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Shooting toys can be bought in a store without any problems, but you can successfully make them yourself. On the pages of the website Secret of the Master, various designs of cool toys are considered, from the simplest to the more complex, which, in addition to gaming and experimental purposes, can bring practical benefits, for example, in protecting crops from pests at the dacha.

How to make an office cannon with your own hands

A simple gun design invented to carry out “office wars”. A projectile is a sheet of paper or a light ball crumpled into a ball. The gun does not allow firing in a straight line, but it shoots well with a canopy, which allows you to bypass obstacles in the form of office partitions;). The gun can be easily made with your own hands from a plastic bottle and rubber bands. For details, watch the video and.

How to make a rubber gun with your own hands

A simple wooden automatic three-shot pistol. The pistol fits comfortably in the hand. It is cut out of plywood with a hand jigsaw; you only need to cut out 4 parts. The gun fires rubber bands. With such a pistol it is easy to organize a small airsoft game in an apartment or on the street. We look at the drawings of the gun stencil (link at the end of the blog). Load your homemade pistol carefully according to the instructions. For safety reasons, wear safety glasses.

How to make a vortex cannon with your own hands

A wonderful weapon for children's games and experiments. The gun shoots... with air, an invisible toroidal vortex erupts from the barrel, which moves in the direction of the shot for some distance. A safe thing for children to play with weapons and remotely “destruct” toy buildings. Design details are shown in the video and.

How to make a pneumatic machine gun with your own hands

If you have an air compressor with a receiver on your household, then you have every opportunity to make a game console for the compressor. The weapon was adapted to the available ammunition - rowan and pea, and accordingly the machine guns were called rowan launcher and pea launcher. The design of a homemade machine gun is simple. It is based on manual blowing, which makes it easy to control the weapon. For manufacturing details, see the video.

How to make a gas gun with your own hands

When repeating this design, strictly follow the safety rules. You build a gas gun at your own peril and risk and take ALL responsibility for the construction, use, consequences of using this device, as well as for any damage caused. The authors summarized the accumulated experience in building potato cannons and tried to use ready-made elements in the design. In total, three types of guns of different calibers were designed.

Mini gun 32 mm caliber

The gun is made by hand in the shape of a pistol and shoots small balls. A reliable piezo spark source will not create problems. The gun is used for target shooting competitions. Requires some experience when loading. See production details

Gas apple potato gun 50 mm caliber

This is a serious design in terms of sound and projectile. The main application is to imitate the sound of a hunting rifle shot to scare away birds. A reliable budget gun, but only if used correctly and sparingly. Strictly follow safety rules and assembly recommendations. See how to make an Apple Gun

Today, toy stores offer such a large and colorful selection that parents are clutching their heads and children are drooling. Unfortunately, the economic situation and one’s own capabilities do not always allow one to have enough income to please one’s own child with a good gift. Hands and head help us! You can always make some of the toys yourself. Many craftsmen cut cars, horses, whatever they want out of wood and sell them.

Wood is a very convenient material; with minimal skill in handling it and the necessary tools, you can do a lot. For girls, you can cut out dolls, furniture, dishes from it, and for boys - a car, a pistol, a sword. The question of how to make weapons from wood is of great interest to them!

Wooden weapon options

In fact, you can do a lot, the main thing is, why do you need a specific thing? For a child who will play in the yard, for using weapons for their intended purpose, for role-playing games, for hunting, or maybe for a costume? Homemade weapons made of wood will take the shape and appearance that you desire.

If the main purpose is a game, then the main thing in this case is durability. All paint and thin fragile parts will fall off in a few days, if not immediately. When schools hold military training camps, and schoolchildren are given wooden Kalashnikov assault rifles, 50% of the guys tear off magazines on the first or second day. But these machines are made in bulk, not really caring about beauty, painting them in one color and trying to make them stronger. How to make a weapon out of wood that won't break, you ask? No way, the item will remain intact only if you do not use your product.

For roleplayers, the situation is much more complicated; they need weapons that are both beautiful and durable, so they often use other materials. If it is wood, then they make two swords or knives, one beautiful, the other durable.

Material selection and processing

The choice of material determines how much processing time will be required. Birch is a very strong and unyielding tree; it is good for making a club; without special treatment the product will be heavy. Aspen, poplar, and pine are softer and easy and pleasant to work with. Oak is rare in many regions of Russia, but if you decide to make a weapon with your own hands from wood, you are unlikely to find better material. It is easier to process than birch, lighter in weight and stronger than pine, and retains its quality well over time.

The wood for products must be free of knots, wood holes, rot, with a uniform direction of fibers, and without curvature. It is necessary to dry it, preferably in a dry room or under a canopy. It is necessary that the wood dries evenly without direct exposure to sunlight, otherwise it will begin to crack and bend.

Making a Club

The simplest wooden weapon is a club or stick. What could be simpler, break off a branch - and you're done. But if you suddenly decide to take this issue seriously, you want to make a durable, light, comfortable product, then you are faced with the question “how”. Making a weapon out of wood according to all the rules is not easy.

For the club, choose a young tree of suitable size. They cut down closer to the root, since at the butt the fibers begin to intertwine, making the material even more durable. Then, carefully, so as not to damage the top layers, remove the bark, cut off the knots, give the desired shape to the handle, and if necessary, soak the workpiece in water or special brines for a day. Then the drying begins, a fire is lit and, using the smoke, protecting the future club from the flames, it is dried. As soon as the tree has turned black, the blackness is removed with fine sand or hard grass. This is repeated six times, the surface becomes smooth and dry. Even if birch was chosen, the final product will be light and durable. Such wood does not rot.

Using the same principle, our ancestors made strong arrows and spears without steel tips.

Shield and sword

How to make weapons from wood for role-playing games and historical reconstructions? If for beauty and ambience, then it is very convenient to cut out a shape from plywood with a jigsaw, smooth the edge, varnish, paint, and insert decorations. If the paint is good, without holding the item in your hands, it will be difficult to determine what material it is made of. For combat, it is worth making a weapon from thick, durable wood, with a comfortable handle, so that the vibration from the impact is less transferred to the hand, otherwise you can damage the hand or simply drop the object during the first hard collision.

The shield can be made perfectly from plywood, but for combat it is better to use iron-bound or steel versions with a shock-absorbing lining. During reconstructions they usually show a wall-to-wall battle, in which it is extremely difficult to strike a strong blow to the shield. A good and durable one is needed for individual combat; for all other cases, plywood is suitable.

Firearms mockups

No matter how much you would like to, it is impossible to make a homemade firearm out of wood that will shoot. Maybe for one or two shots, and it’s not a fact that the weapon won’t explode when the gunpowder explodes.

All self-propelled schemes come down to one algorithm. The tree is a frame to which the barrel is attached, a trigger with a striker, and sometimes a magazine is added. Inconvenient, short-lived, but cheap and cheerful.

Hunting weapon

Do you remember running around the yards with slingshots as a child? If you haven't run, be sure to try it, you will like it. Modern elastic materials impart such striking power to a small metal ball or pebble that, with proper skill, you can knock down targets from thirty paces. But the frame of a slingshot can be easily made of wood.

Drawings of weapons made of wood for hunting are quite common. This is how crossbows and bows are made. It's not that difficult to make a wooden frame; it requires sleight of hand and no magic. But there is an important detail that is necessary to make small arms lethal and effective over long distances. For this you need shoulders that are flexible and strong, as well as a bowstring. There are old technologies for making shoulders, but nowadays it is too labor-intensive and difficult to implement at home. It is easier to use modern materials such as plastic.

It is best to make the main frame from wood, and the shoulders from flexible, rot-resistant plastic; a synthetic cord will go to the bowstring. A little decoration and paint, and you’ll get a very attractive and effective bow.

Beginning underwater fishing enthusiasts need to know how to make a homemade gun. This can be done even without special skills, professional tools and precision equipment. There are several key types of underwater guns, differing primarily in the method of throwing the striking projectile - the harpoon. The element that imparts acceleration to the striking projectile and imparts the energy necessary to overcome the resistance of water can be a spring, a special rubber band, vacuum and pneumatics. In addition, hydropneumatic, powder, gas guns and even double-barreled shotguns are produced industrially and made by numerous home-made craftsmen. But since to manufacture most varieties it is necessary to have experience in such work, a variety of materials and drawings to maintain exact dimensions, you should know how to make the simplest homemade underwater gun - an improved version of the so-called Hawaiian.

Beginning underwater fishing enthusiasts will be interested in a way to make a homemade gun without special skills, professional tools or precision equipment.

The Hawaiians, which appeared, as the name suggests, on the islands of Oceania, had an extremely simple structure. Initially, they consisted of a pole with a harpoon tip and a rubber band with a diameter of 10-15 mm, rolled into a circle. Having hooked the rubber band onto the thumb, the hunter used the back end of the pole to pull the rope back to the elbow, after which he grabbed the pole closer to the middle with his hand. After that, all that remained was to aim and unclench your hand so that the compressed rubber band would forcefully push the harpoon towards the target. However, the described method of catching fish is not very convenient for hunting, since holding the harpoon in the “cocked” state requires constant tension of the hand. This drawback can be easily corrected without complicating the design fundamentally, but simply by equipping the Hawaiian with a home-made trigger mechanism. Now let’s talk about exactly how to make a gun for hunting underwater - it’s extremely easy to make, effective and at the same time easy to use.

In addition to sporting interest, making such a homemade product also makes economic sense, since a specialized hunting store will be happy to offer you the simplest harpoon gun for the price of a crossbow. In addition, a tool made to your taste will allow you to enjoy both processes - manufacturing and the hunt itself. Before you make your own underwater gun, you will need to stock up on the following:

• aluminum tube with an outer diameter of 10-15 mm and a length of 150 cm;
• PVC pipe 25-30 cm long, the inner diameter of which is slightly larger than the outer diameter of the aluminum tube;
• a rectangular steel skewer;
• M4 bolt 20-25 mm long with a nut, metal and rubber washers;
• M4 bolt 40-50 mm long;
• steel rectangle measuring 40×15×2 mm;
• three self-tapping screws 70-100 mm long;
• fishing rubber;
• ring-shaped elastic band;
• nylon thread;
• cutting boards with a thickness of at least 20 mm;
• epoxy glue.

Also, to make a gun for hunting aquatic life with your own hands, you will need the following tools: a screwdriver, pliers, a hammer, a chisel, a vice, wrenches, a rasp, a drill, hacksaws for wood and metal.

Separate a 20 cm long fragment from the skewer, clamp it in a vice so that 10-12 mm protrudes from the jaws, and bend the protruding section at a right angle. Having taken the resulting L-shaped part out of the vice, bend it in the direction opposite to the short part of the letter “L” so that you get an arc - a sector of an imaginary circle with a diameter of 50 cm. Drill a 4 mm hole in the middle of the part. In the center of the short tube, drill 2 opposite holes - with diameters of 5 and 4 mm and 2 - with a diameter of 5 mm, 1 cm from the edge. Also, in a short tube at a distance equal to the length between the hole and the bend of the L-shaped part, make a transverse slot measuring 8x2.5 mm. A centimeter from the edge of the aluminum tube, drill 2 opposite holes of 8 mm each, and then make a transverse slot measuring 8x2.5 mm in the center of the tube. From fishing rubber, make a tourniquet 1 cm thick, 40-45 cm long, and every 5 cm, tightly rewind it with nylon thread. From the board, cut a round plug corresponding to the inner diameter of the long pipe and drill a 4 mm longitudinal hole in it.

Gallery: homemade speargun (25 photos)

How to make a speargun (video)

Assembling the gun

Now you need to assemble a gun from the kit prepared in this way. To do this, screw the L-shaped part with a short M4 bolt to the PVC pipe, inserting a rubber washer between them so that the short part of the L-shaped part fits into the cut in the pipe wall. The bolt head should not protrude above the inner surface of the tube wall, otherwise it will interfere with shooting. Additionally, secure the L-shaped part in the cut area with a ring-shaped rubber band.

Externally, this springy structure vaguely resembles a bicycle hand brake lever and serves as both a trigger and a sear - a part used to cock the weapon.

First, you need to insert a cut wooden plug, after lubricating it with epoxy glue, into the end hole of the aluminum tube. Then weld 3 self-tapping screws on one side and an M4 bolt on the other to the metal plate so that you get something like Neptune’s trident, where the M4 bolt is the shaft of the trident. Lubricate the M4 bolt with epoxy glue. The resulting trident should be screwed into the hole of the wooden plug. The homemade harpoon is ready.

The aluminum tube must be inserted into the PVC tube, and a rubber band must be passed through the 8 mm diameter holes drilled in the aluminum tube. The free ends of the harness are inserted into holes with a diameter of 5 mm drilled in the PVC pipe and carefully fixed there with nylon thread. This is how, without any special qualifications, in a maximum of 1 hour you can make with your own hands an excellent attribute of outdoor activities - an underwater gun.

DIY spearfishing gun (video)

Trial

To tension the rubber and prepare the gun for firing, it is necessary to move the PVC tube, which acts as a cocking handle, forward to the tip of the harpoon until a characteristic click is heard, indicating that the metal part that has fallen into the slots of both tubes has fixed the gun in the cocked state. Now pressing on the protruding arc of the metal part will disengage it from the harpoon and a shot will occur. Tests carried out in water show that from a distance of about 1 m, the harpoon confidently pierces the wall of a plastic bottle filled with water, and it is quite difficult to remove it back due to the threads on the self-tapping screws.

Conclusion

This is the simplest diagram of an underwater weapon and the shortest instructions on how to make an underwater gun with your own hands. In addition to the described method, there are many more circuit diagrams and manufacturing methods. It is possible to make, for example, a pneumatic gun, in which the harpoon is driven by the force of compressed air, a spring gun, etc.

You should know that homemade means for catching fish under water, like any weapon, require careful adherence to safety rules when handling. There are more than enough cases of careless injury to oneself with this weapon, and the time spent on recovery will be irretrievably lost for fishing, hunting and other healthy hobbies.

Probably, in any male company, if she happened to indulge in memories of her childhood, the topic of arson came up. Guys, who did it? A? Well, if not all, then many. They beat us up for them, took us away, shamed us, took us to the children's room of the police - but what's the point?

You can’t drag a minor to court, so to a certain extent law enforcement agencies turned a blind eye to such entertainment: kids, they’ll play enough and quit. For some, the passion for explosions and shooting went away during puberty, but for some it took on more serious forms.

It must be said that in different countries of the world, the attitude of the state towards homemade/handicraft shooting devices varies greatly: from the ferocious “turm to sit” to the completely indifferent “do what you want, just without self-harm.”

Remember this classic picture?

Finland is a country with very liberal gun laws, but they treat homemade guns strictly. Example: a local inventor built a submachine gun from an electric drill, got spoiled and law-abidingly went to hand over the product to the authorities. At the police station he was greeted with white hands and sentenced to several years in prison.

The opposite story is in the USA. Also liberal weapons legislation (in the vast majority of states). American blogger Zimirken 3D printed a pepperbox revolver - and also brought it to register with the police (Michigan). Registered. All.

And, say, in the Philippines (and in some other countries of Southeast Asia), products of local craftsmen are purchased not so much by representatives of the criminal world, but by ordinary citizens - for self-defense. And the local police, who are not entitled to official guns, do not disdain homemade pistols.

Blank handicraft copy of Colt M1911A1. All that's left is to work with the file a little...

In our country the situation is as follows. If a citizen is caught carrying a firearm, Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, popularly known as the “three geese,” comes into force. And if the investigation manages to prove the fact of manufacture, then Article 223 comes into effect, which is also not sugar (compulsory labor, fine, imprisonment from 3 to 8 years, depending on the composition). You can find out more, Google knows.

True, the fact of voluntary surrender of firing devices exempts from criminal liability. Moreover, they can even pay a little money, there is such a practice.

But they continue to do it. Moreover, in the overwhelming majority of cases, such monsters come out of the mischievous hands of folk craftsmen that you are simply amazed - well, when I was a child, I made fires that were much more accurate and reliable! What did this author, if I may say so, want? To end up on free government grub in places not so remote - or to have his arms, growing directly from the aphedronal part of the body, simply torn off?

Hey, Universe!

Everything should be perfect in a weapon of revenge...

Of course, there is another category of manufacturers. These, as a rule, work with more or less serious crime, which is why their products look much more respectable - be it a simple “shooting pen” or a homemade submachine gun. Guys earn money

Gunsmiths from Brazilian favelas do not work on little things - the production of submachine guns, revolvers chambered for small-caliber cartridges and smooth-bore 12-gauge cartridges has been put on stream.

Finally, there is a very tiny part - gunsmith enthusiasts, lone artisans with a fiery engine, bright heads and golden hands. Their fate is traditionally sad. They are the ones who have been creating unique original pieces for years, which are really nice to look at. But it is unbearable to own such beauty alone; the authors are drawn to at least someone to show the fruits of their labors, to hear praise, etc.

Homemade pistol with a tubular magazine chambered for .22LR

Then old Müller’s saying comes into force: “If two know, a pig knows.” Rumors about a careless creator reach either law enforcement officials or criminals. The first ones immediately come with a search, the second ones take them tightly under suffocating guardianship, forcing them to rivet shooting crafts in small-scale quantities. Both options end in places not so remote.

By the way, there are quite ideological comrades. Let's say, there lived and lived in distant Great Britain a certain Philip Luthi, a passionate lover of weapons, who also had a hostile position towards British weapons legislation (very strict).

Philip A. Luti outside his workshop

Philip sincerely believed that the state did not dare restrict the right of citizens to own firearms. And if a weapon cannot be legally purchased in a store, then you need to make it yourself. Luti devoted a significant part of his life to creating and developing designs that could be made from parts and materials purchased at the nearest hardware or auto store. He wrote several books and created an interesting website.

It must be said that he lived in the suburbs, assembled his guns in his home workshop, tested them right away - and did not particularly hide, declaring his position quite openly in magazine and newspaper publications. The police, of course, did not like such tricks; confrontation with the authorities led to a prison sentence (I note that Philip’s like-minded people, not unreasonably, consider him not a criminal, but a political prisoner). An interesting touch to the portrait: Luthi was also a campaigner for the welfare of pets... Philip died of cancer in April 2011, but his cause lives on.

Modern technologies allow people who are completely far from plumbing to create homemade shooting devices. Therefore, in the last few years, homemade products printed on 3D printers have gained a certain popularity abroad. Of course, they are still far from full-fledged weapons made using traditional methods, but they have occupied their niche. However, we will talk about them another time. It remains to be stated that homemade weapons were, are and will remain forever - and, it seems, nothing can be done about it...

By the way, there is a good way to scare the kid away from the blabbering disgrace. You just need to take them to a regular shooting range with a competent instructor and let them shoot with good, solid, normal weapons. This happened to me at the age of five - my father took me to a shooting range, where I was given several shots from a Margolin MCM pistol. After this wonderful machine, all our yard “shooters” seemed to me to be terrible lopsided monsters that were disgusting to even pick up.

On the other hand, modern boys don’t seem to know what arson is. Only computers and smartphones are on my mind...

All the products shown below were confiscated by the police/police from representatives of local crime, or directly from craftsmen, for 20 years.

I already wrote about homemade products in a previous article, it’s time to move on from general words to pictures. The filming was not carried out under the best conditions, I apologize for the quality.

1. Classic arson: a piece of wood, a pipe and a little tin. And a piece of wire so that the structure does not fall apart when fired:

2. Also arson, but on a completely different level. A very high-quality barrel, a cleaning rod included (special brass holders are installed under it), a neat stock... The esthete made:

3. Probably the most popular format of homemade small-sized weapons is a design with a movable barrel. The firing pin is rigidly fixed in the rear part of the body. The spring-loaded barrel is pulled forward, a cartridge is inserted into it, when the trigger is pressed, the barrel moves back, the rim of the cartridge with the initiating composition comes into contact with the firing pin - a shot is fired. Cheap and cheerful:

4. Also small, but this time the trunk is motionless. Before firing, the locking block is tilted to the side, the cartridge is inserted into the barrel, and the block is put in place. Pull back the shutter, press the trigger - fire:

5. Interesting shape of the stock, isn't it? And instead of the usual trigger, there is a semicircular bracket on the left side of the body. The rest of the design is quite ordinary. But there is a muffler and an extractor spoke is included:

6. The work was rough, but the idea was interesting—everything was like a shotgun. Adjusted for the size of the small-caliber cartridge and the author’s curvature:

7. No, this is not a self-loading pistol. But it's very similar:

8. And this is an honest self-loading, built around a magazine from an MCM pistol:

9. Despite the respectable size of the revolver, it is also small:

Homemade people often want the weapon to be multi-shot, but to make a normal semi-automatic pistol requires brains, and they are not often found. So it happened here: the trigger is a single action (that is, a shot is possible only after preliminary cocking of the hammer), the drum is rotated manually, the grooves on the drum serve to center it opposite the false barrel. It would be possible to do without it - it performs purely decorative functions.

10. And here is a mixed form: the back part is from an old single-barrel gun, and a pin is already welded to it, onto which the barrel block is put. Rotate the block manually, single action trigger. Of course, little fellow:

11. The author was a great original - a set of interchangeable barrels and drums for different calibers, a muffler, inscriptions... Alas, in essence - a primitive: still the same single-action trigger and turning the drum manually. But in a branded box:

12. But this revolver is made quite well - shooting is possible both by self-cocking and with pre-cocking of the hammer, the drum is normal, folding - and the barrel is rifled, not smooth:

13. A complete revolver carbine. The design may be simple, but the issue of ammunition supply is solved ingeniously. Loading is separate: a blank construction cartridge is inserted into the rear part of the drum chamber, and lead buckshot is inserted into the front (slightly larger in diameter). Both are sold freely:

14. But this is already serious. A submachine gun chambered for 9×18 mm PM cartridge, seized from very real bandits. Silencer, folding stock:

15. Also serious. Caliber 7.62×25 mm TT, magazine for 20 rounds, silencer, stamps, numbers, adjustable sights, dovetail strap for mounting a sight:

Actually, this is no longer a homemade product, it is an artisanal small-scale production. For 20 years, we have not been able to accurately identify this sample, no matter how much we searched. Something very similar was produced in the 90s in Transnistria, where active military operations were taking place...

Reference

The simplest classification of homemade firearms (IFA) is based on the type of ammunition used. I will list the most common options:

* The so-called “arsons”. The charge (gunpowder or match nitrate) is ignited using a match. There are more complex devices - with electric ignition, but they are much less common.

* Firing devices chambered for a small-caliber cartridge - it is cheap, often found, and its low power allows you to get by with the simplest materials when creating a COO.

* Weapons for homemade (or semi-homemade) ammunition. For example, a construction cartridge with the top of the cartridge case cut off and a homemade lead bullet/buckshot pressed into it. Or a metal tube of a suitable diameter, into the back of which a standard “gevelo” type capsule is pressed.

* Firing devices for standard ammunition. More often they are made for hunting "smoothbore" ammunition, less often - for a unitary cartridge for rifled weapons. The latter, as a rule, are distinguished by quite decent workmanship.

Finding yourself alone with nature, you have to survive by getting food using improvised means. It’s good if you have a bladed weapon or a hunting rifle with you. If you find yourself in a situation where you have neither one nor the other, you can make a weapon out of wood with your own hands.

Almost any weapon can be made from wood: a bow, a crossbow for hunting, a knife, a spear, a spear, a slingshot, an ax and even a gun. More details on how to make weapons from wood are discussed below.

Homemade knife, wooden

The choice of material for making weapons is a very important task.

• Birch is a strong and unyielding material; it is best used to make batons.
• Aspen, poplar and pine are softer and lend themselves well to various types of processing.
• But the most suitable wood for homemade wood is oak. Oak wood is well processed, light in weight, durable, and does not lose its characteristics over time.

Before making a workpiece, you need to select a material that does not contain knots, rotten areas, distortions, or heterogeneity of fibers, then dry it without exposure to direct sunlight. When the material is ready, weapons preparation is made.

DIY wooden slingshot

The simplest wooden weapon is a slingshot. With the help of this throwing weapon you can hunt birds and small game, and for production you need a minimum of materials - a strong elastic band or a tourniquet, and a branch with a fork (it is better to use hazel).

The fork is cut from the main part of the barrel to the required size, polished, and a tourniquet is attached to both ends. For reliability, you can make small cuts at the ends of the slingshot so that the tourniquet does not slip off.

Wooden club

A similar simple weapon is a wooden club. The disadvantage of this projectile is that to use it you need to maintain a short distance, which can be very difficult during hunting. To make a club, you need to use a young tree, cut down closer to the root, where the wood is most durable. The bark and all the knots are carefully removed from the surface of the workpiece, it is soaked for a day in water, then dried over a fire until black, which is then removed by sanding with sand and grass. This procedure must be done several times, resulting in a durable club that does not rot.

DIY wooden knife

An equally complex homemade weapon is a wooden knife. It can be cut in one piece from a wooden block, or it can be made from two components. To do this, you need to draw a sketch of the workpiece on wooden blocks, then cut it out with a hacksaw. After this, both parts are glued together into a single whole. If the manufacture of a wooden knife is carried out in field conditions, then, as a rule, there is nothing to glue the component parts with. Therefore, it is cut from a single block.

The blade is well sharpened and carefully polished, after which it must be fired over a fire, giving it strength. If possible, you can varnish the knife, then it will not be afraid of moisture.

Wooden bow and crossbow

A bow or crossbow is an effective weapon in the forest, made of wood. There are many video examples of crossbow making that describe the entire process in detail. First, the crossbow body with a groove for the arrow is cut out. An arc will be attached to one end of the body, and a trigger mechanism will be made at one third of the other end. It is better to make an arc from several layers of plywood glued together, which bend after drying. You can make it out of metal. At both ends of the crossbow arc you need to make holes for attaching the bowstring. The arc is attached to the body using a strong rope; if it is not at hand, using wire. The bowstring is attached to the bow in such a way that it passes closely over the body, but does not touch it. The task of the trigger mechanism is to capture the bowstring and sharply release it. The design of the mechanism can be made in the form of a wide arc or a complex system of hooks.

Arrows for crossbows are made of elastic wood, they are given a cylindrical shape, after which they are polished. The tip can be made of wood, metal or stone.

Not only “cold” weapons can be made from wood. You can make something like a pistol or shotgun, but you need to understand that it will not last long. The algorithm for making a pistol is simple: you need to make a frame from wood to which the barrel is attached, as well as a trigger mechanism with a striker, you can add a magazine. A metal tube is used as a barrel.