Halloween Faked Hand's Injury / Wound With Screw and Blood

In this Instructable I will explain how to make a very simple faked hand's injury / wound, caused by a screw...

I actually made it as a part of April Fool's Day Prank, but of course it can be used for other purposes as well, like a prop / accessory for Halloween costume.

Maybe a woodworker with a bleeding hand from screw and a faked bloody saw blade injury in another place. Wherever your imagination goes :)

You can watch the video in the next step of this Instructable, to see the making process and the prank itself.

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Materials:

• Wood scrap
• 2 Long Screws
• Strong body / skin glue
• Fake blood

Tools:

• Drill driver
• Dremel with metal cutting disc (or another tool to cut metal).

General List of tools I'm using - https://www.itzikdiy.com/tools-list?m=1

This is the video of the making process, and the prank itself.

Short Background: The April Fool's Day this year, was during the Coronavirus lockdown.

As you can imagine, during a lockdown you're bored, depressed... and having some fun is always good, so I decided to make a simple prank on my wife.

I thought how to combine my woodworking hobby with usage of a faked blood I had from a previous costume.

Note that I was super careful in this prank (maybe too much), so my wife won't get panic too much, and to avoid finding myself sleeping at the living room that day. LOL...

I took one screw, and cut its head using a dremel with a metal cutting disc.

I drilled a hole in a piece of wood scrap, so I can insert another long screw to the wood.

I inserted the long screw, throughout the hole.

I took the screw head I cut before, and put it on my hand, in a position that will fit the angle of the other screw, which I inserted in the wood before.

I put my hand on the wood piece and wrapped it.

After some tries of my hand's position on the wood, and the of the screw head's position on my hand - when it looked with a logical position and angle, I glued the screw head to my hand, so it will hold while I moved freely.

I had this faked blood from a previous costume, and I used it for this 'faked injury'.

I actually didn't see such real injury (and wish to never see such...), so I tried to image where should the blood be, if a screw gets through a hand and wood...

I started by putting some blood over the screw head and also some blood leaking on the side of the head.

I added some blood at the top of the wood, where the other screw is inserted, and some blood leaking on the side.

Finally, I added blood at the exit of the screw, at the bottom of the wood.

I put my hand on the wood, in the same position which I tried initially, without the blood.

What do you think? Looks good enough? :)

As I wrote at the introduction, I actually made this faked injury, as a part of April Fool's Day Prank, but it can be used for other purposes as well, like a prop / accessory for Halloween consume.

I remind that I was super careful in this prank (maybe too much), so my wife won't get panic too much.

I asked her to help me removing the screw from my hand :) Watch the video to see the result.

That's it. I hope you like my instructable!

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Thank you for reading & watching.