Chris Long's Making Things

This post goes with my first YouTube spinner template video (embedded at the end of the post). Although I linked to the Sketchup file for that template, you can only print from that if you have Sketchup installed on your computer, which may not be possible for everyone. So, here's a JPG version of the template for you to print. Don't try to print the image above, because it's very important to print it 'actual size' and the blog software may well have changed the size to suit your phone, tablet or other device. Instead, download the original from here (you'll need to right-click and choose 'Save As...') and print it later. See my earlier blog post for full details on how to do this on Windows, but briefly, unless you have other specialist image processing software, the easiest thing is to use the venerable Paint program, which allows you to set the printing scale to 100%. Thanks for your interest and have fun making your spinners! Here's

This blog post goes with my YouTube video showing how I modelled a shuriken spinner template in Sketchup (the video is embedded at the end of this post). I put a link to the Sketchup file in the description, so that you could download the file and work with it yourself, but this is obviously not much help if you don't have a copy of Sketchup that you can use (Sketchup can be downloaded for free from here but maybe you can't or don't want to install it, for whatever reason). So, here's a JPG image of the template: To get this to print at the correct size, it needs to be printed at '100%' without any scaling. Instead of saving or printing the image shown above, which the blog software has almost certainly resized, download the original from  here (you'll probably need to right-click and choose 'Save As...' or 'Download') and save it on your device. Now you need to find a way to print it without scaling, which will depend on what devic