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Ok, it's 10 o'clock at night, too early for bed, and boy, I'd love to be able to see through walls, because my neighbours are making one hell of a rac...
You don't need much to make the Mad Eye. Becuase this is a project made out of junk, you might have to be inventive, I have given a few alternatives. ...
The lid is made of low density polyethylene (LDPE) so should be easy to cut and get a nice clean edge using a sharp craft knife. (be careful it's smal...
Just be careful of your fingers. If you do not have a table tennis ball and you are using the underarm deodorant then take extreme care when cutting i...
Put the table tennis ball half in to the cap and using a sharp pencil (for accuracy) draw a line round the table tennis ball so that you can cut it to...
As you can see I used a watch strap. The watch I had was an old one where a fat piece of strap went under the watch and was secured to main strap by t...
Cut them using scissors (the best way to cut leather, safer and neater than a craft knife) (also trim the straps at the EYE END, ie with a slight curv...
either spray or hand paint the ring gold. I didn't have any gold spray handy, and by now it was 11pm at night, so I sprayed mine dark brown and then o...
OMG, freaky I hear you say, scary even. 1 minute ago this was half a table tennis ball, now it's a wierd eye looking up at me... ooooo, anyway, to mak...
Using permanent marker, colour in the cut edges of the leather black. Offer the eye and ring up to the leather and glue the straps in place, but don'...
11.20pm, how exciting, glue gun glue the eye ring (make sure eye is inside) on to the leather and, hey presto it's starting to look like the real thin...
Ok now we need to make the rest of the strap. Depending on how you have chosen to do this. I didn't have any long straps to hand, so I used an old bit...
Because I made a sort of tube for my "round head strap" I thought it would be neat to cut the end of the leather straps so that I could glue the fabri...
Once the straps were all joined up at both ends, I cut them roughly in the middle and wrapped them round my head (yes those are my hand and my head). ...
Mad Eye Moody probably uses some form of charm to keep his eye in place (although he did have a strap in the film), but being a mere muggle, I had to ...
Now you know exactly how it fits and which way round it all is, it's time to put the last finishing touch on it, the small button or catch at the top ...
And make everyone call you Mad Eye, look through walls and generally scare old people who have never heard of Harry Potter or any of his erstwhile fri...
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