Fiddlestick
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Tom Jones of Canyoneering USA donated my Imlay Canyon Gear FiddleStick in 2022.
My Imlay Canyon Gear FiddleStick is 25 mm. long, 228 mm. wide, 9 mm. high, and weighs 70 g.
The FiddleStick is made from polycarbonate (Lexan®) with a 4 mm. pull cord. attached. The distal end of the pull cord has an 80 mm. long loop 0.5 m. from the stick. The cord knots are covered with heat-shrink.
The FiddleStick has a sticker printed with a logo and "IMLAY CANYON GEAR."
The FiddleStick was developed for canyoneering. It is used with a Stone Knot to allow retrieving the rope after a descent.
The Canyoneering USA web site reports that the FiddleStick folds and breaks in the Stone knot at about 1200 lbs. (5 kN). The web site explains the lack of a safety backup hole as follows:
"Adding steps that do not increase safety but make you FEEL safer is a bad thing when you are practicing a sport that is inherently dangerous."
This is a philosophy that wholly agrees with my own.
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Tom Jones of Canyoneering USA donated my Imlay Canyon Gear FiddleSpoon in 2022.
My Imlay Canyon Gear FiddleSpoon is 25 mm. long, 228 mm. wide, 9 mm. high, and weighs 67 g.
The FiddleStick is made from polycarbonate (Lexan®) with a 4 mm. pull cord. attached. The distal endd of the stick is hollowed to form a 2 ml. spoon. The distal end of the pull cord has an 80 mm. long loop 0.5 m. from the stick. The cord knots are covered with heat-shrink.
The FiddleStick has a sticker printed with a logo and "IMLAY CANYON GEAR."
Tom wrote, "I hope you will try to use the spoon, and report that it is only vaguely useful as a spoon." When I was in Boy Scouts, I didn’t take a spoon backpacking. I saved weight, and just whittled one out of a stick whenever I needed one. That isn't an option in the desert or in the National Parks. Having a spoon built into one's gear has some merit. but a sawn-off spoon doesn't weigh much and works much better.
Tom describes the spoon feature as follows:
While the spoon is kinda silly, it was originally made as a joke/courtesy to my dear friend Cassy Brown, who would always eat her foil tuna out of the package with a FiddleStick. So I made her a spoon. And then decided to offer it as a product.
Cassy took a fall last June 5th [2021] and died, so now the FiddleSpoon is kept as a homage to her vigor and enthusiasm.
She was on a solo trip through an easy canyon that she had done many times before, but fell on a downclimb and hit her head.
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