Blood Spurting Knife Wound

by Kipkay

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Intro: Blood Spurting Knife Wound

Make a gory Hollywood style bloody knife wound with spine tingling results. Perfect for Halloween or film SFX.

From the Make Halloween Edition by Zack Stern



STEP 1: What You Need...

1. Knife. Pick a cleaver style knife with a decent sized blade.
2. Small diameter plastic or vinyl tubing
3. Baby medicine dropper or turkey baster
4. Hot glue
5. Dremel or grinder

STEP 2: Prepare the Knife...

Make a measurement of your forearm by holding the knife down on your arm (CAREFULLY!). Make two marks on both sides of your arm and then draw a rough arc.

STEP 3: Make It...

Put the knife in a vise or use clamps to hold it down firmly. Once secure, begin cutting the arc using the tool of your choice. I used a Dremel and was surprised that one cutting blade made the entire cut.

WARNING: Be sure to wear safety goggles and gloves.

Then using a grinder or file, flatten out ALL of the blade edges and corners. Carefully test it with your finger to make sure it is not sharp. We don't want to draw real blood.

Using hot glue, secure the tubing to the blade. You may want to test the blade on your arm for the best location of the tubing so the 'blood' squirts out at the right spot.

STEP 4: Use It...

Make some fake blood or buy a small tube of it. There a quite a few recipes for fake blood on the internet if you want to go the hard way.

This effect works best with long sleeves. Run the end of the tube up your sleeve and down your shirt or jacket. Suck up some blood using the medicine dropper or baster and attach it to the open end of the tube. Your hollywood effect is ready to use.

Lay the knife down on your arm and slowly squeeze out the blood as you make a spine-tingling scream!

I hope you enjoyed this Halloween SFX Instructable!

47 Comments

10207865 6 years ago

like death but coool

zascecs 15 years ago

AAUUUGHHH!!! I forgot to cut out the arc in the knife!!!... ... (*tears) I want my arm back...

zascecs 15 years ago

...Just Kidding 5 stars

ReCreate 15 years ago

do you know how hard it is to cut through hardened steel? not all people have diamond-coated dremel bits

Micizzle 13 years ago

You can make a pretty realistic knife from duct tape, so there's always that.

lilpepsikraker 14 years ago

uhh yeah, but they are $7 on ebay. a simple 2 second google search proved that.

ReCreate 14 years ago

Wow really there are diamond coated bits?

stupidstickanimations 13 years ago

i might just make the knife part and put it on a dummies neck (my brother maybe?)

hackmattr 14 years ago

 It would've been better to make the whole knife out of wood and hide the tubing in the handle. thats only if you want it to be shown on both sides.

xproplayer 14 years ago

lovely pick of knives if you can cut through the whole thing with one blad roflmao

Kani57 15 years ago

This is very excited.

Walikai 15 years ago

have fun cutting through hardened steel with a dremel ; )

mynameisjonas 15 years ago

I think its cool, but can't see this being used in a Halloween costume. you need to secure it to your arm. to me it also seems inconvenient, if not impossible to collect Halloween candy while holding that thing up to your arm.

isacco 15 years ago

A good job and well explained instructable! In my opinion "Tech" section is not an apppropriate classification. The content is not "Tech".
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