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Dragon Staff with retractable spines

The aim of this project was to create a lightweight staff prop that could be used as an action prop.

This staff has spines on the head that stand up on end when you hit the bottom on the ground. This is done using a Pulley mechanism. 

The reason for making it lightweight was so the actor could easily throw the staff around without discomfort.

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Materials used

- green chemiwood

- resin

- fast cast

- 3D printer

- dowel

- steel

- brass

- lathe

- car body filler

Testing the mechanism

I used cheap materials such as foam board and split pins to recreate some mechanism ideas.

This enabled me to test important features of the mechanism such as spine length, spacing between the spines and the pulley mechanism itself.

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