Our favourite, crazy slingshot maker, Joerg Sprave, can seemingly turn anything into a weapon. Recently, his scavenging skills were put to the ultimate test when a magazine challenged him to turn everyday rubbish into an improvised arsenal.
There’s a reason very few hunters wander out into the woods armed with a slingshot. They can be deadly for smaller game, but you’re probably not going to fell a buck with one. Unless you happen to be slingshot madman Joerg Sprave, and your slingshot fires friggin arrows.
Encouraged by the good folks at Businessweek, our favourite master slingshot builder Joerg Sprave put together this latest video showing how to weaponise everyday office supplies. Because no one’s going to steal your lunch from the break room fridge when you’re packing heat.
A few weeks ago, outrageous weapon master Joerg Sprave made a small but wonderful pencil launcher that looked destined to make classrooms around the world more deadly. But Joerg doesn’t really do small-but-anything, so now we’ve got the megasized version. It’s huge and delightful.
Slingshot mastermind Joerg Sprave spends a lot of time dreaming up insane and pseudo-apocalyptic death gadgets. But his latest video is a bit of a look back, with deadlier upgrades to some of his more popular recent slingshots, like steel-tipped pencils for the pencil launcher.
Slingshot guru Joerg Sprave seems set on making the innocent-yet-violent daydreams of our youth into wait-this-can-actually-kill-people reality. Last week it was a famous anime slingshot-spear. This week it’s the platonic ideal of the haphazard pencil-flingers every fifth grade boy has stashed under his desk.
Unless it was created by master builder Joerg Sprave, it’s rare for a slingshot to be of any real interest. But even though we’re pretty sick of hearing about Angry Birds, this slingshot controller for the game is kind of neat.
Our good friend Joerg Sprave — the rubber-artilleried mastermind — has been building crazier and crazier weaponry, so it makes perfect sense that he’d dip into the definitionally insane world of Japanese anime for inspiration. Here’s the real life version of the Kabuto slingshot from the manga and anime series One Piece.
As you stretch a rubber band, it heats up. But as it cools down it actually loses some of the energy it stored when it was stretched. That means the longer a slingshot is left loaded, the less powerful it becomes. Unless you’re Joerg Sprave, the internet’s resident master of slingshot design, who discovered that simply reheating a stretched elastic band can restore up to 40 per cent of its original powuh.
