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Primitive hide glue
Hawkdancer:
I like the soapstone bowl idea! Getting a few friends over for a glue main and cooked meat singing would help keep the fire making coals and the heat steady. Of course, you could go to WallyWorld and get a few packages of plain gelatin - same stuff! Still, it helps to be able to do things the old way!
Guess the class of '57 would think I'm wierd or crazy, but I've always been wierd and crazy, it' kept me from going insane!! >:D (lol)
Hawkdancer
GlisGlis:
I think a small clay pot would work
easy to make, primitive, effective
sleek:
--- Quote from: Hawkdancer on April 25, 2020, 12:23:19 am ---I like the soapstone bowl idea! Getting a few friends over for a glue main and cooked meat singing would help keep the fire making coals and the heat steady. Of course, you could go to WallyWorld and get a few packages of plain gelatin - same stuff! Still, it helps to be able to do things the old way!
Guess the class of '57 would think I'm wierd or crazy, but I've always been wierd and crazy, it' kept me from going insane!! >:D (lol)
Hawkdancer
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DC:
I'm not so much interested in actually making glue. I have lots. I'm just interested in how they did it. Experimental archaeology if you will :) You can Google "making fire" and get a ton of hits of guys making a fire exactly the way primitive people did it. If you Google "making hide glue" the first thing you see is someone heating up a stainless steel pot. I'm thinking that the use of hide glue pre dated ceramics but I could be wrong. A steady heat source and a good pot make hide glue making easy but if you take those things away a pile of little ways things could make it go west.
BowEd:
From my point of view I guess if your focus of challenge is the use of it after it's made it does'nt matter.Then your looking for quality in the quickest way possible and testing it in actual useful situations for durability and performance at least with bows.Might be cutting out the essence of it but it's just my view point.
I think the asians have the old school process down pat.
Same with making bows.Some like self/some like laminated more than the other.Modern tools making them are the norm.
Very few of us are making natural materials bows and less around yet around a camp fire in a tipi making bows with minimal tools consistently.
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