I keep loosing my knives. :)

zzyzzogeton

zzyzzogeton

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Finally got around to start learning how to throw knives. I'm still building my suitable target so I started throwing at a railroad tie that's left from a corral I tore down. As it's only about 8 inches wide, I obviously had to chase down some of my errant throws.

The big problem with that is that the dirt we have around here is a blackish-gray clay gumbo that matched my knives "factory finish" so well that it would take a while to find the "wild" throws that bounced off the top of the railroad tie. I even had to break out the metal detector for one that dug into the ground in the weeds.

My solution is to paint the suckers flourescent yellow. If I can't find these now, I need to get a seeing eye dog. This is just the first coat. I'm gonna sand the first coat down and give a second one to smooth them out.

Close up on the ground: You can see them fairly well when they are just sitting where you put thm, but when you're looking out in a field, BAH!
Throwers on the Ground.jpg

First coat of flourescent yellow paint.
First Coat of Paint.jpg

More pics after I finish.
 
I have to pull out my detector at least once a week and I wrap all my handles with the brightest paracord I can find. They still wind up under sometimes 6" of rotten leaf debris.
 
I thought the same thing for the bolts on my crossbow but there were still the times I'd lose them. A backstop is probably your best bet for bad throws. All of it should bounce forward.
 
My first set of throwing knives was a set of three. I only have one left to this day and I refuse to throw it any more in fear of losing it:moody:
 
Portman30-06 said:
I thought the same thing for the bolts on my crossbow but there were still the times I'd lose them. A backstop is probably your best bet for bad throws. All of it should bounce forward.
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That's in the works, but on hold until I need to get more building materials for the farm for "real" projects. A 30 mile drive for "a sheet of plywood" does not compute. My daily work vehicle is a Prius, which does not haul plywood well.
 
When I first started throwing this summer, I was 'misplacing' some knives that were bouncing in my wood pile or under trees, so painted some handles with marginally colorful choices. That helped until this last month with fall and leaves everywhere.
I needed something really bright and eye catching as 'misplacing' them in leaf piles, swooshing and wiping to find them, the paint wasn't enough, so I bought some like blaze green and orange duck tape (yeah they 'brand' named it duck) and started wrapping the handles of some regular throwers yesterday. No problem finding them now. Still have to look under large leaf/weed areas, but they tape stands out if I even catch a glimpse of it.

The actual colors are more vivid and brighter than the faded pic colors. Also, not really attractive but better than "loosing" any of them! ;)


 
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Viper - I saw that at HD, but since I had a can of the flourescent yellow just sitting there in my paint freezer, I figured I'd use it up first. That probably won't take long as I've noticed that the paint is not all that durable when the knife bounces off rocks. So far I have 3 coats of paint on mine. Not a real smooth job, but I'm not trying to get a new car finish on them. Maybe if I let them sit for a couple of days, the paint would "harden up" and not scrape off so easily.
 
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