throwing balisong

Guillaume

Guillaume

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Hey guys,

A balisong is usually never well-balanced for throwing (the center of gravity being at the 1st third of the handles). Indeed, most of the time, the weight of the handles is higher than the blade one.

Do you know a model with a blade heavier than its handles?
Imagine a balisong with a special throwing blade shape (you see, with an enlargement near the point) and very light handles (aluminium, skeletonized to the maximum)... do you think it's possible?

Guillaume
 
I don't know of any that have a blade heavier than a handle, but for a blade heavy profile you might check out the bm tanto's (the old tanto's look like they have even a more tip heavy profile than the current 47's w/ the tip clipped).

Maybe get a 47 and have it rehandled w/ extra extra slim skeletonized aluminum handles, too bad you couldn't have it latchless. It would be strange to flip I imagine w/ no weight in the handles...
 
Like these? I wouldn't throw them, but I have thrown my Jag, and I've thrown my friends SWAT.
Pretty hard on the pivot pins..
 
I've had good results throwing both SWATs and jaguars. The jags are pretty handle heavy but if you count spins and give it some practice those mothers can be deadly.
 
you don't have to hit with the blade with a jag to kill... it's so heavy it would knock ya out anyway. ;)
 
A lot of knife companies have a hard time making throwers from solid bars of steel that don't bend, it's safe to say that too much of this activity would be quite destructive for a bali. I would have to agree with Blade_420 that it is too stressfull on the pivot pins and you would soon have a seriously mis-alligned balisong after one or two good throwing sessions.
 
420, yes I was thinking of something like the 2nd photo.
When I have a dream, I email you for the photos, ok ;-)

hogman, do you close the latch before throwing a jag?

Guillaume
 
Interesting you ask Guillaume. Usually I do, and it does beat the crap out of the pins. After a few throws the blade usually wobbles, but hey thats what jags are for.

A while ago a friend of mine who is more into throwing knives than me showed me how to throw an UNLATCHED balisong. There are two ways, and both are ridiculously difficult for me to do. The first is to hold the knife sideways with the latch parallel to the floor and the tang pin facing up, and throw it holding the handles so that it stays open. The other way is to hold it in the open backwards grip, pull your hand back and then chuck it forward. The handles should flop once than stay at an angle to the blade, and with a little luck the blade should hit. The sound it makes flying through the air is unreal. However, I really can't throw the knife that way and have only seen one person to it.
 
Originally posted by hogman
A while ago a friend of mine who is more into throwing knives than me showed me how to throw an UNLATCHED balisong.
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Any possibilities of making a video of this? I'd sure like to see it! :D
 
The unlatched Bali thing sounds fairly interesting. It frequently invades my dreams (usually I'm some kind of psuedo anime ninja god).
 
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