If you check the other side, the name is beautifully stenciled across the starboard bow:

"ショウガのようなにおいがする"

WOW. My hat's off to you sir on a job well-done.

It is a very nice looking canoe, and if its all bamboo chopsticks then its a very renewable resource!

you have gotto be kidding!!!

if ever on a remote island with nothing but chopsticks, glue, and some polyester coat laying around, i'd want that guy there, too.

In other news, Asian employee recently dismissed from job for cafeteria utensil theft.

Did you get this 'tip' from a crazy aunt who sends fwd's all the time?

Wouldn't he have to build two of these canoes for them to work?

@Geisrud: I thought the same thing!

Smells like ... Wasabi.

In retrospect, Castaway was poorly casted.

Too much time on his hands. 66lbs is a bit on the heavy side no?

If you do the math, he would have to have taken 7 chopsticks every work day...did he leave one behind everyday or did I just bust this myth?

@buzaw0nk: Does that include weekends and holidays?

@buzaw0nk: Uhh..maybe he didn't take the same amount every day?

@92BuickLeSabre:

My online translator is stumped. WHAT DOES IT MEAN!

This is hella impressive. Hopefully he didn't use Elmers!

That's a pretty nice canoe. I like the kayak in the background too. Float - I have no doubt it will, but I'd be a little worried that it would break apart into splinters when someone got in. Fun fact: that's about $500 worth of chopsticks.

@N@tedog: Try Google Translate.

This, THIS is why we in America will be screwed if Asia ever really decides to take over the world. Once they get an idea into their heads, they HAVE to finish it, and they HAVE to do it with a degree of precision unmatched by anyone else. I tip my hat, sir, that truly kicks ass.

@92BuickLeSabre: Yeah, that's what Gilligan said.

@MiniSail: *coughs*...imagining all the circumstances that would have led him to say it alternately repulses and intrigues me.

It says "disposable" chopsticks, so presumably all his buddies donated theirs every day at lunch, no theft required. He probably scavenged from the trash as well.

@92BuickLeSabre:

hahahaha or fwied wice

"Fly lice, Uncle Benny?"
"It's fried rice, you plick!"

@SirDrinksalot: Chopsticks in Japan are rarely made of bamboo and are a serious envirnmental concern as 10s upon 10s of millions of them are used and thrown away each day. Most of them (like all garbage in Japan) will end up getting thrown in relatively old municipal incinerators....

I think this post belongs in the "This doesn't belong on Gizmodo, but I'm glad you posted it" category.

OK, who actually counted the chopsticks, because it looks more like 7,381 to me. I hate when people exaggerate.

He's either really smart or really cheap!

But wait...!

He can't go anywhere until he collects another 2437 chopsticks for the oars...

:)

@McLucky: So many canoes lost...

My translator came up with.
"Pharaoh gasョtrees the like of which earth! Things!"
What does it relly mean?
Anyone read chinese?

I tried it again in Japanese and got this, a little more understandable.
"It smells like ginger"

@N@tedog: Whoa, whoa, whoa...don't take me down that road with you.

the cast from LOST could have learned a lesson or 2 from this guy!

@GadgetPlay: lol nice, I like the image of some municipal incinerator worker guy trying to stuff full chopstick canoes into the fire....

@yeah, ショウガ = ginger, におい = smell, rest essentially mean "it does". Probably better translated as "It smells a bit like ginger". The のような part means "a bit like".

@92BuickLeSabre:
Who's "Ginger" ?

erm...

私の指のようなにおいがするジンジャー

(rhymes!)

*ducking*

erm...

私の指のようなにおいがするジンジャー

(rhymes!)
*ducking*

i wish i was independently wealthy enough to make art out of used food things.

Yeah, just think of all the amazing Haute Couture you could make out of empty Big Mac containers...

(do they still come in those funky boxlets?)

@buzaw0nk: Maybe he had one left over to shove up your...astounding craftsmanship in my opinion, if not a bit pointless. :P

@aec007: A canoe uses paddles, not oars. Even the Japanese ones.

Well... Someone's getting fired.

Does it blend?

Sir, I salute your ingenuity and thriftiness. Fucking awesome.

Are his kayaks in the background also made out of choptsticks? I get the feeling this isn't his first boat.

sumbitch stole my idea

I don't know (or care) if it will float, but I do want to know, "Will it blend?"

In all seriousness, that's nice work. The craftsmanship looks great.

Got to give it to him he is a man of perseverance!!! And I'd take it for a spin.

A cubic foot of water weighs a bit over 62 lbs. That thing displaces way more than a cubic foot; it should float just fine.

ya uh i've got nothing...

I don't know whether to be more impressed by this beautiful work of art or by the incredible amount of mushu chicken this project represents.

priceless

Well, if concrete canoes float (and they do...) then this thing will have no trouble.. in fact, it's lighter than my Dad's old Grumman aluminum canoe, and that thing will float on a heavy dew.

I just hope he sealed it well enough that you don't get splinters from the seat... bamboo splinters from chopsticks are like 10 inch (25 cm) hypodermic needles.

@jmcdonou:
Of course it will float, the amount of water it displaces is a hell of a lot more than 66lbs of water.

So were these used chopsticks? If so, great, way to recycle. If not, I don't see how this is anything but pure waste on a project that may or may not work. Either way though, I do admire the guys tenacity.

@reddingofish: Yeah i read Chinese, but i can't find the thing you guys are talking about.

I had real trouble eating my dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant tonight because the disposable chopsticks were warped like two boomerangs. Perhaps he could have used them...

sequel "7000 years in Tibet" ...spent working on the bamboonoe

This is NOTHING! There's this dude (a Robert McDonald) that build a viking ship using fifteen million iscicle sticks. The sticks were collected over four years with the help of local primary schools.

He's currently sailing it from The Netherlands to the United States.

Hey! Where'd the image go?