making a chisel using stone tools

You need tools to make tools rough tools to forge precision tools; a stone to forge a chisel. This chisel is made from an old harrow but I plan to use it as a slick. The tools used in the process are all made from the local stones, sticks, birch bark etc. there is no flint or other sharp stone here, hence cutting and carving is difficult. But the land once belonged to a family of blacksmith, no hand tools are preserved but there is metal scrap an old forge blower and farming equipment…
Whatever tools I could have brought with me I find it fascinating to see what can be made with the tools provided by nature, the result of such work is not very different from what would be manufactured in a well-equipped workshop it just takes more time. Very little is given by the tool used but a clearly defined function is given to the tool made. This is the step where a person ties up a pattern of human movement into a material. The harrow had a function a very different one then a chisel but a stone does not. The stone became a tool from a choice, a choice of how to use it. A chisel can be used that way too but this is first and foremost a tool made to be used to cut wood.
To my hand the chisel is a master, it tells me what to do; how to do it. If I want to master a craft I need to accept this. But I am no slave. I am an equal to my tools; a tool myself. I can use a chisel as a hammer or use it to plow the land, but I normally don’t, I choose to listen. I listen to the materials as the materials listens to me.

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