No worries, I still have lots of time.

at my old farm i found tons of arrowheads. while the majority of them were flint some were a white soft rock. i'm no geologist. couldn't tell ya what it was made from. good luck! i couldn't do something like that. not unless i was like i dunno. locked up with lots of time on my hands? :lol2: seriously, cool beans on trying this task dude!

We're rocking it!

Flint stones. Meet the Flint stones. Have a yabba dabba do dah time.

And the time that will be had shall be said forevermore and henceforth to have been a gay old time.

I saw a show that said they actually make scalpels out of it. It can be honed to one molecule on the edge.

jimhelm, if you will excuse me, "honed" is not the right term though you use it in context. A metal blade can be honed, that is sharpened on a stone or strop to keen edge. Obsidian blades for scalpels are not "sharpened" this way. They're produced by knapping, knocking flakes from a larger piece. The flakes produced are the finished product for scalpel blades, at least as far as the edge processing is concerned. Obsidian is much like glass, and the edge of a broken piece of glass is already as sharp as it's going to get, it can't be honed sharper than a clean fracture.

interesting link I found that made me think of Perry Winkle:
http://www.theperfectedge.com/howto.shtml


and one for footfootfoot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Crabtree

It's important because that is thought to be the first human technology, and teaching it across generations may have been the "booting" of human civilization.

I know what they said when they discovered that technology,too. It wasn't Eureka! It was "MOTHERFUCKER! That shit is sharp. Goddamnit!

Later that week it was "Hold my Monkey Skull, watch this..."

Foot: You got your flint or obsidian yet?

I order most of mine online. Plenty of knapping supplies on ebay. Novaculite is easy to get. Be sure to wear a mask or at list work outside due to the silica dust. Beer bottle bottoms are a practice meduim.

Do you have a good supply of pitch and snew?i

I have plenty of pitch and sinew and now that deer season is hot underway I could get as much sinew as I could ever use.

Beer bottle bottoms? I'll have to check that out.

Still waiting on flint and obsidian, but I have a line on some...

Wait wait wait wait wait...

You want to make stone tools.

You start by ordering online.

Wow. Just #$%^ing wow.

Foot, my brother has been spending his weekends down at the "compound" and I haven't seen him.

However, he can't avoid me at Thanksgiving, as dinner is at his house. Funny, though, mom said they were told to be there around 1 and they told me around 5.

I'm kidding.

I haven't forgotten you!

What is this about with your brother and the compound???