by wemakin | May 6, 2014 | Uncategorized |
The story of Bowslinger began sometime around January 2014. when browsing around for laser cut rubber band guns. The selection wasn’t that great, most of them were the ratchet type. Ratchet is a good format for laser cutting (Check out Bandit Guns), but we wanted the classic style – a fast firing, laser cut 6-shooter. None were to be found. Looking over the ’49er patent (The now Public-Domain US4949494) gave us some ideas on escapements, so we built a few different variations of the ’49er. Someday, we’ll post our dxf cut files for the 49er – please remind us from time to time! They worked OK, but not great. The old ’49er escapement is somewhat clunky, and requires a fairly long pull to release a band. If you try to reduce the pull to get faster firing, the escapement becomes unreliable. So we set out to redesign the escapement, and make a fast-shooting 6-shot rubber band gun....
by wemakin | May 5, 2014 | Uncategorized |
The social media accounts are now open for business! Stay updated to all the Bowslinger progress by following us on Twitter and Facebook. Hope to see you...
by wemakin | May 4, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Almost all of our time and efforts have been spent on the actual engineering side of the project – we’ve completely neglected getting the site up and running! Until now. Welcome to wemak.in, home of the Bowslinger Loom Band Gun and other coming projects. Check back soon for new updates on #Bowslinger development and other cool stuff! Until then, check us out on Twitter and Facebook and say hi! We love to hear from rubber band enthusiasts! ...
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