You do rather light looking axe hits I notice. I understand letting the weight do the work but putting a little more power on can't hurt. You tend to do the same thing forging with rocks as hammers.
Good and Basic it really does. I would be really worried to put my stone axe out for anyone to steal. Plus, nice job cutting that. I'm sure if it wasn't used earlier and still had a good edge it wouldn't take so long.
Thanks! I think it had more to do with poor technique on my end. If I'd started with a wider cut, the axe wouldn't have gotten stuck at the bottom of the groove so often.
You have to chop in at an angle then hit it it more straight on forming kind of check mark shaped cut. ✅️
The rock is too blunt still. I think I have seen sharper stone axe blades. But at that rate you might has well have been punching trees :D
You do rather light looking axe hits I notice. I understand letting the weight do the work but putting a little more power on can't hurt. You tend to do the same thing forging with rocks as hammers.
I just saw your video with King of Random, that's so cool!!!
Thanks! He's a friend of mine
if that was somewhere near where i live, someone would take the axe
It represents a lot of trust doesn't it?
Good and Basic it really does. I would be really worried to put my stone axe out for anyone to steal. Plus, nice job cutting that. I'm sure if it wasn't used earlier and still had a good edge it wouldn't take so long.
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Thanks! I think it had more to do with poor technique on my end. If I'd started with a wider cut, the axe wouldn't have gotten stuck at the bottom of the groove so often.
Would you mind sharing the video?
you could have bred, raised and trained a beaver to do it for you faster than that probably. hehehe
That axe was most likely made by my friend Larry Kinsella.
Indeed it was! He's amazing. I hear he's personally cut all the trees (over 3,000) for a reconstructed stockade at Cahokia with one of his stone axes.