If not exactly what i used then at least something pretty similar.
Materials to make a barn door kite.
Use your imagination and you ll being soaring the friendly skies in no time.
The mbk 2 skewer barn door is medium sized at 58 cm 23 across and 53 cm 21 tall with generous dihedral and a fairly short looped tail.
Way up into the moderate wind range in fact.
Attach string to adjustable bridle loop.
Hang kite by fly line.
Up to around 30 kph if.
For this barn door you need long lengths of 4mm wooden dowel.
Anything you don t have is easily bought.
Re adjust to wind speed.
The 2 skewer barn door is a very nice light to moderate wind flier.
These instructions on how to make a barn door kite might look a bit long but each step is quite simple to do.
The length of bought dowel can be somewhat inaccurate.
Learn how to build a terrific barn door kite just follow along with this how to video.
Make tail with plastic strips ribbon or macrame cord.
You will need a plastic sheet wood dowels cloth tape ribbon and scissors.
It is easily cut to the lengths required with a small cheap hack saw.
Mbk dowel barn door.
Just steadily work your way through from top to bottom skimming over any detail that you don t need.
This set of instructions on how to make a barn door kite assumes you know absolutely nothing about kite making.
Download plan in pdf format.
Cut 25 or more of string and wind onto hobby stick.
I ve tried hard to make the instructions fool proof in this area.
Bottom line must hang slightly lower than top.
At 29cm 11 1 2 from tip to tip the mbk 1 skewer barn door kite is a rather small barn door with dihedral and simple 1 leg bridle.
So if you have bought 2 4 meter lengths of dowel you might have a couple of centimeters less than you bargained for.
Build a barn door kite.
You might already have some of the simple tools and materials required.