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Making an End Grain Knife Throwing Target
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2017
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For a written tutorial check out my website: wilkerdos.com/...
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Things I Used in This Video:
Miter saw stand: goo.gl/ulFKB8
Miter saw Dust Collector: goo.gl/4apcOL
Folding Outfeed Table: bit.ly/2pyfIbv
Cross Dowels: goo.gl/IITfn3
SuperJaws: goo.gl/AUxxk1
Drill: goo.gl/hcbf8B
Clamps: goo.gl/yK71M6
Multi Tool with sanding head:
Throwing Knives: goo.gl/SxRqx4
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Also i would recommend use water on your target! Knives will stick better and it target will last much longer ,)
Adam Celadin hi u are the person who is inspiring me to throw knifes
Thanks for the link in the description! Nice design!! When it comes to replace the blocks, just so you know, the blocks will "broom" and become... bigger. So when I tried mixing old end grain with new end grain, they didn't fit together nicely...which led to gaps and that led to some of my blocks breaking in half rather than brooming. My friend said it might've helped for me to soak the old end grain blocks in water for a day to get them to fit better. Anyways, just to give you a heads up... gaps will not be your friend in an end grain target. Use shims if you have to. Have fun with knife throwing and awesome target!
Awesome target! It also might be beneficial to pre-cut and pre-drill a bit of replacement blocks while you have that drilling jig, so that you don't need to do extra work when it's time for replacement.
Agreed! Great idea....since you're already going through the effort might as well make more while all the wood, stop blocks, and jig is out. Throw it in a box or on a shelf for the future.
Another thought, run threaded rods instead of dowels. That way you can unbolt one line at a time for replacement, and has the added benefit that you can compress the boards together for a tighter target.
I like the double-sided idea. and the way each block can be swapped out. I'm totally gonna steal your idea! Thanks
Firstly, what an amazing young lady,
Secondly, what a nice workshop,
and thirdly, what an impressive feat of engineering design.
Young women should be encouraged to watch this - it will show that engineering is not a 'man's thing', women are as good at engineering as anybody else.
What a great example of design for maintainability. A little extra forethought and effort and you have a project you can enjoy for a long time with minimal upkeep.
Cross dowel hardware! I am rebuilding a bed frame wanted to use that hardware but did not know what they were called. I have notched an inch into the 4x4 legs to hold new 2x4 cross members. Amazing that you just happened to mention the exact equipment I needed. Now I can order them paint and finish. Awesome. I love your projects and videos April. Great ideas and executions.
you remind me of my granddaughter. She 18 now and obsessed with weapons, especially knifes. She has her own set of throwing knifes and a target I built her a couple of years ago.
I'm making one of these! I have been throwing knives since I was a kid, 4-5 days ago.I have hung up cross cut pieces of log ends and used lots of things for targets. Almost got walter my shop cat by mistake once. Turns out Walter don't like knife throwin. He wouldn't come back in the shop for awhile (until he got hungry) I like your idea of being able to replace the little squares of wood so easy. God knows I have enough little peices of wood around my shop tp make a dozen of these right away. Thanks for sharing this idea.
you gotta teach me knife throwing when your in cologne! cool project and a very funny ending!
Heck yeah! I won't be able to bring my knives though, we'll have to find some there.
April Wilkerson maybe we could make them ;)
And that's why we're friends. #greatidea
April Wilkerson 😘
I'm so happy this youtube friendship happened :D
Thanks for the idea. Perfect past time for me. While waiting for the wood burner, after filling up, I throw knifes. Took me a couple weeks to get them to stick consistently. Something is satisfying about the thunk when they stick.
April, I'm from Chicago and I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed the way you ended this video. LOL
; ) hehehe it's all in good fun
Yes it is. Oh yeah they lost today too. Awwww
Every video I watch of yours...
You just get cooler
I have been throwing knives since I was a teenager, I don't know why I never thought of this! Brilliant!
Very nice work April! Right when I saw that knife fall I thought of attaching a half circle shelf to the bottom to catch any knives that fall, it would help keep them sharp and you don't need to bend and search for any get-away throws
I like the thought that you put into your design to enable easy replacement of the pieces. I have some throwing knives but need to learn how to throw them. Good job!
Love watching your construction techniques. They helped me to realize to just go with it and don't over design things. Make jigs for things that repetitive. You are scary good at tossing those blades.
I'm from Saudi Arabia Ante like creative and beautiful I've watched videos of all thank you for your efforts and your innovations
Hahah, now that's the way to lose a bet! Too funny.
I like how you made the design your own, definitely a longer lasting target that way, and you can also swap the middle kabobs for the top or bottom kabobs before more need to be made.
April I watched this video the other day and stopped short of the video. I just finished the out takes on this one. Now that's what you call thinking outside of the box me and the guys at work loved it GO COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just thought about something how about a cover for the target on a hinge maybe to catch the knives that fall to keep them off the concrete. Can double as a message/ note board on the outside. Hinged on the bottom with some 1x4 boards trimming the outside for a lip on the cover.
It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who throws knives in the shop :)
Nice target. A slab cut off of the end of a larger log works great also. Used to throw knifes years ago but has bee a long time.
That's OK April, I've been using cowboy t-shirts and flags for rags in my shop for years. And they are excellent rags!
I made one of those out of pine and cedar 2x4 studs. Did it like a endgrain cutting board a few weeks ago.
I have used the cross dowels (I call them barrel nuts) in several projects and I love them for take down applications. Great video as always.
this is perfect for a gift for my family everyone in my family throws knives or tomahawks to pass the time and i have lots of scrap wood to use
Very cool.
You should probably make up a flatter version of the drilling jig that can be stored with the target, so it’s available for easy prep of replacement bits.
YOU WERE JUST BRUTAL IN THE END WITH THAT FLAG !!! FREAKIN OUTSTANDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you used an odd number of rows you could add a threaded rod to add additional clamping force to the center or skip the dowels all together and use a threaded rod for alignment and clamping force for each row.
Hello I am a follower of the workshops offered on TH-cam and admirers of the work Tkdmiha and I am from a country (Iraq / Baghdad) I hope that the rings be translated into Arabic so as to take advantage of the business on a large scale for the Arab world and thank you for the offer of a broad education Trade and I admire very much your
Hi April. After watching this video I think TH-cam suggested another channel, Xollete. She is a lady knife thrower. Not sure if you have seen her videos before. I'm going to start knife throwing now too!
I love the things you're doing, respect from Denmark, Jens.
Very clever design April, well thought out.
Lovely big smiles at the start and a good comedy ending.
Thanks mate.
Excellent production! As a knife thrower, I was really impressed with your endgrain design!
The ending of the video was hilarious.
that's a great idea! i glued mine and the glue doesn't hold for very long, especially after you keep pulling the knives from the wood, the glue weakens and eventually gives... so i love the idea of the removable side with the wooden dowels!
Sweet, good to hear. I was wondering if the work up front would be worth it.
April Wilkerson very much so!
Cool project and love the dowel solution April! No worries with that banner - Falcons just eliminated the Packers! I may see you in Kennesaw in February!
You have been throwing for a long time. Good Project. Thanks
Great use of the Packer flag! We use them that way year round here in Minnesota.
I was thinking to make it a bit tighter, you could have made two the of sides with a very small amount of caul in them, and then with the through bolts, just socked them together. Interesting project. Thanks April
So, first I was amazed at the whole idea of you throwing knives. Then that grin when you pulled out the Packers flag. That was hilarious!
Great build, thank you for putting it out. I was debating on using 4x4's or 2x4's, i have lots of scrap 2x4 pieces so i will be using them. I think I'll go ahead and glue mine though, at the end of its life it'll become firewood lol.
April this is the best idea.... Thank you I'm on mod 4 for my axe target, hate to admit it I'm stealing this concept....
creative build April! simple yet very utilitarian
Love the ending! Vikings fan don't ya know. Ya sure you betcha.
Great target, I went a bit more rustic and lazy with my target, an 8" thick 30" diameter slab off the end of a spruce log. Took about 10 minutes with a chain saw to make 2 of them, includeing filling the saw with gas and oil.
Yep that works well too.
I loved that little giggle !!
Very cool build! I've been subscribed to Xolette's channel for years...I love watching her try different challenges 👍
Fantastic video! I have been planning to replace my current knife target with one of these for a long time. Also, brilliant idea using the dowels and threaded connectors! I wish I had done that with my current knife target now that it is so chewed up. Have a great day!
A woodworker with a great sense of humor, throws knives and they stick where they should, and very lovely.....definition of perfect, really. Your husband is a lucky man, young lady! Lucky man indeed!
Yhanks very much for this video as it is very timely I promised my wife I would teach her how to through knives for self defence but have been waiting till I had a target that could take the abuse. this should do the trick. Thanks again.
In most states it's illegal to carry throwing knives so it isn't a good go to method for self defense in my opinion.
Very creative, April! I think it's time to move my dart board into my shop.
Great job April. Gosh I could keep you busy all summer with projects on the farm lol
Nice video. Such a good idea for saving time on a build later. Very glad I came across this.
Nice project! I will have to build one for my shuriken.
OMG Love that shop rag
Nice throwing board. Looks fun
If you like knife throwing, consider trying throwing stars too. They aren't as technical but can also be fun.
Beautiful wood pieces served other purposes arrangement method. Thanks for the piece of information Regards
that's pretty clever April the way u inserted the dowels..i have used those metal cross dowels before they work great and come in handy that's funny where you hung in the Green Bay Packers banner😃 looks like ur mitersaw dc works great! ..
I love your humor. Thanks for sharing
Great idea, here's a suggestion, if the ends of the long side were planed slightly to give the centers a bow inwards when you tighten the bolts in would act like a clamp and hold the blocks in with friction, save having to drill the blocks. But your solution is perfect too, great use of the flag lol
WOW...This is SO weird!! I've been drawing up the almost exact throwing knife target.
I've been playing with the size. Also, between threaded rods or just a thin back piece that looks like a bed of small nails. Two sides is definitely smarter.
Thanks so much for sharing! GREAT JOB!!!! : )
Awesome ending. Glad I got to the end.
I know that I'm late to this party, but this is a cool project. Also, as a vikings fan, I absolutely approve of your uses for that flag.
A Dab of paint on a few to color the individual ends will give smaller targets to throw at.
Love the ending of the video! 😆
April your a joy to watch. makes me wanna get back out in the shop. thank you, keep it up
Countersinking your metal hardware well inside the wood (Or in this case gluing trim on to act as a guard is likely the easier option if you're following all the measurements) is a useful design choice to help save the tips of your knives. Taking that bit of effort helps ensure you never ever throw a knife anywhere near it, but leaving them at all exposed seems to act as some kind of magnet, because why wouldn't the knives choose to hit in the most annoying way possible if they're given the chance?
A fun option that a friend did in his shop was to put targets up opposite each other. Saves walking to the target and back to your firing line when you go to get your darts/knives.
Walk up to the target to retrieve your things, turn around and there you have another target to throw at! Saves so much useless walking and gets far more time for throwing.
Hi April, above Avg knife throwing skills, very cool project! Maybe I'll make myself one! Hysterical ending with the Packers banner! But I was rooting for the Pack! Sending love your way! Be well.
Really love this video awesome DYI knife target, iv been looking for new ideas on targets. I've just been using cardboard to throw knives at, an the pieces of cardboard I get are about 5'1ft ike and about 3 to 4inc thick they are decent and I think great for beginners but I've proved a lot since I started throwing, so Im kind of sick of the mess and now im just tear right through them faster than before.
We tried this idea for a hawk throw so we wouldn't have to replace tree trunk slices all the time. It didn't work for us. Hawks (throwing hatchets) are heavier and blunter than your knives. We found that the butcher block target would reverberate just enough that it would use up the hawk's energy before it was embedded and it would bounce off.
Next, you need to make a 6' diameter vertical rotating platform to lash Cody to.
watches you throw knives, makes a note to never piss you off.
My twin brother lives in Wisconsin so you know that we were jawing back and forth as well.
What about cutting the frame about a 1/16" smaller just to have a strong friction fit. Saves the dowel step and you can replace individual pieces easily.
Good thought but it wouldn't work. The friction fit or even a good compression on the frame wouldn't be enough to hold the inside pieces in place when the knife impacted.
April Wilkerson take out the 2 upright boards and use full length threaded rods as a binder. I do this with my crossbow target and foam sheets, works great!
Honestly it is kind of pulling the knives/hatches out of a friction fit blocked target that I've found to be the annoying thing. Even if the blocks are allowed to 'float' and shift a bit on impact, you can still hang the target such that they have no where to go and they are just push against the wall.
However, eventually you end up finding the one block that wants to come with you when you go to pull the things out of the target, and then you have to stop and try to wedge things back in place. - Which is not all that fun when you just want to throw things. Straight up friction fits and clamps can be made to work, but they become annoying as soon as they fail.
I have seen them done with a sort of keyed fit pattern that you can do a pile of very quickly by passing them over a table saw. (Either cutting them such that they stack in an interlocking pattern, or just hold a strip/biscuit inside to make sure the friction fit can't easily slip forward/back) but then you have even more pieces to handle and deal with.
If you have the drill press and clamps, then probably easier and more reliable to go with how April did instead of fiddling with other options.
If you don't have a drill press, then maybe consider a biscuit style cut and bar-clamps for a more friction based hold?
Or just glue stuff in place and chisel out the bits you want to replace. - My friend just takes a router and framing chisel to the face of his, and glues in 1/2 inch block faces again every now and then, and has a bunch of targets on hand at any given time.
Wonderful thing about woodworking is that there are so many different ways to achieve a usable end product.
Actually it does work I have several friends, we throw competitively and compression works great
Gary Findley DUVAR NUMERO EKLE
Fun project and great knife throwing skills!
nice! and nice ending too. lol
now you have to make your own set of throwing knifes!
Absolute BEST use for a Packer flag EVER!
Another great video with a unique build
I used chains but absolutely love the French cleat,great targets
I would add a fold down piece to the front, with a latch on the top to secure it out of way when not in use. In order to catch the knives that don't stick.
I prefer throwing darts :-) The bolt connection I've seen before at Ikea's famous chair. I think it's cool the way you get new ideas to start making things! Best regards from the Netherlands!
mad skills! next a video on tips for throwing them, please, because I can only stick 1 or 2 out of 50....I mean 5
I had a moment of PTSD from putting together Ikea furniture when I saw those cross dowels
Its all right, they can't hurt yo any more. Unless the wife say lets go to Ikea they you on your own pall. Stay strong!!
What an ingenious idea. Well done!!!
As always, another interesting shop project.
April - A truly formidable woodworker!
I built mine by just putting 2x4s on edge and make them what ever length you like them I glued mine together and they last a long time throwing knives.I think axes might tear it up quicker though.
I just ordered the Triton Super Jaws based on what I saw in your videos...
He better hope you don't get mad at him from what I saw very impressive !!!
Well played on honoring the bet! 👍
I love your Tools Rules... I'll get that sign for my shop too.
Love the dowel idea!
OMG... best video ever. Thank you. Ms. April W.
Being a Bears fan.... You made my day...
Your One Handed skill has increased.
Your One Handed skill has increased.
wow...your dowel idea was very smart
I was just about to start making my sauce when I got the notification, I figured it could wait another 6 minutes 39 seconds. Great job April, you really hit the mark on this one! 🎯 😉 ..... I hope you're doing well with the move.
Sauce? For whatever reason I figured you were in the US, are you making dinner?
April Wilkerson yep, going to have spaghetti, making homemade sauce, sausages and meatballs for dinner, I usually cook the sauce for four hours.
Fred McIntyre man you're making me hungry
Nice! was just making lasagna from scratch myself :) wife and I love your videos. subscribed when found your board on board fence....