Ive always wondered if you could take a nail with a fairly large head and hammer the head down into a cone to see if it would fly straight. Like a blow dart just more painful.

in due time.. first i will throw it thru a board.
imagine a short version of the Shaolin spear on a rope thing but thrown at 150mph
look up the nail knot on you tube
image three floss cords so tied to the spike whose head is ground off and the point sharpened.

KnollSlinger wrote on Jul 28^th, 2021 at 11:45pm:

I am not sure I am following but the dental floss will act like finns, stabilizing the nail?

Morphy wrote on Jul 29^th, 2021 at 10:19pm:

Last winter I got fairly competent at throwing nails (and knifes) like darts. Could hit and penetrate a shoebox sized cardboard box at 3-4 meters. Not sure why so few knife throwers do it like this. Supposedly it is very difficult to learn but honestly I found it easier than regular spinning techniques.


Kick wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2021 at 2:05pm:

whoooooooo how do they sit in the pouch?

Slyngorm wrote on Aug 6^th, 2021 at 4:28pm:

Yes.  In fact, you can use three nails and three sets of cords to make a bolos.  The rag at the end you use to hold and throw.
Otherwise, the dental floss would cut into your hand.  The rag drags the back of the nails so they hit point first.

    |---------------------------dental floss-------------===nail==>
rag ---------------------------dental floss-------------===nail==>
    |---------------------------dental floss-------------===nail==>




Up to five nails all tied to same rag if using as bolos would be good.  What ever feels like you can handle weight wise.

There are videos how to tie a nail knot.  I'm going to use my
drill press to remove the heads with a file and then sharpen the points of the nails to razor sharp.

The heads are removed for two reasons.  First reduce drag.
Second, the nail will fly in a better attitude, pointed at target,
if the head does not deflect the line back to the rag.  That is why three nail knots and three dental floss per nail, arranged at 120 degrees about the nail radius for even pull and straight flight.

The spike was too long to fit my drill press unless I took it apart. So it just fit into the chuck of my handheld electric drill.  So I'll be holding the drill in one hand and the file in the other.  No machine shop here.

Slyngorm wrote on Aug 9^th, 2021 at 4:55am:

working on it a little each day.  also had idea to weld three spikes together at their centers along x, y, and z axis;  then sharpen both ends of each spike.  use that as the bolos ball.
but that will be after this one.