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swamp monkey:
The recent lower humidity encouraged me to go outside and work on some primitive projects.  So i had one fire going and three projects.  I burned out a stump mortar, made some pine pitch glue, and burned mussel shells to make temper for primitive pottery. 

at one point the pine volatiles caught fire to burn off.  It made for a nice picture.

swamp monkey:
once the stump mortar was bunred out I let it cool and then used a mussel shell adze to scrape the char out.  I then sanded it with a sand stone rock and removed the bark.  I need to make a pestle to go with the mortar. 

swamp monkey:
paper shell mussels delaminate quickly in heat.  I took the delaminated shells fragments and ground them in a bucket (the stump mortar wasn't done yet  ;) ).  I sifted the finer parts for temper and ground the large parts again before sifting yet again. 

repeat, repeat, repeat.

Zuma:
Go get it monkey.
I have been taking advantage of the cool cloudy
weather here in VA also. Finishing boxes, bowls
and diggin taters. Alot of knappin too. lol
Might need to trade some of my clay for your finished shells?
Zuma

swamp monkey:
I have been collecting pine sap for the past three months and finally had enough to make my glue.  I collected camp fire charcoal, and some elk dung from Missouri's wild elk herd. 

I heated my pine sap, once it was boiling I added the ground elk dung and charcoal.  I used some of the tutorials found on the PA website.  It worked out pretty well for my first attempt.  I made several pitch sticks.  I will continue to collect sap because I want to make and Aztec sword, and some arrows.  I anticipate needing a little more pine pitch glue. 

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