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Whether you're playing with your siblings or starting an inter-cubicle war, some homemade weapons can be a fun way to exercise your creativity and mitt out a solid butt whooping! wikiHow presents a few ideas beneath but the possibilities are endless so remember the about important rules: be creative and go along trying! Go started with Step 1 beneath or see the sections listed above to acquire how to build everything from a battle axe to nunchucks!

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    Assemble your materials. You'll need several sheets of printer paper, regular record, duct record, Popsicle sticks, a pencil, potent twine, a ruler, an ten-acto knife, and scissors.[1]

    • Y'all can even utilize erstwhile paper boxes.[2]
    • Save some shipping paper and utilise it for this purpose.
    • Or use recycled toilet paper.[iii]

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    Brand the arms. Take 4 sheets of printer paper and cutting them in half along the long line. Roll each ready of collated 4 into a tube (with a pencil at the eye) from brusque side to short side. Record the tube closed at three points along the barrel and then remove the pencil.[4]

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    Make the butt. Have 5 sheets of paper, collate them, and wrap them short end to short end into a tube with a pencil at the center once once more. Record the tube in several places and then remove the pencil.[5]

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    Insert the arm supports. Cut two 1.5" sections of Popsicle stick and identify it in the end of the tube so that the cease is flush with the opening and marker 1.five" from that finish of the tube on the outside of the barrel. Finally, insert a Popsicle stick in the reverse end and at a 90 caste turn from the other stick and place a unmarried layer of duct tape effectually the whole barrel to keep it from breaking. Bend the arms at the 1.v" mark you made.[6]

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    Adhere the arms. Pinch the end of the barrel and then identify the short sections of the arms on either side of the pinched end. Duct tape them into place. Make sure the connection is very tight and strong.[7]

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    String the crossbow. Utilize a bowline knot to attach the far ends of the bow together. Adhere it to one side, secure with tape, pull the string most i" beyond the stop of the other side, and so attach that side and secure it as well.[8]

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    Add the trigger. Pull the bow back until information technology makes a square shape with the artillery. Mark the betoken on the butt where the center of the string reaches and place your trigger at that location. Utilise the x-acto knife to cut a hole straight through the butt. Cut the end off of a Popsicle stick, split up information technology downward the middle, and place information technology through the pigsty to create the trigger. It should be able to wiggle back and along a bit, and be long plenty to extend out from the barrel on either side of the hole.[9]

    • If you lot're a kid, become help from an adult with this. It's very easy to stab yourself or cutting your finger off!

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    Build the guides. Cut a unmarried canvass of paper in half along the long line and roll ii tubes. Flatten them and tape them in place along either side of the trigger. And then take another strip of single sheet, this time in quarters rather than halves, and roll a tube which you will place between the arms of the crossbow. Make sure a pencil fits hands through this tube.[10]

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    Washed! Erect your string dorsum then that it fits on the trigger, load your pencil, and then burn!

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    Get together your materials. You lot'll need large pieces of thick, sturdy paper-thin, arts and crafts glue, paint, ribbon, and optionally a apartment corner subclass which you can purchase from your local hardware store.[xi]

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    Make your template. Describe the shape of the axe you want, bract and handle, onto a piece of paper. The simpler the shape, the better information technology will work.[12]

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    Cut out your pieces. Trace this shape onto at to the lowest degree four pieces of paper-thin (six is better) and cutting them out with a box cutter knife.[13]

    • If you lot're a child, get help from an adult with this. It's very piece of cake to stab yourself or cutting your finger off!

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    Reinforce the center. Take one piece of paper-thin to act equally the center. Mucilage the corner subclass at the L between the handle and the the blade. You can besides place a thin stick or dowel rod in the handle piece if you lot desire to.[14]

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    Gum the pieces together. Gum all of the layers together, with the reinforced section in the middle.[15]

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    Add together finishing touches. Y'all can utilize the box cutter to bevel the edges of the blade section if you want. Once this is washed yous can cover the whole matter in duct tape, pigment it to look real, or wrap the ribbon around the handle to requite it a really authentic look.[16]

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    Done! Enjoy your new boxing axe!

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    Go your materials. Y'all'll need two long paper-thin tubes, such equally the ones that come at the center of a gyre of paper towels. Y'all'll also need tin foil and duct tape. You tin optionally make the nunchucks a chip more dangerous by adding weights (metal butter knives are good for this).[17]

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    Create the center weights if y'all are using them. If y'all decide to utilise the weights, you lot want to put them in get-go. Take two butter knives, flip them contrary end to reverse end, and tape them together into a unmarried object. Thoroughly cover them in tape to go on them from breaking loose and cutting yous.[xviii]

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    Fill the cardboard tubes. Record closed one finish of each of the tubes. Make a brawl of tin foil and shove it downwards into the cease of the tube. Go along stuffing assurance of tin foil into the tube or environment your weight in bunched can foil and so middle it in the tube. Fill the tube until the tin foil is level with the open up stop. Tape the end airtight.[19]

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    Brand the rope. Cut long strips of duct record into sparse sections and so fold those sections in one-half to create strings. Braid the strings together to create a rope. Your rope will need to reach from end to end of the tubes with about vi" of space between them.[twenty]

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    Attach the rope to the tubes. Unbraid the section of the rope that covers the paper-thin tubes and record them, spaced equally, effectually the exterior of the tube. This should leave the braided section at the heart.[21]

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    Cover the outside. Wrap the tubes completely in duct tape and continue wrapping and then that the rope is covered besides.[22]

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    Done! Enjoy your nunchucks and be careful, peculiarly if you used weights.

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  • Question

    How powerful is the crossbow? How far can information technology shoot?

    Community Answer

    It can penetrate paper and dig into plywood almost 3 cm at close range. It tin can shoot really far, simply with good accurateness, probably 20-xxx k.

  • Question

    Are there alternative arrows for a crossbow that will not cause cuts on the target?

    Community Answer

    Comprehend the tip of the pointer with foam or something that covers the sharp terminate, like a suction cup.

  • Question

    Is this for survival?

    Community Answer

    No, this is just for play.

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  • Go artistic and find alternatives if these items don't work for you.

  • Build according to the instructions first, then as you figure out what works, customize it to work improve for you. This way, you can become stronger and stronger on the battlefield, with weapons that work with yous, not against yous.

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  • Since these items are plenty to harm anyone and so play with it carefully. Alternatively you can apply Latex or Larp weapons which do not harm and looks like existent weapons.

  • Don't fire at anyone's face or body.

  • Don't bring these items to schoolhouse or a workplace, equally you may exist reprimanded.

  • Be careful when using nunchucks

  • Be careful while you are working with these items. It may exist dangerous for you and others.

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