Ah-ha, I found the slingshot
Those bows are looking real nice!
Please don't waste the time, but if you did an item search through the mess in the pic you would find at least one slingshot, six more hidden inside a bag ready to head out with me later, a pile of pouches waiting to be sorted and made back into bands, a band tying jig, strips and scraps of at least 4 different elastics, two rolls of crystal string, several sizes of steel ammo, some clay ammo, and, well, the list goes on. All in addition to a couple of hopeful bow attempts, a couple more strings, some insert glue, a few field points. And some of the essentials including an empty beer can (waiting to be cut) and the coffee mug needing a refill. One box under the bench is latex storage box, another box is band making supplies (pouches, jig, adjustable ruler, etc), other is bow accessories like more strings, string silencers, bow squares, points, and much more.
What is truly a mess is also a peaceful escape for me, and I can even occasionally find what I am looking for and get a bit or work done once in a while on that bench. I built the bench back at the start of our first lockdown and have used it / added to the mess 3-5 days a week since then. Most of the tools are old, but some like the amazing card scrapers and burnishing rod are new in the last year- for tillering bows those simple scdraper cards are the most amazing tools ever in addition to being the cheapest tools on the bench.
