The work you created with only simple hand tools is really beautiful. You have a rare mind and spirit to set on a brand new project and finish it to such a high quality.
There are these amazing new tools called saws, which remove large amounts of wood very fast. Much better than spending half a day chiselling out the excess material.
Man, this was painful to watch. “Here’s how a caveman made the slingshot. But instead of using stone tools, we’ve got these high-tech gadgets now. We call them ‘chisels’. In the future, humans might invent power tools. Maybe even a bandsaw. That would make this process so much faster. But for now, all we have is the chisel.”
yeah if i were going to go hand tools it would be a coping saw and a draw knife for most of it. its not surprising he isn't aware of the proper tools for the job, based on how inexperienced he obviously is with woodworking. this seems to be a trend in these "maker" videos, people laboring endlessly with the wrong tools.
Nice work, but just one thing. You were using the chisel with the angled side up. This causes deeper cuts into the wood, and can’t be corrected as you cut into the wood. If the chisel is used with the angled side down, the amount of wood being taken off can be adjusted.
who gives a comment like this a thumbs up? I recommend a google search or here on YT "how to use a chisel correctly" for these guys. Have you ever used a chisel yourselves? And I mean not for opening bottles or cutting yourselves? Cheesus Crust - still speechless
Loved everything about this video! Showing my appreciation as a viewer by sharing this - use the face of your new chisel's bevel to "ride along the surface" of the wood. Bevel up will dig! Best wishes from NC! ☺️👍🏼
Nicely done One tip hold you chisel the other way a rond. The flat part up. So your chisel not go in to the wood but it naturely go's out. But nicely done for your first time 😊
Thankyou for being honest about the time it actually takes to actually do some of this stuff. Also letting us see the failed attempts with the rollers. Many supposed DIY channels just show things almost magically coming together and intentionally edit the video in order to mislead people. I have also seen people cheat and do things like using high grade lumber to make furniture but lying and saying it was common pallet wood.
Excellent build. But the material around the fork ends is really thin and has to handle the greatest amount of stress. i wonder if it would hold up over time.
Yeah it’s a dumb design He started from a huge wood stock and then totally thinned out the two main places that take all the stress, and then they even got holes drilled in them laterally to support the dowels for the rollers even more so thinning out the material in that section. He could have made the arms wider and thicker and protrude out more to the sides and even kept the same aperture size in the middle of the arms
Truly Beautiful Work !!! Reminds me of when I was a little girl & my Grandad taught me how to use a chisel & work wood to create little items fun items. Great Work !!! - Cheers 👊🏻 From 🇨🇦
Try flipping the chisel around. It cuts differently depending which way the bevel faces. To cut flat use the flat side. To cut chunks out out use the beveled side.
What a gorgeous and powerful sling shot. As a kid in California we could buy a commercially made wrist rocket (aluminum tube with forearm support from Wham-O). They were outlawed for a while due to the extreme damage they caused. Now legal, I own a sweet adjustable type- can be used for hunting, though I don't shoot animals. If you need more power, stretching latex hose across bicycle handles and using 1" bearings can go the distance with devistating power.
Beautiful Design and Admirable Execution! The Clarity of your Video work is Stunning. Thank you for sharing your post. I go now to mourn the tomatoes and eggs, gone before they had a chance to feel the warmth of Spring.
Точно. Но лучше от диэлектрической перчатки желтого цвета резину ) А идею изготовления сливочник похоже тут спёр ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sk3qP09AkFM.html
A Sharp chisel, don't use a blunt one, or fingers will be raining. In the UK, this is a catapult, a slingshot is a piece of meterial that you swing around your head (David and Goliath!)
An erudite point which will be ignored by our N. American friends. Catapult I believe dates back to Roman times when the Roman armies deployed a number of ballistic weapons all with impressive names.
You know when the video started I was thinking wow its going to be no power tools. Then I saw the drill and all I can say is you need a bandsaw. You could have gotten good shape in probably 15min
If u like batterypowered try out 18 v anglegrinder + flapdisc. There are also 18 v chainsaw which works great instead of chisel. I made guitarnecks this way. It's pretty much the same shape, only a bit longer. Anyway great upload thx!!
Next time you try something like this, get yourself a handheld grinder with a material removal disc that has chainsaw teeth on the perimeter. Cut your time from hours to well under an hour. That is, unless you like all that work.
Im interested if the rubber hurts your hand at all in this design. With normal slingshots after the basket releases the ball it will travel backward and slap you on the fingers sometimes. Its not a big deal at first, but as it keeps hitting you over and over again it really start to hurt. Does this one do something similar?
This might be a good weapon against a mass shooter. Of course,, proficiency is needed by making slingshot shooting a sport competition. Impressive idea and excellent workmanship.
It would only really make a difference with longer bands because it doesn't seem that you draw it all the way back to your face anyways. You have standard length bands so it wouldn't really make a difference. You can make your own with theraband gold exercise bands. That's what's Jörg Sprave uses.
Go near a silent lake at 5 am in the morning and shoot the slingshot straight up in the air, slightly tipped toward the lake. Fire it upward and start the stopwatch, then listen for the projectile piercing the water as it lands. For velocity multiply this time by 16 gives FEET PER SECOND. EXAMPLE 10 seconds for the trip up and back down gives 10 times 16 gives 160 feet per second. For the total height the pellet travels, Square that round trip time and multiply by 4 gives the highest point of travel in feet. EXAMPLE 10 seconds squared is 100 times 4 gives 400 feet high maximum.
A bandsaw or coping saw wood speed Construction. If you want to use the rollers use metal ones with ball bearings and make the mount a little bit beefier. Watch JoergSprave videos.
I have a idea how hard it is making a slingshot from a big log. Especially when said log is a pice of wood from a leadwood tree and all I have is a old 32tpi hacksaw
You should use a sling. With a little practice you become very accurate and depending on what shape rock you use and save, you can do amazing things with your weapon. And don't gave to rely on pre-made metal balls or the king of aiming that requires two hands and sharp vision. With a small amount of practice you simply look at the target, swing, and there you go! You can easily make a sling with a small rectangular piece of leather and two leather or string straps about 18 inches up to 3 feet long.
I would council against using arrows in a slingshot because you are basically re-inventing the crossbow, which as everybody knows is inferior in just about every important quality to the longbow.
Take a chisel and use the pointy end on the wood, the other end is to be hit with a mallet. Priceless. What would I do without such instruction.? I am unable to make this, however, because I have just eaten the last dragon in the area and didn't think to save the leather - damn it. Great video, great fun, entertaining and informative. Thanks.
Using a rubber mallet to strike a chisel should slow you down and you'll need to hit the chisel 5 times for every 1 time if he'd used a wood or steel mallet. Rubber is only used (and not at all for hitting cutting tools) in other ways, like to drive finished peices of furniture together without marring the wood. This guy is brand new to tools and techniques.
@@jeffmoore9487 Yep, I spotted the rubber mallet too and chuckled a bit. I didn't want to be too cruel. I like how he figured out sawing to the line though, he gets a point for that, I hope he learns to read the grain next.
@@indigogolf3051 In a way talent in woodworking is just picking new or old short cuts in each case. When your beginning, all you got is how you imagine it can be done. I wasn't any different.
