Gorgeous day today.

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Ann and I are going for a swim this afternoon. 

 

[Alpo]

That first picture brought up an interesting question. Interesting to me, anyway.

 

Why isn't Tarzan's knife a rusty hunk of junk?

 

Tarzan swims. He is the only great ape that swims. When he's going to go in the water he will take off his bow and quiver of arrows, and grass rope (I'm talking about the book Tarzan, not the movie Tarzan). But he doesn't take off his knife. He also doesn't take off his loin cloth. So he jumps in the water, wearing his knife. It is carried in a leather scabbard. When he gets out of the water, the knife is wet and it is still in this leather scabbard so it stays wet. For a long time.

 

Tarzan does not have a towel to dry his knife. And neither does he have a handy dandy can of 3-in-1 oil to wipe the blade down with.

 

So why is Tarzan's knife not a rusty hunk of junk?

[Tyrel Cody]

5 minutes ago, Alpo said:

That first picture brought up an interesting question. Interesting to me, anyway.

 

Why isn't Tarzan's knife a rusty hunk of junk?

 

Tarzan swims. He is the only great ape that swims. When he's going to go in the water he will take off his bow and quiver of arrows, and grass rope (I'm talking about the book Tarzan, not the movie Tarzan). But he doesn't take off his knife. He also doesn't take off his loin cloth. So he jumps in the water, wearing his knife. It is carried in a leather scabbard. When he gets out of the water, the knife is wet and it is still in this leather scabbard so it stays wet. For a long time.

 

Tarzan does not have a towel to dry his knife. And neither does he have a handy dandy can of 3-in-1 oil to wipe the blade down with.

 

So why is Tarzan's knife not a rusty hunk of junk?

It is in the books. 
 

Remember it’s Hollyweird making the movies so they probably had a new knife and cleaned it every day during filming.

[Alpo]

4 minutes ago, Tyrel Cody said:

It is in the books

I don't recall that. In the first book, where little 9 or 10-year-old White Skin finds the knife, he has it in his hand as he is going back to where the tribe is. And he is attacked by the gorilla. And the gorilla almost killed him before he, accidentally, stabs the gorilla. Kala, his mother, finds him and takes him back to camp and nurses him back to health.

 

When he is well he goes back looking for the knife. And he is very upset to find it is now all red and orange. From the blood and the tropical rainforest. And he cleaned it off. It doesn't say how but I assume that he used dirt - poor-man's sandpaper.

 

But I don't recall any other mention of the knife being stained or rusty or anything like that. Just that first time, when it was left out in the weather for a week or so.

[Tyrel Cody]

7 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I don't recall that. In the first book, where little 9 or 10-year-old White Skin finds the knife, he has it in his hand as he is going back to where the tribe is. And he is attacked by the gorilla. And the gorilla almost killed him before he, accidentally, stabs the gorilla. Kala, his mother, finds him and takes him back to camp and nurses him back to health.

 

When he is well he goes back looking for the knife. And he is very upset to find it is now all red and orange. From the blood and the tropical rainforest. And he cleaned it off. It doesn't say how but I assume that he used dirt - poor-man's sandpaper.

 

But I don't recall any other mention of the knife being stained or rusty or anything like that. Just that first time, when it was left out in the weather for a week or so.

Ok, I could be thinking of another book I read long ago; maybe it was Robinson Crusoe that mentioned a rusty knife. Or maybe I thought the red and orange meant blood and rust. It has been 30 years since I read the Tarzan books.

[Eyesa Horg]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

That first picture brought up an interesting question. Interesting to me, anyway.

 

Why isn't Tarzan's knife a rusty hunk of junk?

 

Tarzan swims. He is the only great ape that swims. When he's going to go in the water he will take off his bow and quiver of arrows, and grass rope (I'm talking about the book Tarzan, not the movie Tarzan). But he doesn't take off his knife. He also doesn't take off his loin cloth. So he jumps in the water, wearing his knife. It is carried in a leather scabbard. When he gets out of the water, the knife is wet and it is still in this leather scabbard so it stays wet. For a long time.

 

Tarzan does not have a towel to dry his knife. And neither does he have a handy dandy can of 3-in-1 oil to wipe the blade down with.

 

So why is Tarzan's knife not a rusty hunk of junk?

Stainless steel 😀

[Alpo]

I don't believe stainless steel has been invented in the late 1890s when Tarzan's father got marooned on the coast of Africa.

 

Not a bad answer though.

[Pat Riot]

WTH kind of train was that?

 

 

 

 

 

FKCGC, glad you and your lady had a nice afternoon. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

Maybe the knife was stone!😂

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

WTH kind of train was that?

 

 

 

 

 

FKCGC, glad you and your lady had a nice afternoon. 

It's Father Kit's fault.

 

He posted a picture of Tarzan and Jane.

 

He said he and his lady were going swimming.

 

I immediately wondered if his lady would be skinny dipping like Jane was in the movie that picture came from.

 

Then I remembered that even though Jane was swimming naked Tarzan was in the water still wearing his knife.

 

Thus leading to the question - why isn't Tarzan's knife rusty?

 

See - it's Father Kit's fault.

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

I immediately wondered if his lady would be skinny dipping like Jane was in the movie that picture came from.

 

And you are concerned about a knife?????

[watab kid]

9 hours ago, Alpo said:

That first picture brought up an interesting question. Interesting to me, anyway.

 

Why isn't Tarzan's knife a rusty hunk of junk?

 

Tarzan swims. He is the only great ape that swims. When he's going to go in the water he will take off his bow and quiver of arrows, and grass rope (I'm talking about the book Tarzan, not the movie Tarzan). But he doesn't take off his knife. He also doesn't take off his loin cloth. So he jumps in the water, wearing his knife. It is carried in a leather scabbard. When he gets out of the water, the knife is wet and it is still in this leather scabbard so it stays wet. For a long time.

 

Tarzan does not have a towel to dry his knife. And neither does he have a handy dandy can of 3-in-1 oil to wipe the blade down with.

 

So why is Tarzan's knife not a rusty hunk of junk?

 

his knife is but .........

[Alpo]

9 hours ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

 

And you are concerned about a knife?????

Not quite sure I understand your question.

 

Jane skinny dipping - I've got that movie on disc. I can look at Jane swimming naked whenever I want to.

 

Father Kit's wife skinny dipping - that's probably not a good thing to be concerned about. He owns guns. And he don't live that far away.

[Brazos Bottom Bill Miller]

2-6-2 prairie loco? Looks like my n scale.

 

[Cypress Sun]

I know a cowboy shooter and his wife. 

 

His name is Jeremiah Longknife and his wife is Velvet Sheath. 

 

They've been State Champions for their prospective categories and she has been Overall State Champion a couple of times, if I'm not mistaken.

[DeaconKC]

1 hour ago, Brazos Bottom Bill Miller said:

2-6-2 prairie loco? Looks like my n scale.

 

If you're gonna blow it up, make sure it's an old Bachmann!

[Brazos Bottom Bill Miller]

2 minutes ago, DeaconKC said:

If you're gonna blow it up, make sure it's an old Bachmann!

 

I don't mind the track so much, but so many issues with locos. I just buy Kato for them.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 6/10/2025 at 1:13 PM, Alpo said:

That first picture brought up an interesting question. Interesting to me, anyway.

 

Why isn't Tarzan's knife a rusty hunk of junk?

 

Tarzan swims. He is the only great ape that swims. When he's going to go in the water he will take off his bow and quiver of arrows, and grass rope (I'm talking about the book Tarzan, not the movie Tarzan). But he doesn't take off his knife. He also doesn't take off his loin cloth. So he jumps in the water, wearing his knife. It is carried in a leather scabbard. When he gets out of the water, the knife is wet and it is still in this leather scabbard so it stays wet. For a long time.

 

Tarzan does not have a towel to dry his knife. And neither does he have a handy dandy can of 3-in-1 oil to wipe the blade down with.

 

So why is Tarzan's knife not a rusty hunk of junk?

Tarzan gots WD-40 and litho grease.  Him primative, not stoopid.