Yabadabadoo by Scooter Vagabond
December 5th, 2008 9:07 PMI Have an Enormous Stone Tool
This seemed like a fun task, but pretty much immedietely I ran into a problem: it's impossible to find rocks laying around in the city! Feeling particularly metrosexual, I bought a bag of polished rocks at the japanese hardware store for $3.50 - along with the other materials for the project:
The first thing to do was to sand down both sides of the flat stones so they'd be more pourous and better bond with the the epoxy putty. Each one got the go over with the sanding brick:
I laid out my workspace and got down to gluing:
I don't show a lot of the early construction because I didn't want to touch my camera when my hands were coated in epoxy, but in the later phase it was easier to document:
After working with so much epoxy, I had to scrub for like 20 minutes just to get my hands this clean:
The finished product! Behold, Thor's stone hammer:
But just having such a fine tool isn't enough, you've got to know how to use it:
But wait, look, I can light it on fire!
Bah, that wasn't nearly enough fire - how about this, oh damn, oh BIG damn. The audio on this one of me trying to blow out the fire but only enraging it is particularly amusing, lol:
Now that I no longer have arm hair, lets try that away from living flesh:
Well, now my room smells like lighter fluid ... and yes, I realize the setting things on fire was gratuitous.
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Josh
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Burn Unit
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zer0gee
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Loki
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Thanks Mags, but I have a feeling if it came down to a hammer vs. devil's trident duel the trident would almost certainly win due to it's longer reach and hell-forged nature.
yea, you really can't beat those hell forged tools. they really last forever.
No doubt, they even last longer than Ginsu!
And what about their brilliant marketing campaign?
"Buy Hell-Forged Tools, They're God Damned HOT!"
no i ment to give you a point! damn me. sorry
What sort of passive aggressiveness is this! Servant! Bring me my hammer!
ill vote you a 5 if you get ANOTHER video of thror's hammer standing on a pedestal(not laying down) and you take a spray deodrant(preferably axe or old spice, as they attract the lady friends) and show uber flaming thor. as he shoots fireballs!
challenge accepted? *let me know whether or not to save my vote for you
At least the challenge doesn't involve naked butts. That's practically a triple-dog-dare as I understand it. I say go for it. With a little choreography you could even try for something I didn't just make up on the spot.
@Dopey: Nah, I'm got bigger plans for fire with an upcoming praxis. This hand-goose is cooked enough :^)
@Waldo: Reading through your link encrusted post was entertaining, though tough for me to distill meaning from. I would say that the choreography made the dancing guys and flaming hairspray video - there was barely enough fire there to BBQ a gnat. It was good, though not my favorite
Hmm, I like the flaming hammer, but the funniest part is buying special smooth rocks and then sanding them.
Yeah, that was a bit embarassing, but here in the city - anything that isn't junk is nailed down. Apparently rocks are more valuable than busted microwaves or TVs that get left out on the curb.
See, I always hear about foreign countries where some kids throw rocks and start a riot. If they had America's level of rock control, this kind of trouble would be avoided. Because no kid is going to go buy special yuppie rocks just to throw them at police.
Frankly, I find it extremely odd that there is not a single loose rock within 5 blocks of my house, in any direction. Where do they all go? The only thing I can think of is that some vampire was burned to death during the sanfrancisco fires during the great quake, and after his ashes got spread over the city and embedded themselves in fresh cement, and then still hot rocks from the fire. Now his individual molecules are slowly moving back together to reform his original body - though this time, infused with stone, he will be much harder to kill. (Probably have to shoot him into the sun or something)
Damnit, I was walking home from an appointment today and passed this:
Oh, cruel cruel irony.
You lit your hand on fire trying to light your task on fire. How embarrassing, but I'm glad you posted the video!
Sir, I have not yet begun to embarrass myself with fire. I may, however, pre-emptively remove all hair from my body to prevent a further 'wicking' effect.
I am afraid that I try to avoid any burning sensations in my tool, enormous, stone, or otherwise. I am entertained nevertheless. Bravo!
Macy's, on Union Square, is a good place to find free rocks, given a suitably loose definition of "rock."
Excellent hammer. And a belated welcome to the game.
Though, I wouldn't run around proclaiming that you've got Thor's hammer too loudly if I were you. Things have tended to end rather badly for those who've done so in the past.
Thanks for the urban quarry advice, Loki. I'll remember that next time a stone related task comes up.
As far as having Thor's hammer goes, I'm sure I'll become much more popular after his movie comes out.
mad points for lighting yourself on fire in the name of a task.
I dunno. I appreciate fire as much (or maybe more) than the next guy, but I give Scooter here negative points for lighting himself on fire. I do give him credit for messing up accidentally and then not editing it out. I love the full disclosure. I really really like the part about telling us everything that happened. But I don't know why he used fire in the first place. Was he trying to fix something? Was he trying to fight something? Maybe he was trying to have fun, I just don't know. I mean I don't even think there were any remote controls around. I think there's a difference between failing when trying to do what a task asks of you and failing just because. I even condone the taking of risk in the completion of a task even if the risk isn't inherently specified in the task description. I even enjoy seeing and hearing about wounds caused by the game. But there's something about this that makes me go hmm. I think my problem comes from the fact that I can't figure out why fire was introduced in the first place. I like the task, certainly no flags as it's good, but why was there fire? It was a hammer, not a lighter (I want to see somebody make a lighter out of stone). Anyway, sorry for the tardy rant for no reason. I didn't mean to poo-poo your task.
I want to see somebody make a lighter out of stone
Must it be *entirely* made out of stone? Or is stone-age technology, with stone parts, deemed sufficient?
I'll let you decide. Obviously there has to be fuel. And a flint (which I suppose is stone), see what you can do...
that was a pretty sweet looking tool, and it was like the hammer from hell when you lit it on fire. hammer this satan!