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Ale Golem

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How do you all store your throwing knives? I'm partial to knife rolls however I'm also a stickler for organization and that's a lot of knfe rolls if I get one for each type or brand.
 
Card table in the mud room. Makes me use them daily and keep them cleaned and sharp. When I go out to throw or head to the cabin I toss a few in a large shooter's bag along with a file and cleaning rag.

 
Windwhistler - If I may ask.
How are those red "bent" knives working?

Do they get a proper rotation to achieve longer no-spin range than straight knives, or it is more like a gimmick?
 
They work really well. They are made by Bo McNees. I had watched some guy throwing them on a you tube video and wanted some so I Googled him and found these. The same guy has a video on there now with him throwing a longer "palm twister" model 41' no-spin (wow). I have a max distance on my range of 25'. The little red ones are fine out to about 21 ft. But to get a good hard stick at 25' I have to be using the bigger 12" gray ones or the wedge knife. Some of that is just the hard targets. And I if I could make myself go out there with all one length of knife, I would throw them harder I'm sure. I love the challenge of throwing different lengths and weights alternately and so the care and balance outshine my force unless I am at less than 15 feet or so and then am throwing point blank with no arc at all. The bends don't seem to affect rotation much at all positively or negatively at least for me. I mostly throw no-spin anyway and I haven't changed my throwing grip at all with these even though he recommends a certain grip. But they are heavy for their length 9" at 3/16" thick and are made of lawn mower blades. The twisted parts are where the blades are bent to form the cutting edge of the blade. The gray ones on the right are made the same way and are also "twisters." Because the lawn mower blades are made to take rocks and other debris at high speeds the steel seems to be great, They don't bend at all, take a wickedly sharp point and hold it. These knives rarely need touching up and I do that with everything else I throw after every use. The same guy made the orange one 1/4" thick ("indestructible") and the Russian Wedge design 1/4" thick on the left. All stick deep and the bends make them nest well when carrying in a scabbard. I even have one that is a boot knife, holds a good edge ( I sharpened it when I received it) and hugs closely the lower leg due to the bend. That Russian wedge design especially, took a couple of hours to get the grip right but all that weight behind that slim sharp spikey point gives you a really nice penetration into almost everything. Here is the boot knife.




And here is a better look at the rest.





I throw them every day. But I will say, some of his stuff I've seen looks like the balance would be highly questionable. All of these I like but I have avoided some of the larger "spade blade " or "hatchet blade" looking ones that look like they would be horribly blade heavy. They may throw well, I don't know. But at my age, I don't like picking them up off the ground so I want to be pulling them out and that means pointy, heavy knives.
 
Howdy again Idaho,

After yesterday, I decided to see if the whole rotation thing was hype. I unwrapped and cleaned the full sized palm twisters (gray). I then watched this little video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cfv3hyN5go

Following that, I went out to see if the knives when thrown gently, (as he does in the vid) would indeed rotate. At about 15 feet if you throw the gentle arc he is throwing, the knife flies out of your hand at about a 2 o'clock tilt and strikes at a 12/6 orientation. But I never throw light like that so I decided to see what they did when fired hard. At ten feet a good hard throw rotated 180 degrees and stuck about 2" deep into a pine plank. I did not use the center finger on the spine because I am used to a forefinger on spine release. I was able to stick them at any range I have available. They do rotate more the harder you throw them. Almost every throw I made rotated at least 180 and some more. You can tell this because they always spin one way. So it is not possible to have one rotate backwards. It makes sense that this might well stabilize them but I can't prove it. I do like the handle heavy construction and the weight and balance works great with Thorn Style throwing.
 
Depends on the sizes and styles of knives/sheaths etc... Currently have/use 2 heavy duty trailer hitch/ball bags, 1 heavy duty cordura flute case, and 1 small cordura duffle bag. For traveling around, the hitch/ball bags and flute case fit in a large tool bag which has some knife maint tools, rags, oil, etc.. Oh yeah, Band-Aids too...lol





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Thanks Windwhistler

I will have to try to make a twisted knife myself...
 
Shouldn't be a problem. The ones you made earlier and pictured look great. There are certainly used mower blades all over the place. I was looking again at the 40 feet vid and you can see that thing turning through the air. When describing the video, he mentions it as a bad thing. But also comments that it makes the long throws possible.

The cordura hitch ball bags look like they work great. It is amazing how much a dozen of these things weighs when you are carrying them around. Where did you find those hitch bags Viper??
 
Windwhistler said:
The cordura hitch ball bags look like they work great. It is amazing how much a dozen of these things weighs when you are carrying them around. Where did you find those hitch bags Viper??
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Windwhistler, I got them at Northern Tool and Equipment for 14.99 each, but I had a $5.00 off coupon for each. Super heavy duty built. And yeah, they get heavy with a dozen or more knives in them.. Plus I have a large tool bag (behind in the pics) that holds both hitch bags and the flute bag tote. Weighs about 75 lbs with all the bags, totes, tools and a Cold Steel Torpedo! lol

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