.

Does this sling only work for Tennis Balls ? Looks huge "pouch" area. Nice looking sling though.

Lmao again at Arcane.

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Arcane Tinker Funditor Offline Slinging everything 'cept b.s. Posts: 738 Western Wisconsin Gender:	Re: The mystery sling Reply #5 - Aug 27^th, 2013 at 3:17pm Oh myyyy...... It's Goliath's sling isn't it? Is that texture behind it carpeting? If so, it's so bloody big that watermelons wouldn't pouch.
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Toby Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 200 Nürnberg	Re: The mystery sling Reply #6 - Aug 28^th, 2013 at 1:01am Oh well the mystery is solved... I never thought it would be that fast. I should have taken a different background
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Bill Skinner past-moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3292	Re: The mystery sling Reply #7 - Aug 28^th, 2013 at 9:31am So, what did you throw in it and how did it work?
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Re: The mystery sling
Reply #8 - Aug 28^th, 2013 at 9:47am

Its for a new sport. Extreme dwarf tossing. Or hyper velocity dodge ball.

I've made two very large slings, neither of which were anywhere close to yours (the longest one was maybe 175cm from loop to pouch) I made mine out od hollow braid polypropylene rope. Mine weren't pretty like yours and it was too dangerous to use. I could never get a consistent release.

I am reinspired by this and may try another sling big enough to put some serious heat on a regulation American football.

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Toby Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 200 Nürnberg	Re: The mystery sling Reply #9 - Aug 28^th, 2013 at 10:09am I did not through anything with it yet. I dont even know how i would do this Dwarf tossing lol! Its made of 6mm sisal rope and its 3 meters long from loop to pouch. Its fun to look at it because its ridicioulus huge
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jlasud Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Programming stones Posts: 2358 Transilvania Gender:	Re: The mystery sling Reply #10 - Aug 28^th, 2013 at 12:05pm I've made and used 1.5m long sling (fingerloop->pouch) succesfully. It has 2mm thin synthetic cords. That way it has relatively low air drag. I can't imagine just a long sling with such thick cords to be any effective.
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Toby Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 200 Nürnberg	Re: The mystery sling Reply #11 - Aug 28^th, 2013 at 12:09pm "I can't imagine just a long sling with such thick cords to be any effective. " @jlasud: Thats why David won over Goliath
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: The mystery sling Reply #12 - Aug 28^th, 2013 at 9:04pm Obviously, its missing the pouch.
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Arcane Tinker Funditor Offline Slinging everything 'cept b.s. Posts: 738 Western Wisconsin Gender:	Re: The mystery sling Reply #13 - Aug 28^th, 2013 at 9:11pm I'm with bigkahuna on this one. Turn that bad boy into an apache sling. And if you can't muster any rotation out of it, you still got one sweet hammock for a toddler.
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jlasud Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Programming stones Posts: 2358 Transilvania Gender:	Re: The mystery sling Reply #14 - Aug 29^th, 2013 at 1:43am I wanted to write " I can't imagine such a long sling with such thick cords to be any effective" Even with 2mm cords air drag is noticeble on my 1.5m sling. I can throw tennis ball sized stones 150m with it. I call it the artillery sling.
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