Decorating Home-made Wooden Nunchaku

[Jimdare]

Hi,

I am currently in the process of making a new pair of wooden chux and I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to decorate them? I was planning on sanding them down and adding some oil, but it would also be cool if there was a picture of a dragon or something on them.  The only way I can think of adding a picture to chux would be to use a hot poker and burn the image in.  Unfortunately I don't have one of these    Does anyone have any ideas?

James 

[Heru Pyrkagia]

i bought a wood burning kit at the local art supply store. made some celtic knot work on my 4 sectionals. for decoration, i usually go with electrical tape, playing with the light and dark contrast so when they spin, there are lines. if you had a lathe, you could make designs like fancy table legs. or you could always whittle a bear or something.

[Wild Industry]

I love electrical tape wraps.

[Berserkergang]

If you want your chucks to be highly visable to anyone watching then MAKE SURE the very tips have white or yellow electrical tape on them. Yellow is the colour the eye picks up fastest. then you could add some high contrast stripes on the batons so the paths of their motion are more visable instead of just a blur.

[Seventh_He4ven]

I use a soldering iron and or a hot knife to engrave patterns into my chucks. I've taken to putting my family name (ng - Chinese symbol) on the bottom end of them.

[SpinStorm]

damn Heru, I forgot about lathes, that would be sweeet!