Re: Vibro axe again.
I figured out how to do a modular axe. It's so simple I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner.
Do it like a collapsible blind persons fain! You cut your axe into as many pieces as you would like. Make a "step in" at the top of piece that will fight inside the piece above it. (just JB welled in a piece of smaller diameter pipe, or something like that to create the step.) Just to assure alignment, and make the piece a little more stable when together. And here's the clever part, run a tot piece, or two, of sturdy bungy (or how ever you spell that) cord through the hole darn thing.
You just pull the pieces a part, with a good tug, and fold it up. Put it in a bag, or a tote. Then when you get to your detonation, just pull it out, and wow everyone, when, with a flick of your wrist, a bundle of parts, unfolds, and automatically snaps together.
"Stand back wall I whip this out." SNAP, CLICK, CLACK, instant axe.
And when your done, just pull it apart at the joints again, and fold it up to store. When together, it keeps your parts together, and from flying way. When apart it keeps all your parts in one neat pile, and keeps you from loosing anything.
Just use really good paint on your axe, and you'll have no worries.
I've been working on one screen accurate one for display, and one for shows, and trooping, and now I know the one for shows will definitely be collapsible.
I figured out how to do a modular axe. It's so simple I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner.
Do it like a collapsible blind persons fain! You cut your axe into as many pieces as you would like. Make a "step in" at the top of piece that will fight inside the piece above it. (just JB welled in a piece of smaller diameter pipe, or something like that to create the step.) Just to assure alignment, and make the piece a little more stable when together. And here's the clever part, run a tot piece, or two, of sturdy bungy (or how ever you spell that) cord through the hole darn thing.
You just pull the pieces a part, with a good tug, and fold it up. Put it in a bag, or a tote. Then when you get to your detonation, just pull it out, and wow everyone, when, with a flick of your wrist, a bundle of parts, unfolds, and automatically snaps together.
"Stand back wall I whip this out." SNAP, CLICK, CLACK, instant axe.
And when your done, just pull it apart at the joints again, and fold it up to store. When together, it keeps your parts together, and from flying way. When apart it keeps all your parts in one neat pile, and keeps you from loosing anything.
Just use really good paint on your axe, and you'll have no worries.
I've been working on one screen accurate one for display, and one for shows, and trooping, and now I know the one for shows will definitely be collapsible.
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