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Old GRANITEHEAD?????
Also, two of those knives are Pleistocene era, the other two MUCH older....couldn't you have kept the names from the same epoch?
They're all lookin' good, zzyzz. Looking forward to seeing them in action.....
I picked the names based on my favorite extinct creatures. So many people that put a name on a knife model pick overused names like "Hunter" or "Skinner". I thought about imitating Randal Knives, with "1" , "2", etc. based on the order I designed them, but since I designed 1,2,and 3 all the same day, that would have made them 1A, 1B and 1C. And since no one else is using extinct critter names, I'm different. More ways than 1.
. They've already seen quite a bit of throwing. The top 3 probably have nearly 5K throws each on them. I made a set of 3 for each version and 1 of the three sets gets thrown 50x per day minimum on "no rain" days, although I skip a few days when there has been so much rain that my range is swamped under standing rainwater.
The Smilodons have fewer throws on each of them. Probably less than 1K each. I made a set of 30 for practicing "speed throwing", which is sticking as many knives as possible from 2 meters (1/2 spin) in 20 seconds. I've stuck as many as 22 / 20 sec. The world record is 30 in 20. That was set at the IKTHOF Canadian National throw back in June or July of 2015, and then tied by 2 folks at the US throw in Austin back in September. Part of my slowness is my knives are too heavy. At 11+ ounces each, I can only control about 10 knives at a time in my off hand and manipulate them cleanly. I loose time grabbing the 2nd/3rd stack from a table. The record holders are using really thin (1/16" or 3/32"), narrow (1/2" to 3/4") blades. They can hold 15 to 20 at a time and can be "fanned" with their off hand thumb easily.
My next versions are a slimmed down Mammoth - 1/4" to 3/8" narrower, 2 leather handled Bowies for Mountain Man throwing competitions based on the Western W49 and the BK9, some smilodons with less taper to the handle, and finally some throwing stars cut out of rotary saw blades.
I no longer have all 30 Smilodons. Right after the speed throw back in September, one of the other throwers bought 5 off me. He is primarily a no spin thrower (won IKTHOF No Spin this year) and wanted some spinners. The Smilies were very similar to his no-spin knives and he liked them.
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