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How To Make a Coffin |
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Below you will find instruction on how to make a coffin. This happens to be a European-style coffin or an old West style coffin. A coffin is not expensive to make, but adds to the spooky feeling.
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Here is the start of my coffin, you can see the lid it is made by putting together 9 1 x 4 boards with four cross boards. The length is 75 inches to allow a six-foot person to stand or lie in it. I made it using nine boards so I could put things inside in the future. Instead you could use seven which would make a narrow coffin and lighter. | ||
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Here you can see some of the slides waiting to be put together. I made the coffin 4 boards high. With extra height I can put special effect underneath bodies or other things I might put inside. Three boards could be used instead to make it smaller and lighter. | ||
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You can see how it starts coming together, and looking like a coffin. It's easier to put it together if you screw the bottom to the sides. Then put the bottom on top of the sides, then screw a side on from the top. I started with bottom then the sides one at a time. From there you can screw upper sides on, and then the top. Then you can paint it with a watered-down gray or black paint to make it look old.you can add hinges to the lid ( on the inside would look best). | ||
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Here I removed one of the boards from the bottom to allow for cables to go in and out. An example would be to use a fog machine inside the coffin. This way the power plug can come out, or you can add a light. | ||
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The photos above showed two different ways you can use a coffin. With the coffin laying on its back you could put someone inside who could jump out to scare people. Instead I put the coffin on its side, and put some lights inside that went on and off. With a fog machine going on and off be hind it to scare people. |
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| July 19, 2009 | |||
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