Just back from a flint-knapping weekend hosted by Dryad bushcraft and taught by the excellent Karl lee.

With a very primitive tool kit…

Karl demonstrated how to knap a hand axe…

and a great arowhead…

We made flint hide scrapers…

prepared Hazel arrowshafts, flint arrowheads …

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If you have put a lot of care into making your own bow then go easy on it and give a good warm up.

The bow is tri-laminate of Hickory, Purpleheart and Lemonwood i guess, the wood was kindly given …

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The end of the year sees me field testing several bows  in preparation for running Firefox quickbow-making courses in 2011.These bows are not lovingly crafted from Yew, Lemonwood or Osage Orange but banged out from  the unpromising ranks of Hazel, …

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