Juan,

The problem is, a lot of knives called throwing knives, are in fact made
only for throwing, BUT are no good for throwing. This mainly relates to
our styles, no spin-half-spin, etc, wheras for multi set distance spin
throwing, almost any shape of knife is ok, but I say, "almost".

After 55 years of making my own knives for all distance half spins, and to a
lesser extent, no spins, I find a straight sided knife, handle and blade,
with a symetrical point, is best for all round throwing. Reason being a
certain degree of slideability is required, of the knife from the hand, and
you cant get that with a funny shaped handle/blade. Look at roys knives in
the pics section, and in the short DVD.

A good start is with a one inch wide blade, by three sixtenths thick steel,
about 13 inchs long. You can get this mild steel strip from a stockist,
and get your friend to fashion a decent centre point with his grinder.
Then if you can, get them case hardened at an engineers heat treatment
shop,then they will never dent or burr. Then clean them up, dip the
handle end in a tin of black paint to resemble a handle, let it dry
properly, and you have knives for life.

Note. Make sure you finish the shape properly if you are going to have
them hardened, cause you wont be able to file them after, and if you angle
grinder them after hardening, you will go through the hard case.

Roy





----- Original Message -----
From: "katagelan" <zaratt@...>
To: <TheBladeThrower@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:11 PM
Subject: [TheBladeThrower] Re: throwing time is here.


> Hi all,
> it is a shame to keep silent when we have so many hobbies in common,
> I throw knives, axes and other sharp things, I shoot air rifles and
> pistol, and also the bow.
> Everyone who comes to visit me is invited ( forced )to have a go at
> my target when the weather allows it.
> On some sunny days, we can be as much as 7 to ten people trying to
> destroy a fruit or tree leaf fixed to the logs.
> I still struggle with the Thorn way of "no-spin", the difficulty
> being that I cannot do it from far enough to avoid dangerous
> rebounds.
> It looks like it will be easier to train/learn AFTER I achieved some
> progress which is a little absurd a situation.
> I have bought, tried and damaged the Mc Evoy designs made by Cold
> Steel, apart from the repairing bother, they are very good knives
> (but not very well constructed), thanks to the design, the bowie axe
> being my favourite.
> Do anyone know why they are discontinued ?
> I know some will say that Tru-Bal is still in business and criticize
> me buying imitations, etc...but here in Belgium what with the
> customs, the law and the shipping charges, buying a Cold Steel from
> a german online shop is easy, fast and cheap.
> Price is a factor when you have to buy a knife before trying it
> (some models look great on pictures but don't suit me in real life).
> As I write, I am waiting for a throwing friend who is also quite
> good with an angle grinder and who has made possible some
> improvements, pictures of which ( the improvements, not the friend )
> will be following next week.
> Cheers,
>
> Juan.
>
>
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