Rubber Band Gun

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User-Contributed Project

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A rubber band gun perfect for those secret missions!

  • Author: Tom
  • Time required: 10 to 15 minutes
  • Difficulty: Easy
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  • You will need a hammer,

  • wire snips,

  • wood your desired size about 1cm thick and about 10 cm across,

  • elastic bands 3>,

  • 1cm nails.

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  • Hammer one nail about 1cm in.

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  • Then hammer another nail on the opposite side on the other end as pictured.

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  • Some more views of it.

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  • Lay pieces out like this.

  • Hold them together with elastic bands (2 or more).

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  • Just snip the nail down a bit for more reliability.

  • Pop a rubber band over the nail at the top then tuck it in the gap between the two bits of wood.

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  • Have fun!!!

Get ready for a mission!!!

For more information, check out the Woodworking category page.

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is anyone commenting !!!

Tom, · Reply

this isnt good

JEFF SHAFFER, · Reply

That's not very constructive feedback, Jeff. How would you improve the project?

Goli Mohammadi,