DIY Stone Age Chewing Gum, Glue, Weapons and Clothes

Nice bow (Mollegabet style with stif narrow outer limbs) and the slow mo shot was good. You'd have thought he'd have hit the target from there

Looked like those stone tools were removing the wood nicely, mind I suspect it wasn't seasoned.

Del

Dell, do you make you bows and arrows in same way?

I use modern tools but not many power tools.
Bandsaw for roughing out, but then it's all hand tools, draw knife, spokeshave, rasps, scrapers etc.
I have made a working bow with just an axe in under an hour!

Del

Let's see you make a working axe with just a bow in under an hour.

I saw a similar program here on the discovery network. They followed the development of string, razors clothes from the stone age to the present. One thing that made me curious was; early man used obsidian to shave with, but what caught my attention was the statement that obsidian was 100 times sharper than a barbers razor and the edge could be 1 micron. Could this be so?

Yes. Some scalpels are made of glass for this reason; those used in eye surgery for example.

Wasn't stone age stuff (e.g. chewing gum, glue, weapons, clothing, doorknobs) pretty much all DIY?

......then I was correct, thanks!

But of course!

Yes. They even made their own games. Here we see an early neolithic game of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'

prior to the invention of paper and scissors.

Hence the need to invent paper and scissors!

Hey Del, did it break? Could you make a bow from crepe myrtle trunks? I think it might be possible, and I find myself cutting down major trunks on these ornamental plants with not much use for a hard and springy wood. I suspect it might be brittle unless carefully laminated, etc.

I think I've heard of 'em using crepe myrtle on Primitive Archer. Have a look on there (I think you have to sign up to see the pics)

Del

Oops! Just caught your reply. Will do...this might be clever stuff to know when the HEMP (and that ain't Mary Jane) hits the fan!

Ausgezeichnet! Aber Ich cann schprich Deutsch gut nicht. Dieser kraft es gesund und klever, ja?

Now having made a complete fool of myself yet again, I revert to English. The bow making lesson will be and should be unforgettable. Does anyone know if bows can be made from crepe myrtle wood?