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A toothpick gun is made from a few items found at home. It will shoot toothpicks at a high speed when you are done. The toothpicks will be able to pierce many surfaces when shot from this gun. This is a toy that requires adult supervision when using and making it.

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Preparing to Make Your Gun

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  1. Step 1 Wear safety goggles. 1 Wear safety goggles. When making your gun, using your gun, or in the same area with someone using your gun, it is very important that you wear safety goggles. The toothpick can easily injure an eye and have negative effects on your vision.
  2. Step 2 Gather your materials. 2 Gather your materials. In order to make your toothpick gun, you’ll need 5 items. If you don’t have them at home, you can find them at any hardware store.
    • Clothespin
    • Steel hand saw or X-acto knife
    • Wire cutters
    • Rubber band
    • Toothpicks
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  3. Watermark wikiHow to Make a Toothpick Gun 3 Break your clothespin. Before you start to assemble your gun, you need to break the clothespin into two separate pieces. Rip the two pieces apart and untwist the metal spring. Remove the spring and set it aside. You should have two even pieces of wood.[1]
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Constructing Your Gun

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  1. Watermark wikiHow to Make a Toothpick Gun 1 Cut a piece of your clothespin. Take one side of your clothespin and hold it with the skinny end in your right hand. The indent closest to your right hand is the guideline you’ll use to make your cut. Place this indent in the mouth of your wire cutters. Squeeze until it breaks off.
    • You may have to move your clothespin piece up and down to give the wire cutters some leverage to break it.
    • Remember to wear your safety goggles!
  2. Watermark wikiHow to Make a Toothpick Gun 2 Saw down the second piece of your clothespin. Once again, take the piece of wood with the skinny part in your right hand. The indent closest to you is the one you’ll saw. Take your steel hand saw and saw half way through from the indented side of your clothespin.
    • This will create an indent that will eventually hold your spring.
  3. Watermark wikiHow to Make a Toothpick Gun 3 Use your elastic to attach your pieces. Take the side of the clothespin that you used your saw on and hold it with the flat side facing up. Now, take the wider side of the piece that you cut and place its flat side up against this so that it sits flush. Wrap your elastic around the first indent from the wide end.[2]
    • This elastic needs to be securely holding the two pieces together. If you leave it too loose, it won’t hold.
  4. Watermark wikiHow to Make a Toothpick Gun 4 Attach your wire spring. Use the spring that you took off of your clothespin before you began. Slide one of the open ends into the crease you made with the saw. The other open end will wrap around this piece of wood and give it a secure hold. It will rest on right in front of your cut piece of wood.[3]
    • The coil of the spring will be on the bottom of your sawed piece.
  5. Watermark wikiHow to Make a Toothpick Gun 5 Slide the spring into an indent. Hold on firmly to your spring and slide the smaller piece of the clothespin over it until the first indent envelopes the spring. If you’re elastic is too tight, unwrap it once. If it is too lose and doesn’t hold onto the spring, wrap it one more time.[4]
    • Once you have this part securely in your indent, slide the wooden piece back to its original position. The two ends of the wood pieces should meet up and your spring will still be in your indent. Your gun is now fully constructed.
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Using Your Toothpick Gun

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  1. Watermark wikiHow to Make a Toothpick Gun 1 Load your toothpick. Hold your gun with the spring on the bottom. This is your trigger. Slide a toothpick in between the two pieces of wood. Slide it back so that it reaches the indent holding your spring.
  2. Watermark wikiHow to Make a Toothpick Gun 2 Hold behind the elastic. Use two fingers to hold your gun behind the elastic. Place another finger on the trigger (the coil of the spring). Pull back the trigger and watch your toothpick fly.
  3. Watermark wikiHow to Make a Toothpick Gun 3 Set up targets. Apples make great targets and are easily shot into with your toothpick gun. Set up some apples at different distances and try shooting them. Do not shoot the toothpicks at other people. Remember to wear your safety goggles.[5]
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  1. ↑ http://deuceofclubs.com/randumb/clothespingun/clothespingun01.htm
  2. ↑ http://deuceofclubs.com/randumb/clothespingun/clothespingun06.htm
  3. ↑ http://deuceofclubs.com/randumb/clothespingun/clothespingun03.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.popsci.com/article/diy/how-turn-clothespin-matchstick-gun
  5. ↑ http://www.popsci.com/article/diy/how-turn-clothespin-matchstick-gun

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