Timeline for What would a hammer designed for throwing look like?
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| Sep 11, 2021 at 5:25 | comment | added | Tortliena - inactive | I made some axe throwing at a center last week, and funnily enough the highlighted weapon on the asker's question looked like the one I thrown : One sharp and one blunt part. Weighed 400g, and yet it still made quite a dent (using the sharp part). There were throwing axes of up to 2kg there, it would definitely add up the kinetic energy to make a strong blunt weapon. | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 22:26 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage | @Nosajimiki you've argued the point the answer was trying to make really well, thanks for helping clear that up | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 22:10 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @Pureferret I don't think any of that matters. Aerodynamics don't matter a whole lot when your projectile is as dense as a hammer. When throwing a hammer or axe, you get a lot more drag from the handle than the head, and the backside of the axe is basically a hammer anyway which is forward facing for half the flight. Also, many hammers are lighter than 1.5lb (like most peen hammers); so, there is nothing stopping you from making a slightly lighter throwing hammer. Hammers also don't care about edge alignment the way that an axe does so in many ways you can be less precise | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 21:20 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage | Something tells me that "as heavy and balanced as the head of these axes" won't hold because they aren't axe shaped. It looks like a standard throwing axe is 1.5 lbs, but a normal framing hammer is nearer 2 lbs. It's not going to be anywhere near as aerodynamic, because it won't have the axe shape, and the much smaller head means you have to be even more precise with the spin. | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 16:34 | history | answered | The Square-Cube Law | CC BY-SA 4.0 |