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I want to make (eventually...) some LARP safe throwing chakram (see http://l2.shaft-e.com/data/equipment/image/knuckle/chakram.jpg for a rough idea) but I don't want floppy foam discs that fly a grand total of 2m - 1.5m being off target...
Would it be possible/safe to use a throwing disc/frisbee (http://www.kiteshop.co.uk/xcart/outdoor-fun/aerobies-and-frisbees/aerobie-pro-ring_p335.html) as a 'core'? Seeing as it's designed to be safe to hit people with from a distance - as not everyone catches them! And there's no sharp bits, and they're not actually solid? But they would be better than, say, using coins like I know people have used for shuriken...
If people core throwing weapons with glue sticks, would the flying discs be suitable? 
R7: Xarra // RL: Clare Selley // PD: Serengeti Blackpaw
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Try foam rubber discuses, with a thin coat of latex, then paint & isoflex. IMO they're perfectly safe. They don't have a hole in the middle, though, so you wouldn't be able to carry them in your hat or on a hook so easily as the real ones.
I got these ones and regard them as eminently safe, though I forgot to use them at Hyborian Tales last weekend -- d'oh!
http://www.newitts.com/product/AE-34/Foam_Discus.htm
You can get heavier ones here that I've not tried yet -- I suspect that you could remove the middle from these ones & use them as more of a chakram that way:
http://www.podiumballs.com/products/SOFTTRAININGDISCUS24
http://www.hyboriantales.com
PD: Ghostdance ("The most irritating curse I've ever encountered" -- NPC played by H.)
Riftworld: Rossar Kuug ("Clearly mad, because he thinks he's a Com-Trow Skirmisher" - Aela)
Hyborian Tales: Crew, cook, dogsbody, general labourer, toilet cleaner ("Dangerously overoptimistic ref" -- Tom Nowell)
Otherwise usually crew ("Quite spry & fit, & willing to wear a big costume & run around a lot" -- various event organisers)
"My other oversized foam weapon is THE LORD" -- Questionable Content
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Champion
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You can actually buy purpose designed foam frisbees for afew pounds apiece. I think I posted a link somewhere in the method awhile back. These might work as a base
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