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Lightning Jack Ex Member	Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Jun 11^th, 2021 at 7:03pm Just wondering if anyone has tried to make a sling using inner tree bark, I have made one using walnut bark, with a leather pouch.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #1 - Jun 11^th, 2021 at 7:40pm I think I might have once at one point from willow? Maybe? But I love that. It looks great. Did you boil the fiber in ash water first? Hows it holding up?
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Lightning Jack Ex Member	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #2 - Jun 11^th, 2021 at 11:56pm I didn’t boil it in ash water. It hold up really well but the bark doesn’t have much friction in the whipping so after about a dozen throws the loop side sting slips out and I have to fix it.
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 647 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #3 - Sep 8^th, 2021 at 10:00pm Greetings Jack, what you are talking about is "bast". There is archeobotanical evidence that lime bast was the primary cordage used in neolithic times and later. Good luck. Cheers Zud
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #4 - Sep 11^th, 2021 at 7:35am Could you also use it for the pouch ?
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MikeG Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 454 Bayern-Germany Gender:	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #5 - Sep 11^th, 2021 at 12:55pm Curious Aardvark wrote on Sep 11^th, 2021 at 7:35am: Could you also use it for the pouch ? you can use it just like any other fiber. you can make a balearic sling if you have enough of it
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #6 - Sep 11^th, 2021 at 4:39pm I meant a solid pouch.
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 647 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #7 - Sep 11^th, 2021 at 9:59pm Iffen yu was asken I about a solid pouch ... bast is by its nature only useful as a stranded material. There is a rather cute reconstruction sketch of a bloke wandering round doing an imitation of a haystack with legs !!!
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 3127 PA, USA	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #8 - Sep 11^th, 2021 at 10:17pm Zud, that made me laugh so hard.
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MikeG Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 454 Bayern-Germany Gender:	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #9 - Sep 13^th, 2021 at 8:57am Curious Aardvark wrote on Sep 11^th, 2021 at 4:39pm: I meant a solid pouch. weaving
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 647 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #10 - Sep 19^th, 2021 at 10:53am @joe cheers
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Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling?
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Sep 8^th, 2021 at 10:00pm:

There is archeobotanical evidence that lime bast was the primary cordage used in neolithic times and later.

And I've made a sling with lime bast. I was taking the bark off an unknown log and realised it would make for great cordage. I then found out it was lime bast and made a sling and rope from it. Great stuff. Easy to see why it was used.

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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 647 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? Reply #12 - Sep 20^th, 2021 at 9:45pm @kick, thanks for that, it's great to hear something is still in use thousands of years later cheers Zud
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