Mark, in answer to your question, yes. That is another gratutous shot of Basil. My girlfriend, Basil and Mr. Toes are the most beautiful things in my life. I can't seem to stop taking pictures of them. I recognize it may be some sort of affliction but I am guessing it's pretty harmless and I beg your patience with me.
Northpaw, her is a link to cheap throwing knives: DIRECT KNIFE SALES switchblade knives automatic knives stiletto out the front knife wholesale knives throwing knives throwing stars spring assisted knife nato military leverlock butterfly knife surplus discount blades cutlery cheetah stun gun (Powere
Here is another:
Throwing Knives / Stars - Blade Play
If you want something of higher quality, you can find places to spend your money. The most expensive throwing knives I own are these Ziel knives:
Review of the Ziel throwing knife designed by John Bailey
I personally think they are too heavy but knife choices are very subjective.
These things are usually stamped out of a sheet of stainless steel and ground sharp. Most of them seem to come from Pakistan. They are so inexpensive it seems impossible they could even ship them for what they charge. However, as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. I was using the plank of poplar (on which I photographed all my knives in the top picture) as a target. The steel is so soft it would bend to follow the grain of that plank. At our new house I turned a bunch of old logs on their side to throw into the ends. That makes a stable target as soft as a dartboard and relatively self-healing. I have a slice of sycamore about thee feet in diameter I want to put up on top of the others. It weighs close to three hundred pounds and I'm not as strong as I was before my body mutineed so I am having trouble, "getting it up."
Throwing knives is fun but I would never think of it as a self defence technique. The idea of throwing your weapon to your enemy seems to be counter intuitive. I think you'd be better off throwing your gun at him.
Bruno, Once you've thrown a knife or a star you will see how truly stupid it is for a law to proclaim those things as weapons. I think you'd be more likely to annoy someone by hitting them with a star than you would be to kill them. However, you can learn to throw anything that is sharp. I used to be pretty good at throwing single edged razor blades into a wall. There are steel spikes that are easy to make that can be thrown with great accuracy and effect. In the movie the Missourri Breaks, Marlon Brando's character throws a sharpened pair of sticks lashed into a cross as a weapon.
Never throw a folding knife! In the movie the Magnificent Seven, James Coburn has one of the best scenes in the film when he throws a switchblade underhand into some cowboy's chest. That is nonsense. You can't get enough pwoer into a throw underhand and throwing any folding knife will destroy the knife.
