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Modern dartboards use thin wire, not staples
The blade wire design arrived in the 1980s and reduced bounce-outs Earlier boards were divided by thick wire staples that deflected darts and caused them to fall out. A thinner blade edge gave more room inside each scoring bed. Bristle boards are still made from compressed sisal, a plant fibre, which heals around the holes. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Professional Darts Corporation
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Modern dartboards use thin wire, not staples: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The blade wire design arrived in the 1980s and reduced bounce-outs. The figure is taken from Professional Darts Corporation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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