"Rebar Throwers"

[KJB]

I was looking at the Cold Steel throwers and the torpedo caught my eye than I noticed it was like a piece of rebar ground to a point.
Is this a good knife?
Anyone ever made a knife out of rebar, is it a good or dumb idea?

 

[Elwin]

The general opinion that I've found is that rebar is where recycled steel goes the 3rd or 4th time through the loop. Quality varies greatly, and some is barely acceptable as rebar, never mind anything else. More specifically, rebar doesn't have enough carbon in it to be hard enough for a knife blade. The CS torpedo is a medium carbon steel, but it still has more than rebar. Of course, knives were once made of copper, so you could grind a point on some rebar of appropriate length and have a poor mans torpedo. Just dont expect too much out of the point in terms of maintaining its shape.

 

[Ken Cook]

I have a rebar thrower that a guy out of Texas made for me.

I don't have it in front of me at the moment, but it's about 11 inches overall with a forged (no stock removed) and untapered rapier like blade (very thick point) about 6 inches long. The "grip" is just the bare rebar smoothed to be easy on the hand.

This thing is tougher than a nickle steak!

I've thrown it and bounced it off of asphalt and concrete with no noticable damage of any kind.

From 18 feet out it will penetrate 1/2 inch plywood to a depth of three inches or more. It literally explodes through the wood. When it hits my plywood target, it sounds like a pistol shot.

I wish I had four more just like it!

 

[satin]

Hmmm... might have to play around, see if any of the 20 odd feet of Re-bard my dad has laying around this place happens to be of quality enough to hold up to making myself a thrower...
hmm...