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Hi everyone, I've been around Bladeforums a while now, but I usually only post on the Balisong forums.
Almost 10 years ago, me and a friend found Harry McEvoy's "Knife and Tomahawk Throwing: The Art of the Experts" in a library. I've been throwing on and off (though mostly off) since. I've never owned anything that could be thrown. A couple cheap pakistan pocketknives into cardboard until they broke.. and a dozen or so letter openers from work.
I'm without a balisong right now.. and I want to get back into throwing. I'm working for a company that's building a mech (25' tall walking vehicle).. and live on site, which is in the middle of the desert. Not much to do.
On a scavenging trip on a dirt road one day, I found a set of car/truck springs. I suspect the road washout had caused someone's vehicle's suspension to break.
So, I have 5 pieces of suspension springsteel. They're old and a little rusted. They also have a groove down the middle, sinking about 1/8" for about 1/3 of the width. (1 3/4" wide, smallest is 10" long). I know they're too small to work well for throwers, but they're what I have to work with.
They also have a hole in the middle of them (where they were stacked and a bolt held them together).
The plan is to keep the hole in the middle, and trim the excess on all the knives except the the last one (which is 20" long, and where I can cheat and get 2 knives out of that piece). I think I would rather have 6 near-identical knives, that were too small at 10".. than only 4 at a more proper length of 12", or 3 at about 14, or whatever.
Here at the construction facility I have access to a lot of tools, so I already flattened the springs with a 12-tonne A-Frame press.
Next up is using a cutoff saw to shape the knives.
The problem is I do not have a pattern. I could go with a ridiculously simple diamond-point.. but I had my heart set on the pattern in Harry McEvoy's book. (It had a foldout pattern so you could make your own). I'm in California now, (not Calgary, Canada) and not near a library, let alone the library that I knew had that book.
I was wondering if anyone else here has a copy of that book and if they could scan a copy of that foldout (at flat as they could) and post or message or email me the file, so I can use that. I'll resize/scale it to whatever I end up needing.
I found a picture of the book, to refresh anyone's mind as to what it looks like:
Thanks a lot anyone who takes interest.
Almost 10 years ago, me and a friend found Harry McEvoy's "Knife and Tomahawk Throwing: The Art of the Experts" in a library. I've been throwing on and off (though mostly off) since. I've never owned anything that could be thrown. A couple cheap pakistan pocketknives into cardboard until they broke.. and a dozen or so letter openers from work.
I'm without a balisong right now.. and I want to get back into throwing. I'm working for a company that's building a mech (25' tall walking vehicle).. and live on site, which is in the middle of the desert. Not much to do.
On a scavenging trip on a dirt road one day, I found a set of car/truck springs. I suspect the road washout had caused someone's vehicle's suspension to break.
So, I have 5 pieces of suspension springsteel. They're old and a little rusted. They also have a groove down the middle, sinking about 1/8" for about 1/3 of the width. (1 3/4" wide, smallest is 10" long). I know they're too small to work well for throwers, but they're what I have to work with.
They also have a hole in the middle of them (where they were stacked and a bolt held them together).
The plan is to keep the hole in the middle, and trim the excess on all the knives except the the last one (which is 20" long, and where I can cheat and get 2 knives out of that piece). I think I would rather have 6 near-identical knives, that were too small at 10".. than only 4 at a more proper length of 12", or 3 at about 14, or whatever.
Here at the construction facility I have access to a lot of tools, so I already flattened the springs with a 12-tonne A-Frame press.
Next up is using a cutoff saw to shape the knives.
The problem is I do not have a pattern. I could go with a ridiculously simple diamond-point.. but I had my heart set on the pattern in Harry McEvoy's book. (It had a foldout pattern so you could make your own). I'm in California now, (not Calgary, Canada) and not near a library, let alone the library that I knew had that book.
I was wondering if anyone else here has a copy of that book and if they could scan a copy of that foldout (at flat as they could) and post or message or email me the file, so I can use that. I'll resize/scale it to whatever I end up needing.
I found a picture of the book, to refresh anyone's mind as to what it looks like:
Thanks a lot anyone who takes interest.
