Something like this? Very easy to make a functional shuriken actually

Sounds good,just remember to make them heavy enough. If you make em to light they won´t work properly..

Good luck

I have done that to..but have to admit those shurikens I had to add weight to annoyed me because they didn´t look good..after all,got hooked on shurikens after watching american ninja and they needed to look a certain way

Shakens work even when they are light - you can finger-fling razor blades, after all - if you don't expect range of twenty meters and penetration of an asagai .
Oh, and sprocket wheels are my personal favourite... readily available and sooo MacGyverish

Fellow flingers, don't forget to find out how to remain free and not to be felons due to your feelings of fondness for flinging flying flat flits of steel!
For instance, in California, the law strictly defines a throwing star or shaken or shuriken; "Must be flat plate of metal.." "Must be geometrical.." "Must have equally radiating spikes.." Some are "or", and some are "and".
If you make your own, and vary from that legal definition (be creative) you now have a fully legal item (assuming that the one found in some fiend's forehead hasn't got your fingerprints)!
(Might be a good idea to 'carry' a copy of the law and a donut!)
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Dravonk wrote on Jul 14^th, 2007 at 1:57am:

I don't know where 'here' is, but in any democratic state, if a law is on the books prohibiting an item (pretty fascist thing in itself, IMO), it behooves the law to adequately describe the item prohibited, for the 'reasonable man' to read and understand. Sometimes the law states  (unconstitutionally, in America) "or anything similar..." but rarely. Definitions are often at the end of the chapter.
Having been a bladesmith and rather mobile, I got used to reading the local laws (well, all relevent laws) before becomming 'local'. One can travel 100 miles and run the full gamut from infraction to felony for your little pocket knife depending on 'jurisdiction'.
'Stars' fall under the same statutes of 'prohibited weapons' as knives, shinobe zue(!!), sword canes, saps, clubs, nunchaku, etc.. All definitions must be there somewhere. Check it out.
Dealing in 'weaponry' like i do/did keeps one creative as the law gets more and more fascistic...
If you read the statutes, you will find somewhere that the 'terms' used can be found defined.

Dravonk wrote on Jul 14^th, 2007 at 3:57am:

I'm still guessing that in a civilized country such as Germany, (wives from Germany!) they legally define 'prohibited' items. Check it out.
A 'fist knife' might be a blade emerging from between the fingers, at an angle with the handle which is held in the 'fist'. Maybe not?
An honest person needs to be able to read the law and understand what is being talking about.
I'd be willing to bet a donut that there are definitions! *__-