b'NATURAL FORKHeres how its made: By the eight esses! Select, Saw, Soak, Strap up, Shape, Season, Sand & Shoot.First, SELECT your fork. Find one. Ash is identified by the compound leaflets in summer and the charcoal pointy buds in winter.Then you need to SAW it off . Leave a decent length to all three, handle and both tines, to allow for any cracking that may happen upon drying, so it doesnt aff ect the part that makes your catapult. Before that, it needs to be SOAKED in a sink of boiling hot water from the kettle and STRAPPED UP so as to dry in the right SHAPE. That bit is about understanding the material and the leverage. Note that this one, by GKJ - John Webb III, is strapped at just the right height to make that cup.Then the patience bit it needs to SEASON. A dry place, even an airing cupboard for weeks, or even a season. I think thats where the word comes from.When that Rifiki Moment (It is tiiiime The Lion King baboon dude) comes, its then that you cut offand SAND out that central part of an ash cup. You can do minimal shaping to the tips and handle and then you simply band her up and SHOOT.For John Webb, there is a 9th S - Sign. ones, were banned. Thus, making a basica yew horse leg, dincha!?This year at the England Slingshotnatty will allow you to enter these eventsThe header shot has a Hirdhawks Federation Solihull Hunters field target- you cannot if you dont have one. natural, by Martin Hird, my GKJ 2016 event, (p34) there was also a NaturalThere are some noted, gifted naturalnatty, and the lumpy ash frame I competition. This demanded a bark-oncatapult makers out there, in particularmade for my big hands, with a pewter natural fork, like this one, with minimalMr. Martin Coleman and Lee Wyld. Sopheasant. Peeled, sanded and finished shaping to the tips. So profoundly carvedwe may look at high end nattys, nextwith Tru-Oil. Natty heaven!items or even bark-stripped and polishedissue. Betcha marvelled at that price for 039SSW003.38-39.How To Make a Natty.indd 39 06/09/2019 10:25'