[sakimoto]

Hello everyone!
Does anyone know of a website with information on making your own weapons? I remember seeing one many years ago and it showed how to make spears with kitchen knives and hose clamps. I also showed how to make a club similar to a World War 1 german trench club. It was made out of a bicycle sproket. I just cannot remember the website. As for me,I have a short spear make by cold steel, two homemade swords that I made from high carbon leaf springs, an assortment of baseball bats, a home made sheild made with 1/2 inch plywood and rawhide, football shoulder pads that make great protection, several helmets. If I was in a hurry I can grab my spear,bat,sword and shield in matter of seconds. If I had time to put on my armor I would so that I could stand a better chance in case I receive a blow. Of course anyone with a fire arm would defeat me, but in the dark with an unfamiliar location at room distance. An intruder would have a disadvantage. I would not hesitate to defend my family. If you have any information I would deeply appreciate it.
Thank you!
Saki

[gripper]

Sakimoto.......YOU'RE ALL RIGHT!!!! :neener: You sound as though you'd do well no matter what;all that I can think ofis just a few improvised munitions manuals&Palladin press stuff...MOst of that dealt with firearms,explosives&incendiaries as well as the ways to set them off.But close quarters melee weapons???Ther's got to be some sites or books out there the goobermint has'nt freaked on.
I was known to keep a numjber of stabing/slashing /bludgeoning implements seeded throughout the residences I had in the past,but I never even thought to "armor up"in a DIY fashion. I like it!!

[crt360]

Welcome.

You get my award for most innovative new member. I think just the sight of someone with a homemade sword, trench club, plywood and rawhide shield, wearing shoulder pads and a helmet would scare off most intruders; especially if the shoulder pads are spiked/studded and the helmet has horns on it. A picture or two would be worth a million words.

Are you by any chance a Raider fan or one of the guys in the "What's in your wallet?" TV ad?

It sounds like you're ready to do your own homemade weapons how-to site. :)

[Horsesense]

"Of course anyone with a fire arm would defeat me"

Wrong answer!

All a gun can do is inject a small bit of led into your body. Unless that led opens up a major artery or disrupts your central nervous system etc. you are still very much in the fight.

[scott.cr]

Google info on home-brew knife making. From what I know, a lot of the knife DIYs make good blades with nothing but worn-out files and a bench grinding wheel.

There is a lot of info online about hardening and tempering steel too. So if you burn the temper off of your file steel you can re-harden and re-temper it.

I have done hardening and tempering of steel in the kitchen oven. Use a gas torch to harden, and kitchen oven to temper. Some steels will temper at 500 degrees F and under, which is within the realm of the household.

EDIT: Oddly enough, I am making my own extendable baton from 6061-T6 tube. I have a lathe and mill in my hobby shop, and the baton extends easily and locks firmly. Way better than a $65 ASP.

[pauli]

homemade weapons!
everybody needs a good shiv once in their life... ;)

[abaddon]

Cut out a length of gardening hose - it would really sting as is or you could rig it as a sap by putting some a weight in the end (roll of quarters?) and sealing it up somehow.

Re: clubs - splitting maul handles seem about the right balance and strength to me. If you make the part you attach the maul to into the handle it'll hit pretty hard but move a lot quicker than a baseball bat. Wrap it with paracord for a grip.

Homemade pepper spray/mace - I've seen recipes on the internet. Sorry, but I don't have a link. The cool thing about this is that you can experiment with different methods of delivery. One could potentially change an everyday object like a water bottle into a less-lethal weapon (just don't drink from it).

[Krenn]

What's the legality of making a homemade claymore mine?

shouldn't be too hard... the hard part would be shaping the paraboid heavy metal backing. then it's just gunpowder and buckshot with a paper mouth covering and an igniter.

or you could take a blacksmithing course and buy a home smithy.

[eab]

I am pretty sure a homemade claymore would fall under the defination of homemade bomb. Pretty sure that its not a good idea. Also claymores use C4, but you problay knew that.

[Oldnamvet]

Claymores are also not good to anyone close behind it when it goes off. :D

[1911JMB]

While many people believe this idea is out of line, I've said it before and I'll say it again, fill a pop bottle with gas and have a lighter handy.

[gunfan]

You can buy Blackjacks from police supply stores. (I know, I own 3. Two are 8 oz. of lead on the end of spring wrapped in leather, the other is 14 oz.) I also own 2 "Flat Saps" (one manufactured by S&W, and the other is cheap Taiwanese junk.)

I also collect automatic knives!

Scott

[Rupestris]

I had read somewhere on a website where someone had made a small hunting knife out of an old circular saw blade.
I was out in the garage and found an old dull circular saw blade and got to thinking... Why not a Kerambit? :p
I have the bench grinder, bench sander, disk sander, cutting tools. Its a fine cut so if I shape it correctly, it'll already have the serated/sawtooth back edge onthe blade :D

[Moonclip]

One of my favorite homemade weapons is a sock with sand or better yet, a big ball bearing in it. Highly illegal though in my area.

Anyone ever see Bad Boys with Sean Penn when he beats upthose two guys in juvey with a pillowcase with soda cans in it?

Men will always find away to be armed. I've known of people to make a shank in prison by melting sandwich bag plastic, get enough of it, melt it, and form it in to a stabbing weapon.

[CT Yankee]

I found an odd site with some useful ideas. I don't know if it's anything you want, but here it is anyway: http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/guns_and_weapons/index.html

[abaddon]

A brief look at the sight showed me that the writer thought he knew more about guns than he really did know. I would expect that tendency to show up in his non-gun information as well.

[thebigc]

yeah i wouldent listen to most things from the totse archives they used to have a good pyrotecnics fourum. a cool little thing i made once was i had some flexible plastic tubeing from home depot i took that crimped the end on about a 2 foot peice then filled it with like 4 ounces of shot and taped it over again i could put some pretty mean dents in a peice of wood with that thing.

[ecos]

in my early teen years i bought a large nut (about 1" across and pretty heavy) and just tied a 4-6 foot length of thin rope to it. at full length with a good swing it would do some serious damage. you could hold higher on the rope for more control or just use the rope itself to trap limbs.
not an ideal weapon but it was fun to tinker with and cost like 50cents. never had to use it in self defense but i beat the heck out of innocent trees with it.

[middy]

A favorite homemade weapon from my childhood was a spear I made. I knocked the scales off of an Old Hickory butcher knife. I sawed the stick off of an old broom, then sawed a notch in the end lengthwise, long enough for the tang of the knife. Stuck the tang in the slot, then screwed a couple of wood screws through the stick and through the holes in the tang.

Using a dagger blade and a shorter hardwood dowel, one could make a quality Masai-type spear with this method...

[mole]

There was a guy who liked to mess with me in high school. One day I took a roll of quarters and hit him. He never messed with me again. You could always claim you were on your way to the arcade....

My younger brother carries a large bolt he found somewhere. It's about 18-20 inches long, the shaft's about 3/4 - 1inch in diameter, and topped off with a large square head. The threads give a fairly good grip. I used to have a boss that took a 1 1/2 inch diameter oak dowel about 16 inches long and wrapped with what looked like 3/16 sheet metal around the last four inches. He put a few screws through it to make sure the metal couldn't slide off. Either one would do some damage.

[middy]

mole, that reminds me, some more of my favorite childhood weapons (no we never hurt anyone with them): an 18" length of rebar with a handle made with hockey tape, a 24" piece of hockey stick with a 1/2" x 2" hole drilled in the end and filled with molten lead (wicked one that :eek: )

[Camp David]

The best homemade weapon we made as kids on the farm was called a Tennis Ball Cannon! It is made by cutting off and out the tops and bottoms of beer cans, then taping them together to make a tube. The last can at the bottom was left sealed. Then a tennis ball was pushed down the tube all the way to the bottom. Once the tennis ball was seated, a small hole is poked in bottom and lighter fuel is forced in to fill area at bottom, behind tennis ball! Then "cannon" is then shoulder mounted! All that is needed is a lighter to ignite fluid to launch -- rapidly -- the tennis ball down tube and into whatever is aimed at!!! :evil:

The first time we tried this medieval cannon, a friend and I picked the first target we found: a rooster quietly walking a short distance away! Apparently we put way too much lighter fuel into it because as soon as we lit the fuel the tube detonated and rooster instantly turned into a ball of feathers as we scored a direct hit! Neither tennis ball or rooster were ever found! :D

[Moonclip]

I forgot about the coin roll trick until mentioned. It can also be taped so it doesn't fall apart after a few punches.

[mole]

We used to make our own nightsticks, but they tended to break at the joint after some use. I have killed many a rat with a hockey stick. :)

My roll of quarters was covered with wide clear tape. Another trick I saw was to take a stack of large washers, tie them together into a stack with some wire (three or four loops evenly spaced) so they don't fall over or come apart easily, fill the center with lead. You can then wrap with electical tape or such for added strength. The lead filled washers are heavier and will be more effective I assume, but does not look innocent like the quarters.

The best bet would probably be to buy an asp baton. Mine is 26 inches long and slides down to about 9 inches to fit into it's belt pouch. I bought it at a military surplus store for about $20-25 dollars a few years ago. You have to be careful since you will be getting into concealed carry territory if you try to hide it under your shirt or such....at least in Georgia anyway.

With the way things (laws, lawsuits, etc...) are going in this world now you might be stuck with just a stick. A good sized hardwood dowel rod could easily be explained as a replacement for a rod in the closet or needed for a child's school project.

Now I have to urge to go make something.... I think I'll follows sakimoto's lead. I'm seeing a plexiglass shield and a short spear. My brother's old vest (he used to be a beat cop) and a helmet of some sort. Yeah, it might look a little silly, but it beats nothing when the buckshot runs out after the poopie has contacted the blower.

[1911JMB]

Camp David

The tennis ball cannon you described is as far as I know currently classified as a destructive device. If I'm right, that means if the cops wanted to give you a hard time, making one of those would be about as good of an idea as having an unregistered a machine gun. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

[TMM]

nope, it's generally classified as a potato cannon, which isn't a real firearm per se...

[mole]

If I remember correctly it's based on how its used. If you were just shooting tennis balls or potatos for entertainment reasons it's alright, but if the tennis is on fire while being shot it is a destructive device. I would think using it to shoot an intruder would make it considered a destructive device. I think it was posted on the ATF website several months ago. I'd check to be sure.

I used to insert fireworks and firecracker into my potatos. About half the time the fuse would catch and the potato would blow to peices in mid air. That was great. :) I imagine that would also be considered a destructive device now that I think about it. You would have to check your state and local laws to be sure.

[Camp David]

The tennis ball cannon you described is as far as I know currently classified as a destructive device. If I'm right, that means if the cops wanted to give you a hard time, making one of those would be about as good of an idea as having an unregistered a machine gun. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

Love to hear more about this... and what is the definition of a "destructive device"? Cops have plenty to do without chasing down a bunch of kids... and with a little imagination and a few Estes rocket engines said device becomes a great deal more! :rolleyes:

[crt360]

We made the tennis ball cannons when we were kids - duct-taped 3 or 4 tennis ball cans together, set it up like a mortar, and blew tennis balls into low earth orbit. They were not the safest things in the world. A friend once tried to launch a homemade rocket by placing it on top of the tennis ball. The cannon did not survive, but somehow we avoided the shrapnel. I hate to think what would have happened had it been shouldered. If you make one, use a fuse and stand back.

[Boom-stick]

A wrist-braced sling-shot and a bag of golf balls, not that covert but a lot of fun.

[Turtle Club]

I would check out "anarchist cookbook". I don't know if it is still available online anymore. Of course that damn Communist US Goverment will probably have the site flaged and check out anyone whom looks(ed) at the website. They say its because of the :neener: Patriot Act (cought)bull-chyt(cough) :neener:. But none the less I do remeber them telling you how to make everything from potatoe guns...wich are extremly fun to smoke bombs (oh wait I bet I cant say that word anywhere anymore can I? :banghead: , and they call us "free".using light bubls with spent filaments. GOOD STUFF!

[Griff]

Hey, the Tennis Ball Cannons were called "Goose Guns" in Indiana. We also launched Dixie Cups full of little green apples, too.
In a safe, controlled manner, of course.
Bwahahahahahhaaa


I happened to see, in a home improvement store, that they were selling replacement garden-shears blades with 2 holes drilled in them for mounting purposes. Kinda sharp and pointy, they were.
On a nearby rack, there were some long, wooden replacement handles that also had 2 holes in them. In nearly the same place. How convenient.
The small-hardware section may or may not have had some 2.5inch lag bolts, lock washers, and nuts for $1.59...

Nearby were some neat Viking-looking tools sometimes called Bill Hooks, or Ditch Blades. (Whoooosh! is the sound they make when you accidentally cut open a 25 pund bag of Ortho Lawn Fertillizer, BTW)

Now, If I could find some old, worn out tires, some heavy-duty tin snips, and some ultra-heavy duty cable ties or somesuch, I might be able to make "a festive, decorative vest for my next costume party, officer."
If I were concerned about the pokey little sharp steel belts on the edges of the tires abrading my neck and arms, I might look for some of that grey colored plastic-foamy slip-on pipe insulation to glue or rivet on, but I'm just speculating, y'know... ;)

[Medusa]

Molotov's cocktail, no more said :evil:

[kframe357]

Not allowed to carry at work (I work midnights in depp ghetto detroit) so I carry 1" deep socket. works like roll of coins without coming apart.

when I was a kid we made our own blow guns and darts out of pens and push pins, not real accurate, but hurt like hell.

[p35]

I've read about British commandos making their own Claymores out of melted explosive in the bottom of a 5 gallon ice cream container, topped with ball bearings. Of course, you have to have the explosive in the first place.

[James T Thomas]

Your fighting spirit is commendable. It reminds me of the "American Pioneer" spirit that blessed the USA through so many generations.

May I suggest to you a weapon that is simple, reliable, versatile, and can be made at home, though I suggest you purchase a genuine "Nihon" one for a modest cost to be an example for your projects?

That is the Japanese "Jo," the ~4 ft. staff of oak; "kunugi" or similar wood.
With training, it was effective against the "katana;" the training actually was done with wooden "bokken."

Don't underestimate it: It has long reach, can break bone, is not fragile, can be used to strike a fatal blow, can deflect oncoming blows, block them, can entangle, thrust, parry, jab, and more. With it your training is also good physical exercize too. You may even use it to throw your attacker, and subdue him with joint locks and nerve crushing pressure.

I carry mine while walking my dog, to fend off agressive strays, and for my own protection also.

What do you think?

[PAC 762]

Sack of doorknobs, anyone? :)

Jimbo Jones
"Hey! You're that drunken posse. Wow ... can I join ya?"
Homer
"I don't know ... can you swing a sack of door knobs?"
Jimbo Jones
"Can I?"
Homer
"You're in! Here's the sack."
Moe
"But you gotta supply your own knobs." :D

[Omni04]

a word of warning though for those not familiar with the anarchist cookbook. A lot of people say how incorrect the explosives are. I havn't seen it myself, but if you get a copy don't let it be the end all guideline for any projects. May be a good read regardless though.

[ecos]

i agree with the inaccuracy of the anarchists cookbook. its not written by profesionals and if you are attempting to make something that can explode i would seek out profesional advice.

i owned the cookbook in my teen years and it is a good read. i made a few of the items from it.....some worked, some didnt. in retrospect it was a stupid thing for me to have done.

definitely do not trust versions of the cookbook floating around the internet...anyone can modify it and there are many sadistic people that will mislead you to watch you get hurt.

[Third_Rail]

1911JMB, potato cannons, etc., aren't DDs in the eyes of the BATFE unless used as a weapon.

As for the anarchist's cookbook, stay away from it. It's really not worth getting killed over something that dumb - most, if not all, of the "recipes" for anything explosive (high or low, primary or secondary) is incorrect by a large margin. Runaway reactions when making explosives are very, very bad.


If you're set on doing things like that, get the military field manuals on "Improvised Explosives".

[Dr.Rob]

I know a few colorful sorts from Boston that swear by the old 'potato in the sock' method of armed response... after all who would stop an irishman from carrying a potato?

Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald (of Emergency Vets fame) used to do security for the Rolling Stones his weapon of choice? Two ball bearings in a pantyhose.

I made a harpoon once. For Social Studies class. Tried to kill a fish with it. Failed miserably.

[Omni04]

not sure if it was mentioned, but a couple good ones people use on campus is either a really hot cup of coffee, or a baseball bat (and glove so you aren't hassled).

just keep some water boiling on the stove "beebo style"!

[shecky]

I bought a garrotte at the local hardware store. It was disguised as a PVC pipe cutter. It's simply a thin braided stainless steel cable, the ends enclosed in plastic tubing and looped for handles. It does cut PVC pipe quite well.

Years ago, when I was a kid, someone at my school came up with some really cool mini blow darts. We cut some "bottle brush" plants growing near the school fence, carefully plucked off the red fuzz bundles, inserted a straight pin so that it comes out the base of the bud. Instant dart with bright red "fletching". Stick the dart in a soda straw, and you have a weapon perfectly capable of skewering skin. And provoking a swatting from the principal.

[Nickety]

www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/guns_and_weapons/

Hi im new but this site is probably one of the last sites still remaining that has info about homemade weapons and such.....ever since the london terrorism the government has sent many bans to the websites (ex: anarchist cook book)

[Omni04]

can anybocy provide a link to information and pictures about a Nihon? I ranacked google but i couldn't come up with anything at all. Only a couple decriptions with no pictures, and they all said it was bladed. Thanks!

[.45Guy]

Here's a little toy I made a while back:
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[DeseoUnTaco]

a word of warning though for those not familiar with the anarchist cookbook. A lot of people say how incorrect the explosives are. I havn't seen it myself, but if you get a copy don't let it be the end all guideline for any projects. May be a good read regardless though.
The Anarchists Cookbook was written as a joke. The recipes in it are either completely made up or dangerous or whatever.

[.45Guy]

If anyone's interested, I have refined my design of the POS in the above picture, to an actually usable size. Fairly comparable to a crossbow, with useable sights and stock billy rigged from a junked vz-24. Also, the globe valve has been replaced with a solenoid valve, thus allowing the use of a semi conventional trigger.

[Spiggy]

I used to insert fireworks and firecracker into my potatos.
Good times...

I made a double sided throwing knife a while back... it got stuck in a tree and I've never got it back. Week later I used the left over metal to make throwing blades, and they got stuck in the same tree.

Avoid the Anarchist Cookbook, most of it is just plain joke and made-up.

3ft tubes w/ 4inch pointed dowels make nifty dart and dart throwers, but they're not as interesting as a flying blade chopping the heads off 4ft vegetation in the back yard

[Dan909]

Horse sense you said

"Of course anyone with a fire arm would defeat me"

Wrong answer!

All a gun can do is inject a small bit of led into your body. Unless that led opens up a major artery or disrupts your central nervous system etc. you are still very much in the fight.

this is wrong a weaker side arm will have enough penetrating power to enter but not exit meaning it will bounce around inside you ripping up your organs sometimes a high penetration side arm will bounce of a bone and exit at a strange angle thats why if someone gets shots its not a straight line through the body it has an entry hole and the exit hole is a lot bigger because the bullet will exit lop sided leaving a bigger hole

just to let people now its better to try and run away instead of fighting a person or throw something at them lol but yes i have 3 samurai swords a 'show' captains sword which is extremly shard and some weopons from ww2 in working conditions for example a combat knife batton and next inline a rifle this is 100% legal woo

[Godfather]

I made a blackpowder cannon once. Out of steel plumbing pipe, 1/2". Shot through 2-3 1/4" sheets of plywood. Blew up on the 5th shot.

[Harve Curry]

:eek: Pipe has a welded seam, and does not make a good gun barrel:what:

[Godfather]

Yeah, I noticed. Fortunately, we used rocket igniters from 18+' and had the cannon in a pit with a cinder-block barrier between it and us. No one even got close to getting hurt.

[Matthew748]

This thread brings back memories. I grew up in a suburb of Chicago that was not too built up and still had a forest in the front and back of the house. I made a lot of neat things back then that I tested in the woods. I would rather not go into anymore detail nowadays, it was a different time back then.

Along with plenty of crude knives and shanks (my dad made the mistake of buying a grinder and I was not shy about using it when he was away), I actually made some pretty decent weapons. The most functional weapon I made was also the simplest. It was a standard blackjack made out of a heavy-duty black sock and a handful of steel ball bearings. I probably still have it somewhere.

[chopinbloc]

I made a blackpowder cannon once. Out of steel plumbing pipe, 1/2". Shot through 2-3 1/4" sheets of plywood. Blew up on the 5th shot.


afaik, black powder cannons are perfectly legal. gas cylinders hold a lot more pressure than pipe. the owner of a gun store i frequent made a bowling ball mortar from a large gas cylinder. says it'll lob a bowling ball several hundred yards. i've been toying with the idea of making something a bit smaller from a medical oxygen bottle but not knowing the pressures involved bothers me a bit.

[NightWolf99]

i remember once a while back a bunch of friends and me made napalm in my one friends garage...mixed gasoline with styrafoam and let it sit for a few weeks... that stuff burnt for hours and hours...i'm almost 100% sure though that in most places this would be considered a destructive bomb or something and is highly illegal..

another interesting fast and easy to make weapon is with a water bottle. just get a water bottle(prefereably a deer park water bottle) and twist the bottom so all the air is squeezed into the top, then twist off the cap and it'll shoot acros the room pretty fast, i broke a picture frame with it..

another easy to make weapon is an small claymore.. all you need is a highlighter(the big ones), a pen, a lot of big paper clips, some small paper clips, and some strong rubber bands. hollow out the highligter(take the insides out and everything) and make it so you can slide the pen through it easily. hollow out the pen too(a regular bic pen will do fine) put two holes straight across from eachother in either side of the pen, about half an inch in. then on the small side of the highlighter(the side where the pen is most tightly fitting) put 2 hole that are directly across from eachother..IMPORTANT:the holes must be directly across from eachother..stick the pen in and then put the holes in if neccesary, they must line up. then at the other end of the pen put 4 holes, not in a cross shape ( + ) but in 2 straight lines ( = ) across the pen. and then do the same with big part of the highlighter(make sure the holes are out of the way of the path of the pen though!) so the holes that line up with the holes in the small end of the highlighter you will cut off part of a small paperclip, make it about 2 inches long. make a small loop at one end and keep the other end straight and slide it through the four holes you made. then at the holes on the other side of the pen( = ) cut a small paper clip in half and slide a half through each set of holes and bend them down towards the other end, then bback up so it looks like this: >. do that on both sides for both paperclips. then go to the holes in the big part of the highlighter and do the same thing, attach the rubberband to them so its look somethingl iek this :

>------------<
========:::|||||||||
>------------<

(=pen, :this part of highlighter, |big partt of highlighter, --rubberband, >< paper clips)

then simply put the cap of the highlighter inside the big part and then after that put in your munitions, in this case sharp paperclips. take the big paper clips and cut them up to all about the same length, you want about a hand full of the cut up pieces, shove inside the big part of the highlighter and theres your mini claymore. all you have to do is pull out the only piece holding it back, the piece through the little part of the highlighter and the pen. and it'll fire...you can also make it a trip line by attaching a string to it and then when someone pulls the string it fires...

well thats all later.

[JShirley]

Hi, welcome to the board.

Let me be sure I understand you: you're describing something made with rubber bands as a weapon?!

John

[pauli]

hey, it's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.

[Krenn]

I made a blackpowder cannon once. Out of steel plumbing pipe, 1/2". Shot through 2-3 1/4" sheets of plywood. Blew up on the 5th shot.

you need to reinforce the pipe by wrapping it heavy wire.

[innerwrath]

t thomas...thats a great idea!:D

[OldBillThundercheif]

Here's the top-of-the-line:
http://www.thehomegunsmith.com/

[SeanSw]

Making weapons at home is all in good fun. I've made many and these are not my best, but they are still far from the worst.

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The top knife is a hand hammered piece of whimsy. I don't know what I was thinking. Turned out kinda neat though.

The pointy knife was made from a rusty nail found in an alley. I hammered it flat and filed the edge bevel, burned the tang through a piece of scrap wood, added a copper spacer scavenged from a pipe, and folded the tang over. It won't hold an edge but would do a nice job of ruining your day.

The maul was made from an ash handle and a dead cherry tree. I drilled a hole through the limb and chiseled it square for a tight fit before wedging it at the top. It was a good waste of an afternoon and could be used for...... I dunno... Mole whacking.

The flail is fairly obvious. Broken axe handle, spare chain, and a lock with no key. Voila!

[Pax Jordana]

(Dan909: [1] your ballistics info = wrong [2] welcome to thr, read first post second :p )

Had a friend, who moved to Texas, who had the courtesy to give us one of the bamboo plants from his yard before he left. That was almost a decade and a half ago.. now the power company is out every two years to cut off the whole bunch before it grows over the power lines, and every spring Dad goes outside to kick over the shoots lest the patch take over our entire yard. Anyway, since the patch took hold I've had the special privilege of having an unlimited supply of staves, spears, lashes, a freaking TON of kindling...


My favorite home weapon, legalities aside, would have to simply be a thick oak dowel. Fill the end with lead for extra momentum.

And yes, the thought of a man with a SHIELD and HELMET coming at me, when all I wanted was a TV and some beef jerky.. heck. I'd run. Extra points if you've got a skull painted on the helmet or something.


The Anarchist's cookbook was based loosely on the US Army's Improvised Munitions Handbook - Get the army's version, it's out on the net too, and has at least been proof tested to some extent.


Chopinbloc - Oxy bottles (the smaller ones about as long as your leg) are pressurized to 2200lb.. I dunno about the big ones :what:

[Fosbery]

Might I suggest probably the single best resource for improvised weapons:

http://www.thehomegunsmith.com/

Peter Luty from West Yorkshire, England, is an author and civil rights campaigner who went to prison for four years. His crime? Making a machinegun. From scratch. With only hand tools. Despite three prison psychologists (or psychiatrists?) and the judge in his case stating that he was not a threat to the public, and the prison chaplain specifically requesting that he be given early release (as most prisoners are), he was denied his request and served his full term. Why? Because he was a vehement support of gun rights. This also despite the death of his mother during his time in prison, and the life threatening illness of his father.

He is the author of Expedient Homemade Firearms, Expedient Homemade Handgun Ammunition and Expedient Homemade Shotgun Ammunition, which you can buy through Palladin Press, Amazon etc. He also has numerous schematics on his website for making submachineguns from pipe fittings, 12 bore pistols and even a .22 silenced pistol!

With his stuff, you can literally walk into a hardware store in the morning, go home, and have a finished SMG a couple of days later.

[Bondo_Red]

I took some inch wide bamboo my mom was gonna decorate with and filled it with tight rolls of construction paper.I stuck it inside an M&Ms minis tube and put a few small diameter nails in it.Epic training sword.Another time I took one of those cheap pocket fans you find in convience stores and took it apart.I replaced the foam fan blades with a plastic disc I found somewhere that had some rigid 1/3 inch tips protruding up in the middle and on the sides of the disc.I replaced the AA battery with a 9 volt.Made a itchy,stinging feeling when you got poked with it,and wore your skin out pretty good.

[coelacanth]

from the used sporting goods section...a kids aluminum baseball bat looks very innocuous laying around but makes a fearsome truncheon. Hockey sticks are nearly indestructible and a strong knife blade bolted to the bottom of the stick gives you an awesome reach for a slashing weapon. A climber's ice axe is nearly a dead ringer for a medieval battle axe. Moving on to the home and garden section, a brush hook takes a bit of strength to wield effectively but could take off an arm or a leg easily. 14" lengths of rebar with the ends pointed make very effective throwing spikes. Replacement handles for pick axes are quite effective persuaders and have the advantage of being bio-degradeable( grin ). If raining destruction on the enemy from afar is what you had in mind then consider the window frame slingshot - cut off the bottom of a laundry detergent bottle and cut four holes near the cut off edge on either side. Get about 8' of surgical rubber tubing and loop it through the holes and attach the ends of the tubing to an upstairs window frame. We used this device to launch water balloons about 50 yards in school. Tinker around with the basic design and /or change the ammo to Molotov cocktails and you could get the anti-social award in your neighborhood.

[jar_head]

http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t282/jar_head_album/SAPS/guns/?action=view&current=abseiltraingrescue027.flv

here is a video of a little bang we made on training once.

i dont suggest you try it but it has a great effect in a small room! if you want to know what we did ill tell.

[starsandstriper]

what did you do??:confused:

[1 old 0311]

Go to any auto auto repair shop that turns rotors or drums. They will give you all the powdered iron you can carry. Fill a hose section with it and plug, then tape the ends. :evil:

[kahr404life]

Pretty neat:D

[mossberg]

Moonclip, where do you live that you can't fill a sock with sand?

[EricTheBarbarian]

i dont know if this is out of line but what about potato guns? im not sure if thats really a weapon but theyre fun. you also have the zip gun like here http://www.thehomegunsmith.com/pdf/ZipGun.pdf .

[wolf_from_wv]

I drilled out the basic shaped, then filed it to final shape. Circular saw blades are tough to drill through!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v151/wolf_from_wv/knife.jpg

[Mannix]

im not sure if thats really a weapon It could be used as one, and I'm sure it'd hurt, alot.

[Boom-stick]

One of my favourite books spring to mind here,

"Improvised Home-Built Recoilless Launchers"

See if you can guess what it's about.....;)


:evil: :evil: :evil:

[toddo_69]

hello this is my first post on the site and i too have been searching for a location to share the items i have made an the ideas i have. i already have a few swords made, some shields,throwing axe, throwing stars an a few other items on the go.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC00350.jpg
heres some of the throwing stars ive made

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01112.jpg
captain america shield and a sword i made

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC00339.jpg
same sword from last pic

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01591.jpg
viking style shield - steel

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01592.jpg
back of the viking leather wrapped

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01333.jpg
the axe

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01305.jpg
1 hander

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01352.jpg
close up of the 1 hander , still a work in progress

i got a tonne more pics an vids if there is interest cant wait to hear ur comments!

[CWL]

toddo 69,

Welcome to this forum!

I really like the big sword on your shoulder, looks like there has been some Final Fantasy influence.

Your 1-handed sword (looks like a hand-and-a-half, bastard sword to me), are you going to grind and polish the blade? Also, be careful of the 2 spikes on the pommel; I can see it being a good counterbalance, but you can do yourself a lot of harm if you lose track of it while swinging. Also, if it were a real combat weapon, an opponent could rush your sword by locking onto the hilt and make you impale yourself.

[toddo_69]

yeh that hand an a half still needs alot of work

an yeh def a bit of FF ideas with that 1, i have 1 sword bigger, its really quite rediculously huge......have a look see......

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01599.jpg
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01605.jpg
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01603.jpg
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01608.jpg
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/DSC01610.jpg
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/toddo_69/S4010297-1.jpg

[archer_of_leon]

Hi,
My name is Devon. I justcame across this group today!!! I LOVE IT... ive made a few weapons, but they were poor, like a hammer handlewith nails though it, and 2 golf balls wrapped in leather, then eletrical tape, then put on each ned of 1in. peive of PVC pipe. Then I attached a rope, and then attached it to a metal pole!!! Well I said they were poor. I was looking for some started ideas... I have a dremel set with the grinding peices, ect. But no access to a ''work shop'' just some stuff I can make with materials around the house, or woods!



~More Blades, More Pain, More Fun~

[SDC]

Toddo, toddo, toddo.... don't let anyone catch you with those throwing stars, they're prohibited up here.

[sonofodin]

If you listen to Black Metal...you HAVE to have home made weaponry...Count Grishnack :evil:.

[teCh0010]

About a decade ago when I was in high school a friend of mine who was a little scrappy guy was beaten up by a guy who was much bigger. Little guy is about 135 and big guy is 240.

The little guy takes an 18 inch dowel rod and screws and 18 inch length of chain with 4 skateboard wheels on the end. He waited on the big guy as he walked to the bus stop and wailed on him. The big guy stopped messing with people smaller than him.

Also if you take a trip to walmart a 24" piece of garden hose plugged up with JB weld and duct tape then filled with BB's makes a pretty good weapon. If you just want to stun them but not kill them fill it with cat litter or sand.

[Jason_G]

Toddo, I don't mean this to sound rude, but is that stuff just for fun or do you actually expect that stuff to be useful :uhoh:

Jason

[Alphazulu6]

:what: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[eliphalet]

For a bit in the 80's I worked/ lived in the San Bernardino, Riverside area of So. Cal. I was in lots of not so good areas plenty. I got me a old Toyota FJ40 with a 1/4" C channel front bumper, it did come in handy a time or two. Went to the Second hand store and bought a kitchen knife with a 12" blade and had it at the handy everywhere I went. I figured not much lost if stolen or lost and was a dangerous as I needed up close to my car door. Had me a Chow dog along lots that would eat your hand if you put it within reach. I had another item along plenty but of dubious legalities so not mentioned here. A can of starter fluid is or should be legal in your car everywhere you go, and it's as good or better than pepper spray. Baseball bats are too just have a glove and ball along. I escaped safe and sound I feel safe where I live now and all I have is a small pocket knife along. Just be careful out there.

[hso]

archer, toddo,

Welcome to THR!

Very creative stuff, guys!

[John-Melb]

I'd suggest if you want to know about improvised weapons, ask someone who's worked in a prison.

Razor blades in toothbrush handles, billiard ball (or small tin of baked beans) in a sock, ever seen a push dagger made out of a T Bone steak?

[trueblue1776]

My favorite, when I was a lad, was the tennis ball full of match heads. :evil:

[SniperStraz]

My favorite, when I was a lad, was the tennis ball full of match heads.
The good old days...

[Noxx]

Pool ball / random hard object in a sock is one of the great improvised weapons of all time. Unless you've been busted one with a flail before, it's hard to imagine just how much power comes out of that mechanical advantage.

More in the way of "fun" homemade stuff, like the other posters here I've made my share of tennis ball / spud guns. We always used a 2-3'' piece of RMC rather than improvising a tube from cans however, allows for a MUCH heavier charge of your propellant of choice.

[Deer Hunter]

True Blue,

Enlighten me on what, exactly, does a tennis ball o' match heads do?

[archer_of_leon]

How hard wouldit be to rig a Paintball CO2 bottle to a pvc pipe to make a mortar? What about fitting a length of pipe over the barrell, turning up the air flow to max, and presto? Im guessing the gun could be gutted, but that would be time staking, and not going to do much.. Maybe 20 yards!!! A kitchen torch, and a hopper full of smoke bombs with really easy to light fuse... hold the blowtorch in front of the barrel, and shoot to your heart desire? Just some stupid thoughts but a good basis!

[SniperStraz]

Enlighten me on what, exactly, does a tennis ball o' match heads do?

You make a small hole in the tennis ball. ??????????????????????????????? We used to do it when we were kids. Nothing to spectacular but when its done right in can be effective even if it is extremely unstable.

Moderator Note: remember that kids that have even less of a sense of responsibility than we do read what we post here so let's not be posting anything that could get someone injured.

[archer_of_leon]

You make a small hole in the tennis ball. ???????????????????????????. I won't get into exactly how to alter it in order to make an "improvised frag grenade" but I'm sure you can use your imagination. We used to do it when we were kids. Nothing to spectacular but when its done right in can be effective even if it is extremely unstable.
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Another Jew With Guns

How many matches, does it blow up, or just catch fire? BTW theres no real surface for them to striek.... you could make a molotov tennis ball, that would be interesting... ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Moderator Note: remember that kids that have even less of a sense of responsibility than us read what we post here so let's not be posting anything that could get someone injured.

[trueblue1776]

match heads work better than sticks. Aluminum shavings for effect. Not really dangerous unless you do it around dry grass. It doesn't explode in the hand grenade sense.

[SniperStraz]

You're right Trueblue. I meant to say match heads.

[Alphazulu6]

I want a buckler sheild now ........ ROFL

[archer_of_leon]

Basically you just cutting off the ''heads'' on the matches...... I can see why you would want to add the metal shavings.Ha I have it, why not fill come tennis balls with ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? How long before message boards such as these are shut down due to govermentfear of excersing our right to overthrow the government when we believe it needs to be done? (please clarify that right in proper wording for me please!) Oh by the way, why not add ???????????????????

Moderator Note: remember that kids that have even less of a sense of responsibility than we have will read what we post here so let's not be posting anything that could get someone injured.

[trueblue1776]

Archer, I made dopey little flash bombs, what you are describing sounds pretty dangerous. I hope you live in the woods.

[archer_of_leon]

Trueblue, I do live in the woods.. And whereI live puts the gives the term redneck a whole new defintion..... But I wouldnt really like to try it out... Im just saying if I lived in some middle eastern country, I would b making those T.B. Bobms all day long! But I dont plan on making anything like that, unless I have a mice big open feild, and a concrete wall to hide behind... But when you mix melted rubber, gunpowder and flying scrapnel. You can really mess someone up

[archer_of_leon]

I cannot spell today

[hso]

Folks, let's not get into anything that can get kids blown up, burned up, etc. in it's construction or reckless application. Such discussions are fine off-line if you want that info, but it's irresponsible to post it here. Feel free to tell us that you built pyrotechnic, incendiary or explosive devices, but don't provide information on how to do it at THR. Too many kids with too much time on their hands that should learn the hows from a website that specializes in such things instead of here.

[eliphalet]

hso is very correct in that kids will read here and matches can blow your hand off. I saw it once. Kid lived a mile or so me lost his fingers 40 years ago. If he is still around it's 40 years later and he still has no fingers on one hand. Just something to thnk about.

[03Shadowbob]

In years past we used to take tennis balls and dose them with either lighter fluid or pvc glue, light and throw.
If you ride motorcycles, I have heard that ball bearings kept in the vest pocket, are a good deterrent for tailgaters.:evil:

[archer_of_leon]

HSO i apologize, feel free to remove my posts....... I agree we dont need to give kids the detais.... Even though they will get it if they want, it shouldnt be from here! But then again we all started kids doing this. And if they want to do it they will.... Once again I apologize

[jimbob1911]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=vPnrk8w90yQ

this kid is an idiot

[hso]

archer_of_leon,

No apology needed. It's easy to forget that what we survived when we were kids may have had more to do with luck than anything else. Back then we had to work to find out how to do things massively dangerous, but it's too easy today. Heck, when I was 13 (nearly 40 years ago) I brewed an unstable powerful liquid explosive. I was a smart kid. Smart enough to research the methods, gather the chemicals and equipment, find a safe place away from the house and brew it up. What I was NOT was wise enough to have thought through what I was going to do with nearly a half pint of the stuff before I got started. Afterwards was far too late to have thought that through and it lead to some considerable angst when I suddenly realized that I could blow myself and the barn to smithereens if I made even a simple mistake. While I got rid of it (big BOOM, huge geyser, lots of dead fish raining from the sky) without putting anyone at risk, my folks would have been unhappy (my uncle Bill always said he expected to hear that I'd blown the house up:rolleyes:). These days kids don't even have to be moderately smart to google the information off the net and start down the path to blowing off some body part. Perhaps we're impeding natural selection, but I'll sleep better knowing we didn't help filter the gene pool.

[Jason_G]

Knew an older kid when I was in junior high that had half of his face covered in scar tissue because he tried the hairspray and match flamethrower. That part on the back label about not using it around an open flame is not just a CYA thing...

Jason

[archer_of_leon]

Yes, whether we like it or not, Kids like fire, they like booms..... Some would say its the medias fault, or movies , or TV. But in reality some lack common sense, though that is not always the case I know some very smart kids! Still,
would we consider it the aprents fault? The Medias? IDK, why im posting this im just curious on what areas people think we need to work on, so if kids are going to ''exsperiment'' they wont be so wild or crazy about it.. Maybe a new thread should be started on this....

[Urbanhawk]

I was having a kid try to push me about on me a lot in school i simple got a piece of pipe about 6" long and a 1" diameter and shoved a small deodorant can in the end by taking the spray cap of and using the little metal lip hooked it in place kinda like a homemade mace but i didn't fix it so as he ran i cud fling the can into the back of his head then by wrapping electrical tape round 1 end made for a good after beating and a tighter fit. Very easy to hide up jacket really does hurt a lot perhaps the liquid inside makes it harder or gives it more momentum. (warning make sure it a really snug fit but you can still pop the can out u don't want your can to go flying but u can slip it off if any teachers look a bit to closely also unless you really want to hurt someone no blows to the face i nearly broke this kids jaw which cud have killed him) [ excellent if you got more than 1 guy attaching you] and finally a handy lighter means you can scare them off i also put a larger can in the other end to weight it down but didn't work i recommend experimenting however pipe and can alone make for a great weapon bout 10"long

sorry about bad type was rushing out the front door for work never work night shifts it messes with your brain

[pdowg881]

Good for you?:scrutiny:

[trueblue1776]

is that Nigerian pidgin speak?

[Dithsoer]

As many people have pointed out, young boys are attracted to fire and things that go boom. It's just one of those things that fascinates until you do it a few times. I think that with most kids, once they learn how to make such devises, blow a few up and have a little "fun"(?), they move on to something else. I've noticed that for those who posted about their young experiences on such matters, it's all in past tense. They generally don't do it anymore. You get interested in it, learn as much as you can, make a few things and rattle a few windows and for the most part, that's it. As is generally the consensus, "boys will be boys". With that in mind I believe it better for those so inclined to at least get such information from people who HAVE done it, rather than from some idiot who just spreads half-truths and misinformation that can be far more dangerous. This way they can learn from other's past mistakes, hear a few horror stories about missing digits and worse, and find out the safe (or rather safer) way to go about messing with such stuff.

[reppondj]

When I was younger I used to keep a 18" piece of 00 copper wire under my vehicle seat, stiff yet flexible, hard as nails and not at all illegal nor does it even look like a weapon....then again, one of the worst beatings I ever say anyone get was with a radio antenna ripped off the hood...........I guess where I am going with this is dont get wrapped up on gadgets, either storebought or home made.......they will almost always fail when you need them the most.......learn what is around you every day, what you can use, how you can use it........then surprise will truly be your friend.

[hso]

Nice post, reppondj.

[.45Guy]

Just out of curiousity, does anyone happen to know a source for high intensity UV sources? Not so much a weapon as something to play with in conjunction with my 10.5 KV coil. I stumbled across an ooooold article about directional discharge coils, and I'd like to give her a go.

[budney]

Hso, is this anecdote OK? I think it's apropos the subtopic of "things kids were lucky to survive.."

My thesis advisor grew up in Poland in the 1950's. They had safety lectures in school, sorta like the ones firemen give in US schools about fire safety--but these were about unexploded WWII ordnance, which was literally thick on the ground there.

He said, "They showed a movie to warn us how children would get themselves killed playing with that stuff. The movie taught my brother and I two things: the first was how dangerous it could be; and the second was how you go about making it blow up." They went into the woods and found a mortar shell, which they brought home and, um, put in the kitchen (dangerous details omitted). :uhoh:

He said, "It was just like in the movie! We waited for ten seconds... thirty seconds... one minute... five minutes... and nothing happened. And just like the movie, our little sister wanted to go see. That's just how the children in the movie get killed! So we stopped her--but we had to hold her down and sit on her, or she would go in and look. Twenty minutes went by, and we knew that soon our parents would be home from work and we'd have to tell them..."

"Then thirty minutes went by, and finally BOOM! It blew the entire roof off the kitchen. We were so relieved! When our parents came home they didn't say a word. They just sat on the ground and stared at the kitchen, while we said, 'We don't know what happen! We come home from school, play in the yard, and suddenly BOOM!"

--Len.

[hso]

Len,

No problem with that.

There have been kids injured and killed with UXO and small arms ammo (small being something other than what you and I would think of) in the US in the past couple of years because no one realized what the consequences of mishandling it could really be.

[archer_of_leon]

Hi all,
I heard from a friend that if done correctly thermatie will burn though the hood of a car, and that it will even burn though the concrete beneath the car... Is this true, also I know how to make it (I won't state it) but does anyone know a good ignition source as it only burns at 1000 degrees or higher I believe.

[trueblue1776]

Magnesium ribbon

[p35]

Check Youtube, but let's not get into starting thermite fires here.

[trueblue1776]

Check Youtube, but let's not get into starting thermite fires here.

agreed, thermite is a parlor trick of basic chemistry, this thread is about homemade weapons! :evil:

[loandr.]

Standing between Home Depot and Petsmart while she goes to try on shoes ????? I call it "The BIG K.I.S.S" Keeping It Real Simple, Stupid....Short leather dog lead handle with 360 swivel snap hook from PM, and 12 Oz. Winch Hook from the hardware section of HD, Hook tucks neatly into back pocket of jeans and leather dangles accordingly for quick access...total cost $4.99 (OH plus the $170 Bucks on shoes) BUT seeing her eyes light up when she saw what I had snapped together in the few moments of her absence Just made it all seem right Enjoy...

LD

[loandr.]

sorry and just my opinion BUT that is one F--ked up site my friend. I know knowledge is power BUT where does one draw the line I ask?

LD

[Don Gwinn]

Folks, let's not get into anything that can get kids blown up, burned up, etc. in it's construction or reckless application. Such discussions are fine off-line if you want that info, but it's irresponsible to post it here. Feel free to tell us that you built pyrotechnic, incendiary or explosive devices, but don't provide information on how to do it at THR. Too many kids with too much time on their hands that should learn the hows from a website that specializes in such things instead of here.