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Offline fiddler49

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stone adze
« on: July 24, 2015, 03:30:40 am »
I made the stone head a while ago and just found a nice handle for it in my sons wood pile. The head is a fine grain beach stone that had the general shape. I put a piece of thick, wet raw hide between the wood and stone to help the fit. The cord is #22 tarred sine line. I drilled two 1/2" holes either side of handle center and slotted for ease of wrapping.
I brought the adze over to a buddies house and cut in half a green, 5 inch european bird cherry limb he had laying in the yard. It took about 8 minutes. The edge is still sharp.
I have  to wait a few hours before photo bucket lets me load up the pics cheers fiddler49

















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Offline Ed Brooks

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Re: stone adze
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2015, 10:42:17 am »
Very nice, I'm getting into shaping stone for another hawk. Ed
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Offline Pat B

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Re: stone adze
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2015, 11:11:51 am »
Very cool!  That's a lot of pecking and grinding.
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Offline YosemiteBen

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« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2015, 11:20:47 am »
Very nice work!
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: stone adze
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2015, 02:03:23 pm »
Smoooooooooooooooth!

Something very appealing about that.
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Offline nclonghunter

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Re: stone adze
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2015, 07:39:57 pm »
Very nice...I just wonder since you made a primitive tool and put it on a handle then use modern cordage to finish. Some rawhide wrapped around it would keep it in the ancient finish. Really like the grooves cut for the binding to stay in.
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