Swords and battle-axes pushpins

Nuop's Medieval Weapon Push Pins are a great way to liven up the office notice-board with a little medieval flair. They're the perfect way to butch up those passive-aggressive Comic Sans notes reminding people to turn down their cellphone ringers and wash out their coffee mugs.

Medieval Weapon Push Pins (via Super Punch)

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gwailo_joe

But make em a little bigger with double prongs: corn!
bjza

These will work great on my office’s map of meddlesome House Democrats.
Drabula

pushpins??? where’s the dang link to the Fermi lab stuff??
Ceronomus

$10 for ten push pins? They aren’t THAT fantastic!
penguinchris

Couple things…

First, while a nice idea, the execution (heh heh) is lacking in one major and crucial way – when you attach something to a wall with a weapon, you don’t push the blade all the way through – a substantial portion of the blade remains sticking out. This would not have been difficult to simulate here, and indeed the axe is basically correct. The swords would just need to have half a blade with a flat end, so when you push the pin in all the way it looks like it’s being held in by the blade.

Second, the office environment described, with the passive-aggressive notes, coffee, and bulletin boards, sent shivers down my spine (well, figuratively anyway). That’s the kind of place where these push pins wouldn’t be tolerated (likely to result in a new Comic Sans note), and would probably be stolen anyway. There are plenty of office environments where these would be appreciated, of course :)
LegendofPedro

These are pretty cool and would look great holding my D&D maps/campaign notes and LARP character notes to my board (“Christ, what a nerd!”), but penguinchris is right; some of the blade should be exposed along with the hilt.

And Ceronomus is right about the price.

I think I may have to cast a few of these myself. I do have some spare polyester resin…
Anonymous

Let’s have some that look like little trebuchets.
gwailo_joe

The axe will be the first one to break.