Throwing knives?

by A K Church, Saturday, April 18, 2026, 04:11 (16 hours, 43 minutes ago) @ Otony

I don't throw. I used to, back when Reagan and Bush Sr were President...But I was never good.

In the day, the semi-standard decent production throwning knife was the Olsen #409, and we sold a lot of them. The broke infrequently, but Olsen was good about replacing them, zero questions asked.

The 600 pound gorilla of the production knives was the Bowie Axe, sold by Tru-Bal. Harry McEvoy ran the company, and he was the Grande Olde Man of the throwing knife art. I never saw one of those behemoths broken. We sold a fair few, a lot less then the Olsens, but for a not inexpensive toy, pretty well, certainly around a dozen a year. McEvoy had some relationship with Randall, btw.