I participated in Highland Games for the first time this year, learning quite a bit in the process. One thing I learned is that each competitor must provide his own fork for the sheaf toss for height. I've purchased a three tine fork for this purpose, but I noticed at the games that their forks were "modified" in certain ways. It looked to me like the shoulders of the tines were wrapped or otherwise built up to add thickness to the diameter, with a very abrupt taper going down the top (thickest part) of the tine. How is this done? What is acceptable? I noticed lots of "customization" of handles for decoration, which was pretty much self-explanatory, but I was considering grinding then sanding the tines, working my way to 1500 grit wet sand paper. Is that a bad idea? I thought that a particularly smooth tine would better facilitate a more clean release of the "sheaf." I've managed to rig up several ersatz weights for practicing my somewhat spastic techniques, especially the 56# weight for distance. I've cobbled together a "hammer," an adjustable "height" bar for weight and sheaf toss, found a 26 pound Braemar stone, etc., and the freakin' fork is the last item I need to be able to practice events in order to do a little better (hopefully) at next years games. I've got plenty of burlap and I live in a very rural area, so baling twine is not an issue, but all my searches for how to modify ones fork have come up with nothing useful. Any advice that anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.