Planning on it actually, it's already tapered a tiny bit, but I'm waiting until I can load it to see how much I can remove and still support the bands. Thanks for the ideas!
One safe way to do this is... take your elongated band dia, then use vinyl hose or cheap rubber hose cut a wee bit tighter then the band stretch, tie in the wishbones, fit the shaft and mock bands and you get a close idea how the band lives.
Taking this old school...before cad/cam one way to plot a gun shape is to use a cheep Douglas fir dowel with milled grove formed with a table saw. Hot glue the shaft to the groove in a few spots, nail the mockup bands (sprayed with silicone) to the front, then cover the midsection to muzzle area with model clay and cock the bands.
After I practiced this method a few times I was able to get a busty chick to model for my newly formed art skills.;) I don't want to dis-rail
the build so no pictures. ( I'll post one in members only);)
Cheers, Don