hey guys, wuts hapinin? i saw a wile back a pictur of a ropedart and i have been wanting to make 1. I have searched on several sights and cant find a full description on how to make 1. it looks to be a big nail on a rope with a pice of cloth for a stabeliser. is this what it is or am i just not gitin it? i would realy apriciate
(sry, im a very bad speller :P) any help on makeing 1. btw, i tried a crossbow, not work so well :-X

I am no expert but i think you have pretty much got it.

good luck making one, theredneck33.

Actually, rope dart is a martial art weapon, not primitive weapon. ::) What is your opinion?

The ancient Chinese came up with several versions of the RopeDart . Its original use was as a hunting and fishing weapon . Now its a cool Wu Shu weapon with primitive orgins . Read the book on RopeDarts and Steel Whip  :)

cool. but i tried makeing one out of a piece of ground rod. it came out deadly looking, but i dont know how to throw it, it keeps on slaming into the ground sideways, not point first.  i tried tieing a piece of cloth, a piece of tarp as a parashoot, and even a bunch of magnolia leafs :P to the string. any help there? btw, leafes dont make good stabaliseres, big suprise there :o lol, but anyways, i need any advice u got cause this seems to be a cool weapon. 8)

lol, i just noticed that fritz the cat got the p and the r mixed up in ropedart. :P do i git a cookey?? ;D

wrote on Aug 6^th, 2006 at 11:49pm:

lol, i just noticed that fritz the cat got the p and the r mixed up in ropedart. :P do i git a cookey?? ;D

i think he did that intentional hence the smiley :P our fritz a real practical joker ;D

here is a rope dart I made with a big sharp nail set.
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1263/picture112xe2.jpg

The nail set is about 9 inches long and 1/2 inch thick at the thickest part.
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/2845/picture113tt4.jpg

It is attached to a rope about 15 feet long that I can reduse to 3 feet for storage or transport. I reduse it with a knot king of like the chain knot descused in the other rope dart subject and the knot used for a sring sling. When you pull the middle of the series of knots they dont release but when you pull the final peice of string they realease.
Here are three pictures that will help you understand what the knot is or how tt tie it.
start
http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/6564/picture115lt5.jpg
next
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5894/picture118nc6.jpg
finished
http://img284.imageshack.us/img284/5985/picture119jr9.jpg

Wow that looks cool. Bet it hurts real good too.  :P

Did yoy braid over the nail ? :)

Do you neeed the RopeDart book ? ;)

cool pics 8) i still need to know how to throw it though. i mean my dats just smack stiff realy hard with its side, u know, like not with the point. any advice there? oh, and did i mention i realy like the pics? :P

im bad about forgitin to put something on my first post :P i need the ropedart book, anybody know were i can git it ???

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i think he already did.  
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here is how to make a quick mini ropedart pretty cheep (if you have the stuff laying around.  otherwise it will cost about $5 US, with lots of leftover material)

first, get some braided mason's line like this:
mason's line

then get an eye screw like this:
eye screw (mine's about 1.5 inches long)

and cut a length (i use about 15 feet) of the cord, and tie it on to the eye screw with the best knot you can think of.  i use a trucker's hitch:
trucker's hitch

makes for a good littl epocket version of the ropedart (though deploying it is a little tricky because the line likes to tangle when i take it out of my pocket.  perhaps a loose monkey chain?)

Sounds like it would work . How thick is the metal ? Got a picture ? :D

well, actaully i don't have a picture, but the gauge of the wire it is made from is something around 1 or 0 (that is, if you are using the american system.  i don't know how international it is though.)  it measures at about 1/2 centimeter in diameter.
when i find it again, i will see about taking a picture (it is lost in my room somewhere now  :-[ )

siguy wrote on Aug 10^th, 2006 at 3:20pm:

here is how to make a quick mini ropedart pretty cheep (if you have the stuff laying around.  otherwise it will cost about $5 US, with lots of leftover material) first, get some braided mason's line like this: mason's line then get an eye screw like this: eye screw (mine's about 1.5 inches long) and cut a length (i use about 15 feet) of the cord, and tie it on to the eye screw with the best knot you can think of.  i use a trucker's hitch: trucker's hitch makes for a good littl epocket version of the ropedart (though deploying it is a little tricky because the line likes to tangle when i take it out of my pocket.  perhaps a loose monkey chain?)

Neat :)
Say though, why use a trucker's hitch? I thought the idea was to be able to compound force (gives you  twice the 'power' actually, if we negate friction), but I don't imagine you'd be needing that much force to get your dart out of someone.... What am I missing?

(chanting) bowline bowline bowline...

Fritz_the_Cat wrote on Aug 7^th, 2006 at 2:54pm:

Wow that looks cool. Bet it hurts real good too.  :P Did yoy braid over the nail ? :) Do you neeed the RopeDart book ? ;)

Sorry, I have not been on alot and must have missed your post Frize_the_cat.

Any ways If you still want the answer to your question, I did not but instead I put the nail set inside the round braid of a rope I had lying around and secured it with duct tape. the braid holds it in pretty good.  You could braid around it your self though.

And yes I would like that book if you could still get it.

Thank You

Anybody knows what happened to Fritz? He's not posting for half a year. I just hope that he didn't finally manage to NOT duck under his ropedart or MG  :-/.

Matthias wrote on Dec 16^th, 2006 at 11:57pm:

(chanting) bowline bowline bowline...

Figure 8, Figure 8, Figure 8!!

Ha, I'm actually thinking that a Bow String knot would be mose effective here.