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Stone Age Witch Hazel (updated 1/18)
salad days:
Looking good Rick. :o Nice bow too. ;D
ricktrojanowski:
Caveman- I'm going to go by feel for the final draw weight. I'm hoping to make it come in about 45-50#. I'm planning on floor tillering until its pretty close feeling. Then stringing and just going by eye. The tillering tree is on standby for this one. ;)
A side note ....I talked to Jamie today and told him about my obsidian dulling problem. He suggested using some chert or flint instead. So I busted up a big cobble of some kind of flint that I had on hand. I got a bunch of nice scraping blades (in spite of my complete stupidity when it comes to busting stones). I gave a few of them a try tonight. :o Much better. I wish I had tried this sooner.
Caveman:
Can anyone give me any idea of how to identify rocks for knapping? I'll make a post with some pics of what I got within the next day or so. I've heard of all these rocks to use but I have no idea how to indentify them. I may even be using them right now and not know it. I ask because I'm about to start a bow myself using only abo tools.
ricktrojanowski:
I've been scraping a little here and a little there every night and it's starting to bend quite a bit now. These pics are a bit redundant but I'm getting excited about the progress so I thought I would post them. Also is a picture of some of the new scraper blades which are working much better than the obsidian for this stage. She has quite a bit of prop. twist but I can't turn back now. I am already thinking about my next stone bow and I'm not even close to finished on this one... ;D
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huntertrapper:
nice job man. what do you plan on the draw weight?
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