Here is something interesting I found today. I know that some of you here like flintlocks, so feast on these. (pun intended). :D Here is a link to site where I found the pic. http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/cutlery/cutlery.htm



Ben

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This is just messed up. :\

The barrels are pointed in, not out. If a meal sucks that bad that I'd want to kill myself, I think I'd just walk away.

Looking at the original webpage, it looks as though "Lethal Flatware v. 2.0" was much improved, in that both business ends pointed in the same direction. This would certainly have been useful for hunters (or canibals, I suppose), as you could shoot and eat your prey efficiently.

This has to be the strangest thing I've seen this week.

Can you fire a flintlock upside down? In which case you would hold the utensils the proper way, with the locks concealed in your hand, until you tilt your hand backward, and fire?
This would work pretty well, as there is no way of knowing that the person across the table has a gun before it goes boom.

The mark II's would be slightly more conspicious.

Personaly, I would just have put a powder charge behind the fork, and shoot that. :D

I guess it's for those food fights where the Bowie Spoon just isn't quite enough.... (There actually is such a thing: in the Alamo Museum there is a silver spoon that belonged to Jim Bowie, though it isn't sharpened, unfortunately!)

Cheers,

Gordon

Is this for real or some " Photoshop " image manipulation ? I know I could easily duplicate this with a little cut and paste.

If real, I would think that it's a great example of bad designing if meant to be practical.

" Watch out " gravy could contaminate your priming powder ! Or, these are for the very impatient hunter who can hunt with his eating implements and not waste any time cooking before digging in. ( All that cooking your food is such a waste of time. )

If this stuff is genuine it brings up more interesting questions than if it's a good joke. :eek:

They are genuine. I have seen pics of them before, in books on fun firearms.

Most likely they are "technology demonstration" pieces, kind of like concept cars at car shows: Simply the gunsmith showing what he can do.
I can see his lineup of guns, rifles, a couple of sword guns, (like this one, from the albums: http://www.myArmoury.com/albums/displayimage....mp;pos=5), and at the botom, the firearm utensils.
Maybe they dont sell well, or are very usefull, but they are darn good conversation pieces, and, as people's reactions show, would do a very good jobb making people take a second look at your stand or shop.