Terrain Quick Tips: Barbed Wire

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Hey, fellow hobby nerds and dweebs!  It’s me, Danny Samuels! I’m the guy who makes cool terrain, in case you don’t know who I am—and if that’s the case, why don’t you know me? Today’s project is perfect for keeping meddling kids off your lawn: how to make simple barbed wire.

I start by finding two different gauges of wire, one slightly thicker than the other. That will be the core wire; you’ll want it to be a softer metal, like aluminum or lead. I then get ahold of some super thin floral wire.

I twist the wires together on one end into an unholy mess. This gives me something to hold onto while I wrap the wires together, and it also keeps things from unraveling as I work.

To get started wrapping, I loosely pinch the thin floral wire in one hand and begin to spin the core wire in my other hand. (Make sure to hold the thin wire at a slight angle, though, or your barbed wire will end up looking like a spring.) This will begin wrapping the thin wire around the core and will keep it pretty even.

After I get a bit further with wrapping, I stop spinning the core wire in my hand and just start to ravel the thin wire around the core by hand. There is a point where just spinning the core from one end will start to do weird, pinchy stuff to the wire. That’s why I end up just carefully raveling it around. Nobody likes pinchy stuff. At least not cool people.

Take some wire cutters and snip the messy end off. Now you will be left with a nice, clean strand of barbed wire.

Take a small rod and wrap the wire around it to give it the nasty barbed wire trap look.

Slide it off of one side of the rod and BOOOOOOOM! BARBED WIRE!

And that’s all I have to say about that.

K BYE!

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