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[h2player116]

If your playing in the sand paint youre darts black
If your playing in the woods paint your darts a bright hunter orange.
If your playing in a house then i recommend glow in the dark paint so that you just turn the lights off and see
em.
If your playing on grass paint them white.

It's all i have to say.

[six-five-two]

If your playing in the sand paint youre darts black
If your playing in the woods paint your darts a bright hunter orange.
If your playing in a house then i recommend glow in the dark paint so that you just turn the lights off and see
em.
If your playing on grass paint them white.

It's all i have to say.

And how exactly do you paint them?

[h2player116]

lol i either buy a can of spray paint called krylon fusion for plastics or i goto my dollar store and buy my-self some paint.

[Retiate]

If I'm playing anywhere, I use red foam.

And do you just paint the back ends of your darts, or the whole body?

[h2player116]

If I'm playing anywhere, I use red foam.

And do you just paint the back ends of your darts, or the whole body?

The whole body because if the part that you painted is faceing the floor then ya wont see it.

[Ubermensch]

I currently use ACE hardware FBR. Does anyone know if this is a good brand? ACE is the only store around me that sells 1/2'' FBR.

[six-five-two]

If I'm playing anywhere, I use red foam.

And do you just paint the back ends of your darts, or the whole body?

The whole body because if the part that you painted is faceing the floor then ya wont see it.

Then wouldn't it turn hard as a fucking rock? Post some pictures of them.

[Prometheus]

If I'm playing anywhere, I use red foam.

And do you just paint the back ends of your darts, or the whole body?

The whole body because if the part that you painted is faceing the floor then ya wont see it.

Then wouldn't it turn hard as a fucking rock? Post some pictures of them.

Nope, the paint is still malleable. Ompa paints his darts.

[h2player116]

My picture's suck hard but trust me they work but only with the krylon I found that the dollar store paint breaks if there's to much pressure.

[Prometheus]

My picture's suck hard

added that hilarious quote to my signature, while playing with my butthole.

[frost vectron]

I use ACE foam.

It is a little dark, but I like it. It isn't super over-sized like most other FBR brands. It is a little tight in CPVC, but works great in 9/16" brass (and most likely OMC's PETG as well, though I have not tried yet).

[BustaNinja]

To shape the tips of your stefans nicely, use a low temp glue gun and apply glue like you normally would, But when the tip is made, put it in you mouth, against your tounge and spin. You can get really nice domes or flats for shotgun darts. Keep in mind, USE A LOW-TEMP GLUE GUN. It will still work with high temp but you dont want to try. Trust me.

[Quilan Fett]

What I do is just mold it with my hands.

P.S. Remind me never to buy darts from you.

[BustaNinja]

What I do is just mold it with my hands.

P.S. Remind me never to buy darts from you.

From me? Heh. When your done spinning them in your mouth, you plunge them in ice water to set the tips. Something I started doing after reading it here.

On a side note about straightening darts, My dryer seems to be sttupid so I throw them in for 20 minutes on medium heat or "Knit" as FA24 shows us in his documentary on stefan making.

[h2player116]

My picture's suck hard

added that hilarious quote to my signature, while playing with my butthole.

Haha well anyway's the way I make my stefans are pretty much exactly like fa24's just that I use 3/4 instead of I think it's 1/2.
Oh and There dark grey so I paint them green

[CaptainSlug]

Video of my dartsmithing method:
Took me long enough to get around to making one.

[six-five-two]

Video of my dartsmithing method:
Took me long enough to get around to making one.

Nice video! Except the music sounds like the stuff you hear in elevators.

[The Bone]

I put holes in the back of mine with a relativly thick nail thats heated over a candle- works pretty well.

[Prometheus]

I put holes in the back of mine with a relativly thick nail thats heated over a candle- works pretty well.

Any pictures?

[schoute1587]

I also use a nail heated over a candle. Tape the back end of the nail so you don't burn yourself when the heat travels from the tip to the back. After I put a hole in the back of the foam I put a thin straw in the hole then cut it. It increases its durability drastically. I then put a hole in the front and glue my weight in. There are simple ways to make a mechanism that will allow you burn the hole straight but I haven't thought of any yet.

Pros
You can make micro's at home.
Perfect Longshot ammo.

Cons
If you burn the hole off-center the dart will spin controllably.

I'll get pictures up A.S.A.P.

[Scotch]

Video of my dartsmithing method:
Took me long enough to get around to making one.

Nice video! Except the music sounds like the stuff you hear in elevators.

I actually kind of like the music. I think it was supposed to sound like old video game music (possibly the original Nintendo). Nice video by the way. I actually used some of the stuff in that on my Red FBR(we should start calling it RFBR, kind of rolls of the tongue don't you think?).

Anyway what I do to get rid those Freackin' hot glue strings is this.

1. Rap your finger around the string as many times as you can.
2. Pull it off with a strong amount of force like you are pulling off a thread from a shirt.
3. Dip your finger in crushed ice or ice water and it should come right off.

I think this is better than just sticking the whole dart in ice water, because you do not get the foam messed up and you don't have to turn up-down.

Also I think that either one fishing weight of 3 copper BB's in my experience have been the perfect amount of Weight.

Hope I helped

-Scotch

Edited by Scotch, 12 February 2008 - 09:23 AM.

[sn1per]

Is 1/2 inch FBR the same size as stock darts? I have a few broken stock darts so i just convert them...The way i hold mine when they dry is to put them in a double shot or RFR shell...kinda like F_A24 but not glued to a shoe box...

[PC III]

Is 1/2 inch FBR the same size as stock darts? I have a few broken stock darts so i just convert them...The way i hold mine when they dry is to put them in a double shot or RFR shell...kinda like F_A24 but not glued to a shoe box...

What I did is make a stand (for lack of better word) for the darts. How to make it is you cut 50 or so (50, 20, ect makes counting darts easy, just count the batches) 1` cpvc segments, and glue them together it a `grid`. just fill the `grid` with darts, and make them wile they sit there.

Edited by P.C. III, 14 January 2008 - 08:38 PM.

[JuiceTheNerfer]

I was thinking of making Stefan darts using washers as CaptainSlug showed previously in this thread, i was wondering if you could use superglue instead of LiquidNails.

[xNFx 37]

You could use super glue. I think it would be a waste. You can do it with hot glue.

CaptainSlug's method works great. I made 24 darts in like 10-15 minutes.

Edited by xNFx 37, 19 January 2008 - 04:42 PM.