Thread: Chainsaw prop

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I wanna knw how to make a fake chainsaw for halloween night to scare the trick or treaters and im not sure whats best

The best "fake" chainsaw is a real saw. Remove the chain and go to town. I had one several years ago that I chased my kids around with and they loved it. I couldn't use it for halloween because of the neighborhood I lived in. (ToT in my old neighborhood was more like "Trick and Mugg". we actually left our neighborhood for Halloween and went elsewhere to do our ToTing.)

This is probably cheaper for you but is out of stock.
http://www.frightprops.com/chainsaw-animated.html

I'd definitely agree with the real saw without a chain. Seen this done tons of times at haunted houses and stuff. Nothing like the smell of a running chainsaw scares me more at nighttime.

I purchased the exact same chainsaw as the link Darkmaster posted. It looks cool and was effective in scaring TOT without being too loud for neighbors. My only wish is that the sound track stayed on for the duration of the trigger pull. Having said that, if your intetions are genuine horror with no consiquence of neighbors or anything else, go with the real deal (chain removed of course). Nothing can beat the primal fear invoked from a loud smoke belching chainsaw. The TOT will have to really wonder if you took the chain off.

I had the gemmy one... unfortunately it and a new sit-up corpse prop were lost when the bin they were in fell out of my truck on an interstate. I enjoyed the gemmy one, it is not loud, that was one thing I was going to try to fix. I repainted mine, to make it more realistic.

Though apparently I never took a picture when I added some weathering and duct tape to it, but it did scare the TOTs

Another option is removing the blade of a circular saw and using it. We used that in a pro haunt, and it works great. The sound is just as recognizable as a chain saw, and it is nice and maneuverable. The only downside is the power cord can get in the way, at times, if you are not paying attention.

I was just contemplating about a prop saw the other day. I had picked up a Leathface mask and costume after Halloween on sale. I was thinking about placing an ad on Craigslist looking for a non-funtional chainsaw. I was thinking that I could strip it down to just a hollow shell and put an MP3 player in it with a battery powered speaker. Rig the trigger to turn on the the power to the speaker.... Or at least make the chainsaw light enough that a PVC dummy could hold it up.

I found the same chainsaw as darkmaster posted at buy costumes.com http://www.buycostumes.com/Deluxe-Ch...uctDetail.aspx it's $44.99 but if you sign up with your email you get a 15% off coupon.

Hope that helps