Need some help/ideas in securing bamboo or sugar cane stocks for knife testing

[milkmanjoe]

Just get in a bar fight.....oh wait, I got stabbed from that in 1977...scratch that.

I would use a ham, with skin on. Get bones from the local butcher and stuff the ham with them. You can trim meat away and re-wrap the skin once you get the diameter you want. unless it's my forearm you are after, then you will need to add meat.

[brownie]

Good suggestion Joe, thanks

[milkmanjoe]

Originally Posted by brownie

Good suggestion Joe, thanks

You are welcome....We used hams, though more for fun, to see bullet damage years ago. You can get deer legs for bones from any place that processes deer for hunters. Hell, you can buy an intact deer leg and attack it with the bowie. Probably pretty cheap, too.

[sdmc530]

this is an easy one...

here is what you do:

Take mongo to a bar, get him stinkin drunk....I mean toasted. Then at some point you start a fight with somebody but then have mongo do the fighting for you. He would tear him limb from limb and walla you will have your human arm to test on.

Mongo you in buddy?!

[brownie]

Okay, update for those with interest in this testing------------------

Talked with a medical school today. A professor expressed the following information would be "average" for a male where the radius and ulna diameters are concerned for this test.

3" from the wrist, the two bones are 5/8" and 1/2" in diameter. 1/2 way between the wrist and elbow, the dimensions are 1/2" for both.

Measuring my own arm, 3" from the wrist is 2 3/8" in diameter and midway from wrist to elbow is 3 1/4" diameter. These numbers give me a base for the dowel diameters and a base when I wrap the meat and shave it to the dimensions above, all tightly wrapped in 15-20 layers of cellophane.

I got another project that's come up and I'll be busy and away first week of Sept. for part of the time that's taking priority over this project/testing. I expect I should be ready to put this together and get the testing on video about the time the knife is here or arrives shortly before that from Panther and sheathing. So, we're looking at perhaps a month and the project is in the can.

Just an fyi for those waiting on the results.

[ColMike]

I can most likely get sugar cane or bamboo. I need diamter and length.