The icepicks I used as a boy cost all of ten cents apiece in Woolworth's. They had cheap cylindrical handles of red-painted wooden, they were perhaps nine inches long overall, and they weighed solely 4 ounces or Wood Ranger Power Shears shop so. An accurate flip-and-a-half throw outdoors was simply doable, if there was no cross-wind. They were exhausting to control in a full-turn throw as a result of many of the little weight they had was in the handle. Indoors, within the cramped area of my bedroom, a half-turn throw was good. Nowadays, icepicks are made with quick, stout handles mounting a metallic pommel cap for shattering icecubes. Picks of this design are throwable, though the balance is so grossly handle-heavy that they take some getting used to. A heavier icepick-like system, bought to housewives as a "gap-making device" (that is, an awl), should turn up in your hardware retailer occasionally