SSW001.Simpleshot.indd 48 20/07/2018 16:33 S S 1 6 : 3 3 SS 16:33 COMPANY PROFILE 048 SlingshotWorld Nathan Masters, Slingshot Svengali The American. His wares, his skills, his sheer delightful applied lunacy and dedication to FUN. F irst, an open and honest massive thanks to Nathan Masters for his instant and total support of Slingshot World magazine. Now read on, Slingshot Nutter… I have learned much in the last two years leading up to creating this magazine. Only now am I vaguely aware of just how much I don’t know about slingshots. Making me more knowledgeable than most. But one thing I do know, is that Slingshot World is now so well hooked up with the folks that truly matter, that I can get an answer for the most gnarly of questions, from lanyard to pouch. And I have saved writing about the most out-there person of all, until last. Like savouring that last forkful of steak. Like so many people, it was “Gamekeeper” John Webb on YouTube that I found first. It was soon apparent that there were just a few full time catapult makers out there. Professionals, for whom, unlike the hobbyists, this was a business, taxman and all. (For hobbyists, John Jeffries once said that it was “100% efficient” at using up your money on materials.) Now the few UK catapult professionals have catapults as a small part of their big, serious grown up businesses that you do an apprenticeship in when you are young and Try counting the pieces coming together to make this intricate slingshot! SSW001.Simpleshot.indd 48 20/07/2018 16:33