{"id":34,"date":"2007-01-01T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T22:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/kick-off-2007-build-an-ak47\/"},"modified":"2007-01-01T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T22:17:27","slug":"kick-off-2007-build-an-ak47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/kick-off-2007-build-an-ak47\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick off 2007 &#8211; Build an AK47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ak_sketch\" title=\"ak_sketch\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/ak_template.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Print the various pieces of the gun to use as templates, <a href=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/ak_template.zip\">download files<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ak_print1\" title=\"ak_print1\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/print1.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ak_print2\" title=\"ak_print2\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/print2.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ak_print3\" title=\"ak_print3\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/print3.gif\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ak_print4\" title=\"ak_print4\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/print4.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ak_print5\" title=\"ak_print5\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/print5.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ak_print6\" title=\"ak_print6\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/print6.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ak_final\" title=\"ak_final\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/ak_final.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Final to scale, wooden AK47, ready to ship!<\/p>\n<p>I remember stepping into the Managua Airport in 1980 or 81 and being surprised and intimidated by the number of Sandinista soldiers holding AK47s.  I was about nine years old, it was my first time back in Nicaragua following the 1978-79 popular uprising and final push of a long lasting struggle against the Somoza dynasty.  At the time, I had never been in an airport so heavily monitored and in arms-distance of fatigued soldiers holding automatic weapons (supplied generously by the Soviet Union).<\/p>\n<p>Through the Cold War, the AK47 became the most ubiquitous automatic fire arm in the world.  A weapon that at once signifies revolution &#8211; struggle, turmoil, passion and oppression.  In the late 80s, during my teens, I got to fire an AK47 and feel it&#8217;s rush of power.<\/p>\n<p>Based on these memories, I decided to fabricate a wooden AK47 as part of a piece for an exhibition in St. Petersburg.  I did so by creating an illustration of the gun to use as a template to draw the various pieces onto thick wood panel and then with a jigsaw cut them out, round the pieces as necessary and dowel them together to assemble a handcrafted toy gun.  Download and print the Illustrator files to create your own AK47.  You will need approximately 2&#8243; thick wood panel, 1.5&#8243; and .25&#8243; thick dowel, a jigsaw or scroll saw, drill, sander, sandpaper and a stain of choice.<\/p>\n<p>In the zipped folder, you will find three Illustrator files:  &#8220;illustration.ai&#8221; is the entire to scale outline; &#8220;illustration2.ai&#8221; are the various sections separated into layers ready to print onto 8.5&#8243;x11&#8243; pager; and &#8220;illustration3.ai&#8221; is a final section of the gun to be printed out on legal size paper.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/ak_template.zip\">Download files<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Print the various pieces of the gun to use as templates, download files. Final to scale, wooden AK47, ready to ship! I remember stepping into the Managua Airport in 1980 or 81 and being surprised and intimidated by the number of Sandinista soldiers holding AK47s. 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