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Orissa Crispin
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make.co
BULLSEYE MACHINE
QUINTBUILDS.COM
Knife throwing is both an art and a skill
that’s difficult to master. It takes hand-eye
coordination and just the right spin to embed the
knife into a target, and the longer the distance,
the more power and spin are needed. While
action heroes make it look easy, for Oregon-
based manufacturing engineer Quint Crispin,
it was a challenge. Taking inspiration from the
movies, Crispin and his son spent eight months
building a machine that could throw knives and
stick them accurately in a target at any distance
within the machine’s range.
Crispin designed his machine using a
series of calculations ...