18 gram Wazza Customs

These are nice darts. The front end will need a little work to get the conversion points smooth but beyond that they are nice little darts.

17 gram Red Dragon Featherlights

17 gram Chrome Plated Brass Darts

These darts are probably old Unicorn darts. I know they weight a mere 17 grams, and I know they are fixed point but beyond that I am not sure. They are a little ugly but they have a surprisingly good feel to them when thrown. I like them on the whole but I would never use them in league. They are very smooth, with the faintest whispers of rings mid-barrel. These are also my only darts that require a 1/4" threaded stem. Here is the break down of them as pictured:

Points: Fixed
Barrels: 17 gram mystery
Stems: Short 1/4" Aluminum
Flights: Smooth Standard Poly

17 gram Silversofts

These are 17 gram Silversofts by Halex. Sold as a soft tip dart (and weighted for one) these darts have a lot of potential for mixing and matching stems and points, etc. The barrel is so long though that it is difficult to find shafts that work well with it. Mediums are out of the question and even in-between is a bit long for these. However, any short, extra short, or even micro shafts will work just fine with them. One problem they have is that after a couple of hours of play they are hard to throw because the barrels get slippery. This is the only semi-smooth barrel I have that has this problem. Even the GT's do not get this way and they have no texture either. Here is the break down of them as pictured:

Points: Jeff Pickup MPs
Barrels: 17 gram Silversofts
Stems: Short Dynastar Nylon
Flights: Black Dynastar Pear

16 gram Dum Dums

16 gram Radarts

These are my favorite lightweight darts and almost my favorite darts overall. They have such a terrific feel to them and they are perfectly balanced for 16 grams. They are called Radarts by DMI and when I bought them I was a soft tip player and they of course were sold to me as soft tip darts. But they wear "fancy" conversions these days since I use them in steel tip play. These darts have seen some good throws. I hit my first ever deadeye with them and I have ton-80'd with them. I used them almost exclusively during my first year in the Pittsburgh Steel tip leagues to pretty good effect. Here is the break down of them as pictured:

Points: Fancy Fixed Conversions
Barrels: 16 gram Radarts
Stems: Short Aluminum
Flights: Black Poly Pear

16 gram GT3s

These are the 16 gram version of the popular GT3 line from Bottelsen. These are the "Black" version which is just a coating that eventually wears off. They do not throw as well as I would like them to, and certainly not as well as my other 16 gram darts. The other 16 grammers throw so well that I began to believe that 16 grams was the perfect weight for me and so I sought out that weight in my favorite dart style. Turns out the grammage is only one aspect of the "feel" of a dart and not all weights feel the same. I doubt these puppies will get much use but you never know. Here is the break down of them as pictured:

Points: Hammerhead Spinpactor
Barrels: 16 gram Black GT3's
Stems: Medium Black GT Screw-in
Flights: Black Poly Pear

Update: These were sold to RodmanRodman in may 2011.

15 gram Featherlights

These are 15 gram Featherlights by Nodor. They are the lightest fixed point steel tip dart I have and at the time I bought them they were the lightest I'd ever heard of. Although now I am certainly aware that lighter fixed point darts exist, and in this very line they have a 14 gram Featherlight. These are pretty good darts on the whole but I do not throw them very often. They are a short 41 mm long and are one of the few darts I have that can take a medium length shaft effectively. Here is the break down of them as pictured:

Points: Fixed
Barrels: 15 gram Featherlights
Stems: Medium Spiraline (nylon)
Flights: Standard Dimplex

14 gram Reds

I have no idea who made these darts and I have no idea when they were made either. I call them 'Reds' simply as a descriptor and that is how I have coem to think of them. I bought them when I was in college because I always thought the darts in the Deadwood were garbage, which is true. I used to carry these around with me "just in case". Then after college these darts spent a long time in my glovebox waiting to be taken out and thrown. They had always worn soft tips until the last year or so when I bought some 1/4" threaded conversion tips for them. One very interesting thing about these darts is that they are threaded 1/4" on one side but 2BA on the other, so you can use either size tips or stems but not both if you know what I mean. They are 14 grams. Here is the break down of them as pictured:

Points: Fixed Conversion 1/4" thread
Barrels: 14 gram Mystery Darts
Stems: Hammerhead brand spinners
Flights: Slim Dimplex

13 Gram Wooden Darts

12 gram Crown Jewels

These are 12 gram Crown Jewels by Harrows. They are very good darts with a terrific feel when throwing them. When I get on a tear I can really chew up the board with them. I bought these right near the end of my soft tip days and I never thought about putting conversions on them until a year later so these darts were largely unused until I "rediscovered" them in my collection. These are really light and make for a nice change of pace. Everyone should have at least one set of sub-16 gram darts IMO. Here is the break down of them as pictured:

Points: Fixed Conversion
Barrels: Harrows 12g Crown Jewels
Stems: Short Aluminum
Flights: Slim

10 gram Unicorn Bantam's

Quite the rare dart.

10 gram Slick Willies

I don't know why I think of these as 'Slick Willies' other than that their texture is surprisingly slippery despite the light knurling they have on them. I do not know their official model name or whatever so I just think of them as 'Slicks.' I am pretty sure they are Halex darts and I am pretty sure they are the throw-away cheapo darts that are included for free when you buy an electronic board from Halex. They only weigh 10 grams and were originally soft tip darts but since I do not throw soft tip anymore all my old soft tippers now wear conversions of some sort. Here is the break down of them as pictured:

Points: Hammerhead
Barrels: Halex 10g light knurled
Stems: Top Spin short
Flights: Slim Dimplex

I almost never throw these darts but when I do I make sure to keep the session short. They are so light it is hard to control them especially when you are used to throwing in the low twenties range.

7 gram Unicorn Extralites

*** gram Accudart Variants

Misfits

The List

Hm. I cannot believe I have never made a complete list of my darts.

1. 28g GT's black
2. Radarts
3. Cootes
4. Ringed Taylors
5. Nodors
6. Mavericks
7. Great Whites
8. Crossfires
9. STT-900's
10. Scoundrels
11. Power Points
12. Pirhanas
13. KC's
14. Dart Freaks
15. Dagnabits
16. Bombs
17. 20/20's
18. Warriors
19. County Corks
20. FP Megathrusts
21. Orion Vector Smart Darts
22. 22g Halex Tungstens
23. 21g Unicorn Brass "Fatties"
24. Rhinos
25. Raptors

~~~~ Initial Division ~~~~

26. 27g Axis
27. GT2's
28. Halex Nickel-Silvers
29. "Hawkeyes"
30. Throw-Aways (x2)
31. 17g Silversofts
32. Black Widows
33. 16g GT3's
34. Featherlights
35. Red's
36. Wooden (x2)
37. Crown Jewels
38. Slick Willies
39. Halex Brass (x3)
40. 20g Halex Tungstens
41. Extralights
42. Unicorn 136's (Hexagonal Brass darts)
43. Variants
44. DynaDags
45. 30g Hammerhead Originals
46. 501's
47. 301's
48. MP Megathrusts
49. 40g Unicorn Brass darts
50. Cane shaft Dum Dums
51. Mismatched Toy darts
52. 19g Harrows Tigers (not received yet)
53. 23g Unicorn John Part Latinums (not received yet)
54. New World Brass Sleeved Tungsten darts. Rare.

Fairway Darts

I found this board on ebay and managed to win it uncontested for ten dollars. Probably the best deal I have ever seen for a dartboard. The board itself is a sisal board and as we all know, unique and rare sisal boards are nice to find. Paper wound unusual boards are a dime a dozen as are many of the American made wooden dartboards. But since a sisal dartboard is so much more difficult to make than a wooden board (the process and materials I mean), and so much more expensive than a paper wound board, there are fewer of them.

Fairway darts is the third golf related board I have purchased for my collection. It isn't as well known as the Par-Darts board (I had never seen it before) and not as complete or pretty as the Club House Golf board but it is still a nice high quality board. I have scoured the internet looking for mention of this board and I have not seen a single reference anywhere. Not a mention in any google page or dartboard collection page. This is good from a collector's perspective because that makes it rare, but it is bad because I have no idea who made it, and no idea what the rules for the game are.

So here is a call for help: anyone with any information on this board, the maker, the era, or the rules, please let me know. Thanks!

Club House Golf

What a great find. This is one of the more interesting bristle boards I have ever seen, and I bought it in brand new condition. Any holes in the board are made by me and the ultra-light apex style darts that came with the board. My buddy Barn and I staarted throwing a game on it but it was so hard to hit the fairways and holes that we had to quit for dinner. You can really see the biscuits in the board, and I would say not very many tons of pressure went into making the board itself as the darts, even the light ones, slide into the board with minimal effort. This makes me think the board would get chewed up quickly so I will not play on it too much.


The score boards are a sort of black plexiglass with white writing on them and seem to be set up for a very particular sort of golf game. There were no rules sent with the board so I am not real sure what the exact rules are but probably they are similar to real golf. The board also came with one of those white wax markers for keeping score on the black plexiglass. Pretty clever and nice looking set up.


The Board also came with six ultra-light Apex darts. They only weight XX grams. I think these were included so the board would last a bit longer. The sisal fibers are so loose that if you were to throw your average 26 gram MP dart the board would be destroyed in short order!!


One thing I really like about this board is the attention to detail and fine craftsmanship. There are some extras that they didn't really have to include in the building of it such as the sign on top the cabinet, the little golf flag, the green material behind the board, etc. Very nicely done! Here is a good view of the overall effect:

Par-Darts

This is a very nice board that looks like it is in virtally brand new condition. Right now it is at the house of a friend in Seattle and I am looking forward to playing on it. It looks like it would be at the very least an excellent practice board, but I bet the whole game is going to be every bit as fun as a regular darts game. This is my first non-clockface board other than the baseball board below. It is certainly my first bristle non-standard board. At some point I am going to figure out how to replace those wires stapled onto the board with embedded blade-like separaters.

Click here for the rules for Par-Darts.

Unicorn Eclipse

This is another of the Bladed boards offered by the various board makers. The bladed versions are almost always the "High-End" offering, and this one in particular is a pretty good board. This was a Christmas gift from my beloved in 2005.

DMI Bandit

I like this board for a lot of reasons. First and formost because it reminds me of all the good times I had shooting darts in Seattle, in league as well as with my friends. But also because it is a quality board.

[From a comment I left on a different blog entry:]

I remember the first time I'd ever seen a Bandit board. The bar owner of the bar I played for in Seattle is a Dart Afficinado just like me. He has four really nice areas in his bar for playing steel tip darts and he always hung good boards back when I played for him. And in those days, during one season he hung Bandits. Brand new, bright white blades and numbers. I knew I had to have one right away. Now this is not the first time I'd ever seen a _bladed_ board, mind you. I had bought a fully bladed Sportcraft board for use at work which was a terrific terrific board, and on which I gotten many compliments. But it did not have the shiny white appeal that the Bandit had.

After one season of play on the Bandits he decided to take them down and replace them with Nodor Supawires. He had gotten too many complaints from league members that the darts were just "falling out" of the Bandits. So one day me and my good buddy Barn wandered into Coopers for a night of play and we saw the Bandits in the corner labeled $15. We both bought one immediately. This was a good three years ago or more. I played on it constantly since then up until just a few months ago when I got a new Unicorn Eclipse for this last Xmas. In all those years of heavy play at home, the Bandit performed beautifully. It is pretty beat up now but it is still, in its current state, a better board than many brand new ones. The only reason I retired it at all was so I could hang the Eclipse (also a completely awesome board!!!).

To this day I have never once had a dart just fall out of the Bandit. And I have a medium throw at best in terms of hardness. I have thrown darts at it of many weights from 10 grams to 28 grams. So I cannot imagine how people would have to throw for their darts to just fall out.

Paper-wound Baseball Board

This would be the first board I ever bought and I bought it before I had any clue whatsoever what to look for in a board. As it turns out paper wound dart boards are lower quality, and they are not a good option for the serious darter. Perhaps if you are looking to get a new person into darts, with not much money, you can pick one of these up on ebay for a dollar, but other than introducing steel tip darts to your friends, I would not recommend paper wound boards.

The fun thing is, though the game itself. This is the only non-clock board I have and the idea is intriguing even if I am not sure what the rules are. I have devised make shift rules while playing this with my wife but the rules were clumsy at best. One of these days I am going to track down the official rules for this game.

I found them! Click here for the rules to Baseball Darts. Reprinted here:

BASEBALL DART GAME (STANDARD GAME)

1. The player throwing is the pitcher attempting to retire the opposing side without allowing runs. This can best be achieved by carefully pitching at the corners of the plate. Put the pitch over the center of the plate and it's a home run.
2. Two players or teams can participate. Each team member takes a turn pitching his team's half of an inning.
3. Each inning is divided into two halves: one for each team. Three outs constitute one-half of an inning. First pitcher is allowed as many pitches as is necessary to get three outs. All runs scored against him are credited to the other team. When he has made three outs the other player pitches his half of the inning.
4. Usual rules of baseball apply. Three "strikes" for an "out". A "foul ball" counts as a "strike" but not as a third strike. Any pitch that misses the "plate" (target zone) is ruled a "ball". Four balls to a batter constitute a "walk" and the batter is awarded first base.
5. Runs are scored by players rounding the basses and crossing home plate. Runs must be forced over to score.
6. At the conclusion of the regulation number of innings, the team with the most runs is the winner.

Missing Boards

These are boards that I do not have but that I would certainly like to eventually own:

Regular Clock Face boards of various types:
1. Champion's Board (narrow rings - most board makers offer one of these)
2. Harrows Marathon (I am not of the significance of this board)
3. Harrows Zone Magnet (again, I am not sure of the significance)

Clock Face boards, but slightly unusual:
4. Narrow Fives
5. Wide Fives
6. Black Irish

Boards that non-standard:
7. Old Fayre
8. Remarkabull
9. Eric Bristow's 501 Trainer

Acquired but not yet received:
1. Yorkshire
2. Clay Dartboard
3. Winmau Equalizer
4. American Wooden Board

Received but not yet Blogged:
1. Harrows Quadro
2. Unicorn Eclipse Pro
3. Dartoball
4. Blade MX
5. Winmau Casino 301
6. Blue Euro Board

Rules for Par Darts

Thanks to Crow's Dart Page for these rules:

Par darts consists of 9 holes. The par for each hole is as follows:

• Holes 1 & 4 are par 5's
• Holes 5 & 9 are par 3's
• the rest are par 4's

Each hole is divided into sections. Each section has to be hit in order before you can proceed to the next section. So, on hole 1, you have to hit the 1st dark green section, then the next green section, before you can shoot at the green. On the par 4's, you only have to hit the one dark green section before you shoot at the green (the dark green sections are the fairways). Each dart you throw counts as a stroke. On the par 3's, there is no fairway so your first shot will be aimed at the green.

Once you start aiming at the greens, here's how it works. If you hit the red dot on the green then you holed the shot and are done with that hole. If you hit the green, you then have to hit the bull to sink your putt. The bull is divided up into three sections. This is to help handicap the game. So if you have an 'A' player throwing against a 'C' player, the 'A' player would have to hit the center red bull to make the putt where the 'C' player could hit any of the three rings to sink the putt.

Now lets talk about the sand and water. These only come into play when you are shooting at the green, if you accidently hit one while shooting at the fairway you just ignore it. Also, let's say your shooting at the green on hole 6 and land in the water surounding 5, you do not worry about it. It just counts as a missed dart, no penalty. Here's how the rules work:

• Pond: You add one stroke to your throw. So if on hole 5 your first dart lands in the water, you would add one to your score so your second dart would be your 3rd stroke for that hole.
• Sand: If you land in the sand, you are required to back up 12 inches from the dart line and will continue to throw at the green. You do not have to back up another 12 inches should you land in the sand again. Now, once you have put the ball on the green, you move back up to the line to shoot your putt (bull). If, while standing 12 inches back, you put a shot in the water, you can then move back up to the line to shoot at the green.

I am certain I will be making up new rules sets to go along with these in order to "Equalize" skill levels.

Rules for Par Darts

Thanks to Crow's Dart Page for these rules:

Par darts consists of 9 holes. The par for each hole is as follows:

• Holes 1 & 4 are par 5's
• Holes 5 & 9 are par 3's
• the rest are par 4's

Each hole is divided into sections. Each section has to be hit in order before you can proceed to the next section. So, on hole 1, you have to hit the 1st dark green section, then the next green section, before you can shoot at the green. On the par 4's, you only have to hit the one dark green section before you shoot at the green (the dark green sections are the fairways). Each dart you throw counts as a stroke. On the par 3's, there is no fairway so your first shot will be aimed at the green.

Once you start aiming at the greens, here's how it works. If you hit the red dot on the green then you holed the shot and are done with that hole. If you hit the green, you then have to hit the bull to sink your putt. The bull is divided up into three sections. This is to help handicap the game. So if you have an 'A' player throwing against a 'C' player, the 'A' player would have to hit the center red bull to make the putt where the 'C' player could hit any of the three rings to sink the putt.

Now lets talk about the sand and water. These only come into play when you are shooting at the green, if you accidently hit one while shooting at the fairway you just ignore it. Also, let's say your shooting at the green on hole 6 and land in the water surounding 5, you do not worry about it. It just counts as a missed dart, no penalty. Here's how the rules work:

• Pond: You add one stroke to your throw. So if on hole 5 your first dart lands in the water, you would add one to your score so your second dart would be your 3rd stroke for that hole.
• Sand: If you land in the sand, you are required to back up 12 inches from the dart line and will continue to throw at the green. You do not have to back up another 12 inches should you land in the sand again. Now, once you have put the ball on the green, you move back up to the line to shoot your putt (bull). If, while standing 12 inches back, you put a shot in the water, you can then move back up to the line to shoot at the green.

I am certain I will be making up new rules sets to go along with these in order to "Equalize" skill levels.

Rules for Baseball Darts

BASEBALL DART GAME (STANDARD GAME)

1. The player throwing is the pitcher attempting to retire the opposing side without allowing runs. This can best be achieved by carefully pitching at the corners of the plate. Put the pitch over the center of the plate and it's a home run.
2. Two players or teams can participate. Each team member takes a turn pitching his team's half of an inning.
3. Each inning is divided into two halves: one for each team. Three outs constitute one-half of an inning. First pitcher is allowed as many pitches as is necessary to get three outs. All runs scored against him are credited to the other team. When he has made three outs the other player pitches his half of the inning.
4. Usual rules of baseball apply. Three "strikes" for an "out". A "foul ball" counts as a "strike" but not as a third strike. Any pitch that misses the "plate" (target zone) is ruled a "ball". Four balls to a batter constitute a "walk" and the batter is awarded first base.
5. Runs are scored by players rounding the basses and crossing home plate. Runs must be forced over to score.
6. At the conclusion of the regulation number of innings, the team with the most runs is the winner.

My Dart Board Collection

Click on the pictures for full sized images, and click on the names for links to blog posts with more information. Enjoy!!



Dartoball Snooker Board


Harrows Quadro 240


Winmau Casino 301


Unicorn Blade MX


Euroboard


Fairway Darts


Nodor Par-Darts


Club House Golf


Unicorn Eclipse


DMI Bandit


Common Paper Baseball Board

Set Up

A Goodly Showing of Darts

A few nice darts:

Above pic, left to right.  I consider these few darts to be my "vintage" collection.  I have others in my collection that date back to the 70s and 80s, but really they do not have the vintage feel the way these do.

1. 12 gram Unicorn Aluminum Torpedo.  This is my only entirely aluminum dart.
2. 20 gram Unicorn Satinlux Torpedo. This is a chrome plated brass dart, and my only in their vast Satinlux line.
3. 21 gram Unicorn 185.  Brass, and sporting the "Sweeper Long Lasting Flight". You can see these in the 1970 Unicorn Book of Darts.
4. 20 gram UFO.  This is a hex unibody dart that used to have a rusty hairpin that held the flight in, but I swapped it out with some Voks stems that fit in there quite nicely. 
5. 20 gram UFO.  This brass torpedo style dart has longitudinal striations all along the barrel giving it a very unique feel. 
6. 17 gram Unicorn Bullet.  This dart is unique in that it has a 3BA threaded stem hole. Once upon a time I had a tungsten replica of this dart made by the mast craftsman Jeff Pickup.  Last I knew they are in Getagrip's collection. :)
7. 19 gram UFO. This brass dart has an unusual color making me wonder if it isn't actually brass.  It is the shortest torpedo style dart I have ever seen.  It came in a Unicorn case that fit them like a glove but I really do not think it is a Unicorn creation as I have never seen its like in any Unicorn Book of Darts.
8. 26 gram UFO.  This short, fat brass torpedo has a similar look to many darts of its day.  Unicorn torpedos look a little different, so I suspect this one was made by someone else.
9. 15 gram UFO. This little beauty is one of my favorite darts to have, and to throw. It is a mix-material barrel.  The nose is brass and the rest of the body is aluminum. I have dubbed them 'Aviators' because they remind me of 50's aviation for some reason.
10. 38 gram Unicorn 182.  What's interesting about this dart is that it came with a molded stem-flight that actually had five wings.  That is the only one I have ever seen.

Above pic, left to right.  These are basically all my brass darts, and you will notice some overlap with the top photo.  The last four in this pic are my mixed material darts.

1. 21 gram Unicorn Ringed Brass.  This is the dart that came for free with a Unicorn dartboard I got one year for Christmas. Like all natural brass darts they feel warm in your hand and are a joy to throw.
2. See first pic.
3. See first pic.
4. See first pic.
5. See first pic.
6. See first pic.
7. See first pic.
8. See first pic.
9. 18 gram UFO.  I love this dart.  I took it to league one night and did very, very well with it. It looks a little Lloydesque to me but that could just be a coincidence.
10. 25 gram UFO. This brass dart takes a 0BA stem (what most people call a 1/4" stem).  I have never thrown this dart.  Maybe its good, maybe its not.  I do not know.
11. 11 gram UFO. This brass unibody dart takes a tiny screw-in flight holed that looks like it is the top piece from a two-part stem. As they are currently configured they are wearing Reflex conversion points which are perfect for them, aesthetically, and throwingly.
12. 24 gram New World Darts prototype.  This unique dart has a tungsten core and a brass sleeve.  I have thrown them before but I do not get them out very often. They are literally one of a kind.
13. 25 gram Accudart 301's. Another mixed material barrel. Front half is tungsten and the back half brass.  This is also a 0BA threaded dart.
14. See first pic.
15. 21 gram Harrows Rhinos. Tungsten nose, brass body.  I won these darts years ago in a consolation tournament. All the players who did the absolute worst in B League were invited and I happened to get 2nd place there.  This was the prize.  I value them highly.

Above pic, left to right.  This is my "smooth" collection, although I realize there were a couple I inadvertently left out.  I should have included the Pickup singleton (which you will see below), as well as the early Widows from Fansteel.

1. See second pic.
2. See first pic.
3. 17 gram Voks Javalin.  This is actually a steel dart.  I know this because a magnet will attract to the body of the dart, and also it is quite light for its size. The Voks push-in stem is one of my favorite push-in stems of all time.
4. 23 gram Bottelsen GT.  This dart has been retrofitted with a Voks stem. That makes it look like a Voks dart but it is actually a GT.
5. 28 gram Bottelsen GT.  This is the first expensive dart I ever bought.  I bought it brand new and paid over $100 for it!  I loved it but I could not hit the red side of a barn with it.
6. 26 gram Custom. I commissioned these darts with Jeff Pickup.  They are a copper tungsten, fixed point replica of the Bottelsen GT. 
7. 21 gram UFO smooth copper tungsten bullet style dart.
8. 23 gram Red Dragon Sleek.
9. 22 gram UFO Terry Jenkins copper tungsten replica.  
10. 24 gram Custom. I commissioned these darts through Jeff Pickup years ago.  When I had them made I was unaware of any completely smooth darts on the market.  Although my awareness of the darting world was smaller than it is now.
11. 26 gram McCoy copper tungsten smoothies.
12. 30 gram Schofield 0BA threaded dart.  This is the only tungsten Schofield I have ever seen.

These are all of my non-Nickel-Tungsten, non-Brass darts.  The first six are various materials, but the last six are all copper tungsten.  Above pic, left to right:

1. See pic one.
2. See pic three.
3. 22 gram Nickel-Silver UFO
4. 25 gram Nickel-Silver UFO
5. 20 gram Bottelsen Nickel-Silver Hammerhead.
6. 17 gram Bottelsen "Super-alloy" GT3. Love, love, love these darts.
7. 29 gram copper tungsten UFO.  These are 0BA threaded, so this makes me think it was made in the 70's sometime.
8. 21 gram copper tungsten UFO
9. thru 12.  See pic 3.

Above pic, left to right:

1. 16 gram UFO.  This is a coated brass dart, and like all soft-tip-born darts in my collection, wears a conversion point. In this case, a hammerhead point.
2. 17 gram Halex Matchplay.  One of the first darts I ever bought.  Back when my buddies and I were first getting into darts, we had a soft tip board in our office.  But it was too loud for our workmates' comfort so we switched to steel tip and never looked back.
3. 18 gram Halex, unknown model. They are wearing "Fancy" conversion points.  Back in 2004 when I bought them, this is actually what they were called!
4. 18 gram UFO, wearing Lip conversion points.
5. 16 gram Bottelsen Gap hammerheads,
6. 16 gram Harrows Magnum wearing one of the best moving conversion points I ever bought. It is called the US Darts Balancepoint Ace Point.
7. 16 gram DMI Radart, also wearing Balancepoint MPs.
8. 17 gram UFO.  This is one of the most beautiful darts I have ever seen.
9. 18 gram Freeflight Maverick
10. 19 gram Jeff Pickup singleton.  I only have one of these (as opposed to the whole set) because a long time ago Jeff Pickup sent it to me as a sample.
11. 19 gram Accudart Cricket
12. 19 gram Laserdarts Nightmare, wearing Balancepoint MPs.
13. 19 gram Voks Nobu, El-C variation
14. 20 gram Halex tungsten dart.  I do not believe these actually have a model name.
15. 20 gram Monster Hades

Above pic, left to right:

1. 17 gram P.E.N. Netherlands Range
2. 20 gram UFO.  This sweet little dart is 100% covered with a fine, yet grippy knurling.
3. 20 gram Voks "Item 931".
4. 21 gram Datadart Steve "Magic" Coote siganture dart
5. 21 gram Mission Kronos
6. 21 gram Harrows Boxer
7. 22 gram Dartworld Pro Point 80.  This dart have a very sluggishly moving point, and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to get at it.  It might be a permanent installation.
8. 22 gram Halex tungsten dart.  Like the 20 gram version in the previous picture I do not believe this dart has a model name.
9. 22 gram Harrows Eric Bristow Power Point
10. 22 gram Nodor
11. 22 gram Red Dragon Hexocet
12. 22 gram SmartDarts Generation 2.  I fucking love this dart.  
13. 22 gram UFO.  I'd sure love to know what these are.
14. 22 gram UFO.  These might have been "Camel" darts.  No idea who made them.

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1. 22 gram Voks Bandit.  I bought them because they were colorful but I cannot throw them for shit.
2. 22 gram One80 Revenge.  My one and only set of One80 Revolution darts.
3. 23 gram Bottelsen Great White
4. 23 gram Bottelsen GT Plus
5. 23 gram GLD "County Corks". My wife bought these for me at a swap meet in Pittsburgh :)
6. 23 gram Tru-Lon, unknown model.  Has a fairly slippy knurling on the entire body.
7. 23 gram UFO Dennis Priestly
8. 23 gram Monster Helios
9. 24 gram Bottelsen "Vintage Line" Hammerheads
10. 24 gram GLD Viper Blitz
11. 24 gram Harrows Dimplex Powerpoints.
12. 24 gram A-Z Darts Colonial
13. 24 gram Mission Quadrant.  I cannot throw this dart. It sticks to my fingers like glue.
14. 24 gram Laserdarts Black Eagle
15. 24 gram Muellers 20/20
16. 24 gram Nodor STT-900
17. 24 gram Red Dragon SEWA
18. 24 gram UFO John Part

Above pic, left to right:

1. 24 gram Designa Dark Thunders
2. 24 gram UFO "Bobble" darts
3. 24 gram Freeflight Maverick
4. 25 gram GLD Crossfire
5. 25 gram UFO Peter Evinson
6. 25 gram UFO Robert Wagner.  I really like this dart, I find it very thoughtfully designed.  I like the slight forward taper and the finger shelf before the point.  Nice work!
7. 25 gram Elkadart Steve Beaton Spring Loaded
8. 26 gram Laserdarts Black Widow
9. 26 gram UFO.  These are the darts that started my blog 16 years ago :)
10. 26 gram Dart World Scoundrel.  These darts have a skinny threaded stem.
11. 26 gram Designa Dark Thunders
12. 27 gram UFO.  These might be "King Cobra" darts.
13. 27 gram UFO
14. 28 gram Bottelsen Hammerheads
15. 29 gram Fansteel unknown model.  I believe this to be the forerunner to the Widow.
16. 32 gram UFO
17. 36 gram UFO