[mylife]

I fixed a multi million dollar surveillance system using a piece of chipped obsidian to splice a cable.

I’m kind of a jerk that way.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) The old way is sometimes the best.

[Bernard Marx]

I fixed a multi million dollar surveillance system using a piece of chipped obsidian to splice a cable.

The fracture surface of obsidian is many times sharper than the finest surgical steel. Obsidian surgical blades are now preferred for some types of operations.

An Idaho flint-knapper and amateur archaeologist, Don Crabtree, pioneered the manufacture of obsidian surgical blades. He proved their usefulness by having surgeons use them on himself in a delicate heart operation: Obsidian Scalpel Blades