Making Your own paper darts
	The two types of paper darts I am introducing here are variations of a couple of classic designs well known to many blowgun enthusiast. The original designs can be accessed by a link at the bottom of each page. One quick word of caution. Despite the fact that these darts are made from paper, they are still capable of inflicting severe damage and should be treated with the same respect as comercial darts. It is possible that you could make a form for the "Quick Sticker" by starting with a very small and very thin "Slim Shapiro" and rolling consecutively larger darts around it. Then gluing the progressively larger darts to the outside of it's "form" until you wind up with a (nearly) solid paper form.
	The Slim Shapiro		Quick Sticker
	This one is a slimmer variation of the very popular "Shapiro Dart." All I've really done differently is to trim away a little paper from the "big end" to make an easy tug tab for twisting it tighter and a "small end" snip to try to avoid the formation of the very small (and weak) points that develope if that corner is left on using this technique.		This design was inspired by my inability to find a suitable adhesive for any of the plastic film I could come up with. I was on the look-out for sheets of alternative paper that would be easy to bond and also water resistant. When I saw several sheets of CD label backing paper being discarded A light came on! The only problem is that tape (or the unused rectangular CD labels that came with the backing paper) would not stick to the coated side. I overcame this problem by using a double-wide blank folded in half and a long enough piece of tape to fully encircle the dart shaft at least twice.

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