Throwing FBM

[smokelaw1]

First of all----sorry, I took no pictures.

So, I was out in the garage last night (garbage night) taking apart the monstrous boxes that my new TV (52" 1080P LCCD), new stand, and various other recent goodies came in, when I thought...why am I doing this slow with a Sebenza when I would use my recently super-sharpened FBM?
So, I go strap on the sheath, and start hacking away at huge blocks of styrofoam and three-ply thickness slabs of cardboard....like butta I tells ya.

So I have about 8 inches thick of broken down boxes leaning up against the wall, and some weird type of gravity starts pulling on the knife...now, I haven't thrown a knife since I was a stupid kid futzing around (as opposed to now, being a stupid adult futzing around), and I throw the mistress at the stack of broken down boxes. Amazingly, I stuck it. Wow. That was fun. Let's try a little harder (no spin...not that good/crazy), and from a little further. Within 3 minutes, I was on the other side of the garage, whipping this beast pretty hard, going all the way through the "backstop" and coming to a stop with the tip just inside (oops) the wall of the garage.

Man, that was fun. Who thought it was a good idea to give me this big a knife to play with? My wife came home as I was putting the trash out by the curb for pick-up and asked..."What happened to those boxes?" Uh, umm, I used a knife to break them down and uh, played with it a little bit...and uh....
I got one of "the looks." You know...the "whatever floats your boat...you weirdo" looks. I'm sure NO ONE else here ever gets those.

 

[xaman]

Sounds like fun! Were you getting it to stick pretty often?

 

[Tyrkon Lawson]

Cool man. Did the handle ever hit and stick? I've been wanting to throw my NO-E.

 

[grip1]

I have been doing it for years. Its powerful!!! Good for you:thumbup:

 

[smokelaw1]

If I was really careful and thoughtful, I was sticking almost every time. If I went a little crazy, my success dropped of a bit. I never hit the handle, so I didn't get to see if it would stick that way!
I think I'll see what I can do about getting faster at it. My presentation was too slow for it to ever actually be effective as anything but a toy, and I like to make believe this tyoe of thing has a pratical application.

 

[resinguy]

Sounds like fun. I got one of those looks just opening my Rucks!

btw, how did you super sharpen the FBM, or is there a thread already on that?

 

[smokelaw1]

Oh, it's super-sharp for me, not for some of the sharpening gurus around here. I thinned it out a bit, probably around 35 degrees, Then sharpened it on ceramic stones down to ultra-fine, followed by 2000 grit, followed by stopping. It can shave, but not too easily. It slices like a lightsaber, though. Cuts thin magazine paper 3 inches from a hold, but not newspaper.