When is now, where is a tougher one....
Woodland edges are apparently a good spot, so I've been told. I only ever seem to find them beside bedding areas.
gregorach said:
Must've been really bloody hard work before their invention...
Heating it to make it brittle then snapping it works ok. Tried that with the last set a couple of years ago.
Left such a ragged edge though that grinding it on sandstone to clean it up was going to take ages. Ended up using a course file, which kind of defeated the point of the exercise
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Was blethering to Wayland about a method for making needles. Use a burin blade to scrape slots lengthways in an antler segment(through the outer). Do the same over and over until the whole piece is surrounded by slots then sit it on end and hammer a tine into the soft inner. The whole thing should split open into a nice array of needle blanks.