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Help me identify this sling
Jan 6th, 2021 at 11:03am
 
Whose sling design is this?  There are a lot of common elements from other slings, but there are also some unique-ish details... the whipping, the circular leather tab on the paracord.  Does anyone recognize this from slinging.org members past or present?
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Reply #1 - Jan 6th, 2021 at 11:36am
 
That circular tab is definitely familiar but I can't put a name to it. Where did you find it?
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Reply #2 - Jan 6th, 2021 at 11:37am
 
I have seen that style from ashop on etsy.  Which most people are not amember here, but come here to lurk, and take ideas.
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Reply #3 - Jan 6th, 2021 at 11:55am
 
It's a guy in western Washington State who apparently just started selling on Amazon fairly recently.

https://www.amazon.com/Shepherd-Sling-Shot-Rock-Black/dp/B07TZWTZ38

I was hoping he would have already introduced himself here at some point in the past, but if not, I hope he does soon.  We need more enterprising sling-makers to talk to each other and help each other out instead of seeing the world as a zero-sum game of competitive selling.   (That goes for all of you other lurkers too!) 

The only person in the last several years who it might be is MightyHunter, but he never posted any sling pics. PalouseSling is from the wrong side of Washington State, so unless he moved to the coast, I don't think it's him.  Lots of other people give introductions without saying where they are from though.

Come on folks... Please introduce yourselves!  You might even sell a few slings to us forum members! Grin
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Reply #4 - Jan 6th, 2021 at 11:58am
 
vetryan15 wrote on Jan 6th, 2021 at 11:37am:
I have seen that style from ashop on etsy.  Which most people are not amember here, but come here to lurk, and take ideas.


You're right... also on Etsy with the same photos.  Looks like he gets 1 or 2 reviews a month.  I haven't run the analytics for his products on Amazon yet.  His name is Hans

https://www.etsy.com/shop/From12Another?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=8...
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Reply #5 - Jan 6th, 2021 at 4:45pm
 
I actually just came across him the other day, while lurking on etsy. Since he hasn't been on Etsy very long,  i wonder how he got so many reviews, and i dont get many. But oh well. I know how mine hold up. Maybe if i post my letter when i got mine in a museum.



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Reply #6 - Jan 6th, 2021 at 6:36pm
 
Apparently he’s been selling on Amazon since 2019 too.
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Reply #8 - Jan 7th, 2021 at 5:54pm
 
Good find Sarosh! I remember Slingky.

It looks like he disappeared again after a couple months.
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Reply #9 - Jan 8th, 2021 at 4:16am
 
I remember him too. Didnt last long here.
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Reply #10 - Jan 8th, 2021 at 5:19am
 
I knew he'd been on the forum. That circular tab is really distinctive.
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Reply #11 - Jan 8th, 2021 at 5:50am
 
Eyelets have never worked out for me. I've tried them in webbing and leather. Last a week or two with the boys throwing stones they can handle. But rarely a full throwing session with me if I'm chucking big rocks. Just rip right through.
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Reply #12 - Jan 8th, 2021 at 8:21am
 
a wrote on Jan 8th, 2021 at 5:50am:
Eyelets have never worked out for me. I've tried them in webbing and leather. Last a week or two with the boys throwing stones they can handle. But rarely a full throwing session with me if I'm chucking big rocks. Just rip right through.


what are you slinging? I dont even put brass on leather and has no problem for what I can fit in the pouch
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Reply #13 - Jan 8th, 2021 at 8:26am
 
Sarosh wrote on Jan 8th, 2021 at 8:21am:
what are you slinging? I dont even put brass on leather and has no problem for what I can fit in the pouch

Just rocks, but I throw big ones as hard as I can
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Reply #14 - Jan 8th, 2021 at 8:30am
 
@kilisi, According to the description on Amazon, slingky uses a rubber o-ring under the eyelet to help prevent ripping. That o-ring would distribute the forces over a slightly larger area and compensate for irregularities in how the eyelet was compressed onto the leather.

I use 2 or 3 layers of leather when I put an eyelet on a sling, and I install it with a benchtop eyelet press to get uniform compression.  The handheld eyelet tools never worked well for me. And the hammer-and-die method for installing eyelets probably works fine in skilled hands, but my results were inconsistent when I tried it before I bought a press.
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