Materials To Make A Barn Door Kite

Learn how to build a terrific barn door kite just follow along with this how to video.

Materials to make a barn door kite.

For this barn door you need long lengths of 4mm wooden dowel. Hang kite by fly line. Attach string to adjustable bridle loop. Make tail with plastic strips ribbon or macrame cord.

Way up into the moderate wind range in fact. 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. You might already have some of the simple tools and materials required.

The length of bought dowel can be somewhat inaccurate. So if you have bought 2 4 meter lengths of dowel you might have a couple of centimeters less than you bargained for. 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.

How to make a barn door kite spars. Download plan in pdf format. Mbk dowel barn door. You will need a plastic sheet wood dowels cloth tape ribbon and scissors.

Build a barn door kite. Mbk dowel barn door. Re adjust to wind speed. If not exactly what i used then at least something pretty similar.

Anything you don t have is easily bought. It is easily cut to the lengths required with a small cheap hack saw. 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. I ve tried hard to make the instructions fool proof in this area.

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. Up to around 30 kph if. Attach with tape to each bottom corner.