Duck and Cover

i liked how you made the floor so dirty and the empty bottles, really gives it that post-apoc feel (Y) keep up da good work demonic 2008!

Worst security system '08.

I thought it was cool until I saw the silver wasn't gaffatape... now it just looks shitty.

The silver appears to be steel wire.



Is that the place where you keep the recycling?

You could save all cans and bottles to make a fort.

That makes it kind of worse if its steel wire because that means you spent far more time that you probably should making a bat with freckles/moles on its surface.

I don't know, would still fucking hurt more then an average baseball bat.

NOTE: the pic taken by me is for another forum's post-apocalyptic weapon making contest, hence the different sig.

The only things I purchased was the bat for $2 at a garage sale, and the $2 box of nails for the bike nipples, since I didn't have the correct size nails to fit. The wire was surplus from a maille project I did, the end spike was from an old jobs scrap bin (the metal is one of the strongest steels in production, it was a blank for high-tensile bolts).

The only thing I am curious about is if the unwrapped part of the bat would break after hitting something hard from the added weight of the nails and wire.

Any volunteers?

another pic
http://s293.photobucket.com/albums/mm63 ... C00998.jpg

Just buy a bat and some nails.

And afaik a gun is better. Unless you are invisible or some shit.

good to know i'm not the only one here who makes maille....galvy i'm guessing?

Ya, I guess it would hurt much more than an ordinary bat and I'm also somewhat curious to how it would hold up. The bike nipples would probably come off and/or crack the bat where they are inserted.

yeah, I made some 18 gauge galvy at 3/16" Inner diameter, so I tested it ... taped it to my punching bag, grabbed a bowie knife and stuck it like a pig. maille came apart way too easy. In the link for the pic you can see where I patched the punching bag.

yeah, the bike nipples might come apart, I have had them around for a while and wanted to use them for something. They are from a bike rim that I scavenged the spokes for maille, it actually works quite well, spokes are stronger than 18 galvy lol.

The wire binding is to keep the bat from splitting, I saw it in a weapons encyclopedia, "trench club" from WW1 I believe it was called

I want to test the bat, but those yelling goofs in the lot next door have been strangely quiet. I have some 4 inch nails that are waiting to replace the old ones, and I think the 4 inchers would actually work better.

anyone else have any post-apocalyptic weapons they have personally made? biohazard poop from taco bell does not count, unless you throw it monkey-style or something...

PICS

I'll have to take pix when i get home... grabbed some fairly heavy duty chain, bent nails thru the loops and put a padlock on the end. would hurt like a bitch though not sure how useful it actually is.

I am making a crossbow, I am too cheap to buy one, plus it will be more fun to build it. I have been checking out some plans...

http://216.119.68.89/store/index.php?ma ... sbow_build

rabidpeanut wrote:Just buy a bat and some nails.

And afaik a gun is better. Unless you are invisible or some shit.

yeah ,but a gun can kill them instantly where as with the bat it takes some time thus giving the victim more time to suffer.

Yeah, coz letting somebody suffer is the key aspect of self defense, right dumbshit?

rabidpeanut wrote:Just buy a bat and some nails.

Won't nails get stuck in bones? You'll lose precious time trying to jerk your slugger off your enemy's skull. Rather add some razorblades or other sharp pieces of metal for a slicing effect. :common sense:

Good thing bad guys don't carry guns anymore.

Patriot Act

who said it had to be for self defense[besides the thread name].