Thank you for sharing your video's and yes a wear my leather gloves to I'm in a wheelchair so the style of leather gloves I feel like it's just another layer of skin so when I was working as a welder fabacater the gloves were just part of me. Oh and I've been through many pairs in my life time they have saved my hands to this day. 👍
Great DIY project and demonstration! Great camera work! Great non-musical video! Great starting the video without a 10 minute preamble and without interrupting the work to your express your feelings for selecting the different materials, which welder and feed rod size and type. I learned a lot by watching how you built it and you finished with a link to a relatable site. Bravo and Thanks!!
Interesting video - brings back memories since the very first thing I learned to build as a young boy - maybe 7 or 8 years old, was a sling shot. Finding a suitable 'crutch' in a tree branch was step 1. Finding suitable rubber from discarded car tire tubes from a local garage was step 2. Acquiring leather from an old shoe tongue was step 3. Cutting the rubber bands was tricky - if you did not run the scissor properly, the edges had jagged Z shaped nicks that would tear as soon as the rubber was stretched. We used braided nylon carpenter string line to assemble it all. It was a two person job - one person had to stretch the rubber around the wood crutch arms/leather pouch holes while the other person raced to tie it off before the person doing the stretching fatigued. The roads were gravel in the small town in which I grew up - that's where we acquired ammo. Did not take long to perfect the art of making 'low tech' but deadly slingshots this way.
VERY PRECISE! That's the nicest slingshot I've ever seen! Very good video! Good SAFE practices! Went to the trouble to make jigs & fixtures to manufacture more than one, so they'd be all the same! VERY NICE! Hey, everybody...this fellow know how to do the perfect "how-to" video! No talking, no hype, no commercials...just absolute skill and quality! We can learn a bunch of stuff from this fellow!!!
The joys of having machine equipment on the weld shop. It was live changing when i started machinning my own fixtures in the weld shop. It makes the job so much enjoyable.
I’m only 5min in but had to take a break and comment. Your fixturing for a slingshot is insane. As is your skill level and craftsmanship. I’m going to make some coffee now. If I would have realized this was a 21min video before I clicked play, I would have brewed up a couple cups before I even started watching! A 21min video from 6061!!! Am I dreaming!? Is this real life!?!?
You may like or dislike these videos. Personally I enjoy them. I also have the utmost respect for the workmanship of this particular individual. To describe him as being meticulous in what he does just doesn't do it justice. I wish I had just a little bit of his machine shop and a little bit of his skills. My hats off to you sir!
Btw, blue! You would be a great teacher on how to operate the equipment how to maintain a clean work environment and most of all how to produce beautiful quality work.
Saw your video on "welding stainless to aluminum " i thought it was great. You approached the topic very well and were thoroughl in both your qelding and explaination. I couldnt comment this on that video so i came here.
Thank you for sharing. Greens my color. I haven't used a lathe in over thirty years. Only with wood. Was nice to see how metal was used on it. Great lesson for young ones, how important the application of math is to fabricating. Stay in school.
Great video,I just discovered your Chanel.I love the craftmanship ! If you spray hairspray on before sliding the grip on, it will go on much easier and stick it in place when dry.
Well done, I have no words, amazing work, abs. perfect, detailed and precise, like me, you are an artist in the work, this is not easy to find. The product is super brilliant, well done, respect and bow, from old BG.
Fork on the branch, the old bladder from the bike, a piece of leather and thread. Knife and 30 minutes of work. So the last 100 years, Russian boys make slingshots. Free and effective.
He might be a little bit obsessive, but dear Lord does he do beautiful work? The way he always has everything laid out and clean. Light between Machining steps hitting the surface with the year nozzle. A lot of people would just brush it with their hands. This guy can build a Saturn V and it would fly the first time. Absolutely amazing
I have only one question, because all I have seen is awesome and I'm going to learn the way about welding and not only about aluminum but steel welding also. I have an cheaper welding mask. NOW I know that I can do more and better but my mask doesn't do the job it is made for. Can you suggest me some model that I could buy for my job?
Awesome build!👏 I always enjoy watching your approach to making things. To answer your question, I prefer the slingshot with the black accents on the handle.
I’m not good at the internet stuff. I’m life long welder tradesman. I primarily repair tooling and secondary (if that is familiar) My question is: if the surface being welded needs to be porosity free (Chinese aluminum on finish surface) if the material is basically unweldable where the parent and additive are leaving porosity and preheat does not work… are there any other options in your mind/experience? I’ve been doing this for 25 years… just thought I’d reach out cuz your vids/tig button are awesome. Ya I bought that! It rules the other 5 variable controls out there.
That's really a nice slingshot!! Isn't it a little heavy?? And where's the foldaway wrist pad?? If you're going to make it so nice anyway go ahead and go crazy extend the elastic holding forks forward on an adjustable slide that also clicks into place during use and also folds flat when not in use and supply it with different length elastics for different trigectory distances and of course removable sights maby a pistol scope offer either arrow or bearing elastics and removable arrow brace between the forks. From what I've seen of your talents it would be a cinch for you sweetheart go for it!!! I know you can do it!!! Excellent work by the way!!!!
I would like to have a Snap-On Handle. I have several extra handles I can spare, which size does it use and how much for one with a Snap-On Handle? FYI! I wear XXL Gloves, so I am guessing the large handle is needed. That would look so cool in my Snap-On Tool Box! Almost everything I own is Orange, I do prefer it!
Keep up the good work. Regular viewer, first time commenting. Thank you you the education in metal working, I learn a great deal from your videos. Many thanks, Gaz
Hi there, WOW you've got some great kit and tools there my man, some real professional level equipment nicely done sir and very precise measurement and machine work your a very skilled individual indeed thanks and I'll be watching more of your videos 👌 atb Dave
