During the summer I completed the Woodcraft School Primitive Technology course.
The course required that at least one our craft items had to be made using only primitive tools and techniques.
I decided to make myself a bone knife and a bark sheath for it. The knife I made from a Lamb’s thigh bone and the sheath [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bone’
Primitive Bone Knife
Posted in Tools, Uncategorized, tagged Bone, flint, knife on 21/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cup, bowl, plate and spoon
Posted in Crafts, Food and Drink, Natural Materials, Trees, tagged Birch, Bone, carving, kuksa, spoon on 15/04/2009 | 12 Comments »
During the process of constructing the livestock handling facility I had to fell some trees, including this Birch
Using wood from this particular tree I have been busy carving
Notice in the picture above that I use my axe as a “bench stop” to carve against and I have a piece of Hawthorn as a mallet.
I have [...]
My 200th post!! – Bone-drill
Posted in Crafts, Fire craft, Stone, tagged Bone, fire, flint, Hazel on 16/01/2009 | 1 Comment »
I found this bone which I think belonged to a Muntjac deer.
Using a piece of flint I scored around the ends
to remove them both
Then I made wooden tips from Ash and Hazel for making fire by friction
My flint knapping skills are not good unfortunately but I can do most of the things I need to [...]
Rib bone netting needle
Posted in Crafts, Fishing and Hunting, Primitive skills, Stone, tagged Bone, flint, netting, pump-drill on 15/03/2008 | 2 Comments »
I found this old rib bone while out walking and it occurred to me that it might make a very good netting needle for.
As I abraded the edges with a piece of flint I noticed the bone possessed two laminated layers.
I battened my knife between the layers to split the bone in half.
I used a [...]
Knotless netting
Posted in Crafts, tagged Bone, knot, netting on 07/01/2008 | 3 Comments »
I have been off work today with a cold and asthma, so needed a simple project I could do the inside. About a year ago I was shown the principles of knot less netting and decided to try and make a carrier for a large bottle.
I have used para cord below to show [...]
Primitive vice
Posted in Crafts, Stone, tagged antler, Bone, flint, Hazel, vice on 05/01/2008 | 3 Comments »
In order to work on small pieces of bone, flint and antler I have made a very simple vice which works very well. I split a piece of Hazel a few centimeters along it’s length using a flint wedge and pointed the other end to push into the ground. In the picture below I [...]
Sewing needle holder
Posted in Crafts, Equipment, Tools, tagged Bone, feather, Needle on 22/12/2007 | 5 Comments »
I wanted to add a sewing needle to my neck pouch for repairing clothes, bit needed to find a way of carrying it securely and safely.
I decided to use a small bone and first cut the bone a quarter of the way along it’s length using a piece of flint.
I abraded the two ends [...]
