Burtini

Cheers Bruce! ;-)

Seems like I've missed a fair amount here in the last few months. Reading your status history helped shed a bit of light on it. I decided to make myself at home here instead of the other forum way back when because I felt like we had more of a community. Feels like it's getting away from that which is a shame for sure.

Nah it's all cool here, sometimes things need saying, the original post has been deleted.

Like Muz said we are good other than you know we still have that pie guy around! ;-)

Welcome back man !

@Mr Muz, it did arrive and it's beautiful. I actually shot it for the first time last weekend. I apologize for not posting about it, or even sending you a thank you. I'll be sending something your way when I get back to building!

No apology needed, just glad it arrived safely.

Not really for wood working, but for metal i will get sandpaper pads upto 12,000 at hobby lobby. I get sheets of good sandpaper from an automotive paint store.

After 400 I do # 0000 steel wool and brown grocery bag.

I've bought some at paint stores where they only sell paint they sell individual sheets so I've found that to be the cheapest

This time yes, I've been married 13 years and it's not for my personality. They did write a song about me, Jake the peg. ;-)

hahahaha,,,,,, I have a feeling that isn't the reason either, pegleg ..

3 legs, well 2 and a baby's arm.

why did you have fps on your physics exam? don't they make you use proper metrics at your School? nevermind, It doesn't very fast in Meters. a few people can almost run that fast..

It was metric on the quiz, I just converted it since we almost always use fps here on the forum. It just gave me a laugh to imagine how slow that shot really is LOL

it made me do some math, and the fastest runners can run faster... and I don't even think it's plausible to shoot that slow..

Ding ding ding

Yeah seen it on Facebook, great choice, made me twitch in the trouser area.

Ive seen it on Facebook aswell That’s a cracking frame.

what do I look like? the curator of things that are useless to others? hehe, I'll collect it blind, I don't care.. but there are far needier and deserving people than me. children in Africa don't have any slingshots cause of me.. :-(

Na, it's not useless just not my thing. If you don't want it I'll send it to the African children :)

hahaha haha,,,

I bet they flop right out of the pouch.

I have been shooting precise red and i love it!

You know it is like the old saying about give a man a fish or teach him to fish. Give a man a sling shot and he will have one. Give a man a scroll saw and some wood and he will make a dozen or more !

Wrong Bud! You got beaucoup slingshots!

yeah, that stinks man.. my whole childhood is a subdivision now...

Sorry to hear that bro. It kind of makes me sick seeing shit like that happen.

That sucks, Burtini. B-holes are tearing up a ton of trees in my neighborhood too. It hurts seeing it all turned into sawdust.

I won't be ordering from Simpleshot either due to how expensive duty is to get it into the country on top of the already crazy expensive shipping charge. Just thought it might be a good buy for the guys in the states who get free shipping!

All torques Aaron cosmetically imperfect.

listen Hippy, it may not appeal to you, but not everyone wants to shoot six lb giant kids toy. they make the scouts that way so noobs don't dont' shoot off their undeveloped fingers..

Spacers are used for different purposes and related to different materials. For a metal core that will not be bonded to outer layers or laminate‘s by glue or epoxy, the spacers are more aesthetic. I use single layer paper saturated with epoxy to bond laminate’s together. In this case, the single layer of micarta serves a bonding purpose creating a strong substrate for the glue to hold the laminate’s together.

I've used anything from 0.5mm to 2mm before. There is no right or wrong.

I agree with Muz. Depending on how you want the laminate to look. 0.5mm (1/64th or close to that) aluminium spacer is a nice accent spacer where as 2 or 3mm (1/8 to 5/32) paper micarta is a nice colour option but it's bolder. So depending on how subtle you want the spacer depends on how thick you make it.

Yeah it's one of my favorite games. If only they had a slingshot as a weapon option...

a game called bully I believe for ps2 you have a slingshot through the game.. Pretty good

It's a very interesting game to say the least. I can see mutiple weapons that could be done as improvements.

Thanks @theTurk! I'll try them out as soon as my current bandset goes out of commission.

I tend to agree with Burtini. But I am always open to learning something new so please regale us oh wise and maleficent one. :-)

You're not gonna enlighten us @honorary pie?

hahah, I didn't realize I put this in your bar.. I wrote a "sort of" story about why wax is dumb... you're mostly accurate, but I swear against it. Gimme a day and I'll post it..

Pawpaw hit it on the head. Not need to waste oil by drowning the fork lol.

Lots of coats for me. I put it on heavy, let it stand for ten minutes for the oil to penetrate then with a clean rag get rid of the excess.

BLO bath didn't work for me. I use 3:1 oil and beeswax. Olive oil or coconut oil. I also use it on my leather jacket for waterproofing.

I don't like you @honorary pie >:(

me neither @honorary pie ,,, .......... . Butthole.

@ornery pie....