Are you tired of office/classroom/backyard wars without any stylish or efficient weapons?
Tired of getting shot with a cheap plastic bb gun that hurts like hell and breaks after 5 shots?
Do you want to shoot your colleagues/friends without having to worry about the danger off hurting them? Do you want to have a gun that will never break and requires extremely little maintenance?
Well then congratulations this instructable is perfect for you. Because today you will learn how to make a ping pong ball gun out of wood!
Allright so as I told you I will show you how to make a ping pong ball gun. I made this gun for classroom- and office-wars but as these guns will last a long while I can imagine that if I get kids even they can still enjoy these great toys :) I must say that I have had alot of fun with this gun and alot of people have already asked me to build them one to. I figure it's mostly because they are tired of getting shot with no means of returning fire but alot of people also admire the simplicity of the gun but at the same time the enormous amounts of fun you can have with it.
As you can hear I'm pretty proud about this gun. It has many advantages to it and almost no disadvantages. It's a great father son project or if your kids are to young to help just to make something fun and cheap for them to play with. It's also the perfect weapon for any office- or classroom-war. As the name of the gun says it's a gun that shoots ping pong balls. So you really don't have to worry about any danger as a ping pong ball has never hurt anyone. So it's alot safer then a bb gun and is also alot sturdier. Where bb guns are mostly made from little plastic pieces which break easily and render the gun useless my gun is made from a solid piece of wood and all parts are found around the house making it easy to replace something in the (very) unlikely event something should get broken.
It's therefore my believe that this is the perfect gun for any child, teenager or adult who wants to have some harmless fun in the classroom, office or backyard.
This instructable is entered in the "DadCanDo Family Fun" contest so when the time comes for voting and you find this ible to be a winner please vote for me :)
If this instructable was of interest to you it may also interest you that I made a second ible about how to make a clothespin luger rubberband gun. So if you're interested in wooden guns be sure to check that one out to and let me know what you think :)
Tired of getting shot with a cheap plastic bb gun that hurts like hell and breaks after 5 shots?
Do you want to shoot your colleagues/friends without having to worry about the danger off hurting them? Do you want to have a gun that will never break and requires extremely little maintenance?
Well then congratulations this instructable is perfect for you. Because today you will learn how to make a ping pong ball gun out of wood!
Allright so as I told you I will show you how to make a ping pong ball gun. I made this gun for classroom- and office-wars but as these guns will last a long while I can imagine that if I get kids even they can still enjoy these great toys :) I must say that I have had alot of fun with this gun and alot of people have already asked me to build them one to. I figure it's mostly because they are tired of getting shot with no means of returning fire but alot of people also admire the simplicity of the gun but at the same time the enormous amounts of fun you can have with it.
As you can hear I'm pretty proud about this gun. It has many advantages to it and almost no disadvantages. It's a great father son project or if your kids are to young to help just to make something fun and cheap for them to play with. It's also the perfect weapon for any office- or classroom-war. As the name of the gun says it's a gun that shoots ping pong balls. So you really don't have to worry about any danger as a ping pong ball has never hurt anyone. So it's alot safer then a bb gun and is also alot sturdier. Where bb guns are mostly made from little plastic pieces which break easily and render the gun useless my gun is made from a solid piece of wood and all parts are found around the house making it easy to replace something in the (very) unlikely event something should get broken.
It's therefore my believe that this is the perfect gun for any child, teenager or adult who wants to have some harmless fun in the classroom, office or backyard.
This instructable is entered in the "DadCanDo Family Fun" contest so when the time comes for voting and you find this ible to be a winner please vote for me :)
If this instructable was of interest to you it may also interest you that I made a second ible about how to make a clothespin luger rubberband gun. So if you're interested in wooden guns be sure to check that one out to and let me know what you think :)
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For this project you will need
Tools
- Sander
- Jigsaw (powertool)
- Drill
- Hammer
- Clamps
- An adjustable workbench (or something else you can clamp your wood on and easily saw it)
- Wood 10cm / 3.9inch * 13.8 inch cm atleast and 2 cm / 0.8 inch thick (any wood will do, I actually used a pallet my dad brought home to use as firewood.
- a Rectangular piece of wood. 15 cm / 5.9 inch * 2 cm / 0.8 inch and 1 cm / 0.4 inch thick
- two eye-bolts
- 4 nuts that fit on the bolts
- 4 small nails or screws
- A clothespin
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You should make an instructable with this stock, but with a bow and chopstick arrows.
Other then that yes it's perfectly possible to tweak this to shoot under obstacles or around corners. I never hada war though where I had the time to aim in such a way that I could make it fly around a corner though. But yes it's possible :)
I would say that the easiestway to accomplish pulling the rubber back would be to attatch it to a string and put the string on a device like with a fishpole so you can wheel the rubber band back in. ofcourse then you will have to operate that :p
But it's really not such an effort to pull it back in anyway so perhaps those mechanisms are to complicated for what they are worth...
I'm interested though what you have in mind, so if you could attatch a sketch in your next comment explaining how it works I'd be happy to look at it for you and give you tips how to build it :)
The compact design is especially handy when teachers or bosses enter the room ;)
"Michel did you just fire that ping pong ball?"
"No sir how could I have done that? I don't have anything I could use to fire those with..."
"Hmm yes that's true.."
If this however concerns you and you want to make sure it hits the ball midcenter, just use my template and then cut a little of the top. This way your problem is solved :)
But again I never had any problems while firing this at people in my yard. And it never just shot in the ground it always went straightforward very well.
It's something I'll consider for the next one I build (it's unbelievable how many requests I get from friends now to build them guns) but for the current one it's not worth the trouble of removing everything and cutting it off. It fires a solid 5 meters now and that's all I need :)
AI