How to make a plastic bottle shuttlecock!

This is a instructable on "how to make a plastic bottle shuttlecock", it involves cutting the neck of the bottle off, and cutting the plastic (curvy top bit) into "feathers", It works relatively well for a DIY shuttlecock, but a bit heavy and has a dodgy flight pattern. This is a very simple instructable, but the cutting of the feathers is quite fiddly. There is a video of the final shuttlecock being served, this is on the final step! Good luck and experiment with it!

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Step 1 What you need!

A plastic bottle - To form the shuttlecock from
Scalpel or Craft knife - To separate the neck and body, (scissors really don't work here)
Scissors (smaller the better) - To cut the feathers, (craft knife really doesn't work here)
Masking tape - To pad the shuttle's base
Fingers etc - to handle all above

Comments

[denniSinned]

what racquet do you use?

[Uncle Kudzu]

not a bad idea, seeing as how a heavy-ish shuttlecock is not easy to find in some locales. may have to try this. i must say, however, that you might want to consider some better pictures to go along with your good idea.

[csmiler]

it might be bad for the racket

[Chicken2209]

very cool how does it work?

[Chicken2209]

how well*

[jackcday]

Quite well, it spins a bit though, and feels a bit heavy. I'm sure that getting it to fly straight is just perfecting the design.

[wiley coyote]

You could add bounce and stability by putting a cross section of Super Ball on the cap. The extra weight in the nose should make it fly farther and straighter .... I think.

[paulpcc]

interesting :)