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I was looking around for gifts to build for my nephews this Christmas. A friend who is runs woodgears.ca told me that someone had requested one of his jenga pistols. He doesn’t have the time to build them and suggested I might make a couple of them. I thought I’d kill (they’re harmless) two birds with one stone. You can buy the plans at
or you can probably figure it out on your own. I just made my first video and uploaded it to YouTube,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-qGyjaWWtc
The idea is to use the pistol to knock out jenga blocks that are stacked on top of each other. See the other YouTube videos.
Constructed of cherry with some brass bits. The trigger is attached with a peened brass rod. There is a 5/16th spring and dowel used to cock the trigger mounted in the handle. I reinforced the nose piece with a rosewood dowel. This part takes a lot of shock. A fair amount of interesting handwork planing and tweaking the parts.
-- Chirs in Ottawa
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Maveric777
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#1 posted 903 days ago
Never seen those before…. To cool!
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SPalm
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#2 posted 903 days ago
I started building one of those a couple of years ago. Never did finish it.
You’ve done very well. They look great.
Good for you, and I bet the crowd will love ‘em,
Steve
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woody57
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#3 posted 903 days ago
never seen anything like it
you did a good job
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Ken90712
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#4 posted 903 days ago
Great work! Cool web page as well.
-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"
nobuckle
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#5 posted 903 days ago
Those are just plain cool!. I’ll have to wait until my kids get a littel older before I let them have one of those babies. I can envision many more uses for such a device. None of them any good I’m afraid.
-- Doug - Make an effort to live by the slogan "We try harder"
Grumpy
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#6 posted 903 days ago
Very neat.
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misslolly
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#7 posted 903 days ago
These are super duper.
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Paul
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#8 posted 901 days ago
These just made my list, thanks!
Paul
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mafe
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#9 posted 898 days ago
So cool!
I love these, perhaps this could be a project to build with the boys in the workshop.
Thank you for sharing,
Mads
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James Frederick
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#10 posted 894 days ago
I don’t play Jenga, but I may build a pistol and start. just so I can use it.
-- Change begins somewhere may as well be with me.
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