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Trekkingnut, The documentary is shot on the western side of the island New Guinea, not in Papua NG. The makers are from the Wano tribe, from the "massif de Yeleme", in the central highlands, Irian Yaya, Indonesia. The voice over of the DVD can be set to English so you don't have to listen to...

"o and btw, they just called the head, blue stone, i have no idea what type of stone it is made out of at all." Trekkingnut, Beautiful pic's thank's for showing! I've got a 30 minute documentary on DVD about the quarrying and shaping of stone axes by the Yeleme people of New Guinea...

Wow...that reads like an adventurers travelogue, good post Indiana!;) Cheers, Tom

Hi all, I´ve taped 26 episodes years ago and converted them from VHS to DVD 1. Natural remedies: greater plantain/yarrow/meadowsweet/dock 2. Hedgerow food: chicken-of-the-woods/burdock/pignut 3. Elderberry cane/digging stick/bushmen’s waterpit & egg/tin can fishing 4. Birch...

Thank´s again for those useful tips people, that´s enough ideas to keep me off the street for a while ;) I´ve got some 6 cm of the tip left to play with (and a smaller piece of another horn tip that I can use for the knob), it will be a tiny fire piston when it´s finished...It may be working...

I have sawn the surplus of the horn off at the point where the marrow(?) ended. It looks as if some of the layers in the remaining tip are delaminating already, and that is without applying any heat:( So it probably will be too porous for making a fire piston but I'm gonna try and make a very...

Thank's for the warning! Cheers, Tom

Hmm heat gun...I don't think my wife's hair blower will qualify as one so I'm gonna try the cooking in water first. Thank's for your reply though! Cheers, Tom

Thank´s Nenook, I knew someone here at the forum would know :) If all goes well I will post a picture of the finished fire piston (I´m keeping my fingers crossed because the usable piece of the horn is a bit smaller than I had hoped) Cheers, Tom

Has anyone got experience with bending horn? I've got a cow horn's and want to use the last few inches (the dense tip) to try and make a small horn fire piston. The curved tip of the cowhorn would be more usable to me if it would be straight. As horn is a thermoplastic material I know...

Great pics! Cheers from Holland, Tom

You just have to shake the right coconut tree Ash ;) Cheers, Tom

I finally got round making these Inuit style snow goggles out of coconut shell, as I had promised in an earlier thread about the coconut shell fish hook. I purchased a coconut with a fairly symmetrical curvature and flattish middle bit. With a Dremel tool I cut a section out of the coconut...

It´s dense, quite hard and there´s no grain running trough it so you can work in all directions. It can be brittle though (the pussycat´s back leg broke of when I used a saw that was too broad, at a slight angle) And off course you´ll have to remove the hairy outer fibres first. You should...

Hi Tim, I knew that coconuts could wash up on european shores with the gulf stream but I never imagined them to reach Greenland as well! I had posted this coconut shell stuff on the Dutch bushcraft forum as well, including the idea for the snow goggles and got a comment that the...

Thank´s Matt, I feel another little project coming up ;) Cheers, Tom

Just read it, very good article indeed, thank's for posting! Cheers, Tom

More coconut-shell fun! Two pendants for my daughters, the one with the trunky snout depicts the animal of my avatar and forum name (the pyrenean desman, Galemys pyrenaicus), the other a cat. The eyes were made of some fake jewellery stones that I happened to find in a little container at home...

Hmm Canada...could it be the white hairs of a snowshoe hare? Cheers, Tom

Hi Ron, nice to see you on this forum too! Cheers, Tom