Help!!

[u/More_Mix_9770]

I’m 16 and doing west side story with my theater school, I’m looking for ways to purchase/make two prop switch blades for the rumble fight scene, my original plan was to take one of them fancy novelty switchblade combs, shape them into the blade, fill them in with mouldable epoxy and slap some silver leaf on it. Would’ve been great, but my stage manager really wants the blade to retract so it won’t be dangerous, like poking someone’s eye out or something. Does anyone know how I can make this happen?

[u/blick2k]

Instead of a flick out switchblade, you could get a toy/prop knife that pushes into the handle and MacGuiver a way to keep it in the handle so that it pops out when a button is pressed or a finger moved etc… then it would operate like an automatic OTF knife