It is hard to believe that anyone blows darts for a living. But an Englishman called Ron Tomlinson does. The darts he blows are what can be called the old-fashioned French type. They are wooden with a steel point and feather flights. There is a weight inside, although some French darts have a banded weight on the outside.
Today there are two basic types of darts.
The important difference is in the barrel. The tungstens are likely to cost five times as much, or more. Copper tungsten is twice as heavy as brass, nickel tungsten may be heavier still. Let us imagine you want a heavy dart, say thirty-four grammes. Made of brass, a dart of that weight would be really bulky.