Thread: Throwing Knives

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.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Sometimes I am surprised that they let you have razors

There are very few restrictions on edged weapons here, but a couple of things are mentioned very specifically. Among these are throwing knives, throwing stars, and automatic open knives.

We have the 80's ninja craze to thank for that. Suddenly, all idiots wanted to carry the damn things and got a kick out of showing off.
To solve this problem, they outlawed these things. They also outlawed nunchucks.

Originally Posted by Bruno

...We have the 80's ninja craze to thank for that. Suddenly, all idiots wanted to carry the damn things and got a kick out of showing off.
To solve this problem, they outlawed these things. They also outlawed nunchucks.

See, this is what worries me so much. Thankfully, and in spite of the fact that they've been used as weapons in movies, none of the local idiots have decided to make the straight razor a thuggish fashon accessory.

I'm still worried that they will though.

Originally Posted by icedog

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.

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Are you kidding Brad? I love those pictures of Basil and Mr Toes! Some of those pictures end up being the highlight of my day on certain rough days, but I also like pulling your chain now and again

I used to have a couple but I 'lent' them to a friend. I might have to pick up some more. I'm going through a bit of a small knife craze at the moment, and you can get some very neat little throwing knives.

Tim,
I guess you must have been posting the same time as me. I just now saw your tomahawk. Yeah man they are fun. I have a collection of sharp stuff that I throw. Among the things are a full size double bitt axe, a tomahawk, a few stars, some dart sort of things and all the assorted knives. When I bring it all out, it is one of my personal games where I throw everything one piece at a time in random order and try to get them all to stick. When one piece falls I start over and keep trying until the target holds them all.

Brad

I've got a couple of throwing knives. I used to have more, but...those things tend to get lost sometimes.

It's really fun to land a perfect throw, you're right.

I managed to get the big slice of sycamore up into position as a target:

It is about three feet across and weighs (I'd guess) about two hundred pounds. The center of the target is about four feet above the ground. It is as good a target for knives as you can get.
Here are my biggest and smallest knives:

The big ones are 13 inches and the little ones are 5 inches. They all work well but I had to teach myself different techniques for the different sizes:

These were thrown from twelve feet (small) and fifteen feet (large)

Nice grouping on the small ones!

Originally Posted by Seraphim

Nice grouping on the small ones!

Hey thanks! I am getting pretty good with these things. But look what I just discovered:

The big ones can break if you get them, too close! This one fractured when I threw in into one that was already in the target.