Clearly not INFI.

Bigfattyt said:
That Rendezvous throwing knife is basically the style knife that CS patterned their perfect balance thrower off of.

For $42 for the knife and $23 for the sheath, you would probably get a lifetime use out of it.

It would be an even better thrower, as it is longer and thicker and heavier. All great things for throwers.


Do you know what the turn around time is from them?
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I don't know. Probably not overly long, I got an estimate a while back, just never followed through with an order. They only do snail mail, no internet orders.
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Not so. It would be silly to defend LT based on conjecture and misinformation. Compare the CS throwers with the TruBal line and report back. Also show me an indian trade dagger of the same design. It is, however an old design since the designer is dead, and for all I know the copyright has lapsed. Doesn't make it right.
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Don't you have anything else to do other that find every thread on CS and troll it. :rolleyes:

You need another hobby....
 
230grains said:
Hey, don't get my throwing thread locked :D

Back to throwing suggestions.
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Just calling out the troll Mike. :D

Like I said look at some of CS's throwing stuff, they really do have some neat stuff. :)
 
Rat, I didn't even think to throw some SKS spike bayonets! They're so cheap too, gotta find some in stock though is the problem. Do you alter them at all or throw as is?
 
230grains said:
Rat, I didn't even think to throw some SKS spike bayonets! They're so cheap too, gotta find some in stock though is the problem. Do you alter them at all or throw as is?
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I just throw them as is, sans spring and attachment mechanism. No need to even sharpen, they stick deep.
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Not so. It would be silly to defend LT based on conjecture and misinformation. Compare the CS throwers with the TruBal line and report back. Also show me an indian trade dagger of the same design. It is, however an old design since the designer is dead, and for all I know the copyright has lapsed. Doesn't make it right.
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Oh, I am not saying CS did not make a blatant copy (not as nice, worse finish, and cheaper materials for sure).

My contention is that the design it's self is old enough that I don't believe anyone has a trademark (as opposed to Copyright) or intellectual property rights in it. CS could have called it anything else, and been less dill weed about using the name.

If I am not mistaken that name, True Balance, comes from the True Balance Knife company founded in 1947 by Harry K. McEvoy. But I really do believe that design, a heavy Bowie/clip point with flat scales attached with cutler rivets is older than that.

My reference to trade daggers, was more a reference to a rough cut, shallower bevel knife with riveted leather handles. I have seen several historical designs, including versions much like the True Balance pattern. The Rendezvous throwing knife is a great example (similar design, but not the exact shape of the True Balance thrower).

Again, I absolutely agree it is a crappy move to sell the exact pattern, with the exact name. But CS is a well enough know producer, and open enough about their advertising and designs, that if there was any IP ownership of that exact pattern they would be sued not to produce it.


I may just be on crack, and that profile may have been designed and invented by Harry K. McEvoy, in a complete and utter design vacuum. If this is the case, I believe that he did not do much in the way of design/IP protection. It was a widely copied design world wide.






230grains, sorry to jack your thread. Back to your normally destructive and fun programming.
 
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230grains said:
I have to pick myself up 10 or so of them. Where can I get them the cheapest? I know CTD has them but I don't do business with them.
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I got mine for $3 each from centerfiresystems.com, but they don't seem to have any listed now. Wouldn't hurt to inquire with them just in case. I also do not do business with CTD. Maybe an auction site or something?
 
When I was a teenager I went through a phase that in retrospect may have appeared a little odd to outsiders. I strung up and old foam mattress against our shed wall and used boot polish to mark out a target circle.

Back then I didn't have two dollars to rub together so I used cheapo steak knife sets to throw from a distance of about 10 meters. A friend at the time bought me a fork as a joke present for my birthday - I got back at him by flattening out the tines and throwing it just like the steak knives.

I once found a homemade "re-handled" kitchen knife that was basically a big chefs knife with a section of metal pipe welded on as a handle. That thing weighed a tonne but I tried it out and once got that 'perfect' throw where everything came together. The knife disappeared through the mattress and I found three inches of blade poking out from the inside of the shed. Suffice to say I didn't throw that knife anymore but I did leave it in place to show my friends who were suitably impressed!
 
Ok, I have a question, if you want to throw knives, why not buy throwing knives?
 
I like the HBFC Rendezvous knife RF .... thanks for the link .... seems a useful edge could be put on it too ....

Anyone ever make a set of Aboriginal Throwing Sticks? Basically it is a set of two sticks sharpened at each end and a dovetail notch cut in the middle and then bind them together .... easy to make from a simple bit of whittling and straightening the sticks over a fire and harden the tips likewise .... but VERY effective for ground game .... a sort of bushcraft form of Shiriken star ....

I used these as a young lad to go after rabbits and even hares on the Moors ....taught me great field craft ....sneaking up behind dry stone walls at rabbits grazing on the other side and upwind .... I put more than a few into my Gran's game larder .... weirdly only my Gran seemed to have the knowledge and stomach for preparing rabbits and hares .... she was brought up on a farm ....

I began trying to hunt like this with my first old sheath knife ... a Normark hunting knife and was pretty good at throwing it ... but looking for the blade after a miss etc was too time consuming and once or twice I thought I had lost it for good ....so I went on to make these after reading about them somewhere .... cannot remember where .... an old scouting book I think which had a section on traps and improvised tools .... anway ... they are a cracking way to hunt cheaply or if you are ever in need of living off the land :thumbup:
 
Liu Kang said:
Ok, I have a question, if you want to throw knives, why not buy throwing knives?
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I do, but it's a little more challenging throwing knives not meant to be thrown, like a frost cutlery bowie thats handle weighs ten lbs, or a very thin cheapo kitchen cleaver.
 
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What technique do you use on the tin can? No spin? :eek:
 
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