Frog Knife

[klkak]

I went TDY to Australia once. I bought a genuine boomerang and promptly started practicing with it. For a few days it wasn't safe to go outside. Then one day the deployment OIC took it away from me. Said we weren't authorized to carry weapons on this deployment. I tried to argue that it wasn't a weapon but kinda like a one man Frisbee. He didn't buy it so I had to give it up and find something else to do.

[Gray Wolf]

So it's a shiny black rock....

No.... It's Fiberous Volcanic Glass

[klkak]

Can someone please post a definition of "fibrous" as it applies to rocks or glass or volcanic glass or volcanic rocks.

[Riverrat]

So rock has gone from being a "Frog knife" , used to cut grass, to a Fibrous Volcanic Glass.....now I am truly lost, and to me it still looks like a rock.....

[klkak]

So rock has gone from being a "Frog knife" , used to cut grass, to a Fibrous Volcanic Glass.....now I am truly lost, and to me it still looks like a rock.....

You left out it being used to cut and Knapp bone!

[Riverrat]

So this truly a rare find...a multi-tool from the 1400....wow!

[Gray Wolf]

Can someone please post a definition of "fibrous" as it applies to rocks or glass or volcanic glass or volcanic rocks.

Sure, it's glass with sinews in it.

It's called Pélé's Hair (Volcanic Glass-fibre)”

Pélé is the Hawaiian name for the goddess that presides over Kilauea, the great volcano of the Sandwich Islands. The hair is formed by the action of the wind on the jets of very fluid lava or volcanic glass, which it blows to leeward in delicate films, each weighted by a little spherical globule of the glass.

Does that help? (= glass)

[Gray Wolf]

So this truly a rare find...a multi-tool from the 1400....wow!

Now that is funny...

[trax]

All this time I thought a frog knife was something that a well mannered host would be sure to set out at the table if serving frog legs. You know, like shriimp forks and dessert spoons......

[klkak]

Sure, it's glass with sinews in it.

It's called Pélé's Hair (Volcanic Glass-fibre)”

Pélé is the Hawaiian name for the goddess that presides over Kilauea, the great volcano of the Sandwich Islands. The hair is formed by the action of the wind on the jets of very fluid lava or volcanic glass, which it blows to leeward in delicate films, each weighted by a little spherical globule of the glass.

Does that help? (= glass)

Thanks GW, I'm beginning to understand. I may be slow but I eventually catch on.

[Gray Wolf]

Sure trax, and what do the frogs say:

[trax]

ROTFLMAO! thanks GW, now that's funny I don't care who you are. And God bless them little pygmies down in New Guinnea.

[nell67]

That was hilarious GW!!!!!!!! ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!

[klkak]

That was a good one GW.

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

Its more than just a broken rock too, its been sculpted and used for a purpose. I am getting closer to understanding it better my self. Thanks alot everybody.

[snakeman]

It is a rock with a sharp edge and a purpose. I kida see how it could be used for something. Maybe for sharpening sticks.

[huntermj]

sorry, i have been having a problem uploading pictures, i only manged to get one to upload on picture album on my bio page. Its a point i found while doing a survey with the National Forest Service. But at least you can see the fine serrations on the edges. which is the same as a cutting tool used for cutting grass or skinning. If i can get it to upload i have a picture of a multi purpose cutting tool i found on the same trip.

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

sorry, i have been having a problem uploading pictures, i only manged to get one to upload on picture album on my bio page. Its a point i found while doing a survey with the National Forest Service. But at least you can see the fine serrations on the edges. which is the same as a cutting tool used for cutting grass or skinning. If i can get it to upload i have a picture of a multi purpose cutting tool i found on the same trip.

I would realy like to see those,a lot of people hunt for arrow heads and spear heads,but knives and other tools are what I look for

[crashdive123]

Huntermj - this thread http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...p?t=196&page=2 has a few pictures of some stone work that a gentleman I know has done.

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

Those are nice. I see a need for that stuff, thanks Crashdive!