[Pee_Drizzle]

Hey all!

Ive been working on a forth frame, this time in steel. I very much liked the pommel shape of the last frame i did, and decided i wanted a nice heavy frame with a proper authentic pommel setup.
Having areal pommel and tang design is almost pointless, but it means i can pull ot apart and redo the handle if it gets scruffy or if i want to redesign it.

Its very much not finished, I still need to wrap the wooden handle with a strip of leather... I KNOW I have a meter of the stuff laying around somewhere, can't for the life of me find it.
I also want to decorate the pommel and the forks with some designs, ideally the forks will have elder Furthark (viking runes) along them, saying 'AIM TRUE' (ᚨᛁᛗ ᛏᚱᚢᛖ) on the shooter side, and 'pew pew pew' (ᛈᛖᚹ ᛈᛖᚹ ᛈᛖᚹ) on the shootee side. But for that I'd need to either buy a set of hardened rune punches (expensive), make my own (so damn fiddly) or grind them in, or acid etch it, by hand.
All those solutions are pretty daunting to me.

Anyway, here it is as it exists currently.

Bonus pics of how some of my chili plants are doing.

Chilis, front to back are, scotch bonnet, capsica brazil, habinero.
Beer is coopers pale ale.

Ill update when i finally get around to decorating and finishing it.

EDIT

Oh, and i forgot, here are two pictures showing it disassembled, i ran out of light just now so these are from a few days ago.

The taper is a good fit, a slight tap with anything hard and its impossible to pull it off by hand.

 

[SJAaz]

Alright m8...You got a handle on that sling! Looks to me like it will shoot.

Can't go wrong with chili peppers!

 

[Reed Lukens]

:headbang: That's a sweet looking design :headbang:
You should be able to punch the runes in by hand with a small chisel, it's a bit time consuming but it will make it more personalized. If you have a letter set, the "I" might work also

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rune+punch+set&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

[Pee_Drizzle]

Hey Reed, thanks!

Im terrified of using punches at the best of times. Ive been using them for years, mostly for stamping batch numbers on steel objects.
They never bloody end up where you want them to be, a small cold chisel is a good idea, at least you can see where you're impacting.

I think i might try die grinding it in with a tiny diamond tip.. hmmmm

 

[Pee_Drizzle]

A little update, last night i ground some symbols into one face of the forks, i did it by hand with a small diamond tip in a rotary tool.
Bloody hard not to let it drift away from where you are trying to grind, but all in all it went ok.

The symbols are pretty deep, i also filled them with some black acrylic paint.
Its a little rough, but thats how i like it.

Please ignore the handle its just a temporary pine sleeve, eventually i will either wrap it in leather, or make a new hardwood handle and carve some patterns into it.

 

[Pee_Drizzle]

I havent been able to find my lovely, flat leather cordage. So i took some round leather cordage i had on hand, carefully sliced it right down the middle, and wrapped it in that.

 

[Tobor8Man]

Extraordinary work.

 

[Pee_Drizzle]

Ok, my new flat leather cord finally arrived and i rewrapped the handle as I always intended!

I think im still going to modify it, i believe im going to make some wings which sit on the tang, above the leather handle, and a new smaller handle to suit. If I do, i will of course post new pics too.

 

[J3ff]

I like it just like that

 

[Pee_Drizzle]

Thanks jeff!
Well one benefit of haveing a true tapered tang design, is i can always pop the pommel and handle off and try different things with it. If my wings dont turn out ill just pop that handle right back on there. ????????????

 

[MOJAVE MO]

Okay Drizz that is a special build right there. Now I am curious to go look at your #1,2, and 3 frames!

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[AKA Forgotten]

That looks amazing and was definitely worth waiting for the flat leather to arrive

 

[Pee_Drizzle]

Thanks Forgo!

 

[skarrd]

Wicked! true barbarian slingshot!