{"id":169,"date":"2007-01-21T01:26:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T00:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/diy-shuriken\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T01:30:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T00:30:59","slug":"diy-shuriken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/diy-shuriken\/","title":{"rendered":"D.I.Y. Shuriken"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you do, when you’re invited to a birthday dinner with 2 hours notice and since\u00a0you didn’t know\u00a0you 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).<\/p>\n

So I present to you, my D.I.Y. Shuriken! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Check out the pic below:<\/p>\n

\"DIY<\/a><\/p>\n

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  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.<\/li>\n
  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!<\/li>\n
  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.<\/li>\n
  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!)<\/li>\n
  5. Push shuriken into wood for that authentic, thrown into wood look and take picture \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The end result, one pretty nifty birthday present and all done in 2 hours \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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