Derek Geldard wrote:

Would people really want to have highly flammable/exploding knife
handles in their kitchen for example? stares in cutlery drawer at
collection of "bone"[1] handled knives Umm other than me, that is.


DIRC ...

As a 10y.o. kid playing around with fire during half term at Bonfire
Night, once you got them lit you couldn't put them out ?

Oh indeedy, you could make loverly stink bomb using old knife handles.
Like making them from ping-pong balls or old nitrocellulose film stock,
you wrap in silver foil, scrape away a bit of foil, light it and blow it
out immediately and it then creates huge clouds of choking smoke. The
foil retains enough heat to cause the nitrocellulose to smoulder and
vapourise but doesn't let it get hot enough to burn.