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How To: Make a Chainsaw Arm

by on Jan 31, 2008

Do you love the “Evil Dead” series on Indy Mogul? Do you need a prop chainsaw? Do you have $30 burning a hole in your pocket? If you said “yes” to any of these question you’ll want to watch this episode. Erik of Indy Mogul shows you how to make a prop chainsaw arm that will have Deadites running for the hills.

Materials You Need:
 
1.  Large Orange Juice Jug
2.  3 inch pvc cupler
3.  thin aluminum sheet
4.  old food container
5.  thin wooden board
6.  wooden dowel
7.  miscellaneous hardware
8.  bike chain
9.  acrylic paint

A person is using an old orange chainsaw.

Cut the large OJ jug in half (along the handle).  Then cut off the handle. 

Carefully bend the aluminum sheet metal along the contours of the jug.

A man make a chainsaw 

Drill holes and bolt everything together.

A person attaching a sheet of metal to the front of a plastic jug.

On the inside of the base, attach a wooden handle using bolts, so you are able to hold the chainsaw from the inside.

A metal round piece is near its base.

The blade is made from a long thin piece of wood.  The straighter the better.

One end of the wood is bolted inside the aluminum frame with standard cross braces and the other end is rounded out using a jigsaw.

Man using tape to seal up a tool.

Paint the blade silver

" A man holding  a chainsaw arm"

To close up the gap where the OJ handles used to be, cut the plastic food container in half.  Using glue, bolts and plumbers apoxe get the container to fit into the hole.

A man works on making a realistic looking chainsaw arm.

The pvc cupler is attached to the metal, by the plastic container, using more bolts and standard cross braces, so that your wrist can fit inside.

A person has one of their limbs in a metal ring.

 

On top of the base, create a handle using the wooden dowel and more cross braces.

A person is using tools to work on something at a white table.

At the bottom of the base, drill a hole and string a piece of rope through it with a dowel attached, for the pull cord.

Add a nifty switch to the top of the base and a bike chain and your ready for blood.  Which is dark red acrylic paint sloppily applied with your hands.

An old, red chainsaw.

Now, all of us here at Indy Mogul know your new chainsaw arm is not only incredibly cool, but incredibly fake.  But other people do not know that.  So don’t go running out into the street scaring random civilians.  Instead use your new chainsaw powers for good, not evil, like making your Indy film AWESOME!!!

A man is holding an old red chainsaw near a woman.

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