ultimately, the references of weird mis-uses of kendo equipment i've heard of are too... dirty to post here....
aaawww, come on! i was hoping you'd volunteer as the naked kendo chef, because as we all know spanish men are waaaay hotter than italian men !
now on topic, and aside from the dirty references i've heard of, i've used broken slats to build two shoto (since i do nito casually) and, the world famous suburiator 4000®: http://www.livejournal.com/users/paburo/20672.html