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shell hammer/ax

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swamp monkey:
I recently took a trip to Sanibel island, and Key Marco.  I brought back some lightning whelk shells.  My first tool project was to make a shell hammer.  Based on the blade, I call it an ax.  I am still learning about these shell tools, so calling it a hammer seems kind of goofy for what it really seems to do. 

Shell:  Busycon perversum
Handle:  Osage orange
Wrap: rawhide

Once it is good and dry I will find a tree to chop and see how it does. 

swamp monkey:
shell and handle assembled.

swamp monkey:
Wrapped with wet rawhide ready to dry. 

swamp monkey:
I cut some limbs off a redbud today.  It worked!   Now I need a Celt, adze, and a scraper for a project . . .  ;)

jamesbarbara:
How did you drilled the shell ?

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