Thanks for making the video. A note of help for you, mark off all your bends and clamp in vice FIRST, linier, and slightly before the bend line. Then, apply heat. Use a 12" pipe to slip over your rod stock to do your bends. Use a hammer to tighten those bends. Hole a bolt or whatever, to bend around, to shape the bend a certain way. Play with it. The more you experiment, the better you'll be. Thanks again
Nice project for an afternoon when you have a couple of hours to tinker, I mostly used a tubing bender I bought from Harbor Freight and my propane torch with the wide flame attachment, and like all of my other slingshots, I then bought the rubber tubing and leather pouch at the Big Five Sporting Goods for a few bucks. And for the person who asked how it works - it shoots steel ball bearings and marbles (my favorite) quite nicely, the only addition I made was to make a wooden grip by using a Thompson sub machine gun's pistol grip as my template, which for me is perfect. To do this without the grip being too wide, decrease the radius of the curve for the handle which will keep the overall width to about 3/4" to an inch so you can either use a pistol grip as I did or a one and a half inch wood dowel - drilled to accept the metal frame which you can then wrap with leather or paracord. This is a great design which can easily be modified to suit your individual taste and was greatly appreciated by someone who enjoys projects which can be made by the average every day guy.
The small amount of zinc fumes you would take in from the two pennies is minimal. If you are still concerned drink a glass of milk. When I welded on galvanized steel that's what I had to do. I was a welder for 40 years.
I figured. That's interesting. Does the milk neutralize it somehow? Also, do you have any ill effects at the present time from your work with galvanized steel? Just curious since everyone is so sensitive about the subject.
@@sharpshooterjd I assume it neutralizes it in your system. It's just what we always did. Sometimes we would weld on it all day. In that case I would drink a quart. No one ever told me about how much so I did it just to be sure. Never got sick. As far as long term issues. I don't know. I've been retired since 2005 and I'm 75 years old so all of my aches and pains could be due to just old age. I enjoyed the video. You did a good job and it brought back a lot of memories working with a forge and anvil. In fact, my nickname is Slingshot. lol
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing! Glad you enjoyed :). More projects like this coming soon! Thank you very much. Haha, that's awesome! Sadly I gave myself my nickname "SharpshooterJD" lol. But I have earned it over the years. Nice talking with you man. Have a day :).
Glad you guys are finding this video enjoyable! I had annotations/captions on the video that explained a lot more of the process, but sadly, youtube decided to remove all annotations from their platform which deleted all of that information from many of my videos. My apologies.
You're a youngster so may not know, but US pennies changed from copper composition to copper "coated" zinc during 1982 going forward to current pennies. Pennies from 1981 and earlier are mostly copper, and some 1982 pennies are also. You can check easily by dropping a 1982 penny from a few inches onto a hard surface. It it "rings", it's copper. If it sounds like a dull "thud",...low melting point zinc. Next time you use a penny as a spacer,...now you'll know to use a much higher melting point copper one. :-) (keep in mind copper still melts at a lower temp than steel though) Joe T Ti Rod Tactical
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lol, wow. Melting that penny was kind of crazy. I didn't think it would do that. I know pennies now are made mostly of zinc and zinc's melting point is 787.2°F. Awesome video. I'm going to do this, but I want to try use more rod and twist some kind of gnarly handle into it using a vice.
Zinc fumes are definitely toxic, but you're in enough open air and it's a very small amount of it that I think you're alright. "Zinc metal fume fever" is something you definitely don't want.
+Alpha Machina Yeah I think it's harder to get metal fume fever than they lead us to believe. I've breathed in a lot of bad fumes and haven't had any issues yet, but I do try to keep good ventilation.
Yeah, I've breathed some nasty stuff over the years. When I did HVAC work, we accidently tried to solder copper with some freon still in it which created phosgene gas in an inclosed attic. That was nasty. My buddy had to get a tube put in his lung that stuck out of the side of his chest. He smoked a cigarette and blew the smoke out of the tube. I was like, dude, should you seriously be smoking right now? "Probably not.."
I'm seriously going to make one of these, though. And this is giving me the idea to use this type of rod in various sizes so it's kind of random looking, like muscle tissue, to make twisted handles for knives. Wad up like 12 rods in different sizes so they're all random, heat them and twist them together while they're good and hot and then heat them again to forge weld them. I'll have to be careful though because the smaller rods will heat much more quickly than the bigger ones, but the surface of the bigger rods should get hot enough to forge weld to the smaller ones if it's done properly. It'll take some testing.
Just a handy little tip as long as you dont do this on the blade of the knife if you heat up to much metal and dont want to deform it you can xip the part you dont want to deforme in a little bit of water
fishingnerdgames terraria I am actually familiar with this technique. I use it when I am doing scrolls and need to bend something after I already made the scroll. So I will cool the scroll down in water so I don't deform it like you said when I hammer on it. But thanks anyway! P.S. When are you going to get some forging videos out?
OK the forging videos will be out shortly one of my friends is coming over with an anvil and a log so i will be getting some out hopefully tommorrow or the day after
Teds Outdoors HoodCraft Survival Thanks man! You should check out my newest video. It's a more standard blacksmithing project, although I have never seen anyone do it quite like me.
Ha, that is actually a pretty accurate assessment :). I have never meant to claim that I am "skilled" or "qualified" as a blacksmith. If I have I apologize. (I changed the title for this reason). My simple goal is to inspire others to experiment and create as I have done, regardless of whether they are "skilled enough" to do it. Again if I have misrepresented this goal in the past I am truly sorry. If you see me claim to be something I am not in the future, I highly encourage you to call me on it. I hope you enjoyed the video regardless. Take care man :).
larry white Thanks so much! Yeah my apologies, I don't know why I didn't film a shooting test. It shot pretty good, not really my style, but it definitely worked. If you look down in the description, you'll find a review of it by my client, and you'll also find a link to a video on a different slingshot I made out of aluminum, and that one has a shooting test at the end of it. Thanks for watching and for the comment!
Hehe! Pennies are made of zinc alloy these days, not copper. I can see how it would be disconcerting when it melts. A lot easier to melt and work, but not so good in high temp situations. But if it works it works!
If you had bent it at 90 degree's towards you, you could have slid latex tubing over it, you can buy it at home depot and lowes. The penny melted That must have gotten verry hot.Awesome Use a copper penny instead of a zinc penny. Man it's a wonder the linseed oil didn't go off like napom.
Yes I could have, but I really don't like that attachment method, or using tubes. I don't find them to be terribly accurate for me. Everyone tells horror stories about boiled linseed oil on a rag spontaneosly combusting and stuff. But you have to really, really try to get that stuff to burn. The only time ever really burns for me is when there is a thin layer of it on a metal piece, and I hold a torch to it. It really seems pretty tame to me, but that's just my experience.
hey thats cool you know you could have just bent back the ends at the top rather than bending them for flat bands just bend them backwards and then use tubes make like a mini wrist rocket but with no arm brace i have done both try one you probably have but just in case you have not it is an idea cool video little buddy
Man, I would buy one of them right now, this minute, if I could. You should hire some workers to produce your designs, that way people like me, who would buy but won't wait, would be happy, hahahaha!!!!
I can make you one this weekend! Shoot me an email at jdwaters257@gmail.com and we can discuss designs (this one is an older one that I don't really make anymore, I have a few designs that are much better). You can also shoot me a PM on Etsy www.etsy.com/shop/joshsblacksmithshop
Also it's really not feasible to hire workers lol. Although that would be awesome. I don't put much of an upcharge on these, so I really just get payed for the materials, and the time.
Instead of Lincolns they are now referred to as Zinklons. They are made of zink with a thin copper shell. Ask any coin collector ..... I think 1982 was the last of the solid copper pennies.
Really great video, good job . Two things though that penny was made out of zinc get one from before 1983 they are copper .If you find a copper penny dated 1983 DON"T use it, they are worth a fortune. One other thing when you heat up bar stock flat, round or square bar to bend it heat from the compression side, the inside. if you heat it from the outside you will get a flat profile. it will stretch on that side.
It’s a kool idea but next time show a test brother how do we know it’ll work and that we’re not wasting our time making one but it looks kool gonna make one to shoot arrows
+Kalle Klæp Funny you should mention that, the guy that got this one actually did put a paracord handle wrap on it. will definitely have to consider doing that myself in the future. So you make these too?
sharpshooterjd I made something similar, yes. But i also made a few out of laminated wood, like plywood or wood, aluminium and wood again in layers. You got some good metalwork skills, they sure come handy for a lot of things.
I actually didn't know that. I looked it up and it's only illegal to melt them down with the intent of selling the metal. But thanks for the heads up! Josh
lol on me what i was trying to say is this answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=426715 i know you're like "i did not mean to melt the pennies down" i know that just so we all know it is illegal it's called Defacing US currency i'm not going off on you or anything you might think that but i'm not just wanted to keep you out of trouble so you can keep making video's well peace out
Josh Jordan That is intriguing. It looks like there is a lot of debate on the issue. One thing says as long as you are not "fraudulently" mutilating U.S. currency that it is not against the law. Another says if it is out of circulation then it is not against the law. And yet another says it is against the law no matter what. I had no idea about this. I don't understand why it would be illegal to mutilate U.S. currency as long as you own the money. I have seen plenty of people on RU-vid cut penny's with knives and make counters out of glued together penny's. And stuff like that. Hopefully it's not that big of a deal since i didn't intentionally do it and I was not mutilating them "fraudulently"........
Some points of interest: Do you not have a forge? you should get a forge (plenty of ways to make cheaply, check around on youtube for whatever best fits your resources). but you definitely should try and check out some classes on the basics www.calsmith.org/ForgeWorkshops itll save you a lot of time. also....don't melt any more pennies without a fan on and plenty of ventilation, you'll get sick.
+Jack Lankester First point, I just built a super nice coal forge recently, just got to get a place to set it up at. Second point, I am currently taking classes from John McLellan and am in the tool making portion now. And on melting penny's I definitely won't do that again, just a quicky solution because I needed it that day. Thanks for watching, and for the comment :).
It doesn't need a wrist support :) (I took this section below from a Etsy forum on the topic) "Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who “fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States.” Theoretically that means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the U.S. Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent." At least that is how I choose to take it, since I meant no harm, and I didn't even mean to deface them, I just needed a spacer :). Thanks for watching!
