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08-19-2011, 11:51 AM
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So I have this really crazy idea and have no idea on how to proceed. So I thought, gee...lets ask a bunch of bass players!
In may 2003 I chopped off my left index finger below the knuckle.
I was wondering if some sort of surgery could be done to attach a bolt to the bone.
I could then have different tips made that I could screw on to the small protruding bolt. I would love to be able to use this useless little appendage.
maybe even a finger so I can play bass with 4 fingers again.
A screwdriver would be nice. Even a small hook I could use for tying my skates. At the very least, a metal cover so I can use it as a poker.
Is this nuts? Feel free to joke as much as you want as I do find humour in all circumstances, but I would like to know how to go about getting something like this done.
Thanks
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08-19-2011, 11:54 AM
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08-19-2011, 11:55 AM
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08-19-2011, 11:55 AM
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08-19-2011, 11:59 AM
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08-19-2011, 12:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Haddon Heights, NJ | | | With a #2 Phillips head, you could walk around and say things like "Screw You".
You could pick your nose with precision.
A bottle opener might be fun.
A cheese knife for fancy parties might be good too! |
08-19-2011, 12:02 PM
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08-19-2011, 12:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | Your bone would receive tension in ways that the surrounding tissue is made to prevent. You'd be better off putting those awesome prosthetic attachments *on* your finger, snug with the skin.
Rad idea, by the way
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08-19-2011, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry I'd have a vibrating.... ummmm.... massager, attached. Drive the ladies mad. | I see you and I are swimming in the same gutter today. |
08-19-2011, 12:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | Swiss Army finger: knife, bottle opener, nail file, tweezers, magnifying glass, corkscrew, etc. |
08-19-2011, 12:16 PM
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08-19-2011, 12:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Mumbai, India | | How about a steel guitar slide? So you can slide with the index and play them notes with the rest three! |
08-19-2011, 12:33 PM
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08-20-2011, 04:30 PM
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08-20-2011, 07:35 PM
|  | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | In high school, a friend and I liked to joke about opening a prostheses store including some rather odd attachments (half a soda can, for instance)...
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08-20-2011, 08:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | If you could harness your body's electrical impulses, your finger could become a cell phone charger.
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08-20-2011, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by fenderhutz At least it's easier for you to make a shadow dog. | That was awesome!
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08-20-2011, 08:22 PM
| | | | If you got a prosthetic finger, you could really have some fun by going up to kids and asking them to pull your finger.
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08-21-2011, 07:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Preston, England | | | I did read about how they were trying to do something similar for amputee veterans so they could screw on a leg.
I think one of the problems is where the screw passes through the skin to the bone. Its as if your skin doesnt like having a hole in it and tries to grow over it, or goes septic instead.
I read something that said researchers were looking at how reideer manage, because their horns are esentially bone, protruding beyond the skin.
Crack that, and youre on a winner... does anyone remeber the cartoon "inspector gadget"?
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08-21-2011, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by G-sound | So, if you have that evil looking black hand they show at the beginning of the video and use it to give someone the "road rage" finger on the freeway...
I can only imagine the look on their face.
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