Debated about posting this but decided to. This was made with some flint tools I asked Dan Hamblin for. I wanted some specialty spalls for arrow making and to try on a bow. I know most stone tool bows are shaped while green but I didn't have any so used a cured small hard maple stave split. I did not make the stave with stone, or harvest it with stone, just shaped it, tillered it with hand held flint.
There are some pics, dont laugh at the "tool" marks. I could not get the cutters,scrapers and abraders to make smooth cuts they all left deep chatter bruises in the wood. I aint diggin in the snow for some sand stone but dont really know if that would help anyways. The stats are:
44" ntn
Hard Maple stave
44#@23"
Steamed recurves by water on hot coals and the tips bent between a limb and trunk ( the bark left the marks on the back of the bow)
finish: grease and pitch and smoked
There are pics of the back whit what looks like tension cracks but are not (in the bow wood anyway) It was very hard to scrape the bark and cambium perfectly with the flint spalls so there are small strips which of course crack.
*all the wood work was with the flint except the lower limb fineal diamond, it took me 2 days for the top one so I went to the file for the lower (2 days VS. 20 minuets)
If there are any questions or something that ya want a pic of please let me know....enjoy the pics and I will post the neolithic arrows in the arrow section.
rich
