Andy Mangold

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Selectively stained and Tung Oiled, though still not really finished. Stay tuned for packaging and some significantly more respectable documentation.

Super secret spy shots! I am excited about this project, expect in depth photo documentation, packaging, videos of it in action, etc. within the month.

These are the plans for a rubber band gun I am working on at the moment. It, and its packaging, is going to be my final for GD II, and I am getting quite excited about it. The bloodwood and curly red leaf maple are in the mail!

You should be able to figure out how it works from looking at the diagrams; the tension of the loaded rubber bands (up to 5) is key to its fuctionality. I am still debating whether or not it needs a spring to give the trigger some extra tension. I was originally hoping to lasercut the bloodwood middle parts, but at 3/8ths of an inch thick, our 30watt laser won’t be able to handle it. So, I am going to have to etch it and then cut it manually with a bandsaw. I am very fortunate to have cheap access to a laser for something as simple as marking cuts.