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Step 7Making the fore-end
Allright now perhaps the most important part of your gun. The fore-end.
This is the part of the gun that will slide back and scoop up the rubberbands with the plastic flippers and send them away flying.
Normally while cutting out the gun you should have some scrapwood left. Take a big chunk of that scrapwood and draw a rectangular piece of 10 x 2,5 cm / 4 x 1 inch.
Then cut this piece out using your jigsaw power tool. This will be your fore-end. Now you have to make a hole in it so it can slide down the rod easily. Use a drill with diameter 1 cm / 0.39 inch and drill a hole through the wood measured 1,5 cm / 0.59 inch from the bottom.
Test if your fore-end can easily be pulled back through the rod. If not try filing it first and otherwise use a bigger drill to make the hole bigger. Also sand the fore-end so it's nice and smooth.
When you have done this you'll want to cut out two pieces of your hard plastic (see picture for the dimensions and shape). As said before I used a beer commercial board that was made from hard plastic. You can use whatever you want. It just has to bend a little but alway return to it's original position. (this is because when all 18 rubberbands are loaded the flippers will be pressured inwards. But when the amount of rubberbands becomes less they need to return to a normal position)
Then nail one piece on the back of each side of the fore-end using two nails for each piece.
Note: as you may notice in the pictures, I nailed a small piece of wood between the two flippers. I thought this was a good idea at the time. That the two flippers would be more secured this way, but it was a mistake. The rubberbands kept jamming on the wood and nails I used. But then I removed it and there was no more jamming and it was a lot easier to make (nailing that little piece of wood between those two flippers was hard). So ignore that little piece of wood. It's someting I learned while making this.
This is the part of the gun that will slide back and scoop up the rubberbands with the plastic flippers and send them away flying.
Normally while cutting out the gun you should have some scrapwood left. Take a big chunk of that scrapwood and draw a rectangular piece of 10 x 2,5 cm / 4 x 1 inch.
Then cut this piece out using your jigsaw power tool. This will be your fore-end. Now you have to make a hole in it so it can slide down the rod easily. Use a drill with diameter 1 cm / 0.39 inch and drill a hole through the wood measured 1,5 cm / 0.59 inch from the bottom.
Test if your fore-end can easily be pulled back through the rod. If not try filing it first and otherwise use a bigger drill to make the hole bigger. Also sand the fore-end so it's nice and smooth.
When you have done this you'll want to cut out two pieces of your hard plastic (see picture for the dimensions and shape). As said before I used a beer commercial board that was made from hard plastic. You can use whatever you want. It just has to bend a little but alway return to it's original position. (this is because when all 18 rubberbands are loaded the flippers will be pressured inwards. But when the amount of rubberbands becomes less they need to return to a normal position)
Then nail one piece on the back of each side of the fore-end using two nails for each piece.
Note: as you may notice in the pictures, I nailed a small piece of wood between the two flippers. I thought this was a good idea at the time. That the two flippers would be more secured this way, but it was a mistake. The rubberbands kept jamming on the wood and nails I used. But then I removed it and there was no more jamming and it was a lot easier to make (nailing that little piece of wood between those two flippers was hard). So ignore that little piece of wood. It's someting I learned while making this.
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