Personal Project

Balisong Design

For my project I will be designing a functioning balisong comb or trainer. A balisong is a type knife that originated in the Philippines that is mainly illegal in many states worldwide. The basic design of the knife consists of two handles that can fold inwards and outwards to conceal the knife. However these two handles can be manipulated in a way that people can do tricks with it such as spinning it around a finger or throwing it in the air and catching it open. Though it is a rather interesting hobby to have, playing around with a knife, it is still illegal. To counter, people have made balisongs with a blank cut blade, or with a comb at the end, or even a bottle opener. The reason why I personally want to design this is because of the fact that I do practice flipping around these things and I would like to make one for myself. The research that would go into this project would consist of finding accurate dimensions, knowing what parts connect to what, and the size of some pins connecting the handles to the blade.