Thinking of Bo Shuriken

ddean

ddean

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Here's a couple of 'harrow teeth' from the farm store

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big one is 3/4" x 11" OAL

small one is diamond section 5/8 x 7/8 x 8 OAL
(about 6" of tooth)

Cost a couple of dollars each or less, can't recall.

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Do you need to modify the diameter of them, Dean, and do they need to be hardened...?
 
Drdan said:
Do you need to modify the diameter of them, Dean, and do they need to be hardened...?
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Others know better than me.

I think 1/2" and smaller is more typical.

Don't know about hardening.
 
Daniel Koster said:
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I was thinking of the ones DiJ commissioned a while back.
'Almost there' raw materials always appeal to me.
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I'm thinking that throwing 1 1/2 lb of steel would get old real quick. I like the smaller one a lot better.

Wish we had a store like that near us. No farms, though, and 99% of people here don't even know what a harrow is.
 
I saw on a throwing website somewhere where a guy cut the heads off of some of those giant nails used to hold gutters onto houses. He polished them up some and sharpened the points a bit and rounded the cut ends. He said they worked great and they were cheap as you could ask for.
 
Bobwhite said:
giant nails
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Those sometimes are aluminum

builder's supply often sell huge nails
intended for landscape timbers, barn building, etc
Forget what they are named

but big,
and as you say, cheap.

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They are a tad large, but I was thinking if you forged the tip out a bit, they would make great spearheads.....
I would have bought a few, definitely.
 
one more thought - that smaller one would make a nice tip for a heavy duty fighting/walking/hiking staff.
 
DannyinJapan said:
one more thought - that smaller one would make a nice tip for a heavy duty fighting/walking/hiking staff.
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For outdoor use only!!!!
I found out that you have to have a rubber tip on indoor walking sticks or canes the first time I hit a smooth hard floor. The damned thing damned near threw me because of it slipping suddenly and without warning out from under me!!!! Damned near went a$$hole over tincups that time!!!!!!!!:eek: :rolleyes: :o
Rubbers are good protection for all sorts of things it seems.:rolleyes: :D ;) :footinmou

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Forgot about the censor, had to come back and use dollar $igns.;)
 
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