hi chaps,
i've just started attempting to use river stone and flint to make some stone tools.
my idea is to eventually make a bow and arrows using only these tools and 'natural' items.
i know that this is not genuine stone age type making - i'm just progressing *backward* from a compound bow and aluminium arrows with sight etc.
just finished making an arrow from a rough piece of wood i found on the floor, a few feathers and a flint nodule.
there have been some compromises - like i have used artificial sinew not real, the 'pitch' to set the arrow head came from a telegraph pole - i think it is more like bitumen - even so i did *harvest* it from the *trunk* of the pole, which was a 'bit' like a tree.. etc.
to shape the stick and to notch it both ends i only used pieces of flint spalled from the nodule, then used a rough stone to sand down and finished off with a smooth stone to close the grain.
another compromise is using linseed oil to finish it.
a long way to go for me yet, how i'm going to cut and split a log / branch i have not yet investigated...
so what do you think? (be gentle please
)
austin
i've just started attempting to use river stone and flint to make some stone tools.
my idea is to eventually make a bow and arrows using only these tools and 'natural' items.
i know that this is not genuine stone age type making - i'm just progressing *backward* from a compound bow and aluminium arrows with sight etc.

just finished making an arrow from a rough piece of wood i found on the floor, a few feathers and a flint nodule.
there have been some compromises - like i have used artificial sinew not real, the 'pitch' to set the arrow head came from a telegraph pole - i think it is more like bitumen - even so i did *harvest* it from the *trunk* of the pole, which was a 'bit' like a tree.. etc.

to shape the stick and to notch it both ends i only used pieces of flint spalled from the nodule, then used a rough stone to sand down and finished off with a smooth stone to close the grain.
another compromise is using linseed oil to finish it.
a long way to go for me yet, how i'm going to cut and split a log / branch i have not yet investigated...
so what do you think? (be gentle please




austin