Metro Made | Harlequin Capuchin TS & FB Limited Edition
It’s been far too long and it’s time for another Metro Made post, this time around, something familiar to you returning Metro Made readers. If you are tuning in for the first time, welcome! Metro Made...
View ArticleMetro Made | The Dark Horse
Sometimes, a nice long, complicated project is all you need to really get over your creative slump. Carefully calculating how things go together, taking the time to properly do clamp things down and...
View ArticleMetro Made | Spanish Knight aka Don Quixote
Fall is here, which means less time on the range and more time in the shop. This also means more Metro Made posts! In this instalment, we make a slingshot for Gaspar Arcón, one of Spain’s top slingshot...
View ArticleMetro Made | Rotating Tip Ergo Slingshot
It was time to try something new, something exciting, something….with moving parts. Slingshots aren’t known for moving parts, but it was time to try it out. Rotating fork tips aren’t something I came...
View ArticleMetro Made | Tap & Tab Figure 8 Descender Slingshot Build
I am back! January and February kicked my butt. After what feels like an eternity, I return to the shop for a short build and an alternative take on the popular climbing figure 8 descender hardware....
View ArticleMetro Made | Bloodlines Slingshots – Meeting Prince Charles
May 21, 2014. The Prince of Whales visits the shop, I am tasked to present him with a unique gift made in the shop. I am proud to say, I have 2 Metro Grade slingshots in the Royal gift collection. I...
View ArticleMetro Made | The Italian Job Slingshot
Since I started making slingshots, there have been a lot that have gone out the door. More and more I have less and less time to appreciate them before they do leave my shop. It was time to build one...
View ArticleMetro Made | Cutting Band Grooves in Slingshot Forks
This is a short tutorial and some would consider it a minor detail, but as they say, the devil is in those said details. In this Metro Made, I show you how to I cut band grooves in slingshot tips. Band...
View ArticleMetro Made | The Wormhole Attachment (Lumbri Tyton Slingshot)
I recently bought a new Chinese cast aluminum slingshot called the Tiger Scorpion, while the attachment system wasn’t new (I have a few frames with the same style tip), the shape was kind of neat. So I...
View ArticleMetro Made | The Molly Pick-Nick Slingshot
A few weeks ago, I was fortunate to come across some new materials gifted to me by a fellow slingshot crafter, something called GPO3. GPO3 is a loose fill fibreglass composite, commonly used to...
View ArticleEnzo Carbon Fiber Hydra Slingshot
I’ve had this carbon fiber board in my shop for half a year, waiting to be made into something awesome, my recent CNC adventures (see my LunchBox CNC instructable) have allowed me to actually USE this...
View ArticleMetro Made | The Spanish Cafe Racer Slingshot
The best thing about slingshots is that it is like a very large pie, each slice a different flavour. One particular slingshot flavour is the legendary Spanish target style shooter. The Spanish Target...
View ArticleMetro Made | The Steamplinker Slingshot
It’s been quite some time since I’ve written about another build, frankly, it is tough to live up to last slingshot (The Cafe Racer). In this Metro Made, I dive into a deep custom for my last build of...
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