Throwing Stars!

[Dog--]

I just got a whole bunch of cutting disks for my grinder today, so I decided to test them out making throwing stars, I only had enough time to make one, it was lop-sided and ugly, but suprisingly it did the job (I sharpened it with a sand-stone dremel bit), I lobbed it into my barn door and it went pretty deep.

It was a 4-sided throwing star. Since it was ugly and lop sided I decided to do a little bit of research and get some of this special kind of wax tracing paper, and then just trace a picture off of the internet and make a good looking 4-sided throwing star.


I punched "throwing stars" into google images and holy shit, there are some impressive ones, I want to try and make this one (although it wont look anywhere near as good....)

One reason for this thread is for some advice, I want advice from anyone who has experience in metal working/cutting with small peices.


I would post a picture of my wierd looking star, but my scanner is malfunctioning... Probably tomarrow..

 

[Sam]

Aim for the throat.

 

[Vegeta897]

My brother is fairly into blades of sorts. He has some throwing knives and throwing stars, and they are fun as hell. Just set up a plank on the other and of the room and go crazy. It's pretty tough though, especially the knives. You have to know which way to have it in your hand based on your distance. Every step you take back you must invert it, or something like that.

 

[Dog--]

My brother had 1 throwing knife, it was dull as hell, the only thing I know about them is to throw the heavy end first (hold onto the lighter end).

Throwing star don't really take any talent besides aiming, thats why they are kewl.

If making throwing stars keeps me interested long enough I want to eventually make throwing knives... That'll be damn hard, though..

 

[Vegeta897]

My brother had 1 throwing knife, it was dull as hell, the only thing I know about them is to throw the heavy end first (hold onto the lighter end)..

Err, hmm... It might depend on the type of knife but that doesn't make much sense. The way you hold it depends on your distance because the thing spins in the air. And I think they are designed to not have a "heavy end"
Because then the heavy end (most likely the handle) would tend to go forward and that's obviously not what you want.

 

[Dog--]

Ok, but what if the blade it the heavier end, then that goes forward, right?

 

[Vegeta897]

But throwing knives spin in the air. There will be no "going forward" unless the wait difference is drastic. Like I said they are designed to be equally weighted whether you hold the blade or handle. They are made of nothing but metal, at least the ones my brother has and from the looks of google images, most of them.

 

[[Dragoon]]

Ok, but what if the blade it the heavier end, then that goes forward, right?

Then they're not very well balanced knives, I guess.

 

[Raziaar]

My grandpa used to be a Grandmaster Machinist.

 

[Neutrino]

Ok, but what if the blade it the heavier end, then that goes forward, right?

It probably depends on the location of the center of pressure with respect to the center of mass.

/nerd

 

[Dan]

i sometimes throw kitchen knives into cutting boards. I can get it pretty consistently up to about 5 or 6 feet away. After that it tends to bounce off and risk stabbing my toes.

 

[Jintor]

Batarang.

 

[rambler]

i like the fat throwing stars in underworld, the mechanical ones.

 

[Operational]

My only advice would be to avoid trying to swallow one. :|

 

[hool10]

I just got a whole bunch of cutting disks for my grinder today, so I decided to test them out making throwing stars, I only had enough time to make one, it was lop-sided and ugly, but suprisingly it did the job (I sharpened it with a sand-stone dremel bit), I lobbed it into my barn door and it went pretty deep.

It was a 4-sided throwing star. Since it was ugly and lop sided I decided to do a little bit of research and get some of this special kind of wax tracing paper, and then just trace a picture off of the internet and make a good looking 4-sided throwing star.


I punched "throwing stars" into google images and holy shit, there are some impressive ones, I want to try and make this one (although it wont look anywhere near as good....)

One reason for this thread is for some advice, I want advice from anyone who has experience in metal working/cutting with small peices.


I would post a picture of my wierd looking star, but my scanner is malfunctioning... Probably tomarrow..

I'm a welder you know. My recomendation is to contact a machinist. I can't really say much more than that though because you will probably get a lop-sided star if you do it any other way.

 

[Hazar]

I'd say don't make them too complicated, just get the blade parts balanced

 

[Dan]

You might be able to make that on a milling machine. I don't know what the smallest radius tools they have are, probably small enough though. Then you just need to sharpen the edges.

 

[rambler]

all that stuff will be cnc made with laser cutters or cnc milling machines. very rare to find a precision object like that hand made.

 

[Dog--]

A milling machine? That doesn't sound productive... I was thinking more along the lines of small, more precision cutters, like a dremel or even a hacksaw.

 

[Darkwolf]

If you want a broken hacksaw blade, buy all means, proceed!

 

[rambler]

a milling machine is a precision piece of equipment canem