nail ninja star made with only nails and tape!

This is a ninja star made with only nails and tape. No more cutting metal! This is my first instructable, so be kind.

Step 1 Gathering materials

you will need:
tape, preferably electrical
nails, about 3 inches long. i happened to find some nail gun nails on the side of the road.

Comments

[PoopiePants]

LOL!! I used to make these in the 1980's when I was around 10 or 11!! My neighbor & I made tons of them using different types of nails & nail configurations. I remember finding some horseshoe nails that worked really well. Can really hurt someone or yourself throwing stuff like this around so anyone planning on doing it be really careful.

[The Metal One]

if you cant work metal like a man dont make ninja stars. thats just how it has to be.

[icemachete]

Question for you: You say " thats just how it has to be." What do you mean by this statement? Why is it how it has to be? I eagerly await your response, as this part of your comment confuses me.

[The Metal One]

improper metalwork is a shame upon you, your family, and your dog. if you cant do something right, dont do it...is that satisfactory to you?

[icemachete]

So looking back at this instructable four years after I made it I can see that it's just... bad. Why did I think not using capitalization was cool?

[black hole]

Good question. It always bugs me when people "can't be bothered" to use capitlization. And why is it "expected" of "teens" to ignore all spelling rules? I'm 14, I've never skipped using capitlization.
P.S. Thanks for posting this, it really jumpstarted my desire to build things, most of them deadly in shape, way, and form .

[wolf996]

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wal11]

try using more of the nails so it has 8 or 6 points instead of just four and for indors mabey pencils im making a bunch of theese and ill let you know how my mods work

[Air_Assassin]

If u r a bilder bring tape to get revenge on someone who waz beating u ip

[tsukiyomaru0]

Idea: use those precision screwdrivers! XD Must be WONDEFULL!

[pluish]

blegh, there are better ones around here, if your weapon is being held together by ducktape, you will be laughed at

[hawkfrost64]

 well, this one is much simpler than most. if you were going into battle in like, 20 minutes, i doubt you would have time to cut metal, and and sand  it. you could make a good number of these in that time, and kick some butt.

[josh1324]

hes gotta point, but good instruct :)

[Doveman]

Thats electrical tape =/

[ShurikenThrower192]

this really looks like it will work thanks :D

[Kendallkip]

just made one with railroad spikes and A LOT of duct tape XD

[DrWeird117]

OUCH!

[Kendallkip]

seriousley, i sharpened the spikes with stones, threw it into a sapling, and the sapling broke XD

[DrWeird117]

Ow... Wait where'd you get RAILROAD spikes?

[geodez]

at the spokane industrial park they just have a ton of them laying around.

[Kendallkip]

an abandoned railroad. In fact, there was caution tape put up, so i just went in and jacked abunch of em'

[DrWeird117]

naughty, naughty... ROFL

[Speedmite]

They actually sometimes just give em away for free.

[DrWeird117]

Oh, cool.

[Speedmite]

It is very cool. They also give away chunks of rail at cheap prices.

[DrWeird117]

Sweet! I'll have to check it out.

[Speedmite]

Well thats what I heard at least. It would probably be at a railway depot. They are probably begging for company....and people to take all the old rails stuff. I also heard that you can get the railway ties cheap too. Thats why some places use em as those parking lot hump/curbs thingies that you cant drive over to get to the spot on the other side.and boy scout camps use a lot of them.

[DrWeird117]

Huh. Cool... My neighbor uses them as driveway edges.

[Speedmite]

Never thought of that. That works too. I like that idea actually.

[DrWeird117]

Home Depot sells the ties.

[Speedmite]

Really?

[DrWeird117]

Yeah!

[_-WarCry-_]

these work great especially with a hevier weight. but i keep losing them. i also used small bike gears for ninja stars/ shrukiens. they are harder to throw but stick farther in the wood. 5/5 *

[joemonkey]

cool, but is there a way to improve strength and stability? it looks iffy.

[Kendallkip]

its not. I made one and it stuck in a tree and stayed intact

[Kendallkip]

and it was one strong tree!

[Speedmite]

No it wasn't!!!!

[BMXHEX]

An even easier way to make one of these is to solder them together. And FYI shurikens were never made to be deadly they were made to injure a ninjas enemy. but other than that it looks petty good.

[Speedmite]

And rusty stars are deadly..... So if they went deadly, they must be baby ninja toys!!!

[Speedmite]

Meant weren't, not went. Typo.