[Dayhiker]

To begin, let me say that I am in no way trying to show off my skill here. I just wanted to share these with you. I am not very skilled at working with plywood yet. But I do find it fun and the results of my work are, if not beautiful, at least pretty safe to shoot. This is a quite inexpensive way to work as long as you don't try to get too fancy, especially if you work with just a coping saw, a 4-in-hand rasp and some sandpaper -- oh yeah, and a drill. (I use my knife a little, too but not necessary.)

So here's the three I'm working on (stained but no varnish yet).

First I'd like to talk about Bill Hays's "Lil Ranger". This thing is an awesome design. I haven't shot with it yet, but just holding it tells me all I need to know. I'll bet this easy to make design will become a true classic in the self-made slingshot world. I love it. I left out the work at the tip because I haven't the skill to do it without making a mess. So I kept it set up like my "Pocket Buddy" series, which handle OTT flats and Chinese tubes.
I printed out Bill's pattern and enlarged it by 1/3. Now it is just right for me. Here is how it looks in my hand.
Thanks Bill for a great design.

The next one I copied was my own original "Curvy", but this one was made from the reduced pattern offered here by e-shot. It becomes a very different shooter this small and I converted it into another pocket buddy. It's pretty cool.

And now for the new plinker/pocket buddy. This one shoots nice and is my smallest pocket buddy style slingshot to date. I will enclose the pattern below.

I don't know how original this new design is, but I drew it up out of nowhere with my drafting program a couple days ago and just went for it. It was sort of a surprise attack by the slingshot muse. LOL. Turns out that it's a good little shooter.

Thanks for looking. Hope somebody can use the pattern.

Edit: Well, I strapped up the Lil' Ranger with some light flats and shot about 30 rounds of marbles and 7/16" steel. I gotta tell ya, this is one seriously good slingshot. Great design! Excellent job Bill.

 

[Rayshot]

just made one very much like the new plinker day befor eyesterday but with a peculiar addition to it. Will post pics another time

Bill they all look great to me.

 

[harpersgrace]

Those are top notch DH, great work.

 

[John-Boy]

They look great DH!!, I printed out the pdf file, so will commence work on this in the mornin

Thanks DH..

 

[Dayhiker]

John-Boy, I'll be looking forward to seeing it!

Thanks guys for the comments.

 

[mxred91]

Bill that is some nice work. You have a distinct style. Curvy is on my list, right now Smitty's Ghost in in process, then the Ash Bow.

 

[Bill Hays]

Looks great Man!
All of them look like real nice shooters.

 

[Dayhiker]

Thanks, Chuck and Bill. They are fun little shooters.

 

[M.J]

Those look realy good DH!
Let us know how your Ranger shoots as I'm curious to hear other's opinions. I've finally gotten to where I can shoot mine but there was a bit of a learning curve to it. Maybe it's just me.
Fine workmanship, as always!

 

[e~shot]

All are looking nice,

 

[Felicko]

Nice slingshots

 

[dgui]

I think I"m having Love Quims for the New Plinker, she's beautiful. DayMan you have super skills.

 

[Dayhiker]

"Love Quims" ????

. . . not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[Snipez]

I love the look of these

Im struggling to find the right plywood the only ones I can find are at wickes and they are spruce 18mm and 18mm hardwood exterior use any help would be great I'm in the uk

Atb rob

 

[philly]

Love them all DH, nice looking slings, how's the hand holding up?
Philly

 

[Dayhiker]

Well, it's a bit stronger now. I am spending an hour here and there shooting/making lingshots now. Thanks for asking, Philly.

 

[Usal1023]

To begin, let me say that I am in no way trying to show off my skill here. I just wanted to share these with you. I am not very skilled at working with plywood yet. But I do find it fun and the results of my work are, if not beautiful, at least pretty safe to shoot. This is a quite inexpensive way to work as long as you don't try to get too fancy, especially if you work with just a coping saw, a 4-in-hand rasp and some sandpaper -- oh yeah, and a drill. (I use my knife a little, too but not necessary.)

So here's the three I'm working on (stained but no varnish yet).

First I'd like to talk about Bill Hays's "Lil Ranger". This thing is an awesome design. I haven't shot with it yet, but just holding it tells me all I need to know. I'll bet this easy to make design will become a true classic in the self-made slingshot world. I love it. I left out the work at the tip because I haven't the skill to do it without making a mess. So I kept it set up like my "Pocket Buddy" series, which handle OTT flats and Chinese tubes.
I printed out Bill's pattern and enlarged it by 1/3. Now it is just right for me. Here is how it looks in my hand.
Thanks Bill for a great design.

The next one I copied was my own original "Curvy", but this one was made from the reduced pattern offered here by e-shot. It becomes a very different shooter this small and I converted it into another pocket buddy. It's pretty cool.

And now for the new plinker/pocket buddy. This one shoots nice and is my smallest pocket buddy style slingshot to date. I will enclose the pattern below.

I don't know how original this new design is, but I drew it up out of nowhere with my drafting program a couple days ago and just went for it. It was sort of a surprise attack by the slingshot muse. LOL. Turns out that it's a good little shooter.

Thanks for looking. Hope somebody can use the pattern.

Edit: Well, I strapped up the Lil' Ranger with some light flats and shot about 30 rounds of marbles and 7/16" steel. I gotta tell ya, this is one seriously good slingshot. Great design! Excellent job Bill.

 

[Usal1023]

Those look awesome how thick is the plywood you used? I am just starting out and can't find the multiplex wood I hear a lot about. Just curious I am not planning on using strong bands like joerg sprave, but would like to use for small game/ plinking while hiking.

Usal1023

 

[Eddie_T]

Dayhiker, Very nice, don't sell your talent short.

I am sure this is not news to most, but for scaling I copy and paste a drawing into my word processor (WordPerfect) click on the image and stretch or compress to my liking. It can be stretched vertically, horizontally or linearly.

I haven't tried this yet, but for a photo I am thinking of trying photo processing software and converting to "coloring book" to get just outlines.

 

[Dayhiker]

Thanks USAL and Eddie.

@ USAL: I use 3/4-inch birch plywood from Home Depot. Not the best but it works pretty well.

@ Eddie: If you get yourself a basic cad program, you can scale a picture or drawing perfectly even if you only have one measurement to go by. The program I use only takes a couple of nights to learn and it's pretty cheap. The name of it is DeltaCad.