Isn't bamboo wood? Would like to see what the other members of Mythbusters would think of this fic.

Mad.

Pretty sure it /has/ to be wood. Riley once staked Spike with a plastic stake (woodgrained to look real). Not sure why he avoided killing Spike (beyond character sheilds), but he did terrorize him a bit with that. The plastic fake-stake to the heart didn't dust Spike at all.

Icycles would probably fail as well. Point too brittle and not wood.

Now, if Andrew wanted to test a Grant style decapitation machine with a bamboo blade. That would work. Decapitation doesn't care about material or method.

Also, Bamboo has a hollow center. Hard to carve a point in it. At least one with a practical slope to it.

Bamboo? Huh, I wondered for a few moments if it might be paper...

Very amusing. I can see that show causing interesting reactions.

and remember, Don't try anything that you're about to see at home.

Ever.

Except for the phone-book myth (effectively confirmed.)