making a tomahawk
I am starting to get very interested in making a tomahawk and I dont know what material I need. I am wodering if you can use granite. Please help!Thanks, Bowhunter
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I have never worked with granite, but it seems pretty hard. You want a material that is very hard and doesnt crumble or fracture easily. Then the fun part! Start rubbing it on another rock. This will...
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you mean like this???? Granite is the choice...and you are looking at about 40 hours of pecking with a piece of flint and another 10 hours of sharpening with a piece of sandstone in water...this one...
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Man, that's what I'm talking about. 40 hours of work... Is there any possible way the Moundbuilders and others who utilized these things had a quicker way to produce them?
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One way was to attack another camp of folks who had tools and take theirs. Ha ha, funny but true.jerry
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I know what you mean Jerry. I recently learned about a site on the Missouri called Calf-Creek. It was a big village with 30 or 40 earth lodges. The inhabitants were digging a trench for defenses when...
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Devin,though not as fancy as Idaho clovisman's, here is a "skull cracker" type hand weapon I made, no sharp edge on it, the rock is just a river rock I found that looked like it would do, fastend with...
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I used green granite with this one it has a hickory handle and artifical sinew holding the head on with deer skin split wrap. It measures 16" long and the head is 6" long.
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Abo can u show a picture of green granite in natural form. would i have any by carroll? sorry i couldn't make it this weekend
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Head to most any rock pile in central Iowa and pick out a piece of Diorite (same as granit but softer and almost all rock piles in a 20 mile radias of your house will have it) Look for the stuff that...
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haha thanks flake call me when your around next time and we can maybe go artifact huntin. I just googled diorite and i think your rite about the location lol
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flakehead wrote: Head to most any rock pile in central Iowa and pick out a piece of Diorite (same as granit but softer and almost all rock piles in a 20 mile radias of your house will have it) Look...
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This is a couple of celt axes I pecked from Virginia greenstone. It did take a considerable number of hours to peck, but the results were worth it. -Mark
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This is a style of tomahawk I have been experimenting with. This blade is flintknapped from a spall of dacite and set into the handle like a celt axe. Deer rawhide is sewn over it, and some more...
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This is a 3/4 grooved axehead secured with rawhide to a deer hide covered handle. (Sorry for all the posts...am learning to use the photobucket site.) -Mark
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This was the image deleted from post #15. -Mark http://nehawkaprimitiveskills.blogspot.com/
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Osage, Here are some of the green granite cobbles in the ruff I have several darker in my side yard.
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I've been in an axe making mood. Here is a piece of novaculite, percussion knapped into a celt, and set into a hardwood handle. It is important that the celt only makes contact at the top and bottom...
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mrpeat40 wrote: This is a couple of celt axes I pecked from Virginia greenstone. It did take a considerable number of hours to peck, but the results were worth it. -Mark...
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