New Aerial

[McMahan]

Here's a new aerial I stumbled across a couple of days ago, it starts with rolling the bali over your index finger, throwing it in the air, and catching it in a reverse grip. I thought you guys might want to check it out:

http://MCMBR143@doc.bus.orst.edu/students/m/mcmbr143/bali/IndexTT.avi

 

[GTAsteel]

sweet

 

[Agent-A1]

Quality video. Wish I had a decent camera.

 

[Chris "Anagarika"]

Yeah, Quality!
BTW, what is that bali, looks like BM but no tang guard?

 

[Gollnick]

Smoothly executed and good video.

I'm very pleased to see more folks starting to experiment with manipulation techniques and posting their results here.

Excellent.

 

[McMahan]

Glad you guys liked the vid!

BaliSwinger, that is a BM 42 I modified a few months ago. Here are a couple of pics:

If you want to see more pictures/videos, check out my website (it's kind of under construction right now, but I'm slowly getting it together): http://mcmahansbalisongpage.tripod.com/

 

[ChungSan]

Cool.

 

[Blasto]

Man, that's a slick toss McMahan! Very smooth! You and Cameron seem to be aerial specialists these days. And I appreciate the nice vid quality.

So, maybe my ears deceive me, but that click-clacking just didn't sound normal. It's more of a clack-popping noise. 3-in-1 oil, although not the best lube, really quiets the knife down and lowers the tone... is that what you used??

 

[7Cain]

Excellent work! You sure have those aerials down! Please keep the videos coming, I'm sure we all enjoy them quite a bit!

 

[Bladeswinger]

Very nice vid, keep em' commin. By the way, you instructin' any classes .

 

[McMahan]

Thanks for the compliments, everyone. Blasto, I know what you mean about the sound being a little off, I’m pretty sure that the acoustics of the room I was in were responsible for that distortion and not the knife. Well, that, and the fact that I was too lazy to go out to the cold ass garage to get the tripod. I just ended up setting the camera on a pile of laundry I hadn’t folded and secured the camera by putting some clothes on top of it. That probably didn’t help the mic out all that much either. Anyway, good ears, over the years I’ve found that listening to your manipulations helps you correct problems almost as much as watching them.

 

[epigram79]

McMahan, I really like what you did with the blade. How long did it take you do complete and what did you use to remove the metal?

 

[McMahan]

epigram79,
Glad you like the modifications I made. To start off, I completely disassembled the knife so I could work more easily with the blade. I used a Dremel with the cutting wheel attachment to cut off the horns and shape the tang to a point. From there, it was just a matter of using varying degrees of wet sandpaper to make the finishing touches and get the shape exactly how I wanted. The sandpaper is by far the most time consuming part of the whole operation, cutting off the larger pieces with the Dremel only took about 20-30 minutes. I don’t remember exactly, but it seems like it took about 5 hours or so total. The time it takes really depends on how good you want the finish to look, and how well you end up lining up the point of the tang with the rest of the knife. I could easily have put a few more hours into it to make it absolutely perfect, but for now it is working out pretty well. If I was to do it again, it would probably take a lot less time now that I know what I'm doing.

 

[ExamonLyf]

That move looks very good! Smoothly executed and a real economy of movement. As I mentioned back when you did that "remodel" of the 42, I think it looks great!! 5 hours well spent I'd say!


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