you can also use camouflage that matches
the environment you’re in hey guys I’m
Nate welcome back to the workshop today
we’re gonna take a look at another DIY
weapon we’re going to be building a
blowgun out of a cereal box here’s what
we’re gonna need for this build a cereal
box of course preferably one of the
taller ones this is an 18 ounce box of
cereal we’ve got some tape some paper
clips post-it notes bamboo skewers a few
straws and a glue gun we’ll also be
using some scissors a ruler and a razor
blade the first step is to take the
cereal out of the box we actually just
need the cardboard that the box is made
of so put the cereal side and use it
another time
with our box nice and empty we now want
to break it down so it’s all one flat
our cereal box is now open it’s flat and
we can cut out the pieces that we need
from these flat sheets of cardboard we
want to cut out a rectangle that’s three
inches wide and as long as we can get in
one unbent piece of cardboard to start
let’s remove the flaps around this
larger triangle with the flaps removed
we can measure off a three inch width
and we’ll cut that rectangle out of this
piece of cardboard we now need to score
lines into it and fold it into a
triangle we want to measure off four
equal sized portions within this three
inch strip so let’s mark off every three
quarter inches and score the cardboard
at that width when I say score what I
mean is that we’ll take the razor blade
we’ll line the ruler up on those lines
and we’ll drag the razor blade across
the cardboard but not hard enough to cut
all the way through we only want the cut
to go about halfway through the
cardboard and that will let us bend the
cardboard er perfectly along the lines
we can see that there’s clearly a mark
in the cardboard but it hasn’t separated
into two pieces it’s all still very much
one piece let’s do that for the other
two lines as well it’s now easy to see
that we have four equal portions of our
cardboard and we now want to fold along
each of those lines folding into the
shiny printed side use the ruler to sort
of push along the edge so it’s all
folding at the same time you can see how
nicely it folds along the spot where
I’ve scored the cardboard we now have
our cardboard that’s been scored and
folded all the way around so now we need
to glue it together but we’re not gonna
go for the square we’re actually going
to overlap two of the pieces and fold it
into a triangular prism shape with the
cardboard folded we’ll use the hot glue
gun to keep it closed if you don’t have
access to a hot glue gun you can use
strong tape for this step as well we now
have our triangular prism shape that
will work as our blowgun let’s add a few
features that will make our blowgun
function a little bit nicer let’s grab
one of our paper clips and bend the very
end of it at about a ninety degree angle
using some tape we now want to secure
this paperclip to the bottom of one side
of the prism this is going to act as
sort of a safety guard that makes it so
when we use our blow darts they can only
go into the gun but they can’t come back
out I could probably use scotch tape for
this step but you know here at the king
of random we do love electrical tape now
that’s attached and let’s actually add
another layer of tape beyond that not to
hold the paper clip down but as sort of
a mouth guard this is cardboard and if
we put our mouth on it too much it’s
gonna end up getting soggy
the waterproof nature of the tape will
help prevent it from deforming with
extended use the basic blowgun is
built-in now we need some darts that go
with it
let’s grab our post-it notes and some
bamboo skewers peel off a single post-it
note and try to roll it into a fairly
tight cone shape now post-it notes are
sticky but they’re not so sticky that
they’ll hold themselves when they’re
tightly coiled so let’s add a bit of
clear tape onto this cone now we need to
get this cone shape to fit into this
blowgun they’re obviously not the same
size but what we can do is using the end
that doesn’t have a paper clip on it
press the cone down into the blowgun
until it’s filling all the way to the
edges of our triangle using a pen mark
off where the paper meets the cardboard
too now we’ll use our pair of scissors
to cut off the excess paper that should
give us a cone with a triangle profile
that fits perfectly into our blowgun a
little cone of paper isn’t gonna travel
very far or very fast though and that’s
where the bamboo skewers come in let’s
cut off a piece about two inches long
from the pointy end of our bamboo skewer
there should be a small hole in the tip
of the cone but if it’s not quite big
enough for the bamboo skewer to fit
through just widen it a little bit with
a pair of scissors fit the bamboo skewer
until most of it is protruding out of
the front of the paper cone and then
secure it in place with some more tape
there’s one Dart let’s make three more
we’ve got some darts made and we’ve got
a blowgun made let’s test one of these
darts out and see if it’s working so
we’ve got our little guard that will
stop our dart from coming out of the gun
backwards but we should be able to just
push the dart right into the gun past
that guard see if our blowgun can drive
one of these little darts into this
piece of foam core board boom
look at that that stabbed right through
it beautiful so we know that works
our darts are just sort of laying around
so let’s build a mechanism that lets us
attach them to the side of our gun for
easy reloading we’ve got a lot of cereal
box left let’s cut out another rectangle
from one of these smaller pieces this
one two and a quarter inches wide by
three inches long we now want to cut
this rectangle into three equal strips
each one 3/4 inches wide and three
inches long
with our three strips cut out we now
want to score and fold them the same way
that we did with the blowgun body before
we glue these three pieces closed though
we want to add a small section of
drinking straw into the corner of each
one let’s cut off three pieces of
drinking straw that matches the width of
these three quarters of an inch of
course you don’t have to do different
colors but I have them available and I
do like having different colors of
things let’s use a small dab of hot glue
in the center crease to attach our straw
pieces remember that they will be
attached and then fold it into a
complete triangle so we don’t want to
glue them with the cardboard wide open
you want to glue it with the cardboard
already pinched at an angle once the
straw is attached to the center piece we
can use a little bit more glue to glue
these two outside tabs together we can
now attach these three triangles to the
outside of the body of the gun position
them so that the straws on the outside
portion and not one of the inside
corners we can now have one dart loaded
into the barrel of our gun and three
additional darts pressed into the straws
on the side of those prisons that we
just added now when we’re ready to
reload we can just grab another dart and
fit it into the back of the gun at this
point our blogan is functional but it
looks pretty bland it’s just cardboard
colored so let’s get some tape and see
I think that’s looking quite a bit more
stylish but I don’t want to quite finish
yet there’s a few more design elements
that I want to add on when Grant showed
you how to build the laser assisted PVC
blowgun
he had a laser pointer added on and I
think we can do the same thing to take
this up to another level here’s the
laser pointer that we will be mounting
to the side of this blowgun it’s got a
nice bright green dot should show up
nicely even in pretty light conditions
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couple of side mounted supports should
help keep the laser pointer nicely
centered on the blowgun
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our cereal box blowgun is looking quite
good it’s decorated it can hold three
extra darts it has a laser sight on it
at this point what we need is a target
to shoot it at something more
interesting than a blank piece of foam
core board I’ve printed out this picture
of a zombie and we’re gonna try mounting
that to a piece of this board so we have
something more specific – amen
beautiful I’ll call him Bob Bob the
zombie Bob the zombie has volunteered to
be our blow dart target and by
volunteered I mean he can’t complain
because he’s a printed out piece of
paper
let’s try hanging Bob up and see if we
can shoot his lack of brains out whoa a
lot of power maybe too much power
couldn’t control it
ha right in the face
take that Bob hit the board miss the
eyeball that’ll take out even a zombie I
think ha his heart we’re still beating
it well now wouldn’t be good work
brainless shot it’s not a hundred
percent accurate because our darts are
made out of paper and bamboo but it has
a laser on it I think the intimidation
factor is the most important part hey
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