In the spirit of making stuff from trees I felled and milled with my Alaskan mill...
I still have my 1960s vintage Wham-O Sportsman. As kids my neighbor and I always seemed to have a slingshot, BB gun, or hatchet in our hands... I shot a fair number of critters with the sling shot... sometimes using the course sand/stone dust the town spread on the road in the winter as "bird shot" for birds. Quarter inch steel balls were used for other game such as rabbits. I used it to encourage squirrels to move around the side of a tree so I could shoot it with a .22 also.
About 8 years ago I was playing with patterns in my woodworking shop to guide the cutters on my 3 HP shaper and bit on my router table. I made about 25 copies of the Sportsman out of white oak... The originals were made from ash but it was before the Emerald Ash Borer killed all the ash trees around here... once that happened I milled a lot of ash!
My copies were far more refined that the originals which were asymmetrical, full of saw marks, with crooked band slots. Mine are symmetrical and have no saw marks as I ran them through the shaper and router table, and then sanded them. I made the bands out of large rubber bands and the pouches out of split leather I had. I still have some of the slingshots but most were given to friends and used as bucket raffle prizes at my sportsmen's club.
Below is my '60s vintage Sportsman that I painted black. The others are some of the copies I made.
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