See 6:09 of Part One to see what I'm talking about. Hidden Blade Walking Stick Highlights: Stainless Steel Tri-Edged Blade. These will help with attaching your springs to the launcher with hot glue. Take this hidden blade walking stick baton and protect yourself in style. One thing that's not in these pictures is a little node on the inside of these squares. This just needs to be slightly larger than the width of your bolts so that the blade bolt can move quickly through the path. That thin groove that goes all the way down the middle of the launcher will be the pathway for your bolt. If they're not, then your springs will have too much room to flex to the left or to the right decreasing their overall elastic output.
Make sure that the width and depth of these openings are cut just slightly larger than the dimensions of your springs. The two square openings on the end will be for your spring. We let the very tip of our blade stick out of the top so that we could have an extra inch of wood to give it a better overall size compared to the staff. Keep in mind that the length and width of your blade can only be as large as your launcher if you truly want to conceal it. It will be made out of your 3/8" plywood and should be cut to around the same dimensions as your future blade will be. This piece is probably the most difficult part to make throughout this whole build and requires several intermittent steps to complete. Since there's no doubt that there were faster and more efficient ways for us to build this, we'd love to hear about some of your suggestions down in the comments.ĭisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links.Ģ Thick 1 1/4"long Springs (Assorted: : Make sure they are thick and strong, this kit may not have the strongest springs.) So believe us when I say that we're not scatter-brains, this build just required loads of pieces cut within millimeters of each other to work properly. A bunch of the parts for this item had to be made in succession, so if it seems like we're jumping around a lot with the creation of separate segments, it's only because most of the pieces in this project require the dimensions and scale of prior objects to work. It is also worth noting that this was our most complicated build yet. And this is because the internal knife mechanism is made out of wood which forced us to make the handle much larger than any metal knife. One thing that some of you may have noticed by now is that the handle to this contraption is exceptionally large. Just the wooden switchblade itself took us about a week to perfect and get functioning correctly. No matter how dull the toy or pathetic the object, young boys always finds a way to turn the plain things of this world, into a LEGENDARY WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!!!!!!! Maybe my dad and I just never grew up.ĭespite this staff's simple aesthetic, the internal mechanism that extends and contracts the blade is quite complex.
Buried deep within every little boy's heart, is an unexplainable fascination with weapons.
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