Thread: And you guys thought you were shaving the old fashioned way....

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Let's not go down this path. We all know what would happen. We'd sit around all day discussing what kind of antler to use for chipping. Chipmeisters would end up with 15 different kinds of antler and 50 different kinds of wooden mallets, not to mention the whole canvas versus leather chipping apron debate.

Then we'd worry about Belgian vs Japanese obsidian, blue-green obsidian vs green-yellow obsidian; whether newly-mined obsidian is comparable to old stock; what kind of obsidian is best for beginners with barbed-wire beards..... It's making my head spin just thinking about it.

James.

Its too late, I am already on ebay trying to get everything together to set this up.

I've got about 100 lbs of flint to try with here.

hilarious comment...Sir, with balls as big as you clearly have you might not want to hammering an antler toward your junk. Just saying.

VicMorrowsGhost 2 months ago 5

I thought that was funny too.

Takes a dedicated dude to wag around a 15 lb shaving kit.

Never tried shaving with obsidian. Cut the heck out myself knapping points with it on more than one occasion.

It does have really sharp edges.

Downside is that the edge is very fragile.

When is Glenn going to post a video about flint knapping? Do they already sell chunks of obsidian on SRD?

Originally Posted by Wullie

Takes a dedicated dude to wag around a 15 lb shaving kit.

Never tried shaving with obsidian. Cut the heck out myself knapping points with it on more than one occasion.

It does have really sharp edges.

Downside is that the edge is very fragile.

Yeah, there's a good reason we upgraded to copper, bronze, iron and steel soon as we had it all figured out - better shaving tools, better killing tools!

i say we just stay with straights, i dont want to have lug a 20lb rock to the bathroom with me to knap off an edge lol

Heck yeah, if you got RAD, you just pick the mallet and chip yerself another blade in no time. No more searching on the bay till eyes pop out

Originally Posted by Wullie

Downside is that the edge is very fragile.

That was my thought too. And if you had anything like a micro nick in there you could scratch yourself up pretty good. Now those are the obvious drawbacks and not too intense. What about the obvious error. "Sharpest edge known to science". perhaps to natural science, but carbon nano tubing would be sharper I'm sure, not to mention that they can program nanites to build edges which are one molecule thick. Now that obvious stuff is out of the way. Can anybody corroborate that obsidian is sharper than a honemeister's edge? I'm skeptical.