Main Discussion Area > Cave Men only "Oooga Booga"

Shell tool pondering

<< < (9/9)

swamp monkey:
Celt blades  must push on the front and back of the hole created for them.  This celt curves due to the shell I cut it from.  The photo makes it look like it is touching on the long sides of the hole but I assure you the only real contact is in the edges of the celt. 

Thanks for looking. 

swamp monkey:

--- Quote from: Spotted Dog on October 15, 2015, 11:34:27 am ---This is all very interesting to me.  When I was portraying a native warrior I used fresh water clam shells from the Mississippi
to mix my paints in and ate with a twisted clam shell . Which on one side was sharp enough to use as a knife.

--- End quote ---

Spotted Dog,  Sorry I totally missed your question.  The recent images hopefully show which side of the celt I used for cutting.  The image of the shell blank didn't really chart my intentions.  Now if I misunderstood your question and you were asking what part of the conch I cut that from  . . . that is a different question and the answer is the part that creates the opening of the shell.  I can illustrate that if you need me to.  Sorry for the delay.  I wasn't trying to ignore you. 

Happy hunting ya'll.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page

Go to full version