cutting ballistics gel

King Rat, +1 for digging that up for us, and of course for your adorable ratty avatar. such a cutey! makes me miss my old boys.

I would imagine PVC would chip most edges, as well as dried out bone. I would imagine a real cut through a live person to break the bone rather than slice through it, that just seems like a bit unreal to me. Of course, if you read about the tests the japanese did on the prisoners, they cut through the abdomen, so the only bone is the spine and there's a chance that you would go through the links.

now you're talking. get that torso mold full of balistic gelatin and then insert bamboo arm and rib bones.

this is sparking some ideas. . .

I may have to take you up on that.

The only real problem is I'm moving this summer, and it could be as far as Oregon, I don't know yet; still waiting on my orders. is there any way for that stuff to travel so I could plant it where-ever I go?

Heyyy we should have a sword part out in their fields.

Where ever you go it is possible to grow bamboo. Bamboo can be grown indoors although the variety that grows to be large enough to cut tend to also be too tall to grow in most houses. Also don't expect to get that is cutting size within the first couple of years.

Bamboo needs a fair amont of water to stay alive.

If you're in a swampy area, you probably have a number of plants growing in there that would be good to cut.

Common Reed or cane grows in most temperate areas where there is enough water:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragmites_australis

Also various rushes called Bulrush should behave the same way as tatami (which is also made from a rush).

Neat, though cutting through one bone is different than cutting through the entire rib cage like many JSA cuts suggest.

I've been thinking all day about how to make a rib cage from bamboo. It will take a fair amount of "sewing" the bamboo together, but certainly do-able.
Alot of time to spend on something that you are going to cut apart.;D