My pirate costume ship's wheel!!

For Halloween I'm usually a pirate. This year I'm adding a prop component in the form of a ship's wheel. The Idea was to have a spinning ship's wheel attached to a harness of some kind.

I started this project with a few ideas of what I wanted and no idea how I was going to do it. In fact I didn't figure out most steps until it was time to do them. I also decided to make it primarily out of cardboard for two reasons:

First, I just happened to have a lot of cardboard laying around, making the project cheap,
Second, I am submitting this project for the gorilla glue cardboard contest.

Step 1: Materials and Tools:

For materials I gathered:

Large flat pieces of cardboard
One cardboard ring
One old used bearing
Spray paint and wood stain
1/4" Rope
Masking tape

Tools:

Jigsaw
Drill
Band saw
Hobby knife
Wood glue
Hot glue gun

Comments

[anonygrazer]

On first glance I thought the wheel was made of wood or possibly foam but to find it is actually cardboard is truly amazing. Thanks for sharing.

[zaniac77]

Great Instructable and costume. I'm actually re-doing my room in a nautical theme and finding a ship's wheel in good condition is quite pricey. I will change things up a bit in the materials, but this gives me a great idea for making my own decor. Thanks!

[MKohen]

Ha ha! Now you can go up to people, and when they ask why you have a steering wheel in front of your belt you can say: "I don't know, but its driving me' nuts!" ba-dum kshhh!

[audiomold]

hahahahahahaha.. argh I like the rope wrap. good job

[Punchabearinnamouf]

Beat me to it :( But still worth the laugh :)

[watermelonhead]

*crickets*

[masterpython]

I was going to say that.

[caitlinsdad]

Nice job, matey!

[J-Five]

Arghhh!!!! Give me all your candy or walk the plank!

[Creativeman]

Amazing creativity, great instructable...hope you do more! Cman