A new venture

Sean · **on:** December 24, 2011, 08:56:45 AM

I thought this year I'd try making a few Christmas gifts. I've done a few trivets in the past and
I enjoy making walking sticks, canes etc. So this time around and just in the nick of
time, I got a few slingshots done and with the exception of the modified pickle fork plinker the
rest are gone. Wood I think is maple and doused in a bit of linseed oil. They are board cutouts
from a template and using a jigsaw, drum sander, hand sanding, did I mention hand sanding?
whew!

I really enjoy finding natural forks out in the woods also but those pictures are for another day.

Sean · **Reply #1 on:** December 24, 2011, 08:57:10 AM

Sean · **Reply #2 on:** December 24, 2011, 08:57:33 AM

Sean · **Reply #3 on:** December 24, 2011, 08:58:04 AM

this one is a modified pickle fork hunter.

edap617 · **Reply #4 on:** December 24, 2011, 09:05:18 AM

Nice slingshots, Sean.

Sean · **Reply #5 on:** December 24, 2011, 09:24:03 AM

thank you edap.

AHB · **Reply #6 on:** December 24, 2011, 09:27:54 AM

Great craftmanship Sean..

I wish they were legal around here..

Gareth · **Reply #7 on:** December 24, 2011, 09:56:11 AM

now, are they going to kids or grown-ups? I'd be extremely happy to get one myself, but slightly less so if it was my daughter who got one.

Farmman · **Reply #8 on:** December 24, 2011, 11:36:21 AM

I don't know Gareth if my kids got them then I would have to 'look after' them until they were older.

Gareth · **Reply #9 on:** December 24, 2011, 11:49:59 AM

Quote from: Farmman on December 24, 2011, 11:36:21 AM

I don't know Gareth if my kids got them then I would have to 'look after' them until they were older.

Purely in the interest of their own safety of course.

Farmman · **Reply #10 on:** December 24, 2011, 12:11:08 PM

Of course. They look really nice Sean.

edcgear · **Reply #11 on:** December 24, 2011, 01:00:48 PM

My boy just saw this... Now I can't shake him off...

Excellent craftmanship!!

Sean · **Reply #12 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:29:41 PM

Thanks guys. They are all just over the teen stage so able to handle them (I hope).

AHB, that's too bad they are not legal where you are. I'd never heard of slingshots
being against the law anywhere, but then I'm sure there are. $:-\$

David · **Reply #13 on:** December 24, 2011, 05:46:13 PM

Those look nice Sean.

J-sews · **Reply #14 on:** December 24, 2011, 08:07:55 PM

Nice work Sean

Hmmm, just wondering, but what is the yellow banding that attaches the ends of the surgical tubing? (a person sure wouldn't want one of those to let loose at full draw!) $:-\$

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Sean · **Reply #15 on:** December 24, 2011, 09:37:13 PM

It is gold theraband, (yoga strapping) which is well used/received in the slingshot
community for the actual bands themselves (flatbands) and the strapping of it to
the slingshot forks. Very much elastic, and sticky, it's alot of "hold" much like wrapping
an elastic band around another piece of rubber, you get that kind of grip!

J-sews · **Reply #16 on:** December 24, 2011, 09:44:26 PM

Okay, sounds like the perfect stuff for the job!

Mike, Lord of the Spammers! · **Reply #17 on:** December 25, 2011, 12:28:23 AM

Nice, professional looking job mate

Sean · **Reply #18 on:** December 25, 2011, 05:46:39 AM

Thanks much

Ashley · **Reply #19 on:** December 25, 2011, 05:57:41 AM

I give you a rating of

Threeme2189 · **Reply #20 on:** December 25, 2011, 11:35:59 AM

Those look nice!

Are they comfortable to grip?

Sean · **Reply #21 on:** December 25, 2011, 04:51:55 PM

thanks again for all the compliments. These one's are comfortable, perhaps not for big hands
but for the hands they are going to they should fit quite well. You hold them in your left hand
and shoot them gangster style (turned on side), stretch bands with right.

Syph007 · **Reply #22 on:** December 25, 2011, 10:41:03 PM

Looks good! Im a novice slingshotter and I know what theraband is! I use black for the ones I make.

Cheers!

Threeme2189 · **Reply #23 on:** December 26, 2011, 08:59:16 AM

My parents got me one of these:

Hours of fun

Sean · **Reply #24 on:** December 26, 2011, 05:29:57 PM

Syph, How do you like the black flats? Do you tie them up yourself?

Threeme, Looks like a good shootin' catapault!

ICanFixThat · **Reply #25 on:** December 26, 2011, 05:46:44 PM

Very Interesting. I've never heard of a sling shot designed to shoot 'gangster style'; the obvious question is, don't you have to be really careful that the payload does not hit the frame and then hit you?

I only had a pocket rocket when I was a kid. I thought it was wonderfull. I think I gave to away, but I'd live to find it in my junk one day.

Sean · **Reply #26 on:** December 27, 2011, 08:25:36 AM

Forks nowadays on a lot of slingshots have narrow forks. The bands go over the top of
the frames which allow the projectile to do the same rather than in between like on some
of the models with wider spacing. This you can see especially on the pickle fork picture I
posted. The idea there is to cant the hand in a more forward stance so the slingshot is
more parallel to the arm.

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