How To Make Cheap & Easy DIY Barbed Wire for Wargaming!

[@Five5XD]

Thank you very much! It looks really great. I tried it myself, and it worked on the first try.

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

Great to hear and THANK YOU! for asking me to do the video. Cheers!

[@Bunyip_Studios]

nice video, I made some barbed wire a few years ago, went a bit too realistic and cut the barbs at an acute angle, making them very sharp, lol I drilled a couple of holes about 200mm apart that held a couple of 6" nails firmly, after twisting with the drill, I put the loop over one nail and wrapped the other end tightly round the other one, leaving both hands free to work on the barbs

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

Thanks! YES! This stuff is basically really real barbed wire and snags and pokes for sure. Making a jig like that is a brilliant idea. Secretly, I wish there was a tiny machine that wire goes in one end, there's a crank, and barbed wire comes out the other side. I even did a little digging into the machines that make the real stuff... yes... I'm a little obsessive. It's a bit more complicated than wrapping by hand so I took the path of least resistance! Thanks for watching and commenting. All the best!

[@Bunyip_Studios]

@@RandomMakingEncounters haha, same here, I started looking into it, " ooh, there's different types, double twist, triple twist...." You're welcome, your videos are both entertaining and educational, cheers

[@darrenbibb1329]

The number of gage comes from how many times the manufacturer pulls the wire through the die..to get it smaller and smaller

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

Mind blown! Seriously... it makes total sense but it's so counterintuitive to how we usually use numbers. Bigger is usually bigger. Thanks for sharing that knowledge! Cheers!

[@janetcameron4652]

Thanks Random.

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

You are very welcome. You never know when you will need to wrangle very small critters or create tiny barricades.

[@handsofrhythm3415]

Fantastic. Thank you.

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

It's a weird little video but you never know when you're going to need some really tiny barbed wire. Cheers!

[@G_Threepwood]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

You are very welcome! Happy fencing... barricading... building! Cheers!

[@robertwilliams-day320]

Great video, thank you. Gauge is how many of it, it takes to fill an inch. 30 1 gauge is inch think, 2 gauge half an inch 30 gauge 30th of an inch.

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

That would absolutely make sense and will help me remember which way the numbers go! All the best!

[@petermerz2704]

Cool!

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

Thanks! Happy making!