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D.I.Y. Shuriken

Posted on January 21st, 2007 by James.
Categories: Shiny Things.

What do you do, when you’re invited to a birthday dinner with 2 hours notice and since you didn’t know you were invited, don’t have a present for the birthday boy? .. Well I could have show up empty handed and I’m sure he wouldn’t have minded, but instead, with 2 hours before the event, I decided it’d be fun to try and make him something using the metal from my old bike exhaust and my new dremel (xmas pressie).

So I present to you, my D.I.Y. Shuriken!

Check out the pic below:

1. Draw shuriken on paper. I made this design myself by first drawing around the base of my optic (the only vaguely triangular object I could find!), then connecting bits up using the side of a handy credit card as a ruler (Hey I was pressed for time!). Then I cut out a section of my old exhaust and used a rubber hammer to flatted it out.
2. I used a cd labelling pen to draw round my paper template, then cut out the lines with my dremel. I went through about 5 cutting discs! Chromed exhausts are THICK!
3. The back of the metal was insanely filthy.. but I guess that makes sense since it used to be the inside of an exhaust! So I put a grinding attachment on my dremel and cleaned it off.. then I immediately stopped and went to put on a face mask so I didn’t choke to death!.. then I finished cleaning it.
4. Using the grinding attachment I cleaned up all the edges and then grinding at an angle, sharpened up all the points (though not that sharp as I don’t want to chop my fingers off!.. plus that’d probably be illegal!)
5. Push shuriken into wood for that authentic, thrown into wood look and take picture

The end result, one pretty nifty birthday present and all done in 2 hours

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