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Arthur the great Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 102	Blowgun Oct 17^th, 2011 at 11:47am Any ideas as to i could the to make one and also any ideas as to how make some good darts without having to go buy skewers and ways to fletch them without cones
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Reply #1 - Oct 17^th, 2011 at 1:45pm

Arthur the great wrote on Oct 17^th, 2011 at 11:47am:

Any ideas as to i could the to make one
and also any ideas as to how make some good darts without having to go buy skewers and ways to fletch them without cones

Clip lengths of wire coat hanger ....dart
fletch with disks of foam/paper/leather
make cones from paper ....
section of pvc for tube 1/2 in id
or split wood carve channel and glue together then sand interior smooth..

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Reply #2 - Oct 17^th, 2011 at 1:57pm

PVC tubing is dead easy. So is easily-obtainable copper or aluminum tubing. Any hardware store....
You can fabricate a mouthpiece if desired, but none is actually necessary.

Darts... As stated, any heavy wire works fine. Cones from paper or duct tape seal very well and are perhaps the most efficient, but a bit of twine wrapping anything that will seal the bore works well.
Bits of dacron batting stolen from an old couch cushion or pillow should work fine.

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rockslingerboy2 Junior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 68 Ireland Gender:	Re: Blowgun Reply #3 - Oct 17^th, 2011 at 4:20pm You can fletch darts with thistle down by first removing the seeds by flicking them off with your finger and then doing a spiral wrap down along the shaft with thread, while gradually feeding the down along the shaft, it's tricky to do, youtube has a video of it being done..
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Reply #5 - Oct 18^th, 2011 at 10:54am

When I was a young lad back in the 60s, I used to use my fly-tying skills to make blowgun darts.
I had all kinds of fur laying around; squirrel tail, deer-hair, deer tail, etc.
All you had to do was...Just like tying flies, a few wraps of thread (waxed is best...Beeswax) around the shaft, then apply a suitable hunk of hair or fur and wrap one end tight. A drop of liquid glue or laquer and you're done.

The same sorts of projectiles work well for home-made air-guns. One guy on YouTube shows how to make dart cones out of old milk jugs.
You heat the plastic material with a blowtorch or propane torch (carefully!) till it goes "clear". Then, you can poke the end of a plumb-bob into the soft plastic and it makes a cone-shaped indentation.
You can make a bunch of these on each side of a gallon jug.
When the plastic cools, you cut them out, fix a nail or wire into the small end with hot glue, then drop the almost-done dart into a tube the size of your barrel.
mark the spot where it stops with a marker and cut off there... You have a high-quality air-sealing dart.

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rockslingerboy2 Junior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 68 Ireland Gender:	Re: Blowgun Reply #6 - Oct 18^th, 2011 at 2:12pm here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68b6p4WwBk try this too: http://reddirtsurvival.com/2011/07/how-to-make-blowgun-darts/
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Reply #7 - Oct 18^th, 2011 at 3:33pm

excellent vids, thanks!

As the subject in general, I'd endorse copper or aluminum tubing if you're going with less natural materials. I tried PVC and Electrical Conduit, but the PVC bends way too much, and the Electrical conduit is heavy, and has slight issues with bending as well. PVC works fine but only for very short blowguns, if you're talking 5-7 feet, I'd try the copper or aluminum.

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Reply #8 - Oct 19^th, 2011 at 12:18am

btw, try to keep the blowgun long, and make sure the darts are tight in the tubing- they shouldn't be too tight, but should be tight enough so that the darts can't slide down the tube on gravity alone. i prefer to go with cones soaked in glue for simplicity (glue is for waterproofing and durability). shafts can be bamboo skewers. some people like to add a head on to it using superglue and a small exacto blade.

btw, if all else fails for tubing material, try a hollow handle from a plastic broom or something. just make sure it's clean.

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Reply #10 - Oct 26^th, 2011 at 7:39pm

well i got five darts made from a wire coat hanger and six from a couple plastic one cause i dont have skewers, chopstacks or dowels right now

but i havent tested them or even trimmed because i left blowpipe at my grand parents and i don,t want to use any more of my dad pipe

any way i was wondering someone would make darts like the commanche did

they used just wood and a bit thistle down i think

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Reply #11 - Oct 26^th, 2011 at 8:13pm

Arthur the great wrote on Oct 26^th, 2011 at 7:39pm:

well i got five darts made from a wire coat hanger and six from a couple plastic one cause i dont have skewers, chopstacks or dowels right now

but i havent tested them or even trimmed because i left blowpipe at my grand parents and i don,t want to use any more of my dad pipe

any way i was wondering someone would make darts like the commanche did

they used just wood and a bit thistle down i think

i've seen a similar method used by native americans in south america. they took long poisoned splinters and cotton. when they were ready to shoot they would select a splinter and a swab of cotton. the cotton would be tightly wrapped around the end and then placed in the blow gun.

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bestoftheworst Novicius Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 6	Re: Blowgun Reply #12 - Oct 30^th, 2011 at 11:24am what you could do is what i do and take old nails (small preferably) and put those into paper cones for the dart and the blowgun well 1/2 inch cpvc works amazingly but will bend slightly in longer lengths sorry if this is a necr it seamed as this would be considered adding something substantal so there are my 2 cents about this
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