I have started designing and making rubber band guns using laser-cut coloured acrylic. I plan to eventually create a range of high-end designs for sf movie weapons like the Dredd 2012 Lawgiver, the Star Wars DL-44 and the Robocop Auto-9 but I have started with my favourite sci-fi weapon; Rick Deckard’s Steyr Bulldog from Blade Runner. This gun is made from nine layers (a 5mm core and four 3mm layers on each side) of Perspex (the premium branded stuff), in six colours (five opaque and one transparent), with 28 individual components cut from nine separate acrylic sheets with two of those sheets having further passes through the laser for cutting barrel text and engraving grip textures (which takes three hours per sheet), held together with nine countersunk black Nylon bolts and captive hex nuts including three trigger pivots and two internal trigger-return bands.
The gun is pre-assembled, in two halves with the outer layers of each half permanently bonded on (mostly because it’s a very complicated set of pieces to assemble and hold together with just a few bolts and partly to discourage anyone from copying the layers I have spent hundreds of hours designing and hundreds of pounds building). The gun can still be split in two if the trigger-return bands need replacing by simply unscrewing the nine bolts.
I laser-cut a small batch of these over the Christmas break and they will come assembled to-order with a supply of rubber band ammo in custom boxes with laser-cut foam inserts and I have priced them to include worldwide postage. I will also film a YouTube video showing the loading & use of the gun to save printing instruction sheets. As a special offer the first three orders will ship out with a free clear acrylic stand which I designed specifically for this gun and cut from ‘left-over’ clear acrylic material (so don’t expect perfection but it’s free).
I have created an Etsy shop and listed these on it but at 10% higher price to cover the Etsy fees.
Cheaper option is to buy directly from me here on the rpf at £190.00 including free worldwide delivery.
PM me to order. Thanks for looking. D.
UPDATE 24-Jan-24: All three 'free' stands have been claimed.
BIG UPDATE: Sales of rubber-band guns on Etsy and here have been suspended while I negoatiate with a well known pop-culture store to sell my kit.
The gun is pre-assembled, in two halves with the outer layers of each half permanently bonded on (mostly because it’s a very complicated set of pieces to assemble and hold together with just a few bolts and partly to discourage anyone from copying the layers I have spent hundreds of hours designing and hundreds of pounds building). The gun can still be split in two if the trigger-return bands need replacing by simply unscrewing the nine bolts.
I laser-cut a small batch of these over the Christmas break and they will come assembled to-order with a supply of rubber band ammo in custom boxes with laser-cut foam inserts and I have priced them to include worldwide postage. I will also film a YouTube video showing the loading & use of the gun to save printing instruction sheets. As a special offer the first three orders will ship out with a free clear acrylic stand which I designed specifically for this gun and cut from ‘left-over’ clear acrylic material (so don’t expect perfection but it’s free).
I have created an Etsy shop and listed these on it but at 10% higher price to cover the Etsy fees.
Cheaper option is to buy directly from me here on the rpf at £190.00 including free worldwide delivery.
PM me to order. Thanks for looking. D.
UPDATE 24-Jan-24: All three 'free' stands have been claimed.
BIG UPDATE: Sales of rubber-band guns on Etsy and here have been suspended while I negoatiate with a well known pop-culture store to sell my kit.
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