Today’s Underground Exercise in Weirdness: The Chopstick Canoe?
By Tom Chandler on Apr 8, 2008 in Underground Entertainment
Canoes are lovely craft (witness our love affair with the Grand Lake Canoe), and at the Underground, we’re all about supporting craftsmen, but that doesn’t mean we don’t occasionally scratch our heads when we read about something like this:
A canoe built entirely from disposable chopsticks (via The Goat blog)
Hell, we’d laugh, but the 13′4", 66 pound canoe looks pretty good. Still, what’s next, Undergrounders? Oil tankers built from plastic spoons? The spork speedboat?
See you (sinking) on the lake, Tom Chandler.
Smellslikefish | Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
Residual sushi smells (SmellsLikeFish) on those sticks may give it that perfect fishing mojo.
AnglerNorth | Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
My guess is hang gliders made out of TP.
Mike | Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
That is absolutely GORGEOUS!
I wonder if the sticks were bamboo chop sticks?
Freakin’ BEAUTIFUL canoe!
Greg | Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
Someone has got to be working on a bamboo canoe. I guess you could call this one sans node?
Mark Ostrom | Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
Technically, the thing should be about as durable as you can get, eclipsing fiberglass in strength. Chopstick Boat is a damn fine idea! I wonder if the Oars are chopsticks or soup ladles? This gives new life to the moniker “Rice Burners” coined in WW II to describe the Japanese planes and recently adapted to Japanese fast cars and “sliding”.
…and once you get to your destination you can take it apart and make a Chopstick Fly Rod! NICE!
…and if you doubt that Fish can be had with chopsticks, go here: http://tinyurl.com/4gatne