Fire by hand drill

Fire by hand drill

Sunday, 21 November 2010

Port muck Flint beach

I visited Port Muck on a tip off from a friend and found a beach covered in flint nodules ready for the harvesting. A lot of the flint has had the cortex removed through wave action which means it has been bashed about a bit but I was able to make a usable knife in a few seconds. The beach is perfect for material for small blades arrow heads etc.
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Thursday, 18 November 2010

My kuksa continued

The bowl was burnt out

shape i wanted marked in pen

I held the saw still and moved the wood, a useful technique for small peices like this.


split the bits off easily



a bit more saw work then a bit of thinning with the axe and knife





after alot of work with a knife. and some sand paper.


Still more work to do. Making handle holes. Increasing bowl size and oiling to make it more water proof.