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This is finally the actual how-to Instructable on how to make my house key balisong. This is also the first Instructable that I have ever made so go ...
Things you'll need: - Card stock (I used 110lb heavyweight from Staples) - Standard printer paper - Hobby knife - Pencil - Drawing compass - Printer...
- Put a piece of tape on the back of you house key and place it on a piece of regular printer paper. - Take your house key and trace it onto the pri...
- With a ruler mark 2 points that are in the middle of your traced house key. - Use the 2 points you made to draw a vertical line down the middle of...
- Take your hole puncher and make 6 circles. - Take 2 circles and glue them together (use your glue stick for this). - Repeat this again with the ...
- Take the finished circles you made in step 4 and glue them on to your traced house key, by using 2 reference points. - 2 reference points: what I ...
- Mark the middle with a little dot on both circles. - Now draw a horizontal line that intersects the two dots that you made.
- Using your drawing compass make a half circle. - Use the dot that you made on the pivot point. - Go from the vertical/horizontal line intersectio...
- Draw a line that is equal to the diameter of the circle. - Do this again to the right side. - Now draw lines connecting everything together.
- Draw a line that is about 1/8 of an inch away from the tip of the house key.
- Make a test handle for the left or right side. (it doesn't really matter because it is symmetrical)
- With the test handle rotate it 180 degrees so that it looks like the first image below - Take you pencil and put a mark on the test handle where t...
- Now rotate the test handle back to its closed position like in the image below. - Make another mark next to the mark you made on the test handle l...
- Repeat steps 11-12 on the opposite side that you just did.
- Make similar spacers to what you see in the first image. - Using the markings you made in steps 11-12 make lines that arm at 90 degrees. This will...
- Draw a circle around the middle of the house key. - Take the last paper circle you made in step 4 and glue it right on top of the drawn circle.
- Take you hole puncher and make a half circle on the test arm where you placed the paper circle. - Cut a little piece on top of where you made the ...
- If you made it this far without much of a problem, good job. The steps you previously did was made to give you the information you need to create t...
- With all the information you have gathered from previous steps, you can now start making the actual Handles. - Draw out the Handles using the exac...
- Now that you have drawn out the handles you have two options: 1. Make 8 more handles by hand on card stock. 2. Make 8 copies of the handles by ru...
- If you made your choice you should now have 8 handles on card stock. - You need to cut the handles the way it is in the first image below. - Then...
- Now cut the triangle piece in the middle out. - After that cut the excess card stock out.
- Use your hole puncher to take the 2 other circles out. - And now you're done one set of handles. You should have 7 more to go.
- Draw out the spacers using the exact measurements you used in the design stage. - You need to make 8 of theses spacers out of card stock by drawin...
- Cut the spacers out any way you want. - Use a hobby knife you cut out the little squares where the magnets will go.
- You now have 1 set of spacers done. - You should have 7 more to go. (assuming that your house key is the same thickness as my house key, if not yo...
- You have eight pairs of handles. Half of them will be for one side of the key and the other half will be for the other side. - Start gluing the ha...
- Now for the spacers. It is pretty much the same process as putting together the handle pieces. - Start gluing the spacers together by evenly sprea...
- Once the handles and spacers have fully dried, take one completed handle and one completed spacer, and glue them together using white glue. - And...
- When it is dry put your magnets into the square cut outs. Do this for both handles and make sure that the magnets will attract to each when it is c...
- You need to take you hole puncher and make 30 circles. - Put the circles into 6 groups, each group having 5 circles. - In each group glue the cir...
- Take the 1 complete circle and super glue it to one corner of your house key using the 2 reference points you used in step 5. - Take another compl...
- Now take the half finished handles that have the spacers glued to them and place them onto your house key to see if everything lines up good. - I...
- If everything is good in step 32, then go ahead and take 2 more completed circles and super glue them on to the other side of your house key using ...
- Take the 2 remaining completed handles without the spacers glued to them and glue them to the other side of the spacers with your key still in the ...
- When everything has dried, you can put in the Closed Stop System. - Take the last 2 completed circles you made in step 30 - And super glue 1 of t...
- This step is optional, if you want to add a keychain to it. - Put a little pencil mark between where the 2 magnets are on one handle. Flip the han...
- Hopefully your house key balisong turned out the way you wanted to. - If it didn't i'm sorry, maybe I missed something in the instructions that I ...
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