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This is my third build of the Ladies' Discreet Companion Raygun that I created for the wonderful MAKE Magazine.

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The idea was to build something from new and relatively eay to locate parts only, since that makes it a lot easier for people to actually complete the design should they decide to give it a shot *rimshot* sorry about the pun there. I'd fire myself, but I'm self employed!

Anyways, Gareth asked me if I would design a Ray Gun of some sort but that it should be a shorter article since they already had a few big projects in the issue... so I figured it was time to create a Derringer style weapon for ladies to carry in their purses or such. I've also been obsessing over making my work more functional lately, so I also decided to make this Ray Gun a working butane lighter, since that seemed like a logical enough leap.

The prototype became a birthday gift for my friend Befu, and the second one was sold at NorWesCon a couple weekends ago. I made the second one originally for display purposes only to advertise the article, but I had a lot of people asking if it was for sale... so I decided to make a couple more to sell on my Etsy page:

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FYI: the pattern for the metal work is here:

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~GeorgieChaos Apr 24, 2009
That's rather cool, Porkshanks.

I'll look forward to seeing the article.
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~deadrabbit13 Apr 24, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Sweet. Now that's something I would love to just pull out of my coat pocket to show off.
My roommate said that she wished she smoked just so she could use something like that to light a cigaret.
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~marychain Apr 24, 2009  Professional General Artist
i need one of these XD
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~smeagol92055 Apr 24, 2009
Ah, yes, very discreet.
It just makes a very nice little hole through an attacker, no muss, no fuss.
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~porkshanks Apr 25, 2009  Professional General Artist
=D
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*EarthboundSatyr Apr 24, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I love it. :)
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~porkshanks Apr 25, 2009  Professional General Artist
thanks!
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~ohhellno520 Feb 18, 2011  Hobbyist Artist
by collect items,i mean take 6 random items that enemy has
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~ohhellno520 Feb 18, 2011  Hobbyist Artist
can you email this pic to valve telling them to put this in team fortress 2?

discreet companion ladies raygun

level 4 flare gun

-shoots small flares that
dont travel any distance
+instant kill from behind
+-sets pyros on fire for 6
seconds but does 2 damage
each second
+-10 health for each kill
but does not go over
current health
-27 ammo
-no reloads
-must wait 2 seconds before
firing again
+allows wearer to collect 6
items for each kill
+45 health added

brought to you by make magazine
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~drakken123 Apr 24, 2009
Classy.
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