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Stone Age Witch Hazel (updated 1/18)
ricktrojanowski:
After struggling with some less than ideal obsidian flakes for shaping the handle I decided that I would "make" some new tools. This involved little more than me bashing some nice rocks of Obsidian that I got from Eddie (Mullet). There was no real plan, just smacking and hoping something good came out of it. I was pleasantly surprised when I got some really nice new scrapers and other tools. All this with absolutely no knapping skills. Just dumb luck. The first pic is of my favorite three new tools. The one on the left is a little hand axe that I used to get the bulk of the wood off with. The center is the saw for cutting the limb tips to length. The right one is a awesome scraping blade that I would put up against any steel tool.
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ricktrojanowski:
First using the mini hand axe. Second using the saw. Not as quick as the Japanese pull saw but it worked.
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ricktrojanowski:
The shaped tips.
A side note. Jamie told me not too worry about keeping the tools sharp. That they sharpen themselves when you use them on the wood. I now know what he meant. Lots of tiny tiny flakes keep popping off and the result is blood loss. I would wear gloves but that would totally kill the primitive mojo. ;D
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JackCrafty:
Isn't it a little early to be painting that bow? ;)
Looks like you're making progress....you're a lot more patient than I am.
DanaM:
Its coming along rick, I would have broke out the power tools by now :o ;)
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