AvP Spear thanks to Macguyver!

[delonghi]

many thanks good tutorial just got round to reading this hope you dont mind gonna pinch the idea

 

[YAUJA WARRIOR]

wow LOOKS GREEEEEEAT

 

[keefer]

many thanks good tutorial just got round to reading this hope you dont mind gonna pinch the idea

not at all! Its actually not even my idea...was Macguyvers..pretty sweet eh?

 

[Kithunter]

wish mine would do that....very sweet indeed

great job...


just want to say this is the stuff that makes this place special,,,find what works for our hunters...and nothing is out of bounds.


AM

 

[jaded]

Great use of the tripod! I would never thought of that, the video is cool as hell

 

[Black Magic]

Hiyah! that an ace spear youve got there! ive finished mine and used your idea. but i didnt use tripod legs i used telescope legs!!

 

[pdisc]

Holy shiznit,freaking badass

 

[keefer]

glad you all like. To this day however, I have had a bitch of a time getting the blades to stay glued to the aluminum tripod legs. No matter what type of glue I used (gorilla glue included!), they would eventually snap right off. I ended up having to use thread to keep the blades from breaking off completely.

 

[rocktuskpred]

the threads hardly noticeable to me

when lookin at the first pic i didnt even see but when i saw the close up i could tell it was there

 

[MisserCraig]

go to home depot and get yourself some 2 part aircraft grade epoxy. that stuff will not let go!

 

[Macguyver]

go to home depot and get yourself some 2 part aircraft grade epoxy. that stuff will not let go!

Sounds pretty impressive, I'll have to get some of that stuff!


On my spear, I went right to the most extreme method by cutting out small rectangular shaped slits directly into the shafts of the tripod legs and designed each of the patterns for the individual blades base areas to protrude slightly so when the blades would then actually fit inside the slits I'd cut into the tripod shafts, basically connecting directly into the shaft itself, similar to the way a key fits into a keyhole or like a routered dovetail joint fits together. By doing it this way, the blades were far less likely to break off from the spears shaft because the blades weren't just adhered onto the surface, but rather fuzed directly into the sides of the shaft which made the blades incredibly solid by essentially becoming an extension of the shaft itself. It took a lot of detailed work to do, but well worth it for the incredible amount of physical strength it'd created in the final outcome. Like I've said before...I think waaaay too much about every concievable detail whenever I design something totally original, such as my spear. The way I had attached the blades was just one of those few concepts which happened to pay off really well for me in the end.

 

[Kithunter]

a suggestion if i might,

get some leather straps and some small beads or skulls, wrap them in hemp rope around those areas not only cosmetic but functional in helping you support the blades.

Great prop for show or suiting


AM

 

[yautja57]

wwoooaa great work i likes much this idea, that gives a very good effect, continuous this good work

 

[vampss]

i had the same idea as that but scraped it because i didn't thinkit would work (and mainly i couldn't get any cheap telescopic legs)

 

[Blade92]

Thats an awesome spear... keep up the good work

 

[keefer]

bump due to some interest!

 

[crawjaw]

My better half bought me an old tripod from the charity shop so I could use it to make a spear. But its lay in my workshop for about a year as I couldn't think how to disguise the plastic connectors where the legs extend. Yours looks finished or near finished without solving this problem and it doesn't suffer for it. The fact the legs shoot out when you turn it is a real bonus. Well done for following through a neat idea regardless off whre that idea came from and nice detail on the handle. Good stuff.

 

[RoguePredator]

wow, this is such a piece of work here!.

 

[Wolfie1381]

very nice indeed.

 

[SithLord66]

Sounds pretty impressive, I'll have to get some of that stuff!


On my spear, I went right to the most extreme method by cutting out small rectangular shaped slits directly into the shafts of the tripod legs and designed each of the patterns for the individual blades base areas to protrude slightly so when the blades would then actually fit inside the slits I'd cut into the tripod shafts, basically connecting directly into the shaft itself, similar to the way a key fits into a keyhole or like a routered dovetail joint fits together. By doing it this way, the blades were far less likely to break off from the spears shaft because the blades weren't just adhered onto the surface, but rather fuzed directly into the sides of the shaft which made the blades incredibly solid by essentially becoming an extension of the shaft itself. It took a lot of detailed work to do, but well worth it for the incredible amount of physical strength it'd created in the final outcome. Like I've said before...I think waaaay too much about every concievable detail whenever I design something totally original, such as my spear. The way I had attached the blades was just one of those few concepts which happened to pay off really well for me in the end.

Im gonna borrow your idea on making this with a tripod. Ive got a spare one that was used for an old VHS camcorder hope you dont mind. I like Keefer's idea of using Pvc pipe and dremel tooling the Pred. imblems on it too.