That is certainly....creative

[saturnine138]

I just got back from a lecture with Wade Davis, the author of The Serpent and the Rainbow. He's an ethnobotanist and anthropologist, currently an explorer in residence for National Geographic. It was an amazing lecture about the disappearance of native cultures, there was one story in particular that he told that I thought you guys might find entertaining.

Wade had met an Inuit who's family had been forced to relocate by the Canadian government, but his grandfather refused to leave his home. The family took all his tools and weapons, thinking that he'd have no choice but to follow them. Instead, the old man went outside, dropped his drawers and relieved himself into his hand. He molded the feces into a knife as it froze, and then proceeded to butcher one of his dogs with it. He made a sled out of the bones and skin, and rode out into the arctic wilderness with his poop knife in his belt, never to be seen again.

I'm not sure if that's even possible, but it makes for a good story. I'd consider it more fable than truth, but you never know. I just thought I'd pass it along. Feel free to share any similar stories, or if you're an expert in the art of fecal blade smithing please comment on the possibility of these events occurring.

 

[Evolute]

I'm not very handy, but that may just be the craft for me. I might have to buy a "dealer" membership, and start "smithing" and selling to our Northern Canadian members. I just hope I don't start getting complaints that my knives are crap....

Seriously, that's fascinating, even as just a fable.

 

[magneto]

Feel free to share any similar stories, or if you're an expert in the art of fecal blade smithing please comment on the possibility of these events occurring.

Hi, my name is Phil and I am a fecal Bladesmith. I recently moved here from Georgia because I could not get the proper RC hardness from my turds there. So I moved just as far from Georgia as I could get, but try as I might, everything sort of turns to crap.

 

[Guntotin_fool]

that is a myth, think about it, the warmth of the dog carcass would melt the knife, unless you let it get get below freezing, then the knife would not me strong enough to cut it......

 

[Nilaman]

I would so much rather break the dog's neck and then use a sharp rock to butcher it.

A poop knife? That's a load of....

 

[Doctorbowie]

They come already convex ground.

 

[EmsRescueGuy]

I suppose it depends entirley on your intake of minerals and of course Fiber. Also if you have ever had the pleasure of breaking up a fecal impaction you know it can get rock hard. especially in elderly patients


But seriously This has the Smell Of a tall tale. but i will be conducting experiments in my deep freeze

 

[RescueRiley]

I'd eat some extra granola and try to get some serrations

 

[GibsonFan]

This is the same guy who experimented with "zombie" drugs. I'm just sayin'...

 

[kevshin21]

hmm imagine what it would do to your sharpening stones

 

[Ming65]

Was the guy's name Lynn?

Ok that was a cheap shot but the thread was begging for it

 

[JD Mandrell]

Was this knife the first "StriTurd" custom?

 

[marcinek]

1. Ming65...you beat me to it. Dammit!
2. Doctorbowie...that's so your ass doesnt slam shut.
3. Everybody else...absolutely hilarious! Take a bow!

 

[magneto]

How about cooking said dog? Did he also fashion two turd sticks for fire making??? It is well known in the scientific community that by rubbing two turds together you get a fart.

 

[Don Rearic]

Wow, the birth of Frost Cutlery.

 

[Rupestris]

Advertising idea...

"Frost" Cutlery would like to introduce its new line of survival knives! The SQUATTING INUIT Line of cold rolled, hand crafted knives.

 

[bjr]

I pooped a hammer.

 

[Fiddleback]

Was it carbon scat, or stainless?

 

[subaru]

Man, talk about "drop forging" a blade. That's hard core.

 

[abo4ster]

I heard Depends make a really nice sheath for that line of knives.