The Paper Butterfly Knife Tutorial

Butterfly/balisong knives are fun. They're kind of hard get to get your hands on, but a paper version will do just fine- you won't cut or hurt yourself until you're good enough to use a real one. It works just fine too.

What You'll Need:

2 paper  thumb tacks

At least 4 sheets of paper

Eraser (Would be best if not a pencil topper)

Tape (Anything but masking tape)

Scissors

STEP 1   The Handles

First things first, you should take one sheet of paper and fold it in half up and down. Then, continue folding it left and right until you paper is a little more than an inch wide. Open the folded paper and put it aside. Repeat this process until you have two folded sheets. These will be you handles for the knife.

STEP 2   The Blade

Now, you will make the blade of your knife. Fold your 2 sheets of paper up and down, then fold it left and right twice. If you fold it one more time, you should have another handle. DO NOT FOLD IT. Now, draw a shape of the blade you want, but LEAVE TWO STUBS ON THE SIDE OF THE BOTTOM OF THE BLADE. (THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT) >_< Cut the blade out, and tape it so that their are no loose papers flying around.

STEP 3    Assembling The Knife

Now, take your handles and put them around the blade. It should cover most of it. The two stubs at the end of the blade should be pushing the handles away. Next, you should cut the handles so that there will be a point at the end.



















Try to surround the blade with the handles now, and the stubs should be sticking out where the ends of the handles were. The pointy part of the handles should be covering a part of the stubs. Now, take you thumb tacks and push them through the center of the point of the handles. Keep pushing them through the blade and out the other side of the handle. Do the same for the other side. Now, the thumb tacks should be sticking out on the other side of the handle.

 The blade should be stuck in between the handles. Then, cut out two pieces of an eraser. Stick them onto the pointy ends of the thumb tacks. Basically, you knife is complete. However, the stubs might be preventing the handles from moving around. You can cut the excess stubs off. Now, try swinging your knife by holding onto one handle and flinging it around. The tacks should let the blade and handles swing freely, but not fall off. The eraser should prevent the tacks from falling off. If anything breaks of falls off besides the eraser of tacks, REBUILD THIS KNIFE.

 Thanks for reading.

            The Breadlover