Some of my bone and stone bits

[John Fenna]

I enjoy primitive skills stuff so I thought I would post up some of my bits.
I am still a long way from expert but I have fun
Some I made earlier... Leaf and barbed and tang style arrow heads in various flints plus a couple of bone points

Flint javlin


backlit...

Fish spear with detachable head

Bone harpoon

Rawhide or natural cordage lashings with resin glue as a waterproofer as well as a glue....
Todays effort... front and back

 

[Mesquite]

Nice work John

Did you work the bone with flint or did you use more modern implements?

 

[John Fenna]

Nice work John

Did you work the bone with flint or did you use more modern implements?

A bit of both really... the bigger bits had help from steel tools - the smaller ones flint only

 

[Clouston98]

Great stuff John!

 

[sandbender]

Really nice work there.

 

[Robson Valley]

Truely excellent workmanship. Worked flint is a thing of beauty
I would love to use the fishing spear, sockeye in rivers are 4-8lbs usually.

My brother is connected to a small group who make bows (ash), arrows and use
flint heads made by a knapping group.

Opthalmic surgeons use scalpels made of obsidian. No steel can be edged adequately.

 

[TinkyPete]

Nice work John.

I have been working on my flint stuff a lot this year after having a few lesson from Will Lord at the gathering, I am starting to get use to doing arrowheads and I am trying to work up to bigger items. One advantage of being down here on Salisbury plain means I can sometimes get some larger bits of flint to try and work it. I still want to work on a larger project such a spearheads and hand axes or even axe heads. Flakes for small knives I find I am getting good at but I noramlly mount them in wood rather than bone. I also want to produce pine glue as most of my mounting I do with artifical sinew and I would like to have a go at the real thing as well. Lots to do and little time to do it in as always.

 

[Goatboy]

Lovely stuff Mr Fenna, I especially like the bone harpoon. Pity you cant get a chance to use it in the UK. Did some bowfishing for mackerel a few years back though not so much a skill as point at shoal and shoot. Would love to try it with a bone harpoon like that. There's just a certain something about worked bone like that. Top stuff.

 

[Will_]

Nice work - I'd like to give something like that a try one day...

 

[Dreadhead]

nice one John!

 

[topknot]

Looking good John.

 

[Andy_K]

Superb, John!
If that "Ace of Spades" is as big as it seems in the photos, it may also make a good cleaver too mate Seriously though, you have done some bloody good gear there John. You should be duly proud of them!

 

[John Fenna]

The Ace of Spades - my latest piece - is only 2" from tip to toe... 1.5" wide
I have a collection of Hand Axes though - made by Karl Lee - some of which I have trouble holding they are so big!
I have used flint tools to butcher a pig on one of our meets - they are very effective!

 

[Andy_K]

There you go, bursting me little bubble of imagination which was simmering away in the void between my ears. I was hoping it was about 8 inches or so length.

I'l bet you were glad that you didn't have to despatch the pig first tho,

 

[budgie1753]

liked the pics. thinking of trying bone work myself, you just convinced me to give it a try.