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Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:52 am

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video ... ng-271102/

Enjoy and BE CAREFUL! If you can't figure it out, don't ask me. No spoon feeding!
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:24 am

I used to make these a long time ago. Mine shot airsoft though. the littlge guy hurts too. I'll see if i can make another to post here. It'll take a while though. I need to go home from college cause I'm not going to make it here.
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:34 am

Neat little thing, though I cringed as he used the box cutter towards his fingers, accident waiting to happen :?
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:07 pm

Its ok, its a box cutter, It won't cut anything except boxes :)
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:12 pm

rp181 wrote:Its ok, its a box cutter, It won't cut anything except boxes :)
I hear they can take out air planes somehow :shock:
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:09 pm

Used to make those when I was a kid. Only thing was that we didn't shoot toothpicks, we shot "strike anywhere" matches. Very fun/cool.
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:12 pm

D_Hall wrote:Used to make those when I was a kid. Only thing was that we didn't shoot toothpicks, we shot "strike anywhere" matches. Very fun/cool.
That would be against the incendiary projectiles rule :roll: :)
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:02 pm

I made these some years ago, I even got one to shoot a toothpick with a glued needle in the tip.. it could stick to stuff from 15 feet away or so :P also you could put caps, the caps that the little guns use and glue it on the tip of the toothpick, shoot a wall and it would go BANG :lol: 8)
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:57 pm

lol i saw a video on that after watching one of jsr's many creations. Really good but i cant carve it out.
Yeah, it's that important.
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:14 pm

Mr.Sandman wrote:lol i saw a video on that after watching one of jsr's many creations.
Doesn't come close to the pen guns for power but I like the way it's made without hardly any additional materials other than the clothes peg.
Really good but i cant carve it out without butchering my fingers
Clearly, you were holding the box cutter the wrong way :roll: :D
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