Now that I have a working furnace, it’s time to make something more or less useful with it. My old crucible had to be replaced though as it got punctured and started leaking. I didn’t have...Read More
I am planning to make a small batch of my slingshot design, and sell them here in order to recover some of my recent investments. As of today, I haven’t made a cent off this hobby… To mak...Read More
I got a lot of suggestions with respect to how to clean the slingshot up. I took my time to think about it, but in the end I went with the solution that may not be the easiest nor the fastest, but I t...Read More
I did some sanding on the slingshot, but the more I handle it, the dirtier it becomes… This picture illustrates the difference between an unhandled piece and the one I’ve sanded. I may try...Read More
I cut up the block of pencils and made it into a nice 1-inch board, as you can see in the image above. I had no idea how machinable it would be, so I decided to take all settings very conservative: 3...Read More
After the rather short taste of success with the rambone slingshot, I decided to design my own. I used the T-splines plugin for Rhino to freeform model the body. I call it the ‘BIG GAME’...Read More
Last year I traveled to Peru. As always i bought way to much crap in the souvenir shops. One of those things was a 3-dollar yellow slingshot. Boys and their toys i guess :-). After about ten shots wi...Read More