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guys I’m Nate welcome back to the
workshop where today we’re going to be
building a small pocket-sized weapon
using just a ballpoint pen and a rubber
band this is a slight variation on
something that I think kids have been
doing in school for probably since pens
were invented but we’re gonna try and
tweak it a little bit and come up with
our own twist that makes it more
convenient to use and carry this is a
great project for kids because you’ll
often already have these supplies lying
around your house ballpoint pens and
rubber bands are fairly common and if
you don’t have them I got a pack of 15
of these pens for less than a dollar at
Walmart the only tool you’re going to
need for this build is an exacto knife
although it wouldn’t hurt to have a pair
of pliers as well the first step is to
take this pin completely apart into all
its separate pieces the cap comes off
the front of the pen you might be able
to pull off with just your fingers but
just in case that’s why I said you may
want a pair of pliers the ink tube and
the tip of the pen should also slide out
of this front piece of plastic we are
going to leave the tip of the pen and
the ink tube connected however because
if we take them apart ink gets
everywhere now we also want to pop the
back end of the pen off let’s see if we
can just slip the exacto knife in
between the seam and pry that out there
we go there’s the back of it then popped
off our pen is now divided up into five
different pieces we have the cap we have
this little plastic collar
there’s the ink cartridge we’ve got the
main body of the pen and the little plug
that goes on the back once we have
everything disassembled like this what
we want to do is bore a hole through the
center of the body of the pen we want a
hole that goes in through one side and
out the other and we want it to be
exactly as wide as the bottom of this
plastic collar
we’ll cut that hole using our exacto
knife placing the tip in the center of
the pen body we can spin the blade and
it will start to carve down into the pen
this hole is started but at this point
the exacto knife is running into the pen
wall on the other side so let’s go to
the other side and start drilling there
as well if you want to try using a drill
bit instead of an exacto knife to make
this hole you
you may find it difficult to get the
drill bit to make any purchase on the
smooth plastic body of the pen this time
as the Xactimate gets farther through
people will have a hole on the other
side that it can stick out of which will
once your hole is carved all the way out
you should be able to fit the plastic
collar through the hole in one side and
out the other the next step is to add
notches to the top and bottom of the pen
body for a rubber band to fit in we can
stretch a rubber band from the top to
the bottom and orient it in such a way
that the rubber band is lying right
across the back of that plastic collar
that will show us what direction we need
to cut the notches into the pen it
really doesn’t need to be a deep cut
maybe a sixteenth of an inch just about
a millimeter or so should be plenty with
four notches cut two on each side we now
want to use the tip of the razor blade
to connect the two notches and take out
this piece of plastic that’s one end
done let’s do the same thing to the
other side we can now stretch our rubber
band
connecting it between the notches on the
two sides you can see that our band is
still laying right across the opening of
that plastic collar now this version of
the pen bow-and-arrow is shooting and
complete but it has some design flaws
that I’m not really a fan of it would be
hard to start using this as a pen again
plus we have the cap and the end piece
that are just sitting around not doing
much and I fear I would lose them if I
were to try and actually assemble this
into a weapon so let’s see if we can’t
tweak this design so all of the parts
stay included in the build and we’ll be
able to put it back together as a
functional pen plus I think we can maybe
make the design a little more snazzy
we’ve got tape we’ve got paint we can
make this look a little better we’ve got
a new pen and we’ll start the same way
disassemble it down to the five
different pieces this time instead of
cutting our notches into the end of the
pen body we’re gonna try cutting them
into the top of the cap and into the end
plug because we’re gonna try and do this
with the cap on that will also change
where the center of the pen is and
therefore where we want to drill our
hole let’s see if we can cut a couple of
notches into the pen lid
I worked pretty well you know it got
notches in the lid of the pen let’s see
if we can get it in the end cap as well
I think to make these notches deep
enough we’re gonna have to go through
the cap and part of the way into the
body that worked out pretty well putting
the notches in both ends of the pen with
the cap and the plug on so now let’s
drill a hole through it in the center of
the hole pens rather than just the
center of the pen and body the whole pen
is just under six inches long just a
little bit under three should give us
the very center with our holes drilled
that are not just cut let’s take a
little bit of time to decorate this pen
body so our pen is a little more
exciting than just plain white let’s try
using some yellow and black tape to
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I think our pin cap should still even
fit down over this tape a little snug
but it goes on our little ballpoint pen
bow and arrow looks a lot cooler and it
still uses all of the pieces while
you’re using it as a bone arrow this
should make it easier to keep track of
everything and not lose it while you’re
using it as a weapon instead of as a
writing implement when you’re done
shooting things with it simply pop off
the cap reassemble the pen and wrap the
rubber band around the end your
ballpoint pen still works for writing
and as a weapon now that we have our
office supplies bow and arrow we need
something to shoot it at let’s take this
styrofoam plate and cup tape them
together and add a target onto the front
I have a paper target I found on the
internet and printed off now let’s just
glue that to the front of our plate
that’s that’s some grouping right there
a bow and arrow made out of a ballpoint
pen and a rubber band the target is just
made out of a plate and a cup with a
printed off target from online this is
super easy to build you can have the
whole thing done in 15 maybe 20 minutes
and of course your bow and arrow turns
back into a functional pen when you’re
not trying to shoot things with it hey
what’s up guys is grant here with a
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