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(56 votes) Published: Oct 07, 2007 6:42 p.m. Viewed 618 times
This is my 3rd egg, it will be on how to make a weapon that is easily constructed and concealed; that can be effectively employed for self-defense.
Materials needed are as follows:
3 nails
1 magazine or newspaper
Flat head screwdriver
The materials I used in the pictures were 3-8d 2-1/2” hot galvanized nails, a standard screwdriver, and a Game Informer magazine. If you had to make this weapon on the spot, you could substitute the screw driver with a car key, or one of the actual nails.
Procedure: First, place your dominant hand palm down on the spine of the magazine with your knuckles just barely on the edge. (hard to explain, see picture)
Next, place one nail between each finger, at the web. If you place your nails near the edge, like I did, make sure that the nail closest to the top edge of the magazine is at least an inch away.
Now, twist each nail with your other hand, in order to leave a mark in the magazine. Keep in mind the holes won’t necessarily be in a perfect line. The three holes should have a similar placement to that of the picture:
Now deepen each hole by placing the blade of the screwdriver in the hole and twisting back and forth.
Deepen each hole until your tool just barely comes through the magazine. The smaller the hole, the more snug the nail will fit.
Place the nails in each hole in the magazine from the opposite side from which you drilled the holes. (Nails don’t go in the different way than the screwdriver)
Next, fold the opposite side of the magazine over, onto the surface of the magazine that the nails are poking out from.
Now roll that flap in the same direction, until you come to a point where the nails start to stagger (they will start to skew with the pages of the magazine)
Lastly, in order to keep the nails from staggering, fold the spine of the magazine in the opposite direction of that of the other side. (Again, explaining this in words is very difficult, if you don’t know what I’m trying to say, look at the pictures.)
Note: This last fold keeps the nails firmly seated, so as to prevent them from recoiling through the magazine and into your fist upon impacting a target.
Now, if you followed the directions properly, you will have this:
Note: You can also place a steel rod in the roll in order to add weight to your blows.
Concealment Once constructed, the nails can be removed (and replaced later;) allowing for better concealment and application. With the nails removed, the magazine can still be read, and the holes are hard to notice without conscious inspection. For easy transportation, the magazine can be stored (rolled up) in the back pocket of a pair of pants with the hole in first. The nails can be carried in pockets, or within the pages of the magazine itself.
Here’s a diagram on disassembling the weapon for concealment. I won’t explain each step for the reason that the pictures can explain the process much better than my words.
As this picture shows; once the weapon is disassembled for concealment, it is very hard to see any signs of modification.
Use To use, place your fingers in between the nails, and make a tight fist. Rather than setting the nails directly at the intersections of your fingers (like with brass knuckles,) position the nails near the second knuckles of the fingers. This will direct the force from you strikes much better, thus causing more damage and keeping the nails from bending out of their place. See pictures for more clarity.
Results of successful operation: Through the following pictures, I will demonstrate the effectiveness of this weapon. All of these tests were performed with only the weapon itself. All damage shown is caused solely by the weapon.
TREE While armed with the weapon, I threw three punches into a hedge-apple tree. The first two were straight punches (jabs) directed with a moderate force. The damage resulting from these strikes made puncture wounds in the tree that were probably 1/16th of an inch deep. On my third blow, I grabbed the back of the tree with my left hand and pulled myself into the tree while I punched into the tree as hard as I could with my right hand held in a hammer fist (magazine parallel to height of tree.) The results were quite impressive, the nails went in deep enough to hold the magazine up without my aid:
These pictures show actual results, I did not hammer these nails in.
APPLE PWNED!
WOODEN POST (dense grain) This picture shows the results of several strikes on a 10”x10” wooden post. As you can see, these holes are fairly deep.
After all of those tests, the heads of the nails penetrated into the magazine, but remained well-seated in their holes.
Actual application: This weapon can be used very effectively for self-defense. However, I will not be including a list of targets in this egg, as that would be very irresponsible, and could result in someone being criminally (thus, wrongfully) injured. But, I will say that more damage would be inflicted on soft targets (eyes, abdomen) than on hard targets (skull.)
Oct 07, 2007 9:28 pm - this is truly a nice egg, dont know why it has a lame rating. u are a creative person this would be hard to make if ur on the streets about to fight somebody but, if ur at home, and u know about a fight, u have time. or just bring a knife, but if u sold ur knife for drug money this works.
Oct 07, 2007 10:35 pm - 1 star lol! Thanks for all the good feedback
Anarchist-2194: In a struggle, I’d rather have this than a knife because it is less likely to kill someone, due to the fact that it can deliver more force behind each attack with less penetration but more surface area, causing more trauma to the nerves. For example, the common peroneal can be attacked with this weapon, and cause severe damage (drop foot, loss of control of the central nervous system, unconsciousness) WITHOUT that much bloodloss. With a knife, there would be blood all over the place after targetting the nerve and the assailant would still be conscious. For killing someone, the knife would hold prescedence. For maiming someone, I would go with this, because it has a lot less blood shed with equal damage.
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