Hello everyone,
My name is Jason and I became interested in throwing just this last year at the PA Ren. Faire Celtic Fling event. I have since went back home to AK, and have slowly started to build my own equipment to start practicing. After some Amazon orders, many hours scrounging for scrap metal, and time in the shop I have build most of the equipment I need to train with. The only one that I have not made, partly from lack of materials, are my hammer spikes. So I was wondering how long on are the spikes suppose to be? Is there a guideline rule for their length or is it whatever an athlete feels comfortable with? Also what materials are they made from usually?
P.S. Before everybody starts posting about buying them I have looked at the sites, but for shipping to AK you can take that cost and at least double for getting these items to me. That is part of the reason I started building my own stuff, why pay $1000 to purchase and ship it when I can just scrap and find something close.