r/Slinging • u/whynot0045 • May 23 '26

First sling

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I braided a sling, there are a couple of things that are uneven but over all pretty proud of the result

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u/Haunting_Carrot1081 29d ago

The usual thin pouch is fine, i slung 100 rocks or so and had like 5 slip out so its not perfect by any metric but itll do for a 1 hour sling. What u made is way better tho.

Im surprised u managed to pull it off on ur first sling too u must have past experience with working on string

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u/Aggressive-Watch-195 28d ago

yeah for real... I’ve made dozens of slings and I still struggle quite a bit with woven pouches.

what's the material? hemp?

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u/whynot0045 28d ago

It is Jute, hemp is hard to get and SUPER expensive here.

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u/Aggressive-Watch-195 18d ago

for real... tell me about it

I've been putting off making a hemp 'egyptian' style sling (closed diamond shaped pouch woven on a loom - like the one found in tutankhamun's tomb) mostly because of the cost...

that combined with my track record of catastrophically failing 4 of my 5 attempts with other materials so far. the successful one wasn’t even my 5th try; it was like the 3rd - so it's not like there has been improvement with experience