Jonny69's inventing shed: mechanical crushing hand

[Jonny69]

I'm going to a fancy dress party next weekend with a James Bond theme. I couldn't be bothered to hire a tux and pretend to be 007 or wear lycra and paint myself gold, so I decided to go as this guy:







Tee Hee from Live and Let Die, hence the need for fake tan. What a perfect opportunity to make a mechanical crushing hand

I'm going to make it properly so it can actually crush stuff and hurt people. It might not be fully functional by next week, but it'll be close and good enough to give a nasty nip or maybe take off an ear.

I started off by drawing up some templates in paper and cutting them out:



I then drew round them onto some thick steel and started cutting. The radial cuts help get the jigsaw blade round:



Getting there with the cutting. Can you see where this is going yet?



To make sure the two outer parts are identical I tacked them together and finished the shape as a pair:



And this is as far as I've got to today:





The idea is to get it looking something like the end of this by the end of the week: