attachment of Chinese style bands to wooden slingshot

smitty · attachment of Chinese style bands to wooden slingshot

Here is a little different way to go with an over the top:

fish

nice bit of work,we need to meet!

smitty

You know Fish I would love to meet you! I think your work is great and I enjoy your sense of humor!

JoergS

Good idea,Smitty. The Chinese just drill two holes through the fork, works good, too, and does not need the pins.

Jörg

smitty

Yeah, Joerg I saw that on some Chinese natural forks, but I wanted to try to shoot twin tube over the top and I liked it so much I made another. I'm working on getting me some good flat bands finally also for my own slingshots and my sons'. He and I first discuss patterns of forks we design and after we do changes until we like them we go shoot them. Most of the time changes away from "normal" end up in the trash, but sometimes we keep an idea. I like the twin tube over the top, but most of the guys at work don't like it, because they feel it is too complicated to attach rubber. Oh well...rejection is part of design... Here's my newest design..."CLASSIC".

alex

smitty,u have a perfect design with tube,maybe it is better to design bigger concave groove on the top fork.

pelleteer

Smitty, nice setup. Regarding the pins, it looks like you could use the method Geko uses in this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P0aC58bLds to attach those bands and eliminate them (pins). I don't see why you couldn't still use them OTT by putting the loop under the bands rather than over.

smitty

The tube attachment doesn't really even need the bands through the hole with the pins, because the tubes are tied into grooves with rubber-bands like flat-bands, but I just liked the extra security of putting the bands through the hole because it does take a lot of force to pull the bands to full draw. It shoots very well and I have it in my case of shooters I like. That way it doesn't get taken apart to try something else.

This one just has regular flat top forks and it shoots the twin bands very well also. It turns out you don't need top of forks shaped to hold rubber at all.

pelleteer

What are you using for the pins on those? They appear to be wood or bamboo.

smitty

It's just a 1/8" birch dowel, cut and beveled on the ends. Nothing fancy.

pelleteer

Thanks, Smitty.

smitty

You are very welcome Pelleteer. If you make a version, I sure would be interested in seeing what you came up with. Maybe I'll see something I could use also.